On it goes, the arithmetic of human worth growing more grotesque with every line, culminating in a final grim equation - an Australian life is worth 500,000 Bangladeshi lives. It's gallows humour, of course, the kind that thrives in places where endless bad news must be processed, polished and published before the next tragedy arrives.
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