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Leading article Australia

Spies like Abbott

9 November 2019

9:00 AM

9 November 2019

9:00 AM

It is hard to know which proposition is more absurd. Is it the notion that former prime minister Tony Abbott is a nefarious agent of foreign influence? Or that someone in the Australian Public Service actually thinks that might be true? Compounding the risibility of this preposterous plot is that the puppet masters allegedly pulling Abbott’s strings are none other than the elected representatives of the US government.

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