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In a joint essay with his wife, Cass Wilkinson, who was deputy chief-of-staff to former treasurer Michael Costa, Mr McLeay said Australian governments were ”unwilling to give citizens any real authority”.
Instead, they stuck to ”the old paradigm of surveys and ‘feedback’; the Prime Minister perpetually spamming everyone on Facebook, and the Premier tweeting with the energy of a 12-year-old with Tourettes”.
The eternal political bridesmaid, bitter at not being made a minister, yesterday insisted his comments were meant as a compliment to Mr Rudd and Mr Rees.
”They are both active users of modern technology and they do it with keenness and vigour,” he said.
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