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‘None of Us Knows What the Answers Are’: The Labor Opposition in a New Economic Paradigm

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The previous chapter vindicated the proposition identified in Chap. 2 that the conclusions drawn by an Opposition about the reasons for its loss of office will inevitably shape its behaviour.

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    The amendment went down by a margin of 35: 10 votes.

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    A system of state-provided medical insurance developed under the Whitlam government.

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Lavelle, A. (2018). ‘None of Us Knows What the Answers Are’: The Labor Opposition in a New Economic Paradigm. In: Opposition Vanishing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5825-7_8

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