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Flat White

Last drinks for the Canberra bubble

5 December 2021

4:00 AM

5 December 2021

4:00 AM

It’s ironic that a federal minister should again promote alcoholic abstinence as a cure for whatever allegedly ails (or should that be ales?) Australia’s parliament.

Liberal MP Karen Andrews from Queensland’s Gold Coast – the home of Australian hedonism – seems intent on reinventing the Canberra wheel, banning alcohol consumption in the ‘big house’.

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