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Word Power: One Nation, in one sentence.

 

According to several opinion polls, Pauline Hanson is now Australian electors’ most-preferred (prospective) Prime Ministerial candidate.

Electors currently drawn to Ms Hanson – or to any populist politician who purports to be the champion” of the “battlers”/ the “forgotten”/  “everyday” Australians – ought read this sentence, slowly:

If recent events in the USA have taught us anything, it is that we can rely on parties such as One Nation to reflect the concerns of the “common man”, but in power, they represent the billionaires who fund them.

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The “aw shucks, us too” taxation policy now adopted by the ALP strains beyond breaking point any reasonable definition of “alternative government”…or “Opposition”…or “Labor”…or “progressive”. Alas, many fewer words than those in this verbose header are more than enough to say everything that needs to be said about it…

…as Jon Kudelka has demonstrated in today’s edition of The Saturday Paper:

 

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