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IrelandWhat Was 1989 Like in Australia?
If you were born in 1989, Australia was in its last year of the long prosperity before the recession that Keating would famously call "the one we had to have.
Read the full story of 1989 →Life in Australia in 1989
Prime Minister
Bob Hawke
Monarch
Queen Elizabeth II
Petrol (per litre)
$0.58
Loaf of Bread
$1.10
Average House
$108,000
Weekly Wage
$505.00
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