New Senate a fair reflection of voter intent

By Malcolm Mackerras
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:53pm, first published June 3 2014 - 2:10pm

On December 28 last year, The Canberra Times published an article by me with the headline ''Abbott era likely to last just two terms'', to which the editor added the description ''History shows that the Labor Party’s defeat at the federal election was a respectable loss, rather than a landslide''.

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