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Leader of the opposition, Bill Shorten, has announced that a future Labor government will provide $25 million to establish an AFL team in Tasmania. If this is such a good idea, and it is questionable that it is, it should be the AFL's responsibility to fund it. Since when is it the government's business to finance sports teams?

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