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Sean Kelly is an Australian political journalist and a weekly columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He authored The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison, about the recently defeated conservative prime minister, and worked as an adviser to two former Labor prime ministers, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.

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