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Society

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

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

I have never agreed that you can produce a policy outcome by being cruel to people. It’s an insult to our ethos where we try to be as mentally cruel as tyrants are, to keep other people out. We’re better than this; most Australians are better than this.

Thomas Keneally

Education is dangerous – every educated person is a future enemy.

Hermann Goering