Amspec again
December 4th 2007 03:13
Readers may find this LTE in Amspec of interest:
WELL DONE
Re: Adam Creighton's Australia Opts for Changeless Change:
I'm the oped editor of The Australian newspaper in Sydney and I just wanted to congratulate Adam on a splendid article "Australia Opts for Changeless Change" in The American Spectator. First rate piece of commentary that one rarely finds even here in Australia.
Thanks so much.
-- Tom Switzer
Opinion Page Editor, The Australian
This is the link to the original article:
Adam Creigton
It's actually an exemplary article: luicid and clearly written with a good point to make. I would amplify the point a bit. The fault lines in the culture wars lie across the demarcation between parties in Australia. We all know that the most influential and moneyed right wing group in Australia is affliliated with the ALP. At the last election more of its cadre was elected to Parliament than ever before.
We also know that the latte classes have had a disproportionate influence on the policies of the Liberal Party - the doctors' wives of North Shore and Eastern suburbs progressivism. Their voice can only become more strident with the warm glow of prescient hindsight and moral vanity.
There is a subsequent point to be made. Whatever of Kevin Rudd's, or indeed Julia Gilliard's, personal political views they know on which side their bread is buttered. Genuflections to the green lobby - such as the instantaneous signing of Kyoto, reminiscent as it was of the glory days of 1972 when Gough and his troica ruled by decree in a most revolutionary fashion - are one thing. But the hand that signs the electoral cheques rules the Caucus. There is a sheet anchor throw out to port on the good ship Rudd.
The question is whether or not Rudd can keep those forces on side while assuaging the Gramscian left of his constituency. I think he's probably up to it.
Speaking of the soggy left
Michael Cooney well-known Latin Mass chorister, former Latham staffer and good mate of mine has been at it again.
WELL DONE
Re: Adam Creighton's Australia Opts for Changeless Change:
I'm the oped editor of The Australian newspaper in Sydney and I just wanted to congratulate Adam on a splendid article "Australia Opts for Changeless Change" in The American Spectator. First rate piece of commentary that one rarely finds even here in Australia.
Thanks so much.
-- Tom Switzer
Opinion Page Editor, The Australian
This is the link to the original article:
Adam Creigton
It's actually an exemplary article: luicid and clearly written with a good point to make. I would amplify the point a bit. The fault lines in the culture wars lie across the demarcation between parties in Australia. We all know that the most influential and moneyed right wing group in Australia is affliliated with the ALP. At the last election more of its cadre was elected to Parliament than ever before.
We also know that the latte classes have had a disproportionate influence on the policies of the Liberal Party - the doctors' wives of North Shore and Eastern suburbs progressivism. Their voice can only become more strident with the warm glow of prescient hindsight and moral vanity.
There is a subsequent point to be made. Whatever of Kevin Rudd's, or indeed Julia Gilliard's, personal political views they know on which side their bread is buttered. Genuflections to the green lobby - such as the instantaneous signing of Kyoto, reminiscent as it was of the glory days of 1972 when Gough and his troica ruled by decree in a most revolutionary fashion - are one thing. But the hand that signs the electoral cheques rules the Caucus. There is a sheet anchor throw out to port on the good ship Rudd.
The question is whether or not Rudd can keep those forces on side while assuaging the Gramscian left of his constituency. I think he's probably up to it.
Speaking of the soggy left
Michael Cooney well-known Latin Mass chorister, former Latham staffer and good mate of mine has been at it again.
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