Its such a different world to the petty scrooges that lead this country now. From Billionaire daddy’s girls (The big G), to the fearful, or ideologically dogged politicians, to the media who are so bankrupt of their journalistic values.
Comment on 'Fit for purpose': How a Labor veteran helped create Fraser's vision of a new political party
HalfEarthMedic@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
“Ian Macphee told me stories of how, as immigration minister, he’d ring Fraser to tell him another Vietnamese boat had arrived at Christmas Island. ‘Let them in,’ Fraser said. Macphee rang Fraser to tell him a boat had made it to Darwin carrying Vietnamese people with no papers. ‘Let them in.’”
Can you imagine any Labor or Liberal politician being so humane.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 day ago
hanrahan@piefed.social 1 day ago
Its why he resigned hia lifelong Liberal membership in disgust and worked with Sarah Hanson-Young (Greens)