The late Liberal leader Billy Snedden is well-known for his declaration after the 1974 election “We were not beaten. We didn’t win enough seats to form a government, but I do not believe what has occurred was in any sense a defeat”
It’s not that dissimilar to the dissembling that has followed the conclusion of Christian Porter’s defamation action against the ABC.
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