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Why disagreement in politics is a good thing
Alan Jones this morning said to Bill Shorten “You’ve invested Medicare with the status of Phar Lap and Anzac Day.” He was gently mocking Shorten, as was Paul Kelly when he wrote the article [paywall] that presumably inspired Jones, writing that Shorten had “invested it with a mystic status transcending politics, an idea ‘that speaks to Austra