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Nobody wants to live in a country where, despite a strong economy, families are homeless, where our environment is being rapidly degraded and people with mental health issues do not receive the support they need.

Jacinda Ardern

My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values and transform people into little monsters.

Mario Vargas Llosa

[On Journalism] If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the f****** window and find out which is true.

Anonymous

If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.

David Frum

I love a timid country
A land of scare campaigns
Where mindless bogan slogans
Just overtake our brains
The stunted, short horizons
Of those who will not see
Who, presented with alternatives
Think only: me, me, me.

[apologies to Dorothea Mackellar]

Mike Funnell