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Death in Frankston East

In the middle of the campaigning, a bombshell broke. The independent candidate for Frankston East has died. It had the potential to completely reshape the 1999 election, along with counting in another knife-edge seat that relied on overseas postal votes. And what did Billy Brownless and the Geelong Football Club have to do with it all?  
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