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Brown Study

Brown study

15 April 2023

9:00 AM

15 April 2023

9:00 AM

For a while there, it looked as if it was impossible to write anything fresh or original about the Voice referendum. The lines had been drawn and debate had settled into an automated rehash of declared positions. The good news was that so much doubt had been engendered about the proposal that a No result looked as if it was at least possible; all that it needed was another bout of blubbering from the Prime Minister, one more minister squirming under an Akubra hat at a corroboree or one more judge salivating at handing over the title deeds to another...

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