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An interesting WI, one would think. In May 1994 Alexander Downer takes over as Leader of the Liberal Party and becomes Leader of the Opposition. By January 1995, he had had made enough gaffes that the Liberal Party was ready to turn back to John Howard who went on to win the 1996 Elections and become Prime Minister for nearly 12 years.

WI Downers does not make nearly enough gaffes (at the very least not taking the piss out of his Things That Matter Policy Platform) and makes it to the 1996 Election?

Does he win off the fact that the electorate would've been tired of Labor after it's been in power for 13 years? What would a Downer PMship look like?

or

Keating emerges victorious at which point the question becomes what kind of policies Keating would get up to post 1996? At what point does he contemplate retirement?
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