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Dryblower and problems of assumptions being treated as facts

WHEN is an assumption a fact? The correct answer is never, but when <i>Dryblower</i> saw that a politician who has considerable influence over a large part of Australia’s mining industry seemed to be confusing facts and assumptions he was initially amused, and then concerned.

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Dryblower and problems of assumptions being treated as facts

Ben Wyatt, newly installed Treasurer of WA, committed the fact-v-assumption blooper in a statement designed to defend his first report into the health of the state’s shell-shocked, post-boom, economy....

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