How popular is Keating(in OZ) now? Is thier any chance that his article will be well recieved? Or even mobilise opinion against Howard's goverment.?
I mean in the US Bush has had critics for years but it han't had any effect.
I particularly appreciate Keating's description of Howard as "an old antediluvian 19th century person who wanted to stomp forever ... on ordinary people's rights to organise themselves at work ... he's a pre-Copernican obscurantist":)
I'm not sure, these days. Even back then, Keating was a bit "love him or hate him". So I don't think the article itself will have much effect, but hopefully the conservatives have done enough to shoot themselves in the foot.
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I mean in the US Bush has had critics for years but it han't had any effect.
I particularly appreciate Keating's description of Howard as "an old antediluvian 19th century person who wanted to stomp forever ... on ordinary people's rights to organise themselves at work ... he's a pre-Copernican obscurantist":)
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So I don't think the article itself will have much effect, but hopefully the conservatives have done enough to shoot themselves in the foot.
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I've googled this but I'm not sure how reliable a source the link below is:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Australian_government_declares_support_for_Burmese_protests
If the Burma junta(sounds like a cocktail or a new SUV) goes tits-up and the Oz right wingers are suporting them they're going to look awfully silly.
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