Posted by Declan on December 18, 2006, at 1:53:42
In reply to Re: Values of convenience in a what is becoming a » dreamboat_annie, posted by fayeroe on December 17, 2006, at 19:55:01
This is not a party political thing. Maybe it has something to do with celebrity culture?
When I think of photos of leaders of the Australian Labor Party 50 years ago, what strikes me is how extraordinarily unfashionable they were (I mean, ugly), and yet these were men of substance, and so were their opponents, by todays standards. They fought hard, but more fairly than today, and they had ideas. These members of the ALP would have known all the theory in Marx and Keynes, they would have read the original, they would have had real jobs in the world, as Chifley was a train driver.
What values do the current lot say they stand for anyway? I suppose they mean democracy. That's the kind of hide you expect these days.
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