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March 2021

One of the clearest markers of privilege in Australian society is whether your problems get cast as ‘clinical’ or criminal. This is how we end up with 10 year old children in police custody and 50 year old MPs sent off for counselling.

Lisa Pryor

In Australian politics, the bar is currently set so low, it is more like a speed bump.

Blot report

If you steal a bottle of water you get fined. If you steal a whole water truck you got to jail. But if you steal all of Australia’s water and sell it to foreign interests, who then sell it back to desperate Australian farmers at twice the price, you get called ‘the Honourable’.

Victor Kline

As I've said many times, when a journo with a readership of 100 000 slams someone with no capacity to reply, that's free speech. When 1000 people on Twitter, each with 100 followers, return the favour, it's a disgraceful pile-on.

John Quiggin