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1. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · John Black

   Odds are Allan is gone, while Albanese repeats Victorian Labor’s woes (opens the original)

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   At 63, our Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is old enough to remember the scene from the 1991 cowboy comedy City Slickers, where Billy Crystal’s character Mitch, is on horseback, driving a herd of cattle with his mates Phil and Ed, while trying to explain to Phil how he could watch one show on television, while recording another on his home video recorder. After four fruitless hours of listening to the same explanation from Mitch over and over, their exasperated mate Ed shouts: “He doesn’t get it

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2. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · John Black

   Higher CGT will increase school fees, could help One Nation win seats (opens the original)

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   Australia has more than four million school students who have about six million parents, which in turn makes up one third of the nation’s 18 million voters. When we consider grandparents and aunts and uncles, we’re talking serious numbers of voters, far too many for any federal government to resist splashing a bit of cash on at election time, even though paying for schools is the responsibility of state governments. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.

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