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6 January 2018

9:00 AM

6 January 2018

9:00 AM

A devoutly Catholic Polish couple I know who came to Australia thirty years ago to escape the extreme unpleasantness of communism in their homeland tell me they now meet increasingly with instances of recognisably totalitarian behaviour here in Australia when dealing with almost any kind of authority.

My wife and I both travelled quite extensively and even worked in former communist countries before we met and would thoroughly endorse our friends’ findings.

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