During the 1993 federal election campaign, an onlooker in Broken Hill, Australia’s toughest union town, was astonished to see Peter Reith alone on a street corner extolling the virtues of Fightback, the Liberal Party’s free market policy credo.
“Initially, he was ignored but eventually, he was encircled by an increasingly angry crowd of burly miners and furious women denouncing his message,” the onlooker recalled.
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Andrew Clark is a former editor of The Sun-Herald and Australian Business. He was a correspondent in Europe and North America, a political correspondent in Canberra and has been a journalist for more than 55 years. Email Andrew at aclark@afr.com.au
