APART from its usual theme of understated patriotism, Australia Day this year has a new resonance. It is the first anniversary of a race riot fomented within the Prime Minister's office.
In the aftermath, the junior staffer most directly involved lost his job. But John McTernan, the former aide to Tony Blair who was recruited as Julia Gillard's director of communications, remains her chief spinmeister. He is widely credited with having authorised inciting the crowd at Canberra's Tent Embassy. It was done by wantonly misrepresenting Tony Abbott's remarks on the role of the embassy in a radio interview that morning.
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