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Flat White

Forget the Deep State, it’s the Shallow State that’s the big issue

29 November 2019

4:47 PM

29 November 2019

4:47 PM

As one of my friends is fond of saying, one man’s perversion is another man’s great night. The same can be said about politics – it all depends where you stand.

Much has been said and written over the past three years about the interaction between government and public service; we’ve had the duelling narratives of “collusion” (and now “quid pro quo”) versus “the Deep State”, “the resistance” versus “the coup”, “whistleblowers” versus “conspirators”.

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