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Australian Notes

Australian notes

14 February 2015

9:00 AM

14 February 2015

9:00 AM

Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat – with apologies to Boswell. (‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.’)

I was one of those who wrongly predicted a far more decisive defeat of the spill motion on Monday. So did most of Tony Abbott’s parliamentary supporters, judging from their funereal faces as they trooped from the party room after the vote.

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