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Polly wants a crisis

Our politicians are crackers

4 February 2023

9:00 AM

4 February 2023

9:00 AM

Like Kevin Rudd before him, Labor Treasurer Jim Chalmers used the first summer after winning government to write an essay about how he is going to save capitalism. Chalmers begins by quoting Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus saying, ‘No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.’

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