A Note on Labor Leader.
First circulated at the NSW ALP Council Meeting1 held at the NSW Teachers’ Federation auditorium in September 1977 Labor Leader was unmistakably a NSW ALP right wing factional newspaper, with various attacks on the Left and statements and articles articulating a social democratic approach. The founder editor and inspiration of the first few issues was then Labor Council of NSW’s Education and Publicity Officer, Bob Carr.
He wanted the NSW ALP right to take on the left in the field of ideas and use his considerable wit to mock the pretensions of some of their leaders and activists. A heavy dose of anti-Soviet rhetoric influenced the paper. This reflected Carr’s and his successor as editor, Michael Easson’s, interests and fascination with the lessons of Soviet experiment. Henry Mayer described the early issues as:
A mixture of history, overseas material, and policy with a bit of local anti-left standard gossip and split predictions. Somewhat insipid, perhaps, but the point of view it embraces is not easy to present. Only paper in the 70s where you can find a pro-Bernstein paper by Sidney Hook. May improve. Mildly interesting now.3
A review in the first issue of Labor Leader of Rodney Cavalier’s university thesis on the NSW ALP was controversial. I had qualms afterwards about my involvement. I wrote extracts and Carr jazzed that up into an article under the by-line “Our Sydney University Correspondent”. I think all university theses should be publicly available. (Stephen Loosley’s on the NSW ALP socialisation units in the 1930s written in 1975 at the University of NSW was another I wanted to read, but it seemed to “disappear” quickly from what used to be a full collection in the office of the Department of Political Science at the University of NSW of those theses awarded a First.) Carr persuaded that Cavalier’s thesis was fair meat to throw on the factional bar b que. My fault for not thinking this through. Later, access restrictions were introduced at the University of Sydney. I am sorry I helped cause that.
Index
Note: Where [ ] Square brackets appear, this attributes authorship.
| Aquilina, John | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | Local Government in the West of Sydney: Public Demands and The Delivery of Results. |
| ACT Correspondent | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Baldwinites in Canberra. |
| Alexander, Mary | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | Tax: The Less You Earn,The More You Pay. Taxation Reform. |
| Anderson, Peter | Vol. 4 | No.2 | April 1980 | Criticisms of Government Under The Microscope. |
| Anonymous | Vol. 2 | Vol. 1 | March 1979 | Foreign Capital: Strike or Lockout (Reprints article published in South Australian ALP journal Insight.) |
| Anonymous | Vol. 4 | No. l | November 1979 | A “Tough Guy” Takes On The Unemployed. |
| Anonymous | Vol. 4 | No. 4 | December 1980 | Geitzelt and Uren Dilute Left on Caucus Executive: Gains For NSW and Victorian Moderates. |
| Anonymous | Vol. 5 | No. 2 | June 1981 | Electrical Trades Union Leads Fight Bank in British Labour Party (Reprints article from New Statesman.) |
| Anonymous | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | Foot Fights Back (Mostly reprints Open Letter by British Labour Leader Michael Foot against Tony Benn, the left wing British Labour MP). |
| Anonymous | Vol. 5 | No. 4 | December 1981 | Will To Win Rediscovered in West. |
| Anonymous | Vol. 5 | No. 4 | December 1981 | APTU – Members Reject Steering Committee Interference. |
| Anonymous | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | May 1982 | An Exchange of Letters (Reproduces Correspondence between Left MP Maurie Keane and the Polish Ambassador Critical of “Solidarity”). |
| Anonymous | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Keating Attacks “Rubbery” Libs. |
| Anonymous | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October | Centre Unity Win In Elizabeth |
| Anonymous | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Solidarity With Solidarity. |
| Anonymous | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Unemployment: Fraser’s Economic Failure. |
| Anonymous | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Fraser Couldn’t Care Less About Child Care. |
| Anonymous | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Confidence Grows In West. |
| Anonymous | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | Profile: Doug Sutherland. A Human Face on the City Government. |
| Anonymous | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | Hawke Overseas |
| Anonymous | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | By-Election Candidates (Profiles of Bob Carr, Richard Amery and Brian Langton). |
| Anonymous | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | John Della Bosca (Profile). |
