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Australian Notes

Australian notes

10 February 2018

9:00 AM

10 February 2018

9:00 AM

Turnbull’s 18C on steroids

Rahm Emmanuel, one-time Chief of Staff in the Obama Administration, once said: ‘You never let a serious crisis go to waste… It’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.’

It would seem that the Turnbull government is using the perceived crisis of ‘foreign influence’ in our political system to tweak federal electoral regulations in its favour.

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