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Big government, jobs, and productivity

1 July 2023

8:08 AM

1 July 2023

8:08 AM

My mum arrived in Australia with the first boatload of second world war refugees at the end of 1947. She dressed in Lithuanian costume to thank ALP Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell on the deck of the Kanimbla when it arrived in Melbourne.

I lost any respect for the Labor Party when they abandoned workers and embraced green ideology from the 1980s.

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