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Houses and Holes<\/strong>: As I have noted in the past that, for the most part, Australian political economy is divided pretty simply into two teams. On one side you have a kind of bastardised social liberalism in which trade union thugs wield power via the Labor Party and are supported by a cultural community of Irish-Catholic derived \u201cbattlers\u201d. On the other side, you have an equally bastardised neo-liberalism in which corporations wield power via the Liberal Party and are supported by a cultural community of English-Protestant derived \u201cbludgers\u201d. Whether the members of either team are from Vietnam, Israel, Lebanon or Lapland, rich or poor is irrelevant. This is our tribal political culture……<\/p>\n

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Houses and Holes: As I have noted in the past that, for the most part, Australian political economy is divided pretty simply into two teams. On one side you have a kind of bastardised social liberalism in which trade union thugs wield power via the Labor Party and are supported by a cultural community of … <\/p>\n

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