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When the film ‘Morning of the Earth’ was released in 1972 it had a profound impact on Australian surfing in more ways than one.

On a conceptual level, it became the inspiration for an alternative way of life, a kind of cinematic blueprint for achieving a higher level of consciousness through the pursuit of surfing. With

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