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Flattening Australia fair

Why are our premiers behaving like marauding mullahs?

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

Armed forces on the streets. Helicopters overhead. Sullen people unable to leave. Is it Saigon or Sydney? Kabul or Melbourne?

Australians have been incarcerated in their continental prison for eighteen months. Sydneysiders are in their ninth week of home detention. Melburnians have clocked up 200 days in lockdown. Yet almost everywhere Delta is rising.

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