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If you look closely you’ll still see the Queen

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DO you remember the time when every school classroom had a portrait of the Queen, taking pride of place?

The famous ‘wattle painting’ of the newly-crowned Queen Elizabeth II, painted by Australian artist Sir William Dargie in 1954, is readily recognised and readily remembered by many for that reason.

The Queen’s 1954 tour was the first time a reigning monarch had set foot on Australian s...


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