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A First-Rate Country Run by Second-Rate People
By John Pilger
First published in t r u t h o u t | Perspective, Thursday 19 January 2006
Shortly after Christmas, the Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer died in his mansion overlooking Sydney Harbor, guarded by large, salivating dogs. In Britain, he was remembered as the man who brought celebrity hoopla and money to cricket. Here, in Australia, his death provided a glimpse of the changes imposed on societies that once were proud to call themselves social democracies.
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