PM's 'tough' migration stance doomed to fail
After Malcolm Turnbull pledged to raise the level of policy debate, it has all been shelved to strike a pose.
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Waleed Aly
Waleed Aly is co-host of Ten's The Project and is a lecturer in politics at Monash University. He writes fortnightly for Fairfax.
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Turnbull's trapped in an Abbott-shaped box
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Hanson makes the political quote of 2016
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