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The copper smelter ‘Stack’ in Port Kembla, built in 1965, came down today at 11.16am.  The smelter itself was decommissioned around 10 years ago.  The Stack’s demolition had been planned and postponed for years – partly because it was thought to possibly contain asbestos; and partly, I think, because it was such a defining part of the coastal landscape that many people couldn’t imagine it gone.