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]> 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]>
> wrote:
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>> WHO?
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>> good news
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>> in the
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>> UK
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>> we have
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>> Jeremy
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>> Jeremy Corbyn
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>> In the
>> USA
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>> they have
>> Bernie
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>> Bernie Sanders
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>> but in Oz
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>> they have
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>> ???
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>> pmcmanus
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>> r940
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