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New Premier for NSW, and happy King Coal

October 8, 2021 Comment by Greg Ray IT'S difficult for me not to feel nervous about the new premier of NSW, Dominic Perrottet. After all, it was only in July that Rupert Murdoch's propaganda sheets were applauding the then-treasurer for standing up in Cabinet against "Go-Slow Gladys" and her lockdowns, in favour of more opening up - just as the Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus was starting to bite. Also troubling - to me at least - is his status as a pro-Trump pseudo-ideological warrior. In his tribute to Trump's election victory in the USA…

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Premier Gladys and her blind eye

“Turning a blind eye” is what NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is in trouble for, apparently. She was in a close personal relationship with one of those shonky characters who infest the profession of politics in huge numbers, using their contacts to line their pockets, often at the expense of the public. She knew that her boyfriend, disgraced Liberal MP Daryl Maguire, was a shonk. She had sacked him a couple of years ago, after all, for being exactly that. But since then our Glad was recorded on the phone to lover-boy, telling him that she didn’t…

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