AQ: Australian Quarterly

Electoral Reflux

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istory’s nothing if not a “cut-and-come-again” pudding. Our enjoyment can’t compare with Bunyip Bluegum’s, Bill Barnacle’s and Sam Sawnoff’s delight in theirs though. History’s too difficult to digest; it repeats on us, and never more so than at election time.

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