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Abbott’s vow of silence

For the sake of the country, can someone please unleash the Real Tony

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

Without even a John McTernan to guide them, the Liberal Party of Australia has generated a communications debacle which would have made the Scotsman proud. The media lock-down with which the government began its term looked like a strategy. But like McTernan’s capers, it turned out to be a one-trick wonder; a tactic in a void.

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