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King Cnut

Will Malcolm Turnbull be able to hold back the rising tide of illiberal liberalism?

26 September 2015

9:00 AM

26 September 2015

9:00 AM

Next year will see the millennium of Cnut becoming King of England. It is an anniversary which must be high on the radar of many of the politicians in Canberra. However I must confess to being surprised when I thought that I heard (through the poor hearing in my left ear) that Richard Dowdy, a junior staffer to Tony Abbott, had hailed our new Prime Minister as a successor to this former King.

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Philip Murphy is a Melbourne based writer

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