John Howard often claims to be in tune with “mainstream” Australians, but Gerard Henderson claims today that the Prime Minister has made the basic error of believing his own political sloganeering.
David Marr, biographer of Patrick White and Garfield Barwick, writes today of the scenes from Saturday’s Reconciliation Week launch at the Sydney Opera House, describing how the nation’s political leadership looked stunned as the audience booed and shouted to Howard to apologise to the Stolen Generations.
Both articles are worth a careful read by all thinking Australians.