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Only certain outrage makes the Letters to the Editor

19 August 2018

8:18 AM

19 August 2018

8:18 AM

There are some words and phrases that are better left unsaid and newbie Senator Fraser Anning has now probably realised that, like the old tailoring adage, in speechwriting, one should say aloud twice and ‘final draft’ once.

Some words, derogatory and insulting, were in common use in an earlier, less sensitive, time.

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