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Australian Notes

Australian notes

24 June 2017

9:00 AM

24 June 2017

9:00 AM

The new aristocrats

Listen these days to some of the world’s elite politicians, commentators and officials pontificate and you’d think you were living back in the 1820s and everyone was talking about the First Reform Bill that wanted to (and eventually did) increase who could vote in British elections up to about 18 per cent of the total male population.

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