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Aussie Life

27 June 2020

9:00 AM

27 June 2020

9:00 AM

Everyone wants to get high and have sex while saving money. So says P. J. O’Rourke, the political satirist who gave 1990’s conservatives a passable response to liberals who said they couldn’t be funny. P. J. would approve of the convenient, pseudo-intellectual ribbon that I tie around most dinner party conversations: ‘I believe you should be allowed to do what you want to the extent it doesn’t hurt other people’.

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Will Kingston is a lawyer-turned management consultant-turned merchant banker. A bit like Malcolm Turnbull, with a fraction less narcissism and a lot less money.

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