Let’s open with a trivia question: which Royal Military College Duntroon colleague did Campbell Newman act as best man to? The answer, of course, is Andrew Wilkie, the federal member for the Tasmanian seat of Clark.
I raise Wilkie because after a false start in 2004, he’s been a parliamentarian since 2010 while Newman, well…
All science fiction fans know the line from Blade Runner: “The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long.”
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