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The Nanny State’s deepest, darkest secret – exposed

12 June 2019

7:27 AM

12 June 2019

7:27 AM

In perhaps one of the greatest ironies of modern Australia, we love to talk about how much we despise the nanny state, the way that multiple levels of government unnecessarily involve themselves itself in what feels like every facet of our lives. Yet when push comes to shove there is always someone to complain that the government “should have been doing more to protect people” when something inevitably goes wrong.

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