But they're such awful, awful people. Howes, Swan, Ludwig, Feeney, Farrel, De Bruyn, Conroy, Arbib Datsyari, Bitar, Richardson, Burke, Bird; Shorten's the only one of em who isn't absolutely repugnant.
It isn't about everyone being wonderful friends it's about the rise of the technocratic consensus in these major powers and that hard headed ideologues in politics are forever having a declining influence on policy.
Wait, so you're defending the Labor factional apparatus, that which Gillard herself used to call a cancer on democracy, back when Latham was leader and before she realized they could do her favours?
Ha! More like it had to do with trade union hacks like Don Farrell and David Feeney resenting that they were being boxed out of the main policy deliberations.
I think it is Rudd's very arrogance which will convince him that he can take back the leadership, sweep to victory and become a hero. He knows he's more popular than Abbott.
I think the traditional line is proxy line for a fierce, hateful she (and others, Albrechtsen for example who is an anti gay atheist) holds for for people who don't conform to her perceived archetypal Australian. If you removed industrial relations from the equation she would have infinitely...
Ok well here's the thing, I consider the political spectrum to be a relative science, I don't view things as being inherently left or right wing and so if you aren't considering any of the Labor Prime Ministers sans Whitlam left wing either than I can accept you're view that Rudd is but I would...