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Duncan Disorderly
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Why is telling the truth so hard?

OPINION: Politicians have a default setting to lie when under pressure.

Duncan Garner Mon, 07 Mar 2022

I spent 17 years in the Parliamentary Press Gallery from 1995 to 2012 before leaving at the ripe old age of 38. I threw myself at it like a mad man. I had one gear and it was full on. The job required all that and some.

It was a time when social media and cameras on phones didn’t exist. It

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