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Brown Study

Brown Study

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

I agree with Lucy Turnbull about Malcolm’s dinner with Clive Palmer. Her father Tom Hughes used to be in politics and had the pleasure of working and eating in the old Parliament House, as I did. As Lucy explained, the old Parliament House was a kinder, gentler place than the new one, members were more sociable and if one ventured out to a restaurant at night, it did not become a scandal of innuendo, intrigue and leadership plots as it does today.

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