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The item appears in the Opinion section of today's paper - it is written by Owen Harries who delivers the Aust Broadcasting Corp's 'Boyer Lectures' on national radio (Govt station).

The full link is worth reading but here is the pointed quote which comes from Mr Edmund Burke in the late 1700s at the height of British power( Burke, by the the year 1780, had become recognised as one of the greatest parlimentarians of the age).......


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'Burke uttered a warning that seems to be pertinent in our present circumstances: '

"Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precaution against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded ... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard of power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin."
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Doug M