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Have republicans no shame?

Notes on Turnbull’s treachery and Whitlam being ‘wronged’

14 November 2015

9:00 AM

14 November 2015

9:00 AM

So all that plotting and leaking, all that destabilisation, was just for this. Tony Abbott was knifed so Malcolm Turnbull’s one original and entirely new policy could emerge, an end to knighthoods. Even then its delivery was ham-fisted. Instead of following NZ Labour and changing the name of the award for new appointees, Turnbull kept knighthoods but ruled out conferring any more.

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