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May 2019

May 19, 2019
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When the industry you work in cuts penalty rates within the next twelve months, remember yesterday.
When the entire workforce has been casualised, remember yesterday.
When your kids are slaves to labour hire companies and never find secure work, remember yesterday.
When your local public hospitals and schools are defunded to the point of collapse, remember yesterday.
When your taxes increase while the wealthy gain tax cuts totalling in the billions, remember yesterday.
When the banks get waved through to proceed with their predatory business model without consequences for the crimes exposed by the banking royal commission, remember yesterday.
When people who defended a debauched, convicted paedophile priest take their seats in our national parliament, remember yesterday.
Congratulations, Australia. This dystopian nightmare is what you’ve signed up to.

Craig MacPherson
May 17, 2019
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Morrison can’t even see what’s holding Australia back. Climate damage is holding Australia back, already costing some $18 billion a year, according to a recent estimate. Poverty and homelessness are holding Australia back. The utter mess the Coalition made of the NBN is holding Australia back. The lack of an energy policy is holding Australia back. Corruption – from Helloworld to watergate – is holding Australia back. The government’s self-obsessed time-wasting culture wars – such as the debates over section 18C and Safe Schools, which exercise a tiny group on the fringes but are completely irrelevant or downright hurtful to the rest of the country – are holding Australia back. The disgrace of a thousand desperate people sitting on Manus and Nauru after six years with no hope in sight is holding Australia back. More than anything, what is holding Australia back is an execrable federal government that has no answers to anything because it’s too busy waging war on itself: the Liberals and Nationals are already skirmishing and the election’s not even done.

Paddy Manning
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