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Polycrisis soup is permanently on the menu

I may be wrong about this but it seems to me that, when I was younger, the world's craziness was delivered in smaller doses. You had time to look at the crazy or appalling episodes that occurred in some kind of isolation, think about them and consider what they meant to you and your life. If that was ever true then it isn't anymore. These days the madness is flung in massive dollops, all mixed up into a brown goo of insanity with no separation between its unpalatable ingredients and no breaks between the furious flinging.…

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Big business’s vision for Australia

I wrote this piece as a tongue-in-cheek column for The Newcastle Herald in 2014. I'm reproducing it here because it seems to me that the plan, as outlined, is coming together nicely. IT’S not all bad news on the economic front. Yes, unemployment is high and rising, especially among the young. And yes, the real estate boom is forcing up living costs and pricing the young out of the housing market. And yes, retail demand is down because even those with spare money are worried about whether they’ll have a job next week. But our big…

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Two examples of hyper-hypocrisy

There are times when the hypocrisy of the system that runs our society is so barefaced I have to sit down and have a breather before I can look at it again. Two moments over the past week stand out as major classics of the hypocrisy genre. Number one, in chronological order of me hearing about it and also in terms of the scale of the breathtaking utter crap it involves, centres on my personal favourite scapegoat for all the wickedness in the world, media shitlord Rupert Murdoch. Did you happen to notice, amidst the noise…

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