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WHAT WAS SAID:
"[Sarah Hanson-Young and Bill Shorten] have proven themselves irrelevant and impotent on issues of border protection."
"I stopped the boats, so that means I'm better than you. "
Surprise! Fact-checking Abbott’s pre-election promises
Tony Abbott famously promised there would be “no surprises” in his new government. Freelance journalist Hari Raj goes back to the Coalition’s pre-election policy document and finds a couple of, well, surprises.
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