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Stephen Senise is a freelance journalist. His commentary on Australian & international politics has featured in The Age, The Australian, the Australian Financial Review, the Courier Mail, and ABC radio. From 2002-2007 he wrote extensively on the Iraq war, its lead-up and aftermath, for the Brisbane Institute's journal The Brisbane Line.