Letters to the Editor
OLYMPIC GAMES
“Premier, and Australia, deserve so much better” (Tiffany Lovegrove)
“He (John Coates) demeaned and humiliated her (Annastacia Palaszczuk), and implied she was ignorant of what was involved in the Games’ opening ceremony” (Tiffany Lovegrove)
“If the Olympics and government authorities do not call him out for his atrocious treatment of Palaszczuk, they are complicit by acquiescence.”
- To demean: to lower in dignity or standing; debase
- Acquiescence: to acquiesce; (in); to assent tacitly; comply quietly; agree; consent; to acquiesce in an opinion
- Complicit: to comply with – to act in accordance with wishes/commands
- Complicity; the state of being an accomplice; partnership in wrongdoing
- Compliance; the act of complying, an acquiescing or yielding; base subservience