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...writes the one-time speechwriter to former Prime Minister Paul Keating and now director of the global issues program at the Lowy Institute. Although his choices favor Labor leaders such as Keating, Gough Whitlam and John Curtin, there's a good sample from the Tories, including Robert Menzies, Alfred Deakin and John Howard. Each selection is adroitly and briefly introduced. Fullilove laments that today's speechmaking and writing ain't what they used to be, particularly in foreign affairs. Yet in the era of short attention spans, the speech still endures. Why? "Because there is no better way to deploy...
...embrace the pop and folk tradition. “Sung Tongs” channeled a chilled, sometimes urgent songcraft (think the Beach Boys on acid) with just Avey Tare and Panda Bear appearing, only half of the group. It was only a matter of time before Geologist and Deakin would join their zoomates and throw a monkey wrench into the band’s musical progression...
...inexperience was not a problem. "He has a lot to learn, but who doesn't?" said 75-year-old Margaret Nicol outside a bakery in Caboolture, part of the marginal Queensland seat of Longman. For one 79-year-old in a shopping center in the marginal Melbourne seat of Deakin, Medicare Gold was enough to assuage his doubts. "My wife worries that he's just a boy, but I think he should be given a go." In the New South Wales seat of Dobell, Josephine Mills wasn't planning to vote for Latham, but "I'd like him to stay...
...Asian immigration comments two decades ago. But even as the parties scrambled to out-fox and outspend each other, voters in marginals struggled to wade through the detail. "I know I should care about who's in charge of the country," said 22-year-old paramedic Gemma McMahon in Deakin, "but with work and study and running a household, I'm just too busy...
...Faith and Works You need to go back 100 years, to Alfred Deakin, to find a prime ministerial aspirant who has put so many ideas and policy positions into the public domain. Only a few of those ideas are new, original or likely to be coming to a bureaucracy any time soon, but they're out there - in Latham's books, pamphlets, speeches, newspaper columns and correspondence - and it's been a great career move. One disadvantage of that fertility, though, is that he can spread too many seeds, too many messages. Is he for the free market...