Opinion

This govt has narrow priorities and uses ideological warriors to do its work

Jenna Price
Updated July 2 2021 - 2:18am, first published October 23 2020 - 4:30am
Are you feeling, or have you ever felt, the need to ask people of Chinese heritage if they unconditionally condemn the Chinese government? Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
Are you feeling, or have you ever felt, the need to ask people of Chinese heritage if they unconditionally condemn the Chinese government? Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

In the last hot minute, the government has belted Australian citizens, belted universities, belted women, beIted the ABC. It's tried to look like the good guy by wielding tax cuts and flying in a few desperate citizens from outposts varied, but that's because it needs to be pragmatic. The rest of the time it is trying to impose its ideological position on the rest of us. We are the hapless water buffalo and the Prime Minister is the abattoir's leading hand.

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Jenna Price

Jenna Price is a Canberra Times columnist and a visiting fellow at the Australian National University.

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