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I guess I've read every issue of The Australian since its first issue on 15 July 1974 except when I've been out of the country. But it will be no more. Today I cancelled my subscription and refused the offer of a free replacement subscription.
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If ABC 7.30 really wants to show its independence it would not allow politicians to decide who interviews them.
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Self isolating? Drinking wine from home?
Try a Barossa direct from the Glug winery.
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Need wine ideas?
Sign up for wine news from the Barossa at
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As an old bloke with nothing better to do I've been reading Twitter for many years now but not seen a politician better than
@KKeneally
at using it to political advantage
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I suppose those Coalition members calling on NSW Labor to release the report into Emma Husar will similarly want the Nationals to release the results of enquiry into allegations made against Barnaby Joyce by prominent WA woman farmer.
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Time to pull the curtain on memorial industry - the marking of the end, 100 years ago, of World War I ought to be a sign that we should tone down the liturgy, the bullshit, and the politicisation of personal, community and national trauma
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Surely they'll be storming down from the Adelaide Hills protesting at Penfolds owner Treasury Wine Estates moving into their prized natural wine space with wines containing sulphites!
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HAVE A NEW WINE EXPERIENCE
Dare to be different and have fun with Durif & Mataro
At Glug we delight in producing small batches of intriguing wines
Visit us at
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Barossa wines to make married life bearable - Try some from
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Is there is a more idiotic form of journalism than vox pops like last night's "Quiet Australians" piece on 7.30 last night?
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Australian wine madness reaches a new peak this week with the release of a pair of outrageously priced chardonnays. Anyone who pays $600 for a 2020 Levantine Hill Optume or $875 for the non-vintage Penfolds V qualifies as a mug with money.
Read more at
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China not likely to be a saviour for Australian
#wine
industry as Chinese wine consumption falling dramatically. 2022 down 16% on 2021. and
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The making of a great
#wine
tradition. A 1962 Four Corners video that tells the Barossa Valley's remarkable story.
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I worked as a political journalist through the McMahon years and never thought politics could be more comical. How wrong I was.
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@rup31
@firstdogonmoon
I guess old habits die hard. Writing for The Australian over the decades was an important part of my journalistic life. Finally the degeneration of what was once a fine newspaper has got to me.
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From a recent James Haliday tasting note:
A wine with “shimmering tannins”? “Silk and satin rather than velvet”? What can this wine actually taste like? If you can explain it, to quote Rudyard Kipling: “By the livin’ Gawd that made you, You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!”…
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How we destroyed Murray Basin wines is a sad story of allowing self proclaimed wine experts to explain the nuances of taste to the masses. See
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It's difficult to deal with political blackmailers. As PM Turnbull is discovering, the more you pay them the more they ask for. His only answer - call their bluff. Tell your colleagues that if deposed you will quit parliament immediately taking the LNP majority with you.
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The Myth about Cool Climate Wines
A pleasant change to read James Halliday dismiss “the idea that the Hunter is too hot for high quality pinot noir.” About time. A Time magazine cover 43 years ago calles a Tyrells Pinot as one of the world’s 10 best wines.
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Wine Australia says wine faces "a perfect storm of issues" as grape growers with costs of $300-$400 a tonne get paid around $150. A solution to this impending financial disaster? Straight out of the ABC's Utopia: a promise to develop a plan!
See
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The story of pollutants in the mineral water is denting the reputation of France as the purest home of fine wining and dining. French officials found in 2022 that sporadic contamination of bacterial or chemical origin meant major brands including Vittel, Contrex, Hépar, Perrier…
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Interviews with politicians like Corman a complete waste of time. When was the last time one of them actually answered a question and said something relevant and new? Drop the segment
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I like interviewers of the
@annabelcrabb
style who realise sensible viewers can detect nonsense spoken by politicians without the interviewer thinking the nonsense has to be pointed out.
#auspol
#insiders
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The Australian wine peasants’ revolt is underway. The grape growers of Australia’s Murray Basin are stirring. The street blockade by tractors, harvesters and trucks at Renmark on Wednesday is surely just the beginning of direct action.
