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Business as usual in a time of disaster

As a kid I liked to play with microscopes. My favourite thing to study was drops of water from dirty ponds and puddles. I was amazed at the many tiny creatures that could be found in a single drop. There were little oval-shaped protozoa that zoomed across my field of view, various wormlike organisms with different methods of movement, things that looked like flowers that sucked water in and squirted it out again and numerous other creatures. Mostly they were translucent. You could see inside their bodies, watching the mysterious structures in there moving and pulsating.…

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Earl also had some regrets, and some remorse.

A little remorse, but no regrets . . .

I was interviewing a businessman, years ago, about his long career, then coming to a close. I asked him did he have any regrets. He smiled, a bit Mona Lisa-like, and cast his eyes down before looking back up to me. "No regrets," he said. "But a little remorse." He was a fairly elderly man and I was a young reporter. I didn't really understand his answer at the time. Nor was he willing to elaborate, so I let it go. It stayed stuck in my head, though, for years and years, rattling around in the…

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Labor “surprised” at Mayoral by-election?

Opinion by Greg Ray Some sections of the Labor Party in Newcastle claim to be surprised at the party's crushing defeat in the recent Lord Mayoral by-election. I can accept that they may be disappointed, but surprised? If that's true then their disconnection from reality is more profound than I had imagined. And, frankly, given the way NSW Labor is behaving with regard to a range of issues in Newcastle and the surrounding Hunter Region, I suggest the party may be setting itself up at the State level for some more disappointment and faux surprise. The…

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