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Another staffer tells me: "There is no fire, no passion, no vision – we are timid and flat-footed."

When he and his siblings — all named after blue-collar jobs — arrived in late July, they were timid.

One side is too timid to weaponize its martyrs, while the other denies that the extremists who create them are even a problem.

"Australia cannot afford a timid 2035 target when our own government data shows the catastrophic costs of inaction," the head of the the non-profit said.

They wonder, “Where are the Democrats? Why is the media so timid?”