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ABaysideGreen's avatar

For a while now, I have thought of our politics as being similar to a pendulum on a big old beautiful clock. It swings as time passes, tick...tock, left to right modifying its range ever so slightly through each swing as things change around us.

And for a long time now it has swung considerably further each time to the right. But even with this country's citizenry being overly conservative it must swing back further to the left at some stage in the future.

As to whether that range of swing will extend markedly at the next election or further down the track, no one knows. But it's fair to say we as a nation cant go much further right, although the Murdoch empire and the IPA would beg to differ on this point I gather.

I got to thinking about this again Tim with your comments on the service provided by your Medicare saviour. And I may well be proven completely wrong but I think that change has begun and that range of swing I mentioned above will start to show itself soon.

Safe travels mate.

ABaysideGreen

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Suze's avatar

In NSW they have explicitly stated at press conferences early on that you don’t need a Medicare card to be vaccinated. Tacit acknowledgement of the numbers of people with visa irregularities in the areas of high transmission?

I have seen very little written from the left about vax mandates and policing (other than anti vax stuff).

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