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Australian Notes

Australian Notes

17 July 2014

1:00 PM

17 July 2014

1:00 PM

Forget about a double dissolution. Tony Abbott knows it would not only help Clive Palmer. It would help Billy Shorten too. It would be good for the Palmer United party because it would halve the quota needed to elect senators. It would help the Labor party in the light of the government’s low standing in the polls which are unlikely to change much in the near future.

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