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No heater before Anzac day: Canberra’s most popular social norm?

If you’ve spent at least one winter in Canberra (or many!), you will know the unofficial rule: don’t turn your heater on until Anzac Day.

But why?

Why do thousands of otherwise rational adults choose to shiver in their own living rooms, swaddled in Oodies and clutching hot water bottles, just to wait for an arbitrary date on the calendar?

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