Sydney (at the Opera House), after which we celebrated by climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge and drinking vast schooners of Victoria Bitters ale.

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It is as though business book writers witnessed the demise of the Titanic and concluded that smart companies only build skiffs and schooners, steering well clear of massive ocean-liners.

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So the final chapter of that book charting Australia's boozy history might end with a chapter on the globalisation of the economy, and a row of schooners producing profits that would flow offshore.

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