My inclination is to assert that Albo would at least have rated higher on
the passion scale, Max.
Re your recent found poem, it might have got a guernsey in this august
publication:
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/english-as-she-is-spoke-1884/
Bill
On Wednesday, 2 March 2016, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Helpful summary, this, thanks Bill.
>
> On Tania P perhaps two or so words were left out?
>
> ALP deputy leader and current shadow foreign minister…
>
> [Would Albanese have made a better leader than Shorten, do you think?]
>
> sorry this is so far from poetry, guys…
>
> Max
>
> On Mar 1, 2016, at 15:02, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > 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]
> <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> WHO?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> good news
> >>
> >> in the
> >>
> >> UK
> >>
> >> we have
> >>
> >> Jeremy
> >>
> >> Jeremy Corbyn
> >>
> >> In the
> >> USA
> >>
> >> they have
> >> Bernie
> >>
> >> Bernie Sanders
> >>
> >> but in Oz
> >>
> >> they have
> >>
> >> ???
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> pmcmanus
> >>
> >> r940
> >>
>
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