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Predictions for 2022

December 31, 2021 Satire by Greg Ray When I worked at the newspaper I was in the regular habit of writing a year-end column setting forth a variety of predictions for the year ahead. Far be it from me to blow my own trumpet, but my accurate prescience often caused astrologers and soothsayers considerable anxiety - or so I believe. In recent years I have not been so assiduous at providing this useful service to my myriad readers but, prompted by immense popular demand and a sense that I was being unfair in not letting other…

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A gallery of Christmas postcards

Christmas cards used to baffle me somewhat, when I was a small child growing up in Australia. What was the story with the snow, let alone mysterious words like "Noël"? It took a while for me to grasp that I was part of a transplanted race still coming to terms with being a long way from its ancestral home. The "white Christmas", the songs about snow and sleighs and reindeer, the fake illuminated icicles hanging from fascia boards along the fronts of suburban houses were all part of the same thing: a settler colony far from…

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It’s hard to get excited about 2022

December 19, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray 2021 has been a grinding, dispiriting year for many of us. For a start, we’ve been on the Covid-19 pandemic roller-coaster, with its ups and downs of lockdowns, vaccinations, new variants and constant arguments between business advocates and health authorities about what we ought to do. Depressing because of the pandemic being used as a profit-booster by unscrupulous pharmaceutical corporations and as a divisive social lever by unscrupulous media corporations and unprincipled political puppets. And deeply troubling as an example of how our present model of rule-by-corporation really works…

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