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Flat White

The Murdoch Royal Commission is one man’s inadequacy

23 October 2020

5:00 AM

23 October 2020

5:00 AM

There is an unpleasant screaming and stamping of feet coming from aisle three where a toddler has been divested of the prime ministership. The tantrum has been going on since 2013 when, after being stabbed more times than Caesar, the embattled Labor leader blamed the audience instead of looking at his bloody paws. 

It was the papers – the press and their cruel headlines – that felled Kevin Rudd.

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