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The Greens: if you don’t go commando a child in Africa will die. Or something

26 March 2021

2:28 PM

26 March 2021

2:28 PM

My parents used to encourage me to eat my vegetables because “there are children starving in Africa”, as if my table manners and the plight of African orphans were inextricably linked.

It worked because I was young and stupid.

Speaking of which, NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge is upset that “the 30 wealthiest schools in NSW have a combined income greater than some of our South Pacific neighbours like Tonga and Samoa”.

Does Mr Shoebridge really believe the people of Tonga would have more if private schools in NSW had less?

Is he seriously suggesting some sort of perverse, inverse relationship between prosperity at Knox...

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