So, on a Thursday night in Australia, the proprietor of the country's largest media outlet gives a lecture auspiced by a think tank set up by the country's largest shopping mall magnate, which is then broadcast live and in full on ABC News 24, and breathlessly reported the next morning in all the papers.
Rupert, Clive and Campbell in the Arkansas of the world
There's Rupert Murdoch, Clive Palmer and Campbell Newman: mildly sinister, certainly absurd. It's an Australian political implosion, and there may be no turning back.
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