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Leading article Australia

All trick, no treat

27 October 2018

9:00 AM

27 October 2018

9:00 AM

The election to parliament of the ghoulish political figure of Dr Kerryn Phelps on the eve of Hallowe’en seems, alas, all trick and not much treat. Dr Phelps is a hardcore climate change activist lesbian refugee-enthusiast whose primary ambition is to see our resource-rich and prosperous nation plunged into a fantasy twilight economic world where energy is magically derived from Sister Sun and Brother Wind.

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