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"If the new administration follows through on its promise of promoting liberty and eliminating needless bureaucracy and regulation, then the betting markets will flourish in the coming years," Crane said.

"For two quiet families from country Victoria it has always been impossible to comprehend the needless and violent manner in which Suzanne and Susan died," the statement read.

None of this, needless to say, is normal.

To follow Harris’ expression of sorrow for her loss with “...But do you want to answer her?” is needless grandstanding, not fact-finding pressure.

He must surely know by now - but this needless dallying around the edge of the subject is now becoming faintly farcical.