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Workers Dudded By ALP Strategy — Grace Collier, The Australian

And it get worse. Much worse. Shorten and the unions would have to be the most grubby and the most hypocritical of all Australian institutions. “…So, to sum up, a Labor initiative, aided by a special Labor amendment, run by a panel of Labor appointees, with the majority of those appointees, handpicked by Shorten, has led to a decision that gives Labor the opportunity to wage a massive Work Choices-style campaign against the government. What an astonishing set of circumstances and how convenient for Labor..”

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Abbott, the Antidote to Turnbullemia -Peter O’brien, Quadrant Online

What “party” would that be exactly, Mr Unnamed Source? The party that in NSW is the house pet of lobbyists and influence peddlers? The party that in Victoria is at war with itself? The party that in Queensland survived but a single term? The party that in Western Australia agonised for years about whether it is a prime role of government to regulate the growing and sale of potatoes? The party that in South Australia cannot make ground against a cretinous green government that plunges the state into darkness and drives off industry? The party that, given an opportunity to defend free speech, cannot bring itself to form an opinion on the iniquity of Section 18C

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Random Note #121,874 — Malcolm Turnbull and William Shakespeare

Shakespeare was a genius as demonstrated in this line from Julius Caesar. It could have been written for Turnbull’s failure and lack of judgement. His failure to grab his moment, his opportunity, grab his high tide when it was there for the taking. But of course, Malcolm knows best.

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The Rampant Incivility of the Left — American Thinker

It has become increasingly a staple of left-wing political bombast to compare one’s adversaries to the primary villains of World War II. Today, about 5% of the U.S. population has any recollection of those years. It has, therefore, become far too easy to demean and diminish the genesis and consequences of that fateful period as the education establishment, dominated by the Left, deliberately avoids teaching the realities of that era. Thus, opening the door for the demagogues to miscast those years for their own ends.

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