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Canberra’s obscene compassion machine

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By Peter Swan Verified
| The Spectator Australia Verified
The alleged abduction and murder of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby from an Alice Springs town camp should have shattered one of the most poisonous illusions in Australian public life: that compassion consists of averting one’s eyes. For a few days the nation looked. There were vigils, flowers, condolences and the familiar chorus that tragedy must not be ‘politicised’. This is the standard incantation whenever politics has failed so completely that no other word will do. A child is dead.
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Hacker’s heresy | The Spectator Australia

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By Dimitri Burshtein, Peter Swan Verified
| The Spectator Australia Verified
In a classic episode of Yes, Minister, Jim Hacker stumbles onto a heresy. His local football club is sliding into receivership while a council art gallery down the road averages eleven visitors a day. Hacker proposes to sell the gallery and use the proceeds to save the football club. Sir Humphrey is horrified. To take money from the arts and give it to anything as vulgar as football is unthinkable.
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The Albo Manifesto

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By Dimitri Burshtein, Peter Swan Verified
| The Spectator Australia Verified
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels opened their 1848 manifesto with the claim that ‘the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles’. The Albanese government appears to have taken this less as a polemic than as an instruction manual for Australian economic policy. The operating logic is not difficult to identify. Divide society into oppressors and oppressed. Attach moral legitimacy to one side and moral guilt to the other.
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