Comments on: NSW ALP leadership ignoring the rule book

By: Tony Papafilis

Tony Papafilis — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Minor correction, Jeff. It was good spin for Labor to announce Joe McDonald was expelled or otherwise thrown out of the Labor Party in middle of lastyear but a few months later, just before the election, it slipped out that Labor’s WA Secretary went to see Joe McDonald and ask him to resign form the party for Kevin’s sake. Alas, the media wasn’t interested in correcting the public lie and false image of tough Kevin Rudd throwing Joe McDonald out of the ALP. The whole thing was a dishonest stunt - did our PM know about it?

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

As best I can tell there are 3 axioms (maybe 4) in modern society/politics - individual freedom (conservatives), social/economic justice (labor/labour right to organise collectively for this), an ecologically sustainable existence (G/greens). The fourth just maybe is democratic process, maybe (AD gazumped by Greens). On the weekend Summit we saw the traditionals no.1 & 2 pay lip service but really seek to freeze out the 3rd and 4th, in pure denial of the enormity of our real situation and limited ecological future. The science is all there and it’s ugly. In this sense nothing has changed. But every year the 3rd will grow and the 1st two will shrink. When the sea rises several metres … well … politics will change completely and Rudd will look naked to more than just this writer. That’s my 2020 vision of sorts.

By: Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

This is just the sort of party that I wouldn’t join.