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Australian Notes

Australian Notes

5 December 2013

3:00 PM

5 December 2013

3:00 PM

One or two obtuse observers expressed surprise that Martin Sharp came in the end to embrace conservative values. He even went to church! The point is he was always a conservative — of the more subversive kind. He celebrated innocence (Tiny Tim, Ginger Meggs) and mocked trendies, radicals and reactionaries.

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