| Anonymous | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | More Burns-Wood Nastiness. |
| Anonymous | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | Moderate Victories in Student Politics. |
| Atkinson Michael | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | S.A. ALP Conference Confronts Marijuana and TEAS. |
| [Bladier, Robert] | Vol. 2 | No. 1 | June 1979 | Socialist Left Albatross Haunts Wilkes. How the Left Blew It. |
| Bladier, Robert | Vol. 7 For Roberty Bladier, see also entry for Victorian Correspondent | No. 1 | May 1983 | Cain Government to Set Records. |
| Broad, Colin | Fourth Issue | November 1978 | Fraser’s Tax Rip Off – The Alternatives | |
| Broad, Colin | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Taxes – Fraser’s Rip-Off. |
| Broad, Colin | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Tax Avoidance. Liberals Split |
| Broad, Colin | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | Conservatives Blunder. Deficits Blow Out. |
| Broad, Colin | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Lump Sum Super Tax – ACTU To Seek Modification. |
| Broad, Colin | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Mini Budget – Moderate Expansion. |
| Brophy, Moira | Special Edition | March 1979 | Problems of Migrant Women in the Workforce. | |
| [Brophy, Moira] | Special Edition | March 1979 | Women, Work and Technological Change | |
| [Brown, John] | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | Socialist Left Found Loitering in Parramatta Park |
| Cameron, Clyde | Issue 1 | 1977 | Death of R.F.X. Connor. | |
| Cameron, Clyde | Vol. 1 | No. 3 | June 1978 | Clyde Cameron Backs Carr Pamphlet (Reprints letter to Bob Carr complimentary of Carr’s pamphlet Social Democracy and Australian Labor). |
| Canberra Correspondent [alias for Stephen Loosley] | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Left Ditches Rank and file |
| Carr, Bob and Della Bosca, John | First Issue | 1977 | As Election Fever Grows… Labor Must Work For Second Whitlam Government. | |
| [Carr, Bob] | Issue 1 | 1977 | Jack Lang Assessed | |
| [Carr, Bob] | Issue 2 | 1978 | New Deputy Lionel Bowen: “Quiet But Tough” | |
| [Carr, Bob] | Issue 2 | 1978 | Labor’s Fraternal Party. Sweden’s Social Democrats Show The Way. | |
| [Carr, Bob] | Issue 2 | 1978 | Commonsense Uprooted. A Union Churns Out Economic Myths. Review of Australia Up-Rooted Metal Workers Union pamphlet. |
| [Carr, Bob] | Issue 2 | 1978 | Peter Cox: Praise For A Good Job | |
| [Carr, Bob] | Issue 2 | 1978 | After The Cavalier Exposure. Problems Multiply For NSW Labor Left. | |
| [Carr, Bob] | Vol. 1 | No. 3 | June 1978 | Editorial. Come Off It Arthur! We Won’t Buy It! |
| [Carr, Bob] | Vol. 1 | No. 3 | June 1978 | Communist and Labor Dialogue… Labor Left Acts on Gietzelt’s New Strategy. |
| [Carr, Bob] | Fourth Issue | November 1978 | From Rice Fields, To State Cabinet. Jack Hallam – New Man In State Cabinet. | |
| [Carr, Bob] | Vol. 2 | No. 2 | June 1979 | A Comprehensive Assult on Democratic Rights. |
| [Carr, Bob] | Vol. 4 | No. 1 | November 1979 | Leader Opinion. The Unions Are Our Strength. |
| [Carr, Bob] | Vol. 4 | No. 4 | December 1980 | ABC of an Industrial Dispute. |
| Carr, Bob | Vol. 5 | No. 2 | June 1981 | France: Mitterand Takes Over |
| For Bob Carr, See also Sydney University Correspondent; & article co-written with John McCarthy. | ||||
| Chapple, Frank | Vol. 4 | No. 4 | December 1980 | Call For Trade Union Campaign Within British Labour Party: How Labour Can Win Government (Reprint of article in The New Statesman) |
| Clark, Manning | Fourth Issue | November 1978 | The Years of Unleaven Bread. (Reprints an article first published in the journal Meanjin) | |
| Clough, Mick | Vol. 5 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Chappelli Has The Last Laugh (Review of book by cricketer Ian Chapple) |
| Cogan, Brian | Vol. 5 | No. 2 | June 1981 | Political Ecology in Action: What’s Behind the Protests in the Hunter |
| Cogan, Brian | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | The Hunter – What’s Going On |
| Cohen, Barry | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Cohen Attacks International Conference of Parliamentarians as a Farce |
| [Connolly, Terry] | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | S.A. Election Points The Way To Federal Victory |
| Cook, Peter | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | The Socialist Object – What The Fuss Is All About |
| Cook, Peter | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Labour In Israel |
| Cook, Peter | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Labor’s Industry Policy |
| Cook, Peter | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Aborigines – Why We Should Be Ashamed |
