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The sloppiest suicide note

25 May 2019

9:00 AM

25 May 2019

9:00 AM

‘No-one saw it coming,’ the shocked commentariat claimed. Goodness.  Where are the ABC’s fact checkers when you need them? In their absence, as Lady Bracknell would say, ‘On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one’s mind. It becomes a pleasure.’ In the first week of April, when the pundits were already measuring up solar panels for the Lodge, The Spectator Australia warned that if Mr Shorten couldn’t explain his electric Kool-Aid car fantasies, he’d end up like a latter-day John Hewson, crying into his birthday cake.

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