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Why did the new Australian PM insult the Queen?

5 June 2022

4:00 PM

5 June 2022

4:00 PM

Timing is everything in politics.

This week in Canberra a new junior minister, an obscure Australian Labor Party MP named Matt Thistlethwaite, was sworn in by the Queen’s representative, Governor-General David Hurley. His portfolio: Assistant Minister for the Republic.

A minister of the Crown sworn to bring about the demise of the Crown in Australia.

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