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Satellite City

Satellite of la-ah-ah-love. When I was growing up in Melbourne they had this concept of satellite cities or towns. Such a fancy, futuristic name for what were suburbs twenty or thirty kilometres west of the centre of Melbourne. The idea being you had no need to go into the city because you had everything you needed in, shall I say, the town of Satellite. And I always loved the name so when I was twenty-three and moved over to Western Australia on my own and was lonely, I looked at the map and saw that Rockingham was thirty kilometres from…

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