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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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Read more about the article Wrong moment to talk about “opening up”

Wrong moment to talk about “opening up”

August 26, 2021 Comment by Greg Ray They’ve been vaccinated. They are staying out of harm’s way. If they get sick they will get the best care our money can buy. And all they want to talk about is when we can “open up again”. Here in NSW we are looking down the barrel of Covid disaster, just like we’ve seen it overseas, and opening up is what matters? If you wanted still more evidence that the nation’s leaders aren’t working for us then here it is. I mean, it’s no surprise. Here’s a bloke who,…

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