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by Michael Patrick O’Leary On October 13, 2017, we heard the sad news of the death of our very dear friend, the Most Venerable Meeriyabedde Upananda Mahanayaka Thera, the Mahanayaka of Uva Amarapura Nikaya. We knew the Most Venerable Upananda for a long time before we realized how eminent he was. We just knew that […]
PETER HITCHENS: Donating blood is one of the loveliest things we do, and one of the most frightening. I suppose that is why I have been doing it for more than 50 years.
Well this is interesting.
Faced with the government’s debacle of a vaccine rollout, Labor proposes a cash bounty of $300 for anyone double-jabbed. The prime minister responds with a speech in which the adjective “Australian” is put on the front of everything, including “Australian results” and, who knows, “Australian cheese graters” and “Australian sock suspenders”.
Filthy cash payments are not the way this country works, says the leader of a country which pays people compensation for the tax they don’t have to pay on shares they haven’t sold.
The polarities have been neatly reversed. The party which argued that the pursuit of individual gain is the motor of success now appeals to collective altruism; the party based on a collective orientation in pursuit of fairness is using CASH PRIZES as a policy lever.