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Expensive wines do not taste better then cheaper ones for most people when they don’t know the prices beforehand. If anything, individuals on average enjoy more expensive wines slightly less. That was the conclusion from 6,000 blind tastings
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Something that should be retweeted often
Mr Morrison is making it up
There is no actual budget surplus, it is only a promise of one in the year 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020, which obviously doesn't start for 6 mths. The $4.1b forecast surplus will not occur if the economy is even a touch softer than Treasuy's forecasts
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China's ban on Australian wine means bargains for local drinkers.
Like the Glug South Australia Cabernet Sauvignon 2018. A $6.80 a bottle blend of several cabernets at
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I have a confession to make. I watch the TV news, read the news websites and have not the faintest, foggiest clue what the National Energy Guarantee actually is.
#auspol
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I am fascinated by the way that Roman Quaedvlieg is using Twitter to rebuild a reputation. Quite an achievement
@quaedvliegs
#auspol
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The cool climate wine elitists are under attack by major wine producers from warmer irrigation areas. Underlying the dispute is a belief Wine Australia gives small and boutique wineries too great a share of its marketing and research budgets.
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Two returns to the past
It must be 40 years ago that I stopped writing about wine for Packer's Gourmet Traveller and 30 since I was a retailer. Now, 80 years young, I am back doing both at . Shoud I retire or keep going?
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Surely the foolish decision was Malcolm Turnbull making this man his chief of staff all those years ago.
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Politicians and business leaders cannot be trusted to pour themselves wine. That’s the edict of officialdom at Canberra’s Parliament House. No longer will waiters ‘leave bottles of wine on tables for service at events.’
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Not yet afraid about Scott Morrison? You should be after reading NYTimes columnist Maureen Dowd "Trump Finally Makes a Friend - The president may be shunned nearly everywhere but at the bottom of the world he has finally found a loyal mate."
#auspol
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A quaffable dry red for just $5 a bottle?
It's only that bargain price as wants to snap customers out of their festive slumber.
And we thank Sir Walter Raleigh for the terrene in its name as our website explains.
Order at
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After years of media hype about Cormann’s “steady pair of hands”, has his backing of an unelectable Dutton to be PM, his incompetent counting during the challenge and now the “its ok to be white” debacle rendered him politically naked.
#auspol
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Wish Peter van Onselen would give more details of his comment that "... Morrison also has a temper, as I discovered this week when he complained about a story I did for Network Ten."
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Pouring wine straight from a laptop into your glass!
Alas artificial intelligence has not yet reached such lofty heights. But we can dream. And in the meantime you can order direct from your computer and have wine sent to your home. Sign up at
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I don't understand why Fairfax don't run Jack Waterford's Saturday Canberra Times column in all their papers. Invariably the best read of the weekend
#auspol
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I like the way a former Liberal who lost his own seat is now seen as some kind of guru whose advice should be listened to. New PM Morrison should ignore John Howard's recommendation about putting Abbott in his Cabinet
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Politics the Victorian Liberal president Michael Kroger way. Talking about women MPs during the leadership spill: "... even if they were [bullied] that's what happens in politics." Charming fellow.
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Langhorne Creek is the most under appreciated wine region of South Australia. If we keep discovering wines with the quality of this one support for the region will surely grow.
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From the London Times:“Investigators in Bordeaux have uncovered a “gigantic” fraud ...disguising almost five million bottles of cheap Spanish wine as French... drinkers who bought the wines: none seemed to know the difference.” via
@glug_wines
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"After Wentworth, Phelps open to tearing down the government" trumpets The Oz in today's best beat-up. The idea that someone who won a difficult race would act to cause an immediate re-run is ridiculous
#WentworthVotes
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Perhaps young Murdoch thinks a small Australian media group in an easy target to crush with its superior ability to pay the legal bills. Hopefully people will help finance an adequate Crikey defence. CNN would not be as financially stretched.
The Murdochs pretend to be free speech warriors but will happily annihilate indie media in Australia. The real cancel culture has always been the top end of town.
CNN reckon Fox incited Jan 6. Why don’t they sue them?
#Greed
#crikey
#auspol
#defamation
#MurdochGutterMedia
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Goodness. These banking stories are hurting us. We better do something. Anything. I know. Why don't we give ASIC some more money and put one of their staff into every bank? Before it's clear that it'll achieve nothing the election will be over.
