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Read more about the article Nuclear bait and switch
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Nuclear bait and switch

AUKUS was a first clue. A whole pile of blather, cooked up between the US military establishment and Australia's former disastrous Morrison Coalition government, that essentially boils down to Australia agreeing to subsidise, at great cost, the deployment and operation in the Asia-Pacific region of what will effectively be US-controlled nuclear submarines. To me this looked like the radioactive thin edge of an atomic wedge. Straight away my mind went back to 2005, when former Labor PM Bob Hawke (another great friend of the US military establishment) gave a speech suggesting that Australia should accept large…

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Read more about the article Main points from the election result
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Main points from the election result

My main reaction to the result of the Australian federal election was intense relief. Not so much because we will have a Labor government, but because we no longer are obliged to endure the incompetent, destructive malice of the Morrison brand of Liberal rule. To me, there were a few major points worth noting from this election. One important aspect was the utter failure of Clive Palmer’s lunatic party to achieve anything at all, despite the money the billionaire threw at the election. The failure of his mad puppet Craig Kelly to be re-elected was very…

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How much lower can our pollies go?

March 18, 2022 Opinion by Greg Ray Without a trace of embarrassment the Federal Government handed out flood relief payments to disaster victims in the National Party electorate of Page and withheld them from those in the Labor-held electorate of Richmond. These are not huge sums - just one or two thousand dollars or so per person - but it would be awfully handy for people whose uninsurable homes were ruined by floods which did not discriminate on the basis of political affiliation. Surely a total loss in Ballina is the same, in effect, as a…

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