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    Derek Green

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    I'd rather die wandering than die wondering. Read more of my travel escapades at: theescapegoat.com

    Thank you Mr McGann! 

    Years ago, while still seduced by the empty promises of self-help books, wedged somewhere between trying to identify the 'toxic people' in my life and learning to 'fully maximise my potential', I read about the therapeutic value of writing thank you letters. Being pig-headed and slightly arrogant as I was (probably why I was given that particular book in the first place), I couldn't immediately think of anyone to thank; after all, I was a self-made man who’d done it all on his own, and worked super-hard, right? 

    Public, private and the broadening grey chasm in Australia’s medical system

    A sad, frustrating tale of a layman navigating the medical system in search of the truth.

    Don’t let the billionaires distract you from the inconvenient truth

    Solving life’s problems – growing inequality, relentless corporate profiteering, and environmental ruin – is, as always, individual action.

    TIME TO SEPARATE CAPITALISM FROM WHATEVER THIS IS

    Yet whenever capitalism is criticised, the right-wing media gets defensive and the propaganda machine goes into overdrive

    FILMMAKER FROM THE WEST PREMIERES ON TWO CONTINENTS

    The two premiers represent a great accomplishment for Salkic, who has been tirelessly honing his craft for years.