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Affairs of staff and state

Close encounters of the sordid kind

27 February 2021

9:00 AM

27 February 2021

9:00 AM

It’s lucky China didn’t invade Taiwan this week as the government focussed its attention on what it considered to be the more pressing matter of the drunken sexual encounters of former staffers.

The Prime Minister, defence minister, finance minister, federal cabinet, assorted assistant ministers and backbenchers, the opposition leader, the media, old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all have been preoccupied with the alleged sexual assault of one former government staffer by another that may or may not have taken place almost two years ago.

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