Believers recall spin-less oratory
LABOR elder John Faulkner has criticised politicians for focusing on “how” they communicate rather than “what” they communicate.
LABOR elder John Faulkner has criticised politicians for focusing on “how” they communicate rather than “what” they communicate.
GRAHAM Freudenberg, Australia’s most experienced and respected speechwriter, says the government lacks a “focused message”.
WHO would have thought having dinner with Bob Hawke would lead to a surge in ALP membership?
A SECRET report shows the ALP has lifted its membership to 44,008, but in Victoria Labor lost nearly 800 members.
THE painfully slow progress would be familiar to Labor’s first great reformer.
RECRIMINATIONS followed Arthur Calwell’s fall.
TREASURER Wayne Swan’s chief of staff Jim Chalmers has resigned to head the Labor Party’s national think tank.
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.
TODAY, the Labor Party is renowned for its bitter infighting, systemic factionalism and a winner-take-all powerbroker ethos.
SINGAPORE’S Lee Kuan Yew once said Australia was in danger of becoming the “poor white trash of Asia”.
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