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Simon Collins

Simon Collins

18 May 2019

9:00 AM

18 May 2019

9:00 AM

In a normal year, Easter is the only time when eggs play anything other than a nutritional part in Australian life. But this being an election year, and many voters being more than usually exercised by the big ticket issues, it was inevitable that a small number of Australian chickens would at some point be pressed unwittingly into public service, and indeed the Easter bunny was still in pre-season training when the first egging occurred.

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