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Labor’s story full of broken promises

Senator Matt Canavan writes Labor's broken promise on capital gains would be the biggest tax grab launched on Australian farming in history. (File)

On 29 May 1765, a 29-year-old member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Patrick Henry, rose to move five resolutions […]

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