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QoTD: Gough Whitlam

Now, in ‘07, the task of the Australian Labor Party is to address and redress the growing inequality created not by neglect or drift or indifference, but by the deliberate infliction of a decade of the most ideologically driven regime in Australia’s history.” — Gough Whitlam, with Margaret, as the first recipients of the ALP’s national life […]

Friday, 11 June 2004

Howard and Bush in the blue corner, Latham and Garrett in the red corner. There has not been a more important Australian election in my life. Some context on the “Beds are Burning” election:
In 2001 the fear politics was headlined “WE will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come”. […]