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Detoxing Medicare

2 July 2016

9:00 AM

2 July 2016

9:00 AM

Last October, I wrote in these pages that those on the centre-right might one day regret the change of prime minister, given that Malcolm Turnbull’s ascent occurred on the back of the opinion poll-shaping attack campaign waged by the Left against Tony Abbott. I feared that a repeat of these tactics would see the Left exercise a power of political veto over any Coalition PM who did not measure up to its definition of social and economic progressivism.

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