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16 April 2016

9:00 AM

16 April 2016

9:00 AM

Del-Cons? Or Hon-Cons?

When the conspirators met to approve of Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten knifing their respective leaders, did they undertake some exercise in ‘due diligence’? If they did, neither gang did a very good job. But then, they were not concerned with principle or policy; their plots were always about treachery, ambition and self-interest.

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