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4 December 2021

9:00 AM

4 December 2021

9:00 AM

Tories all at sea on boats

On hearing France’s interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, on why so many would-be migrants cross multiple safe countries to try to get to Britain, Australians may have detected echoes of Indonesia’s previous president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, when he said Rudd and Gillard ‘put the sugar on the table’.

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