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Guest notes

Campaign notes

13 April 2019

9:00 AM

13 April 2019

9:00 AM

Shorten’s bottom line

Could  Bill Shorten‘s ‘Hewson moment’ be a similar turning point in the Coalition’s election campaign? Such a moment recalls  John Hewson’s inability in the 1993 election to explain how his meticulously-planned GST would apply to a birthday cake. He was to lose that ‘unlosable’ election to Paul Keating.

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