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Read more about the article Australia Day lament for the common wealth

Australia Day lament for the common wealth

January 26, 2022 Opinion by Greg Ray Australia Day seems a bit irrelevant to me this year. The whole country right now feels like a hijacked airliner. People are squabbling about legroom and locker space and meal choices and window seats and steward service. Wannabes are pushing for upgrades to business class or – dare we even dream? – first class, while nobody seems to have the faintest idea where the flight is heading. I feel like we are hostages, only most of us don’t want to admit it. We want to pretend that whoever is…

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Read more about the article It’s hard to get excited about 2022

It’s hard to get excited about 2022

December 19, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray 2021 has been a grinding, dispiriting year for many of us. For a start, we’ve been on the Covid-19 pandemic roller-coaster, with its ups and downs of lockdowns, vaccinations, new variants and constant arguments between business advocates and health authorities about what we ought to do. Depressing because of the pandemic being used as a profit-booster by unscrupulous pharmaceutical corporations and as a divisive social lever by unscrupulous media corporations and unprincipled political puppets. And deeply troubling as an example of how our present model of rule-by-corporation really works…

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Read more about the article You are being robbed and you should be angry

You are being robbed and you should be angry

October 31, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray Pork-barrelling is theft, plain and simple. Every time politicians redirect money from programs meant to benefit people and communities that need it, pushing it instead into projects that benefit their electoral prospects, it is theft. We are used to calling it "pork-barrelling", which makes it sound harmlesss. But it's anything but harmless. It's corrosive, wasteful, dishonest, and unethical and it my opinion it ought to be a criminal offence. They say the term "pork barrelling" originated back in the 1700s when barrels of salted pork were allegedly provided as…

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