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Not ashamed of much. Australian PM Scott Morrison (photo by Kristy Robinson) and NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian

Shame about democracy . . .

Somebody wrote a few weeks ago how shocked many Americans had been to realise that shame was the only thing that had been protecting them from political tyranny. The writer meant that the only reason, until now, that no US president or political party had pulled the stunt of stacking the Supreme Court with a last-minute appointment, as Donald Trump has done, was that they feared the shame it would bring on them. Same with all the voter-suppression dodges the Republican Party pulled out of the hat this year. While voter-suppression isn’t new in the USA,…

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Biden their time until whatever comes next . . .

Well, US Democrats: what did you honestly expect? You did away with the only inspiring candidate you’ve had in years – Bernie Sanders – and put up instead a doddering old warmonger with creepily wandering hands. Because deep down your party machine is happier to live with Trump in the White House than it would have been to face the risk of the political and social reforms your country sorely needs. Because the status quo is what feeds the army of careerists in your party, and the status quo is what your billionaire sponsors want to…

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Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch. Symptoms of our times. Photos from Wikimedia commons.

Are the wheels falling off everything?

THERE are times, like this week, when it feels to me as if the wheels are falling off just about everything. The US election looms like an iceberg ahead. In a nominally democratic system based on voluntary voting, the name of the game has become voter-suppression, with the Republicans using every dirty trick imaginable to prevent people from being able to exercise their theoretical rights. Cutting the number of polling places, urging armed goons to patrol among voters, changing rules and systems to stop postal votes being counted – the list goes on and on. A…

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