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Why I’m a nuclear skeptic

You can feel the pressure building, from a number of directions. For a start, the mad Murdoch media empire getting oddly on board with the rhetoric of climate change action - something it has frantically opposed for years. Then there's AUKUS, the Australian Government's new plan to stick Aussie flags on nuclear submarines as part of the US plan to suppress China in the Indo-Pacific region. As soon as that announcement was made people started talking, right on cue, about Australia's lamentable lack of a domestic nuclear industry, and how the subs would be a better…

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“Free” shouldn’t mean careless

October 11, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray So the lockdowns are lifting. The shops and businesses are reopening. People are flocking back to their crowded, busy lives. Mr Murdoch, Mr Morrison and Mr Perrottet are very happy that dollars will be flowing more freely again, and no doubt many other people are glad for the same reason. But we already know, from overseas experience, what is likely to happen next, so we need to be careful not to be too carried away by the "Freedom Day" headlines. Masks and social distancing are still going to be…

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New Premier for NSW, and happy King Coal

October 8, 2021 Comment by Greg Ray IT'S difficult for me not to feel nervous about the new premier of NSW, Dominic Perrottet. After all, it was only in July that Rupert Murdoch's propaganda sheets were applauding the then-treasurer for standing up in Cabinet against "Go-Slow Gladys" and her lockdowns, in favour of more opening up - just as the Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus was starting to bite. Also troubling - to me at least - is his status as a pro-Trump pseudo-ideological warrior. In his tribute to Trump's election victory in the USA…

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