When I was about five or six I saw people campaigning on the streets for election
There were lot of children of my age accompanying political party leaders for door to door campaign
It was fun. I didn’t know anything about politics but all I know at that time was the symbol and the name of the candidates.
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Placing "Vote No" leaflets under doors at the time of Australian referendum to make Australian Communist Party illegal 1951. I was 9 years old.
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