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Tony Smith on the high cost of ALP governments

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Tony Smith, ABC1’s Insiders, 29/2/04.

On 29 February 2004, Liberal MP Tony Smith used “The Adjournment Debate” on ABC1’s Insiders to sound a warning about the nature of ALP governments. He delivered his message as the eighth anniversary of the defeat of the Keating Government approached. Tony Smith’s warning resonates today. Note the reaction of program presenter Barrie Cassidy and panel pundits, Annabel Crabb and Mike Seccombe.



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