The prime minister is trying to untangle the copyright knot. But this is about much more than intellectual property
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If Anthony Albanese has a spiritual home it would be somewhere between the old Sando and the Enmore theatre in that pocket of Sydney’s inner west where the traffic never flows and the people of Grayndler still rule the streets in all their messy diversity.
It was here that the Whitlams first gigged and sang of blowing up the pokies, part of the bohemian milieu from which Hot Albo emerged as he built a political base that would take him all the way to the Lodge. The band would famously be presented an Aria in 1998 by Gough, a consummation of the cultural union between Labor and the creative sector that traced its origins to the early 70s when Little Patti belted out It’s Time in Bankstown town hall.
