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"When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success."
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Source: 'The Trouble Is the West'. Interview with Rogier van Bakel, reason.com. October 10, 2007.
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