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Hip, hip hooray for Tony Abbott’s carbon tax repeal

12 July 2014

9:00 AM

12 July 2014

9:00 AM

Barring any more sudden Ricky Muir-like surprises, it looks as if the Senate will repeal the carbon tax; so allow us a little gloating. When the Australian edition of The Spectator was created in 2008, we took a leaf out of Bill Buckley’s National Review in 1955 and stood athwart History, yelling Stop.

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