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Can you have joy in politics?
Is there a place for joy and happiness in politics? It’s not a question that often occurs to me. Laughter being the most disturbing sound you can hear from an MP. It never sounds quite genuine. More like the MP has been programmed by AI with instructions to “sound human’’. But like every other political…
Continue readingLessons from the past for Vincent Tarzia
Far be it from me, humble hack, to offer advice to new Liberal leader Vincent Tarzia about how he should go about his business, but maybe it’s ok to point out a few lessons from history. To have a quick squizz at some of his predecessors in the job and see if there are any…
Continue readingOlympics are a cocoon of good news in a bad world
What are we going to do when the Olympics are over? For the last couple of weeks they have provided a cocoon of human warmth, inspiring stories and against the odd tales. Newspapers everywhere have been wrapped up in the warm embrace of the Olympics, radiating all that sporting joy and happy nationalism. The Advertiser…
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