The ALP’s National Secretary, Geoff Walsh, has addressed the National Press Club on the outcome of the 2001 federal election.
Walsh said he had never experienced an election “quite so strange as the 2001 election”. [Read more…]
ALP National Secretary Geoff Walsh Discusses Labor’s Election Defeat
Nov 11, 2001
The morning after the ALP’s federal election defeat in 2001, its National Secretary, Geoff Walsh, was interviewed on Channel 7′ Sunrise program.
Walsh argued that the ALP had done well to claw back the scale of its defeat.
The election resulted in Prime Minister John Howard winning his third successive election.
Opposition Leader Kim Beazley stood down after the election defeat. Although he returned to the leadership in 2005, he never again contested an election as leader.
- Watch Walsh on Sunrise (10m)