It's time: The Dismissal gave us knockout punch politics, now we should get rid of it

By Jack Waterford
Updated April 24 2018 - 8:20pm, first published November 6 2015 - 2:44pm

One has to be of a certain (old) age to remember intimately, as I do, the tumultuous events of November 11, 1975. I knew then that I was being a witness to history and, sometimes, metaphorically pinched myself to be sure I remembered.

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