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Today in 1962 the Rolling Stones played their first concert, at the Marquee Club in London.
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When will people get it through their head,Shorten is making the Decisions not Gillard.While she might appeal to the vast majority of victorians the rest of the country is fed up with Puppets,the cynical use of Botoxed mannequins is now a thing of the past and shows Shorten and his… Read more »
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Ture Sjolander says:
Why a just a book, Hawke ? http://www.bookshow.homestead.com/ The audience in the studio of Q&A seems to balanced but certainly not the crew around the table. It is the same people all the time, all the year around, decade after decade like the rest of that ABC rat-nest. The Parliament,… Read more »
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