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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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2020 has been bad for democracy, but look what might be coming next.

OH 2020. What a year you have been. Bushfires, drought, Covid-19, President Trump’s mind-boggling swansong, the non-declaration of a new cold war between the West and China: you brought so much dismay. It’s seemed so surreal to me, in Australia. For a start I had assumed that the Covid-19 pandemic would take off here, as it did in so many other countries. But – not to belittle the awful impact on those who were affected – the virus has been contained so far, contrary to my expectations. And yet, the pandemic has brought far-reaching consequences, especially…

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Hitting Uncle Rupert where it hurts

Kevin Rudd is my favourite living former prime minister of Australia. I quite liked him as actual PM, and was sorry when he was smashed out of office by a coalition of big mining companies and the powerful trade unions that didn’t like his plan to make Labor a more broad-based party (my opinion, that). I was always dubious about those alleged internal ALP polls that claimed his popularity had plummeted and which formed the basis of the coup that replaced him with Julia Gillard. As journalist Alan Ramsay wrote back then, Labor destroyed two prime…

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