5 January

I think we need wide education in political language, the Greeks called it ‘rhetoric’, it was a cornerstone of their education. For example yesterday the acting Premier was asked about risks to regional NSW from Sydney people travelling widely in the regions, possibly with Covid. His answer? ‘We’re confident with the health resources in the regions.’ Not, ‘we’re confident we can protect people from infection.’ Just confident they have enough hospital beds for infected people. If you vote for a party who won’t even commit to people not getting infected in a pandemic, move to the USA right now and raise the collective IQ here.