Would Howard have become Liberal leader and beaten Hawke in the next federal election? Or a Coalition PM Andrew Peacock?
Kim Beasley and John Hewson to me will always be alike, people that members of their own party think are great but who the public have no confidence in.
Anyway, there is a strange political mythology about early nineties PK somehow being the right kind of unpopular to Hawke's wrong kind of unpopular. This mythos was created by the press gallery after the election to explain why the entire media establishment couldn't possibly foresee the Coalition losing the unlosable election. I'd argue that the election results of '98 give us the real story as to how '93 turned out the way it did: only an incumbent party can hope to win a mandate to bring in a value-added or consumption tax.
Y'know, technically, in the 1975 election Fraser was the incumbent...Australians change governments on average every ten years. The only time they get rid of a government earlier is when they are truly incompetent (Gough).
...Why?Here’s an interesting alternative time line for someone, Mark Latham becomes Prime Minister and the ANZUS alliance collapses shortly thereafter.
The 93 election, although deemed "unlosable" by the Press Gallery, was actually won by them for Keating. It was the first time that they played the biased games that we saw in the last Federal Election here.
Larrikin said:I was working in a Federal Govt PR unit at the time, and amount of arse covering of Keating being done by the PG was unbelievable. It was also the election that the ABC outed itself as the broadcast arm of the ALP.
For the ALP it would have been better for them to have lost that election, they would not have spent so long in the wilderness afterwards. Especially since Hewson’s win would have meant that Howard would never have got a shot at the big ticket
Cook said:The same could be said for the Howard – Latham election. A loss for the Liberals then would not have been as pronounced as there loss in ’07 was.
Whitlam's my favourite PM. Can you imagine what Australia would be like without the Whitlam government? Australia would still be a Dominion, we would still have conscription, there'd be no public healthcare, no Racial Discrimination Act, no Aboriginal land rights, homosexuality would still be illegal...Fraser was a caretaker Prime Minister and in 1975 Whitlam’s Labor Party suffered the worst electoral defeat of any Party in Post War Australia.
I have. I can't find anything that would jeopardise the ANZUS treaty. Especially within a two-month window.Why would the ANZUS alliance collapse under a Latham government? Just Google his statements
What? My spelling is perfect.Please refer to my remark above concerning “True Believers”.
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