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Published January 8, 2009, 10:10 pm, The West Australian

Just over a year on from the election of Kevin Rudd, his mangling of the English language has passed into legend. Questions to the Prime Minister elicit torrents of bureaucratic babble and obscure acronyms, leaving reporters flummoxed and sending Opposition MPs running for dictionaries.

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