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Bizarro World on the Yarra
It’s ridiculous, the kind of impossible rumours that circulate all around social media. Everyone enjoys a bit of gossip now and then but don’t people have anything better to do than make up these stories? Such improbable stories too, no one should give them a moment’s credence. There’s a particularly unconvincing one doing the rounds in Victoria just now. The thrust of it – and it just shows what nasty minds some people have – is that a senior Labor politician (I won’t name him but the rumour does) who has been unwell lately is in that condition because he was ‘beaten up’ in a fist fight.
What could be more absurdly untrue than that? Apart from anything else, we all know Labor politicians are pillars of rectitude – they don’t go around getting into fights. True, the putative attacker also gets named on social media but not by me, though that proves nothing. But what makes the story completely unbelievable, indeed malicious, is that the casus belli is said…
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