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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Frankie Adkins

Love triangles, $3.95 steaks and missing wine: unsealing Australia’s millennium time capsules

Don Culley holds up an old portrait taken of him when he served as mayor of the Maroochy shire
Former mayor Don Culley, 95, was selected to open Maroochy’s time capsule this year. He didn’t think he’d live to read a letter he buried inside. Photograph: Krystle Wright/The Guardian

When Amanda Light, 38, approached Goroke’s tarnished silver time capsule she only had the faintest recollection of what lay inside. Light was one of hundreds of people who gathered expectantly in Goroke Memorial Hall in March to uncover what their younger selves had buried for the future.

This wasn’t the first time the tiny farming town in western Victoria cracked open the old naval mine to steal a glimpse into the past. First opened in 1973, the huge time capsule was unsealed again in 2000, and most recently this year.

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