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Albanese’s brain-fart decision to engage in a game of ‘shag, marry, date’ with alleged comedian Nikki Osborne peculiarly took some of the media pressure off Labor’s botched Budget and Albanese’s misplaced boasting about getting it through the Parliament with the assistance, as usual, of his partner of convenience on the Left, the unlovable Greens, writes Paul Murray.
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PAUL MURRAY: Having shagged both the economy and the housing market, reaffirmed Labor’s de facto marriage to the Greens and gone on a speed-dating round with several Pacific nations, Albo should be exhausted.

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