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The wrong way to “live with Covid”

January 9, 2022 Opinion by Greg Ray Careful what you wish for. That’s what I’m saying to Australia’s numbskull business leaders who pushed so hard for “let it rip” pandemic policies. They got their puppet politicians - that pigeon-pair of Trump-loving wingnuts, Scomo and Parrothead - to give them what they wanted and it’s backfired. And now none of them knows what to do, except run for cover, or find new ways of profiteering from other people’s troubles. I can almost understand the argument from a month ago. It seemed like – since the pandemic wasn’t…

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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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