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Caught with their pants down

National Cabinet’s Faustian bargain

14 August 2021

9:00 AM

14 August 2021

9:00 AM

For a population of 25 million, Australia’s Covid-19 record of fewer than 37,000 cases and just 940 deaths looks pretty good. And after 18 months it is. However it has been achieved through the brutal quarantining of the nation.

It is a move applauded by the seventeen per cent of workers who are in the public sector and others whose jobs are secure or who are financially independent.

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