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If you want a simple explanation of why the Liberal Party is in such trouble look no further than the way assorted members from all factions have decided that the best person to blame for the Wentworth result is Malcolm Turnbull. Amazing.
#auspol
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It's like being in a time warp: Bill Shorten taking to the airwaves to talk like an Opposition Leader on relations between Morrrison and Trump. Hardly the subject matter expected of a Shadow Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme Government Services. Where's Albo?
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It is becoming clearer that Morrison doesn’t have whatever it takes... the boat is burning, and efforts will now be on saving the passengers, crew and deck cargo ... In the meantime national interests can go to hell.
#ausdpol
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I've been told that I am missing a wonderful performance on Sky as Chris Kenny says the defeat was all Malcolm Turnbull's fault. Maybe they will post some highlights on Twitter so I can have a decent giggle.
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I don't know Sandi Logan but I remember him as spokesperson for immigration who played an impeccably straight bat when defending decisions. Thus I'm inclined to believe he has no axe to grind now and his views on the au pair decisions are spot on.
THREAD. Snr public servant has observed that in all of this au pair business, no one is focusing on the main issue: the decisions insofar as the emails & relationships go present a clear conflict of interest situation that, were it a public servant would require disclosure. 1/3
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It is good to see
@samanthamaiden
back in action. A real gotcha moment.
TND political editor
@samanthamaiden
pressed Scott Morrison on reports he called for the Liberal Party to capitalise upon anti-Muslim sentiment at a 2010 shadow cabinet meeting.
Here's his response.
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Wine Australia tries not to mention alcohol. To put it bluntly, the wine industry tries to pretend it is not really a part of the alcohol industry at all. See .
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The pressure in a 750 ml bottle of champagne or sparkling wine is about three times that of a standard car tyre, with the potential to launch a cork up to 13 m at speeds of up to 80 km/h. A cork hitting an eye can cause permanent blindness.
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I don't understand why ALP supporters so angry at Age/SMH poll showing LNP supposedly doing better. In my experience campaigning, being seen as a long way in front not the place to be.
#auspol
#Election2022
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It will be a major surprise to me if Dominic Perrottet does not finish January as one of the most unpopular Premiers in NSW history.
#auspol
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#Penfolds
and
#YellowTail
both have a prominent place on a list of the world’s most admired
#wine
brands. Yellow Tail should be lauded as an Australian national hero not sneered at by wine writing snobs.
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Editor's note: though it pains us, we publish this letter unedited so you can enjoy an authentic APS reading experience."A reading from the book of Saint Mike" - DHA chief Mike Pezzullo's sermon to his senior executives.
#auspol
via
@canberratimes
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I notice the professional pundits are beginning to hedge their predictions about the federal election result as they react to the campaign ups and downs. Not so the betting market. It still puts Labor at a greater than 80% chance of winning as it has for the last month.. $auspol
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Stand by for the wine bargains that are now well on the way. Inflated high prices are tumbling. Australia has a wine glut and the surplus is not just bulk wine. As well there are too many producers trying to sell too many bottles at $50 or more.
See
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Bringing the Barossa to you
A value dozen reds made and bottled at Glug's Nuriootpa winery
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A cow horn stuffed with manure a feature of the vineyard where Anthony Albanese drank the $500 a bottle wine. Helping promote such biodynamic nonsense is what Michaelia Cash should have criticised him for.
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Jack Waterford in Canberra Times - "This is not a government thinking its way forward or shining a light on the future. It's edging and groping, facing backwards, in the dark."
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If variety is the spice of your life then the range of Village Belle wines should be on your red wine drinking menu. Small quantities from different grape types made by adventurous young Barossa Valley winemakers.
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Mr Speaker got countless mentions. The Member for Dawson got none. Scott Morrison squibbed it.
What a woeful Prime Ministerial speech I just heard.
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The NSW Premier should learn that talking on and on when asked a simple and direct question does not make her sound more convincing
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Provided Covid does not make Anthony Albenese feel too crook then his home confinement for a week is no loss. Probably a plus. I have never seen the advantage for a politician of rushing around the country. Losses from mishaps regularly outweigh any benefits.
