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"ref": "1952, Neville Shute, chapter 9, in The Far Country, London: Heinemann",
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"ref": "2000, David Crookes, Someday Soon, unnumbered page",
"text": "One night, soon after the battle of the Coral Sea, the US transport ship Shenandoah steamed up the Brisbane River to the wharves at Hamilton. She tied up just before eleven o′clock and at midnight a fresh shift of wharfies began unloading her cavernous holds.",
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"ref": "2008, Andrew Faulkner, Arthur Blackburn, VC: An Australian Hero, His Men, and Their Two World Wars, page 152",
"text": "But a group of wharfies rushed the ballot box, opened it, and ripped up some voting slips and threw others over a fence.",
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"ref": "2009, Kim Edward Beazley, Father of the House: The Memoirs of Kim E. Beazley, page 131",
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