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Lose-win

Is this a good election to lose?

21 May 2022

9:00 AM

21 May 2022

9:00 AM

Is this a good election for the government to lose? If you are a current Coalition parliamentarian, the answer would be in the negative. Opposition looks grim and those useful income supplements that come from being in government – for ministers, obviously, but for chairing government committees and the like – immediately evaporate if the Coalition loses.

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