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Episode Synopsis
On the 22nd of September,1918 the first direct radio message from England was received in Australia.Surprisingly, it was sent from a Transmitting Station in the NW of Wales to a radio station in a suburban house in Wahroonga , a suburb of Sydney.The message was to the people of Australia from the Prime Minister, W M Hughes.He spoke of his recent visit to the Western Front in France. Hughes, Guglielmo Marconi and Ernest Fisk of Sydney were the principal organisers. We sketch out the life of Fisk, a remarkable person.
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