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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Simon McCarthy

The lesson we learnt from the Optus crash when, for a brief moment, cash was king again

"Remember when public phones used to have an A and B button?" my in-law had asked over dinner a few nights ago.

I said that I did because the local RSM Club back home - where my sister and I used to try our luck at riding the dinner trays tabogan-style down the carpeted stairs while the grown-ups sat quietly and tried to imagine the merciful time before they had children - happened to have a public phone at the bottom.

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