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Flat White

Plastic Bags and the nuisance state

29 June 2018

4:48 PM

29 June 2018

4:48 PM

The lives of ordinary people have been made worse by the elimination of plastic bags in supermarkets – achieved by legislation in most states and by the corporate virtue-signalling led by the ever-diminishing duopoly of Coles and Woolworth. This impact, you must understand, is not a side-effect or something taken into consideration during the pursuit of a broader policy objective; the harm and confusion it causes to the mass of the people is actually the real objective.

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