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23 April 2013updated 17 Jan 2024 6:12am

Australia’s Tony Abbott is a man for everyone and no one

His campaign was a disturbing example of politics at its most crass and exploitative.

By Liam McLaughlin

Editor’s note: On 7 September, the Liberal-National coalition won the election and Tony Abbott became prime minister

On the 4 April, in the great stone-and-glass National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, luminaries descended to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), Australia’s leading free-market think-tank.

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