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Love and Politics. Close & Personal with Andrew Barr
From the vault. In our first issue of FUSE Magazine in April 2009, Nelida Contreras interviewed Andrew Barr, who at that time was the Tourism Minister for the ACT Government. A story of young love and local politics in Canberra.
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