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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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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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When "Freedom" means a billionaire's right-wing front organisation hijacking your paper's front page

When our watchdogs let us down

December 9, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray The sight of those nonsensical black and yellow advertisements for mining magnate Clive Palmer's political spoiler organisation on the front page of my local newspaper is upsetting, I admit. When I saw them the first thing I wondered was, why does the newspaper accept advertising from that dreadful troll club? I've heard of instances, in the past, when newspaper owners stood on their dignity and refused to publish certain ads, arguing that they were harmful, misleading or beyond the pale in some other way. Might this not be one…

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