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Leading article Australia

Plots and prayers on a highway to hell

8 June 2019

9:00 AM

8 June 2019

9:00 AM

Australia has a new opposition leader and luckily for Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Mr Albanese is already dispensing advice on how to run the country. It is this sort of humility that has helped Labor to monopolise the opposition benches since World War II. Mr Albanese was unable to tell the nation whether Labor will support the Adani coal mine because the faceless men and women that run its franchise have yet to tell him what it is acceptable to say on the subject but he has appointed the party’s strongest coal advocate,  Joel Fitzgibbon, to the resources portfolio and...

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