keywords: Dennis Shanahan
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AUSTRALIA
Gillard's adroit manoeuvring of Abbott into supporting the NDIS will do little to help her come September. People typically vote for whoever they trust to govern, and the public's lack of trust in Labor derives not from policy or the legislative record but from the circumstances in which she became prime minister in the first place.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 26 April 2013
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If the Shadow Minister for Immigration had read Swift's satirical essay 'A Modest Proposal', a new front in his asylum seeker campaign would have opened up. Spurning Nauru, all he has to do is channel asylum seekers into hunting-specified NSW parks and reserves and let Barry O'Farrell's hunters do the rest.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 25 March 2010
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Few people give a toss about Bilbies, the Arts
or Heritage, but the moment someone rediscovers them and deems them indispensable, only to find that
Bilbies are disappearing and Arts and Heritage are in palliative care,
Garrett's a goner — again.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 12 December 2007
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Revealing his poetic side when the ship was turned away from Kuwait, Truss explained to Parliament that the sheep were beginning 'their long, lonely journey down the gulf'. As the responsible minister, he later repressed his lyricism and reverted to political jargon.
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