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Held to ransom by the 15 per cent

February 18, 2022 Opinion by Greg Ray Blame the 15 per cent. I’ve been told that’s about the percentage of people in our society who are actively pleased to discriminate against others, hate the idea of ever sharing anything outside of their immediate family and will keenly embrace the politics of cruelty so long as they think they will be on the safe side of the hobnailed boot, the pepper spray and the riot squad. It’s probably not really 15 per cent. Not to start with, anyway. It’s probably less than 10 per cent if your…

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Keeping Mr Porter’s secrets

September 23, 2021 Comment by Greg Ray An external observer of Australian politics in 2021 might be excused for imagining that there was some far-reaching network striving to ensure that the activities of - and circumstances surrounding - former attorney-general Christian Porter are hidden forever from the eyes of the electorate. Of course that can't possibly be true. It's just the way that our democracy, our police and our legal and judicial systems work. The defence that the ABC was going to use in Mr Porter's much-trumpeted but rapidly aborted defamation case has been suppressed and…

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