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Ode to the Planning Minister

Letter to The Age 18 September 2012:
"Ode to Matthew Guy"
HE LOVES a sunburnt country,
a land of sweeping cranes,
of haggard mountain ranges,
of overcrowded trains.
His love of far horizons,
filled with concrete towers,
he dreams of more of this,
to exercise his powers.
To achieve his main objective,

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