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Watching the empty trains roll by

Money for nothing in Dan’s wasteland

11 September 2021

9:00 AM

11 September 2021

9:00 AM

Picture the scene. I am hanging out in a very average park in an outer suburb of Melbourne. I’m looking after my toddler grandson because my daughter is having a jab and children are not allowed to enter the premises. (You know this makes sense.)

The playground part is taped up because the Andrews government, on the basis of no evidence, has closed all playgrounds as part of the rising crescendo of lockdown measures.

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