Pointless politics of gesture
Summer is a terrific time to build political mountains out of molehills – policies that are not really meant to be acted on H ands up if you support social exclusion. No? Then by the Federal Government’s logic, that means you must support social inclusion. And if you support social inclusion, you must be appalled that the Opposition has pledged to scrap the Social Inclusion Board.
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