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Australian Notes

Australian notes

2 September 2017

9:00 AM

2 September 2017

9:00 AM

Would Bill Shorten’s plan for government take Australia in the direction of East Germany, as Finance Senator Mathias Cormann has claimed? What might that entail?

My mother left East Germany three months before the barbed wire cut Soviet Berlin off from the territories of the Western Allies. In the Eighties I spent school holidays with my grandparents in East Berlin.

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