Duty Calls

The Minister for Defence formally requisitioned the Showgrounds for the war effort on 22 July 1915 and the RASV Council announced that the Royal Melbourne Show would be abandoned for the year. In 2020 & 2021 Melbourne Showgrounds was once called to duty playing a key role in the government’s response to the global pandemic

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