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"But hold on. If the new normal is chaos, the old normal wasn’t that great, either. We have had over 30 years of economic policies that have – deliberately, as a point of policy principle – sacrificed secure well-paying jobs and replaced them with low paying insecure ones, relentlessly prioritised shareholder profits over the social good, deferred investment in people, technology and infrastructure ..."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
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"... sacrificed environment wellbeing on the altar of economic growth, offloaded costs from central government onto local ratepayers and so on and on.
Subsequently, when the people displaced and the communities ravaged by these policies turned to drugs and crime, successive governments have spent money on locking them up so that the public can then 'feel safe'.”
#GordonCampbell, 2025
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"There is so much chatter about how divided we now are, as a nation. Yet for the past 30-40 years, our two major parties have been remarkably unified in their indifference to the social repercussions of the economic settings."
#GordonCampbell, 2025
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