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    Aladdin’s cave

    Aug 29, 2021 4 minutes
    JANE CLIFTON

    When your neighbour’s in trouble, you don’t think twice. You lend a hand.

    So a big “onya!” is due to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison for observing that our latest Covid move is akin to living in a cave. Given Australia’s calamitous handling of the Delta variant outbreak, it was supremely gallant of him to tickle up trans-Tasman rivalries at his own expense like that. The Delta strain has been ripping through our neighbour with all the butt-crack-flashing rudeness of the unruly British tourists of 2019. The political response has been a chaotic Hokey Tokey of states putting themselves into purdah, and rackety gangs of

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