Both disaffected groups have tended to support the Liberal Party, and many of their members live in marginal constituencies along the urbanised east coast, where Labor needs to snatch only a handful of seats to take power.

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The off-season calls for a diversity of repetitions muscle endurance one day, maximum strength the next, a power lift after that in an Olympic-style program of the clean, jerk and snatch.

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