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Team Trump's cabinet looks like a different kind of swamp
There's a strong end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it whiff to Donald Trump's White House appointments
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
There's a strong end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it whiff to Donald Trump's White House appointments
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