Tag: Australian politics
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He’ll Always be a Winner
WAYNE GOSS 1951-2014 Queensland Premier 1989-1996 The time: Early 1990s. Place: Sanctuary Cove, Queensland, developed by the entrepreneurial Mike Gore as Australia’s first “integrated resort property” under its own, unique state act of parliament. Occasion: An outdoor concert by John Farnham in his Age of Reason years. Among the guests, pressed in among the throng,…
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The Problem of the Australian Labor Party
This analysis by HENRY ERGAS, in The Australian, July 23, 2012, is crucial reading. Here is his text: AT the heart of Labor’s problems is its reaction to the 2010 election. In that election, voters swung to the Right, but thanks to Julia Gillard’s deal with the Greens, the government shifted sharply to the…
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A Green Tinge is Common Sense
Bob Brown is the Australian Greens. Whether the present tense can convert smoothly to past, and the statement become “Bob Brown was the Australian Greens”, is a question Christine Milne and others will have to answer in due course. More importantly for the moment, Brown is the most underrated politician in Australia. Others have noted…
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