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Darkness descends on Patterson Lakes

Tony Abbott must heed the lessons of the Liberal loss in Victoria

6 December 2014

9:00 AM

6 December 2014

9:00 AM

The jewel in Victoria’s Carrum electorate is the canal suburb of Patterson Lakes, a place well known to regular readers of this magazine. Patto reflects its upwardly-mobile residents’ material success: oversized houses crammed with the latest in gadgets, European cars in the garage and wannabe superyachts worthy of a Russian oligarch moored out the back.

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