| Cook, Peter | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | View Point: What Price Freedom? |
| [Cragg, David] | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | Hawke Leading The Fight In Victoria |
| [Cragg, David] | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | The Struggle For Democracy in the AMWSU |
| Cragg, David | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Victim of Reality (Review of Kate White’s John Cain and Victorian Labour) |
| Cragg, David | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Fabianism – A Brief Description |
| Cragg, David | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | From Purely Militant To Militantly Moderate (Review of Robert Murray’s and Kate White’s The Ironworkers). |
| Cragg, David | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Socialist International Tension |
| Cragg, David | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | The Red Years (Review of Labor Titan – The Story of Percy Brookfield). |
| For David Cragg, see also entries for Victorian Correspondent; John Williams. | ||||
| Creighton, Matt (alias for Stephen Magee) | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Spondulicks From Australia (Historical Feature) |
| Creighton, Matt (alias for Stephen Magee) | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | September 1983 | Nicaragua – Reagan’s Sledgehammer |
| Crosland, Antony | Second Issue | 1978 | We Don’t Believe in “Ifs” (Edited reprint of 1975 British Fabian Pamphlet Social Democracy in Europe.) | |
| Crowley, Des | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | Keir Hardie and British Labor |
| Crowley, Des | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | “A Life For The Dying People” |
| Danby, Michael | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Review of Chapman Pincher’s Their Trade is Treachery. |
| [Danby, Michael] | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Leninist Discipline |
| Danby, Michael | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Agitprop |
| Danby, Michael | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Lilywhites On The Spike (Book Review of Robert Moss’ and Arnaud de Borchgrave’s book of the same title). |
| Danby, Michael | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | Vale Victor Tomachinsky |
| Danby, Michael | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | Lessons To Be Learnt (Review of Bill Rubinstein’s The Left, The Right and The Jews) |
| Dawes, Seumas | Second Issue | 1978 | What’s Wrong With The Economy? Getting Jobs To The Jobless | |
| Dawes, Seumas | Vol. 1 | No. 3 | June 1978 | Economic Policy … The Myths of the Socialist Challenge |
| [Dawes, Seumas] | Fourth Issue | November 1978 | Hunters Hill Soviet Narrowly Averted | |
| Dawes, Seumas | Fourth Issue | November 1978 | Telecom Dispute Highlights Frightening Pace of Technological Change |
| Dawes, Seumas | Fourth Issue | November 1978 | The Face of the Future. An Analysis of Current Social, Economic and Demographic Changes in Australia | |
| [Dawes, Seumas] | Vol. 2 | No. 1 | March 1979 | Labor’s Next Prime Minister: Hayden’s Achievements |
| Dawes, Seumas] | Vol. 2 | No. 2 | June 1979 | The Mini Budget: Big Mal’s Latest Failure in Economics Test |
| [Dawes, Seumas] | Vol. 2 | No. 2 | June 1979 | Support the Premier’s Plan |
| [Dawes, Seumas] | Vol. 2 | No. 2 | June 1979 | The Looming Problems of The Micro Chip Era |
| [Dawes, Seumas] | Vol. 2 | No. 2 | June 1979 | Caucus and The Upper House |
| [Dawes, Seumas] | Vol. 4 | No. 1 | November 1979 | President Promises Stability …And MacBean Aims to Promote Unity |
| [Dawes, Seumas] | Vol. 4 | No. 1 | November 1979 | General Secretary has a Traditional Background |
| [Dawes, Seumas] | Vol. 4 | No. 3 | June 1980 | Balmain SEC … Solid to the Core |
| [Dawes, Seumas] | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | Net Closes on Surry Hills Branch. |
| [Dawes, Seumas] | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | Socialist Left Run Out of Ideas |
| [Dawes, Seumas] | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | MP Stirs Up Trouble. The Ugly Side of The Warren Branch. |
| [Dawes, Seumas] | Vol. 5 | No. 4 | December 1981 | Branch Stacker Nets Federal Seat |
| For Seumas Dawes see also article co-written with John McCarthy | ||||
| Day, Don | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Uren Does It Again (letter from Don Day to Tom Uren about the Albury/ Wodonga growth centre) |
| Della Bosca, John | Vol. 1 | No. 3 | June 1978 | Wran Shows The Way |
| Della Bosca, John | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | Experience Counts (Interview) |
| Della Bosca, John | Vol. 4 | No. 4 | December 1980 | 1980 Election Results. Close is Not Close Enough |
| Della Bosca, John | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | Aboriginal People Forgotten |
