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Australian Notes

Election notes

18 March 2017

9:00 AM

18 March 2017

9:00 AM

Malcolm, take note…

As the dust settles on the Western Australian election result, and Labor’s Mark McGowan sweeping to office over the solid but tired premiership of the Liberal party’s Colin Barnett, there are a few points on which we of the centre-right need to reflect.

First, Liberal detractors giving Barnett the rounds of the kitchen for staying too long deserve a boot up their collective bum.

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