Believers recall spin-less oratory
LABOR elder John Faulkner has criticised politicians for focusing on “how” they communicate rather than “what” they communicate.
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Victoria lets down ALP members drive
A SECRET report shows the ALP has lifted its membership to 44,008, but in Victoria Labor lost nearly 800 members.
Power play must not stop reform
THE painfully slow progress would be familiar to Labor’s first great reformer.
Notes from a ruined party
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Swan’s chief joins think tank
TREASURER Wayne Swan’s chief of staff Jim Chalmers has resigned to head the Labor Party’s national think tank.
Moderniser fell foul of faceless men
WHEN Cyril Wyndham arrived at the Labor’s federal secretariat in 1963 to work as the party’s national secretary, the ALP wasn’t in the phone book.
ALP knife-job lay dormant for 43 years
TODAY, the Labor Party is renowned for its bitter infighting, systemic factionalism and a winner-take-all powerbroker ethos.
Snapshot of White Australia in letters
SINGAPORE’S Lee Kuan Yew once said Australia was in danger of becoming the “poor white trash of Asia”.
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