| [Della Bosca, John] | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Ministers Found at Bottom of Harbour. Fraser Government Drifts Onto Rocks |
| Ducker, John | Vol. 2 | No. 1 | March 1979 | The Right To March |
| Dodkin, Marilyn | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | The Roulette Wheel Turns (Review of Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Park) |
| Drucker, Henry | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | SDP Swings Hard Right. British Labour Revives. |
| Dunstan, Don | Vol. 2 | No. 2 | June 1979 | Don Dunstan’s Last Major Speech. Philosophy, Not Dogma. (Reprints a Speech delivered to a South Australian Conference on Industrial Democracy). |
| Dyer, Ron | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Wran Ends Coal Rip-Off |
| Dyer, Ron | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Interest Rates Crippling Australia |
| Easson, Michael | First Issue | 1977 | The Socialist Case For Israel | |
| [Easson, Michael] | Second Issue | 1978 | Unions Act on Youth Unemployment | |
| Easson, Michael | Vol. 1 | No. 3 | June 1978 | Labor’s Fraternal Party: Democratic Socialism. The German View. |
| [Easson, Michael] | Vol. 1 | No. 3 | June 1978 | NSW Administrative Committee Acts: Direct Action Proscribed |
| [Easson, Michael] | Fourth Issue | November 1978 | Editors of Challenge Arrested | |
| [Easson, Michael] | Fourth Issue | November 1978 | Don Day – Labor’s Country Performer | |
| [Easson, Michael] | Fourth Issue | November 1978 | Kevin Stewart – In Healthy Form | |
| [Easson, Michael] | Vol. 2 | No. 1 | March 1979 | Rebel Group Creates Shambles |
| [Easson, Michael] | Vol. 4 | No. 1 | November 1979 | British Labour Defeat Leads To Bitter Recriminations |
| [Easson, Michael] | Vol. 4 | No. 1 | November 1979 | Representing A Million Workers |
| [Easson, Michael] | Vol. 4 | No. 1 | November 1979 | Donald Horne: Almost A Member of the House of Commons. |
| Easson, Michael | Vol. 4 | No. 1 | November 1979 | In Search of William Morris Hughes (Review of book by Donald Horne by the same title). |
| Easson, Michael | Vol. 4 | No. 3 | June 1980 | Comms. Join Forces |
| Easson, Michael | Vol. 4 | No. 4 | December 1980 | Rupert Lockwood Remembers (Historical Feature) |
| [Easson, Michael] | Vol. 4 | No. 4 | December 1980 | What The Stars Really Say |
| Easson, Michael | Vol. 4 | No. 4 | December 1980 | Communists Split After Calls For Unity |
| Easson, Michael | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | Lloyd Ross: A Critical Socialist (Historical Feature) |
| Easson, Michael | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | Book Review of Nancy Wills’ Shades of Red |
| [Easson, Michael] | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | The Socialist Left Warm Innerglow |
| [Easson, Michael] | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Find Out Where You Stand |
| Easson, Michael | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Why Crosland Still Matters |
| Easson, Michael | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | Blocs To Peace |
| Easson, Michael | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | Darkness At Noon |
| Easson, Michael | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | The Ghosts in The Machine (Review of Andrew Parkin’s and John Warhurst’s [editors] Machine Politics) |
| For Michael Easson, see also Sydney University Correspondent. | ||||
| Easson, Shane | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | 40th Anniversary |
| [Easson, Shane] | Vol. 5 | No. 4 | December 1981 | “The Wran Government Has Done It Again” |
| Easson, Shane | Vol. 5 | No. 4 | December 1981 | P.R.: Labor’s Self-Destruct Button |
| Easson, Shane | Vol. 5 | No. 4 | December 1981 | Multi-Member Constituencies in New South Wales, 1918-1926 (Historical Feature) |
| Easson, Shane | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | Budget For Recovery |
| Egan, Mike | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | The Case For Public Funding |
| Egan, Mike | Vol. 5 | No. 2 | June 1981 | Full Frontal – The Hard Face of Fraserism |
| Egan, Mike | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Conscience Vote (Reprints Speech To ALP National Conference) |
| Elliott, Stuart | Fourth Issue | 1978 | So Much For Eurocommunists! French Communists Shatter Hopes For Left. (Reprint of article published in Social Democracy Today). | |
| Enderbury, Keith | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Country Conference |
| Evans, Gareth | Vol. 1 | No. 3 | June 1978 | The Continuing Debate. The Labor Party and Socialism. (Reprints an article in the Victorian ALP publication Labor Star). |
| Fazio, Amanda | Fourth Issue | November 1978 | As Christmas Approaches – Think Again | |
| Fazio, Amanda | Special Edition | March 1979 | Women in the ALP | |
