Political instability, on display yesterday when the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, survived a challenge to her leadership, which turned out to not be a challenge at all, is just one tell-tale blowing in the negative winds sweeping across Australia.

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It would be just another story people told each other, another cautionary tale about the McKechnies, how in that family one brother could kick the other senseless over a borrowed sweater.

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