Into the late eighties

Derek Barry
Updated April 7 2021 - 8:08am, first published May 31 2016 - 10:23am
Trucks arrive in Mount Isa for the Bicentennial Expo to celebrate 200 years of Australia on June 23, 1988.
Trucks arrive in Mount Isa for the Bicentennial Expo to celebrate 200 years of Australia on June 23, 1988.

THE year 1985 started darkly, literally.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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