With their labour, in carrying out dirty and dangerous tasks that only migrants were prepared to do, Transfield's workers contributed to change Australia by building this country's infrastructure, the transmission lines, power stations, television and radio towers, pipelines, oil rigs, steelworks, harbours, roads, railways and grain silos. In so doing, they created with their hands, what Franco Belgiorno-Nettis would call "the nerve of a civilised community".
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