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Suzy Dekker is an Ekka superfan. She’s 55 now, and reckons she has only missed three since her first visit, way back in the 1970s.

In those days, showbags were called ‘sample bags’, food was either a scone from the Country Women’s Association or a dagwood dog, and there was a novel approach to waste collection.

“You could register and get a bag, then as you’re going around you would pick up rubbish and put it in your bag,” the Mount Cotton resident says.

“You would take it back when it was full, and they would give…

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