re: labour's next leader-for mal41
This strand seems to have descended into invective. Pity.
I too am disappointed in the Labor party. Keating, say what you will about him was a PM with vision. OK, he became arrogant at the end just as Hawke and now Howard have become but he had a clear view of what sort of country he wanted Australia to be. I've never had that feeling with any of the subsequent Labor leaders.
Beezer had a chance to make a stand over the asylum seekers issue and muffed it because he was led by the polls and was too gutless to take a moral stand. It might have cost him votes but it would have defined the labor party, kept a whole lot of loyal laborites on side and formed the basis of a raleighing point for the party. Crean is no better.
The only person in the labor party who has impressed me is Faulkner. I know he is in the senate but so what? Gorton was in the senate too and he made it to PM.... What do others think of him?
