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The referendum and John Howard’s long political shadow

by Joel Deane
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The ABR Podcast 22 December 2023

The referendum and John Howard’s long political shadow

by Joel Deane
by
The ABR Podcast 22 December 2023

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In this week’s ABR Podcast, Joel Deane argues that one person more than any other is the reason why more than sixty per cent of voters said No in the Voice referendum. Former prime ministers, he says, haunt Australian politics like Hamlet’s Ghost. Joel Deane is a poet, novelist and speechwriter. Listen to Joel Deane’s ‘A maddening country: The long political shadow of John Howard’, published in the December issue of ABR.

 

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