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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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The aged are politically expendable

February 6, 2022 Opinion by Greg Ray Imagine you were prime minister of Australia or premier of NSW. You had decided, for one reason or another, that you wanted to "let Covid rip" in your communities, presumably believing that the death toll and health consequences of that policy would not be as damaging as the economic cost of lockdowns and safety measures. I suggest that, equipped with the knowledge you had gained in your own country and overseas, you would have thought carefully about those of your citizens most vulnerable to the worst effects of the…

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The wrong way to “live with Covid”

January 9, 2022 Opinion by Greg Ray Careful what you wish for. That’s what I’m saying to Australia’s numbskull business leaders who pushed so hard for “let it rip” pandemic policies. They got their puppet politicians - that pigeon-pair of Trump-loving wingnuts, Scomo and Parrothead - to give them what they wanted and it’s backfired. And now none of them knows what to do, except run for cover, or find new ways of profiteering from other people’s troubles. I can almost understand the argument from a month ago. It seemed like – since the pandemic wasn’t…

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