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Retail outrage: Plibersek wants the clothes off your back. ‘I’ll be watching.’

28 February 2024

1:50 AM

28 February 2024

1:50 AM

To cope with the outrageous creep of authoritarian behaviour and inescapable globalism, sometimes citizens of the West refer to themselves as ‘peasants’. Call it a bit of lingering British gallows humour.

Increasingly, that is exactly how the Labor Party views Australians – as the ‘peasantry’. Our ancestors, who lived under the thumb of feudal lords and warring barons, paid less tax.

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