Monday, March 25, 2013

Gentrifying the workers' party - The Australian



IT is customary when delivering a Labor speech to pause and acknowledge the traditional owners: the unsophisticated working-class folk who once inhabited the proletarian party.



Julia Gillard is assiduous, evoking the primal spirit of the light on the hill at every opportunity. The Prime Minister told the Australian Workers Union national conference earlier this year: "I'm a leader of the party called the Labor Party deliberately because that is what we come from. That is what we believe in and that is who we are."



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