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In a world that is beset by countless atrocities every single day, the act of a rookie batsman fiddling with the ball a practice that is hardly unprecedented has somehow turned the nation stomach. Even I, a cynical old hack with only a passing interest in the game, felt myself sickened.

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A teary Steve Smith faced the media this week after being sent home from South Africa. Picture: Steve Christo/APSource:AP

We like to tell ourselves that we are the land of the fair go, but the truth is Australia is a nation of cheats.

If the cricket scandal hadn broken on the weekend, the biggest sports story splashed across the Monday papers would have been the Manly Sea Eagles being busted for breaching the salary cap, which came just two years after Parramatta was exposed in an even worse salary cap scandal.

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And what about our other great national prides? Tennis? Our biggest star is accused of throwing matches. Horse racing? The trainer of the great Black Caviar gets banned for too much cobalt on another horse. Swimming? Well, at least the Stilnox wasn performance enhancing.

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So what went wrong? How could the Australian Test side, a group of golden boys literally cloaked in white, possibly get the idea that it was okay to cut corners, canada goose outlet jackets plot conspiracies and put your comrades in the dock just so you could win a contest that you probably would have won anyway?

Again, Howard holds the answer. But this time it accidental, because Howard was the last Australian prime minister not to be knifed by his own party assuming that Malcolm Turnbull is now only one Newspoll away from canada goose outlet orlando sharing the fate of his three predecessors.

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