What it Means to be a Neighbour
Jun 03, 2020
4 minutes
Hugh Mackay
“ Like most species on the planet, we humans are a social species. It is more natural for us to co-operate than compete.”
When people empty supermarket shelves in a rampage of panic buying, it makes the news. When people charter buses to travel from Melbourne and Sydney to raid the shelves of regional supermarkets, that makes the news. When people come to blows in a supermarket aisle over their struggle to secure the last pack of toilet rolls, that makes the news, too.
Such things are bound to make the news, because they are news. They are spectacular examples of how
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