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Tough Love: Covid-19 and the racism of low expectations

7 September 2021

4:00 AM

7 September 2021

4:00 AM

A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO of Lifeline Australia.

Covid-19 has seen some parts of our community yet again display what Noel Pearson calls “the racism of low expectations” — and it needs to be challenged both at the policy level and the individual level.  

We have now seen countless media reports and statements from some of the Blue Tick Brigade decrying the Covid-19 vaccination program as it applies to Indigenous people.

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