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This is bloody awful.
Federal MPs have been advised to vary their daily travel patterns, including the route they take to work, as one of a series of precautions re-emphasised during a rolling set of security briefings on Wednesday.
The briefings occurred as Phil Haines, the husband of Helen Haines, announced his wife of 40 years had lost both legs after being deliberately rammed by a constituent in a four-wheel drive while she was unloading the boot of her car outside her Wangaratta electorate office on Monday.
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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