#auspol
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Follow the Wolf Blass way is something Wine Australia’s marketing team should learn as the country’s wine exports tumble.
To the
#wine
establishment Blass was a brash outsider causing trouble but he offered a direction for Australian exports.
#winelovers
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politicalowl: Petty politics: The perils of parliamentary pairing
With so many government ministers absent for one reason or another this story about Tony Abbott's tactics is worth recalling.
#auspol
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Widespread deceptive advertising by wine retailers in a cautionary tale about buying online. False claims about expert opinions, and “deep discounts” when compared to regular prices, abound. It is not a pretty picture of the industry but an accurate one.
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Enter Shiraz in London but not at Royal Adelaide was the Penfolds way of approaching red wine show competitions last year. Penfolds must be sick of the way local judges hate giving points to anything with an alcohol content of 14.5% or more.
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Teetotallers are freeloading in restaurants.
That dawned on me after reading John Lethean on high wine markups.
Without excessive dollars from wine, restaurants would need higher food prices.
Today drinkers subsidise non-drinkers.
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The government corporation Wine Australia spreads unscientific nonsense on its website literally promoting the accuracy of astrology.
Visit for a retailer with more than just pictures of bottles and a price tag.
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When Premier Berejiklian speaks like this I can't help thinking that pride cometh before a fall.
Gladys Berejiklian: “If this was WA or Qld they would have shut down the whole city” - she says she expects other premiers to criticise her for not going hard enough on restrictions after 2 community cases recorded.
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One thing that is clear to me is that the broad church should separate into two churches. The ideological differences are too great
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How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong - Few thought it would arrive so quickly. Now we’re facing consequences once viewed as fringe scenarios.
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The French think Champagne is too expensive so it’s time to follow their Gallic example and stick with other sparklings.The London Times blew the whistle last week with an editorial declaring the French have fallen out of love with their most famous fizz.
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Scott Morrison doing a "special" interview with Paul Murray on Sky next Wednesday? What is wrong with the man?
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Disappointed this was not widely reported in Australia. I am celebrating Sir Van Morrison's knighthood conferred this week playing "Hard Nose the Highway" his 1973 album that was the first of his I bought
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When people start laughing at a government it is in big trouble.
Tonight on TV the muppets show is everywhere. Scott Morrison's first big mistake was to mention it.
#auspol
#MuppetGovernment
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The rain is pelting down at the moment here at
Tuross Head which makes me feel much more relaxed about tomorrow's forecast of high fire danger.
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Thank goodness I'm 78 and won't have to worry but I read a frightening report in London's Telegraph of a Scotch whisky shortage predicted for 2071 because global warming will affect production of Scottish barley
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When it comes to the quite futile game of picking an election date all I can say is that I have not known a PM to call one when he thinks he will be beaten. Hence my skepticism about the early March stories
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Australia Post changes its mind about not advertising on Sky News. Did the government intervene?
#auspol
@slpng_giants_oz
#AdShame
@CathCath77
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There would be many of Gough Whitlam's old colleagues bemused by Scott Morrison today labelling him "left wing".
#auspol
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Can the election campaign start get worse for Scott Morrison? The NSW Appeals Court will tell us on Monday.
#auspoll
#Elections2022
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Scott Morrison's references to "Mr Speaker" when answering questions have now reached the joke level.
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Ever wondered why champagne bubbles rise in straight lines while those for cola are wonky? Then wonder no more. has the answer.
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Glug does not pay for reviews on blogs or getting marks out of a 100 on some wine website or other. Once upon a time in the United States disc jockeys got jailed for accepting those kind of payments to plug somebody’s record.
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The wine industry is not just the fine wines that afficianados rave about so The Glug Wine Diary makes our site more than a retailer showing pictures of bottles with price tags. Find a lighter and sometimes humourous look at
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The Chinese Wine Buyers Who Don’t Drink It - "In most of the world, wine sales are overwhelmingly to people who want to drink the stuff. That’s not the case in China..." via
@Glug
Wines
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Apparent safe seat holders are the ones most vulnerable to defeat by independents who are not too far from them on the political spectrum. Hence Tony Abbott has a lot to fear from someone like Zali Steggall entering the contest
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