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Leaving a sandy quagmire, until next time

“What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?”Madeleine Albright, US ambassador to the UN, 1993 August 18, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray All these wars, and little to show for them but pain, hatred and ruin. And yet it never stops. Is it a grand plan, pushing over dominoes until the armies of global finance reach the gates of Moscow and Beijing? Is it keeping afloat the vampire zombie weapons industry? Is it mighty egos flexing their biceps to impress the world? We are told it's about…

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Back to flattening the curve

This round of Covid-19 has got me thinking about how things were when it began. When we speculated - wrongly - that the virus was easily transmissible from surfaces, that the early strain was extremely contagious and that it might take years to find a vaccine. Back then all the talk was of "flattening the curve", which meant we assumed most of us were going to be exposed to the virus but we hoped that by being careful we could keep the numbers of infected people from skyrocketing all at once. Our goal was to stop…

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A dip in the shark tank

July 24, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray IF you were a little confused by the recent Federal Court decision on the legality of the NSW Government’s penalty clauses preventing the Port of Newcastle competing with Sydney for container traffic, then you aren’t alone. I’m a little confused too. I hope I’m not in contempt of court when I say I find it surprising to read the statement by Justice Jagot that “No private operator of the Port of Newcastle, acting rationally, could have satisfied itself that in the reasonably foreseeable future a container terminal at the…

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