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Replacing Churchill with Chamberlain

In dangerous times, some nations replace weak leaders with strong. Here we do it the other way round

17 October 2015

9:00 AM

17 October 2015

9:00 AM

It was as if the British had replaced Winston Churchill with Neville Chamberlain. Following the recent terrorist murder at Parramatta, Prime Minister Turnbull addressed the nation. Reading from a prepared text, he not only failed to identify the attack for what it was − Islamic terrorism − he threw the lever to a typical elite response.

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