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Whatever madmen do, no matter how horrific, has no political meaning. End of story.

Wikileaks’ very inability to differentiate illustrates, it’s not that such press freedom really means that much these days anyway.

This upside-down thinking of social reality is symptomatic of a political party in decline.

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• Key Posts of the Summer

  How do you change racial provisions in the Constitution when the entire infrastructure of land rights is based on it?

  - Caught in a racial trap

  Gillard is left with neither a factional system that could deliver an acceptable result, or the authority to over-ride them.

  - Paving the way for Rudd

  The financial crisis has locked together a political crisis with an economic one, exposing political classes with neither the ability to inspire confidence nor mobilise support for austerity.

  - What a hollowing out looks like

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  In reality under this complaint about the media lurks a political argument that is highly revealing about the mindset of the political class today.

  Sideshow by Lindsay Tanner

  Here is someone working for the ABC, from a Labor background as Hawke’s press secretary, who has written about the rise and fall of a Labor Prime Minister with all the distortions and omissions worthy of the most disingenuous right wing hack.

  The Party Thieves by Barrie Cassidy

  The most bizarre defence of the two party system comes over what for Megalogenis is the most personal – immigration.

  Trivial Pursuit by George Megalogenis

  Can Australian politics be that insubstantial?

  Confessions of a Faceless Man by Paul Howes

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