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NSW paramedics take industrial action, reject pay offer

Paramedics are renewing industrial action to protest a 4% pay offer from the NSW government, AAP reports.

That’s why I call it anger-tainment. Now, that is bad enough in any context, but when you apply it to something as significant as this issue, you run the risk of there being a lot of collateral damage in this country, to Indigenous people, to the path of reconciliation, way beyond whether the referendum gets the required majority or not.