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Flat White

Today the troops appear on Sydney streets – and it’s heartbreaking that they’ve been sent there by Liberals. 

2 August 2021

4:00 AM

2 August 2021

4:00 AM

From this morning 300 Australian Defence Force personnel will be deployed on Sydney’s streets after a weekend’s worth of training and without publicly available orders. 

While the pandemic in some ways inures us to the unprecedented and unexpected, such a deployment of military power in our domestic midst should raise some questions. 

So, let’s start with the most basic one.

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