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Game of Mates. The Australian War Memorial and its military industrial conflicts.
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No House? Two-party Senate squeeze on cross-bench locks in Defence spending debacle
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Peter Dutton’s nuclear claims. What’s the scam?
Peter Dutton and his LNP acolytes in Parliament and in the fossil fuel media claim that “Australia is the only G20 nation that doesn’t use nuclear power.”
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“Raining concerns”: local publishers face deluge of defamation threats
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