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The Turnbull of old

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For the Turnbull of old, could a picture be worth a thousand words?

“Climate change is the ultimate long-term problem. We have to make decisions today, bear costs today so that adverse consequences are avoided, dangerous consequences, many decades into the future.”Malcolm Turnbull, February 9th, 2010

Plainly stated, Mr Turnbull …...

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From donkey votes to dog whistles, our election language has a long and political history

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image'Candidate' has its roots in the word 'candid', to be frank. It's hard not to believe that we've strayed a little from those noble aspirations.Cesare Maccari/Wikimedia Commons

We now know that July 2 will be the day when our politicians, in the words of Alfred Deakin, get dragged from the tart-shop screaming.

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