Daily Archives: September 11, 1979

(1979) Donald Horne: Almost a Member of the House of Commons

Twenty-five years ago Donald Horne, expatriate Australian, was considering a new career: full time politics as a Member of the House of Commons. The founder of Citizens for Democracy was in 1954 a monarchist and a committed conservative. Had he decided to stand as a Conservative candidate, Donald Horne might today be ‘Donald Horne, Minister in the first Thatcher Ggvernment Ministry’.

(1979) In Search of William Morris Hughes

William Morris Hughes debauched Australian politics for more than a generation. In the ninety long years of his life he was a member of six political parties – two of which he had himself formed.