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Apr 2025
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Back to Back Barries: Could soft voters ...

The Guardian
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There’s only a week to go, and polls are showing that the gap between the two major parties is widening in favour of Anthony Albanese – but with such a high number of soft voters, can we count the Coalition out? 
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