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A Sad End to the Week

What a sad day today is as we end the week and head into the weekend...

- Sad, because today we have seen the hanging of Van Nguyen in Singapore. Vale Van Nguyen. What else can one say?

- Sad, because the face of Australia is to be forever changed with what we now know will be the almost certain passage of the Government's Work Choice legislation today

- Sad, in yesterday seeing democracy trashed as the Government applied the guillotine and gag to any debate on the Work Choice legislation

- Sad, as the Government has successfully pushed through its anti-terrorism laws including the laws on sedition - despite a Senate Committee earlier this week detailing at least 52 issues in the proposed legislation which required amendment or deletion altogether

- Sad, that the Government is intent on changing the laws with respect to work requirements for welfare recipients - disadvantaging the most vulnerable in the community

- Sad, how the Government has clearly demonstrated its stripes in so very arrogantly continuing to support its Liberal Party hack-nominee staying on as a member of the RBA.

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