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You can blame journalists or Labor’s inability to make an argument stick if you want, but there’s only one word to describe this “indefensible” furore, writes Samantha Maiden.
The ‘heart breaking’ quest to find my dad an aged care bed
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Stop the filth, fear and the sickos
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Penbo: Bloody-minded Labor says no thanks to logic
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Maiden: Unpopular fact haunts Coalition’s nuclear U-turn
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