A MOST DRAMATIC RIBBON CUTTING
It’s 19 March 1932 and one of those sunny, festive Sydney days that leaves the rest of the country mildly jealous. Crowds and officials are gathered to see the opening of that great span over the harbor that had been contemplated for decades and then built in eight years.
Jack Lang, the Labor Premier of NSW, has scissors in hand to cut the ribbon. The fact he’s openning the Sydney Harbour Bridge is controversial. It’s the sort of thing that the King’s representative is expected to do but Jack “The Big Fella” Lang wouldn’t have a bar of that.
Suddenly a uniformed man comes into view on a horse. He raises a sword, slashes the ribbon proclaiming his act was in the name of the decent and respectable people of New South Wales, and is then quickly dragged to earth and hauled away by the…
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