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In colonial Australia, laundry was done in tin laundry buskets. There was usually a washboard, which was used to scrub the clothes. Water may have been fetched from a well or from a nearby river or creek. It may have been heated in a copper, which was a huge waterpot heated over a fire underneath.

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