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Flat White

Let’s end the Age of Bitterness in our politics

24 May 2019

9:13 AM

24 May 2019

9:13 AM

With just a little bit of Aussie bloomin’ luck, the destabilising and destructive approach to the dark art of politics in Australia may have been put to bed in the early hours of Sunday morning when Prime Minister Scott Morrison euphorically claimed a come-from-behind victory in the federal election.

Have no doubt, most Australians had been mere bit players in the nasty drama scripted in Canberra and played out in the parliament and media – mainstream and social – with such blatant advancement by key antagonists of their own agendas that they lost sight of the real game.

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