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Albotross

21 October 2023

9:00 AM

21 October 2023

9:00 AM

The Prime Minister now hangs around the neck of the Labor party and leftist politics in general like Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s legendary dead bird. To stretch the metaphor, when Labor sailed into government in May last year, the new Prime Minister brought with him an omen of leftist good fortune, the Voice.

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