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Columnists Australia

Business/Robbery etc

Keep politics out of the marketplace

23 May 2015

9:00 AM

23 May 2015

9:00 AM

Now Heaven knows, Anything Goes. Especially if it is one of Tony Abbott’s unrewarding ‘Captain’s calls’. When the Cole Porter musical hits Sydney later this year, radio shock-jock Alan Jones will be playing the song-and-dance role of The Captain. And his captain’s call, during an on-air chat with the PM last week, was for the government to hold an enquiry into iron ore pricing that Fortescue Mining’s financially discomforted ‘Twiggy’ Forrest wants the government to regulate – and has persuaded Jonesy to support.

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