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If breaking ranks means thinking responsibly and speaking independently on an issue of the utmost urgency and concern as presented by the disproportionate Israeli response to the ungodly Hamas attack on innocent citizens, then such rank breaking is surely a good thing.
“Every year, thousands of young people experience the dramas and challenges of the HSC high-stakes testing regime”. Not this young man of my acquaintance; he’s leaving school in year 9 to pursue carpentry and building.
Up till now, the major political parties have “combined” to convince the electorate that a vote for a minor party, or even worse an independent, was a wasted vote. But democracy in Australia is changing.