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Labor leads government in Ipsos poll

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Labor has pulled ahead of the Coalition in the Fairfax Ipsos poll for the first time since Malcolm Turnbull became prime minister.

The ALP is leading 51-49% on the two-party vote in the poll of 1359, taken Tuesday to Thursday. This is a rise for Labor of two points in a fortnight. Preferences have been allocated according to the flow at the last...

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On imagery in poetry

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imageOtto Magus, CC BY-NC

One thing bursts out of another. Christine Brooke-Rose, in A Grammar of Metaphor (1958), called it the genitive link. When Ballarat regional poet Nathan Curnow begins his poem The Lighthouse with,

nuns are eating plastic bags their cathedral has rolled down the hill it’s a dinner party with a touch of cancer what the...

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