Steve Baxter

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Either that or the meat works in Rockhampton, to be quite blunt.

No, but even back then, going and working in the mines was seen as like some sort of, it was a failure in life.

You had to go work in the mines because you couldn't get another job.

Now, like, oh my God, you're making bank in the mines.

More than everybody.

Yeah.

So kids left school to go to the meat works and then all get an apprenticeship, which then you end up in the mines, essentially.

So what happened after you left the army?

Yeah, so I left the army in 1995.

So a year before leaving, I actually started a business from home, a dial-up internet service provider.

You probably know of Aussie Mail.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, actually Aussie Mail acquired us actually in the end.

So we started that in 95 and sold that in 2010.

2000.

Sold that in 2000, excuse me.

In Adelaide.

So back then, there was obviously a 30 cent local call tariff on the telephone call.

So you could service a very large catchment of people for not much money, essentially.

And so there was very strong regional ISPs.

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