The Eighties are history judging by the NSW Premier's History Awards shortlists

By Susan Wyndham
Updated August 23 2016 - 1:08pm, first published 12:46pm
Author Frank Bongiorno has written about the decade in which he came of age. Photo: Graham Tidy
Author Frank Bongiorno has written about the decade in which he came of age. Photo: Graham Tidy
Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke (left) and Treasurer Paul Keating (right) at the opening day of the National Economic Summit in Canberra on 11 April 1983.  Photo: David Bartho
Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke (left) and Treasurer Paul Keating (right) at the opening day of the National Economic Summit in Canberra on 11 April 1983. Photo: David Bartho

For those of us who were working adults and parents, even teenagers or children, the 1980s still seem like yesterday. To have those years treated as the past makes us feel old.

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