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It’s curtains

Ukraine crisis forces the West to grow up. Can Australia?

5 March 2022

9:00 AM

5 March 2022

9:00 AM

The Ukrainian crisis is a wake-up call for the woke. For decades, the West’s cosseted elite lived like Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t grow up. They didn’t want to make policy as if ‘solemn things’ like economics, energy, or defence were real. They spent their lives flitting between UN conferences in Neverland pretending anything was possible if only enough people believed in climate change.

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