Darning, saving, not complaining: what wartime rationing was really like

By Michael McKernan
Updated March 29 2020 - 1:05pm, first published March 28 2020 - 12:00am
Back when you needed ration coupons to buy sugar. Picture: Shutterstock
Back when you needed ration coupons to buy sugar. Picture: Shutterstock

''The darning needle is a weapon of war these days,'' prime minister John Curtin told Australians in May 1942 at the height of Australia's greatest crisis in the Second World War, ''use it on your old clothes.''

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