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Bob Ellis: About Mike Rann "History will be nicer to Mike Rann than his envenomed tabloid harassers, and I will see more of him now, and that is no small thing. But it's a pity. He was a good man felled unfairly by squalid, sluggardly hacks." — The Drum

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