(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’.

Gietzelt at a Vietnam anti-war meeting, n.d., circa early 1970s, public domain.

(1978) Arthur Gietzelt on Eurocommunism

To say that senator Gietzelt’s article (NR, 2 March) is vague would be the least harsh judgement to be made of it. The article does not sustain a coherent thesis, and this letter would be too long and tedious if it were to deal with each elliptical argument, half thought out idea, stale phrase and factual inaccuracy which clogs senator Gietzelt’s argument, if “argument” is the word for the uncritical treatment of the issues raised in his essay.

(1976) Unemployment

The May figures for the Australian labour market released by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr. Street, show that 5.2% of the Australian workforce is unemployed. In New South Wales this figure is over 6%. Nationally there was an average of 16.1 people out of work for every job available in May, as compared with 15.4 in April.