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Article Excerpt
Everyday we hear the refrain: 'it's better to move on'. Business representatives, sportspeople, media figures--respectable figures who make up the informal, and often formal, commentariat--offer us many iterations of this familiar theme. Perhaps we have heard so many variations of it, with such frequency, that its sense, or lack of it, has become opaque. Here are two examples.
Vignette 1: Sandra Nori, a NSW MP, reported to be the victim of domestic violence (Four Corners, Dirty, Sexy Money; 14 April 2008). Ms Nori decides not to pursue the matter legally against her ex-partner, the alleged perpetrator (it so happens he is a major NSW Labor figure). The reason for not pursuing the matter?
... the best way forward for me and my young family [is] to empower and liberate myself by putting the past behind me and create a new life. [Emphasis added.]
Of course, one might not necessarily agree with her decision, but all of us understand the disposition.
Vignette 2: During a closely contested Australian rules football match, the captain of one of the teams 'sledges' an opponent, Andrew...
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