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The World is Benefitting from the Other Time We Saw the Flak Jacket
28 April 2004
Sydney Morning Herald, Opinion
The Prime Minister has been wearing his flak jacket again, but at least this time he was visiting a war zone. The last time we saw John Howard in bulletproof gear was 1996 and he was addressing a public meeting in rural Victoria. What made that meeting as dangerous as occupied Iraq? The topic: gun control.
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