TinDrumStephen Heydt on Sydney's police violence
'Growing up in South Africa during the height of apartheid, I have run in panicked crowds with people wearing the pain of broken limbs from baton charges, the air cracking with gunshot, and eyes streaming from tear gas. I witnessed directly the machinery of a state trading its vestigial moral authority for the support of an ideological base. I left that life for Australia, believing I was moving to a place where the right to disagree was fundamental to the national character'
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