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Leading article Australia

Kettles and chooks

29 December 2016

3:00 PM

29 December 2016

3:00 PM

After 2016, one of the most lacklustre, uneventful and stagnant years in Australian political history, there is every reason to suspect, and to hope, that 2017 will be a very different kettle of fish. Where this last year was essentially all about one thing only – keeping Malcolm Turnbull, Scott Morrison and Julie Bishop in their ill-gotten jobs – this coming year the chooks are destined to come home to roost.

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