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For more than two decades, from mid-1987 to the end of 2008, no one had greater access to the Australian parliament and its politicians than Alan Ramsey. His columns in The Sydney Morning Herald were always informed, insightful and unafraid. Here are 150 of his unflinching views of key political events of that era, among them: the often turbulent Hawke/Keating years, Labor's stunning dumping of Bob Hawke in December 1991 after he had led his party to four successive election victories, the Howard government's slavish subservience to the Bush White House, the invasion of Iraq, the manipulation ...
For more than two decades, from mid-1987 to the end of 2008, no one had greater access to the Australian parliament and its politicians than Alan Ramsey. His columns in The Sydney Morning Herald were always informed, insightful and unafraid. Here are 150 of his unflinching views of key political events of that era, among them: the often turbulent Hawke/Keating years, Labor's stunning dumping of Bob Hawke in December 1991 after he had led his party to four successive election victories, the Howard government's slavish subservience to the Bush White House, the invasion of Iraq, the manipulation by both sides of politics of the 2001 children overboard incident. Yet Ramsey's keen eye often observed with affection the values and behaviour of others in national life, and he was as ready to give credit as he was to lay into the humbug, pomposity and deceit of political, personal and sectional self-interest.
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