These Imperilled Times
He returned to the site of that future temple; the site where the Parable of the Deceitful Woman had begun. Another deceitful woman had fallen, the Premier of the State of New South Wales, Gladys Berejiklian, fleeing, or dodging, a corruption investigation from the ICAC, the supremely powerful Independent Commission Against Corruption. She just packed her bags, up and left, with almost no ceremony and barely a backward glance, as accusations of malfeasance, of taking what might be called secretive "vaccination consultancies" as an explanation of the increasingly deranged push to have the entire population vaccinated. With an experimental vaccine the efficacy of which was being highly debated. He wasn't going to buy into any of it, except to note the timing was exquisite. As what was once known as the Federation of Australian states began to crumble. "I've had it in my head for years that the central government would collapse in 2047," he told his morning ...