Dashing or even rumpled figures of the left are thin on the ground in Aus,
Pat, more to our shame. Scott Ludlum, a WA Greens senator speaks
unpalatable truths and has a following. His predecessor Bob Brown from
Tasmania, was an inspirational figure but retired from politics last year,
or was it the year before? ALP leader Bill Shorten is more renowned for for
dropping 'zingers': leaden, earnest responses or lame humour. Still
preferable to the dark other side of course. Gary Foley still gives
occasional good headline from the radical Aboriginal perspective, Patrick
Dodson is more considered but has stepped back from official positions now
I think. Tania Plibersek on the ALP side and current minister, maybe is
Labor's best hope, very strident on gay marriage as a right, that sort of
thing. But the short answer is not much on the groundswell level of the
UK and US figures you mention.
Bill
On Tuesday, 1 March 2016, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
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