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Mourning Julia Gillard with the greatest wine ever to come out of Australia

6 July 2013

9:00 AM

6 July 2013

9:00 AM

My Australian friend was in mourning over the removal of Julia Gillard, the country’s first female prime minister. She had been everything a leftist politician ought to be: ineffectual and un-electable. I concurred; sacking Labour leaders just because they could not win an election sets a very bad example to the rest of the world.

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