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So now it’s a race after all

July 7, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray Our squandered vaccination opportunity If true leadership is most clearly recognisable in times of crisis, then I don't need to say anything about Australia's current national leaders. Their actions, and lack of action, speak volumes on their own. From "not holding a hose" in the bushfire crisis to "it's not a race" when Australia had precious months to get as much of its population as possible vaccinated, the prime minister has summed up himself and his government. The bushfires are behind us, and it seems from interviews I've seen…

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Mugshots: photos from the NSW Police Criminal Register

Among the strange books I've collected over the years is a melancholy volume of photographs, designed as a supplement to the 1944 NSW Police Criminal Register. It's a sad collection of mugshots of unhappy lawbreakers, accompanied by short descriptions, and some paragraphs about their known misdeeds. I've often thought the book would make a good source document for any novelist trying to create characters to populate the pages of their hard-boiled crime stories. Published in the war years, it reeks of the leftovers of The Great Depression, and features many uniformed service personnel as both perpetrators…

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