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Leading article Australia

Surplus, not surprises

31 March 2016

2:00 PM

31 March 2016

2:00 PM

Unless the Senate does something spectacular – and God knows it likes to make a spectacle of itself – the Prime Minister should get his double dissolution trigger and we’ll be heading to the polls on July 2. The Australian Building and Construction Commission is a smart trigger; it sets up the election on the Coalition’s turf, unites the party, and hits at Mr Shorten’s weaknesses apropos of his shoddy union past.

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