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Flat White

The virus made us do it

5 February 2021

2:28 PM

5 February 2021

2:28 PM

Let’s be honest.  Mr Morrison and the Coalition right now are offering us all the sort of interventionist, huge spending, freedom-ignoring sort of government that in John Howard’s day would have been characterised as ‘centre-left’ or maybe just ‘left’.  Go ahead and try to enumerate for yourself the ways this Team Morrison is to the political right of, say, Keating Labor on energy prices, the footprint of government, the reach of regulations, the curtailment of civil liberties, workplace complexity, the number of massively overpaid bureaucrats and political advisors (and university head honchos, for which the feds are indirectly responsible as...

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