JEFF RICHARDS' WEB DIARYNOTES FROM THE FRINGES OF THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY(Untitled)- August 12, 2003 Why Carmen Lawrence should not be the president of the Australian Labor Party Yesterday Carmen Lawrence announced that she would be running for the ALP presidency. I am of the view that her election would be counterproductive for the party. Lawrence resigned her position in shadow cabinet primarily over the question of refugees, and the loss of what she describes as the &145;values&146; of the ALP. The use of the term values is extremely vague, especially given the wide berth of value...http://blogs.salon.com/0001112/2003/08/12.html#a104 (Untitled)- August 7, 2003 Letter to the Socialist Alliance in South Australia. Dear Renfrey, Thank you for the phone invitation to come to the Socialist Alliance (South Australia) conference, to, as you put it, discuss socialist politics. I appreciate your persistence despite the fact that I have not had anything to do with the SA since the catastrophe of September 11. As you may or may not know, I resigned from the organisation through an email I sent to the national office. This followed the decision of the SA to...http://blogs.salon.com/0001112/2003/08/07.html#a103 (Untitled)- August 2, 2003 Looking Over The Wall For several years now I have been thinking about ways to organize my ideas in groups that might give my reading and writing some direction. Thinking seriously about politics requires a certain amount of order, if only to manage what is a potentially massive and unmanageable flow of information. If a person is involved in politics, and that interest extends beyond self-interest, then thinking clearly about political possibilities (i.e. the future) and how to progress ones...http://blogs.salon.com/0001112/2003/08/02.html#a102 |