| [Fazio, Amanda] | Special Edition | March 1979 | Editorial | |
| Fazio, Amanda | Vol. 2 | No. 2 | June 1979 | The Women’s Conference. The Real Story About What Went On |
| Fazio, Amanda | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Rex Jackson – Labor’s Quiet Prison Reformer |
| Fazio, Amanda | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Labor Women’s Conference |
| Gietzelt, Arthur | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Appreciation (Letter critical of article on PR) |
| Gilmore, John | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Anti-Labor Forces Regroup at YLC |
| Gold, Nicholas | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Pragmatism or Reconciliation (Letter critical of Article ‘Bob Hawke and the Future’) |
| [Gonzalez, Carlos] | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Spanish Socialists’ Sweeping Victory |
| Gott, Ken | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | The Hawke’s Government’s Other Foes |
| [Gray, Gary] | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Northern Territory. Everingham Pulls a Rort |
| Groves, Jim | Vol. 5 | No. 4 | December 1981 | Positive Policies In Response To The “Resources Boom” |
| Hansen, Peter | Vol. 4 | No. 4 | December 1980 | As Champagne Corks Pop … Problems Confront Victorian ALP |
| Hansen, Peter | Vol. 5 | No. 2 | June 1981 | May 10th 1941 – A Watershed In The Life of the NSW Labor Party (Historical Feature) |
| Hansen, Peter | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | The Real J.T. Lang (Historical Feature) |
| Hansen, Peter | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | The Expulsion of Hugh Mahon (Historical Feature) |
| Hansen, Peter | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | The Battle Hymn of the Movement (Historical Feature) |
| Hansen, Peter | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Social Survey, The Split and Beyond (Historical Feature) |
| For Peter Hansen, see also entry for Victorian Correspondent | ||||
| Harley, Peter | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Upheaval or Revitalisation? |
| Hartley, Bill | Vol. 4 | No. 3 | June 1980 | R.C. Plot in Labour Row (Reprints article by Hartley published in Pelican 1955 when Hartley was a member of the Liberal Party in WA). |
| Hartley, Bill | Vol. 4 | No. 3 | June 1980 | Death Squad Horror: Hartley Shock “Yes” (Reprints transcript of interview on ABC radio program “PM” in August 1979) |
| Hatzistergos, John | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | May 1982 | Greater Sydney Exposes Great Hypocrisy. |
| Hatzistergos, John | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | Power on The Franklin (Review of James McQueen’s The Franklin – Not Just A River) |
| Hatzistergos, John | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | The One Big Union (Historical Feature) |
| Hawke, Bob | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | Bob Hawke Looks To The 1980s (Reprint of interview in Labor Star). |
| Hawke, Bob | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | Book Review of Mick Young et.al. I Want To Work(Reprinted from Labor Star) |
| Hayden, Bill | Second Issue | 1978 | “I am A Social Democrat”, edited reprint of interview with Michelle Grattan, first published in the Melbourne Age. |
| Hearn, Mark | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Review of Brian McKinlay’s The ALP: A Short History of The Australian Labor Party | |
| Holman, Linda | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | Book Review of James Walter’s The Leader | |
| Holman, Linda | Vol. 5 | No. 4 | December 1981 | Book Review of Patrick Waller’s and Michelle Grattan’s Can Ministers Cope? | |
| Holman, Linda | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | May 1982 | Labor Women’s Conference 1982. 10% Swing To Centre Unity. | |
| Holman, Linda | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Stalin’s Secret War (Review of Nikolai Tolstoy’s book of the same title) | |
| Hook, Sidney | Fourth Issue | November 1978 | Bernstein’s Contribution To Social Democracy (Reprints from a Social Democrats USA pamphlet) | ||
| Hutchins, Stephen | First Issue | 1977 | Young Labor … Left Runs Wild | ||
| Isaksen, Dorothy | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | Affirmative Action For ALP Women | |
| Jones, Barry | Fourth Issue | November 1978 | A Man For All Seasons (reprints from the Hansard a tribute to Whitlam) | ||
| Kavanagh, Trish | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Conscience Vote (Reprints Speech to ALP National Conference) | |
| Keane, Maurie | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | M.P.’s Study Tour. My Trip. | |
| Keating, Paul | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | Keating Blasts Qld Mining Deals (mostly reprints press release by Labor’s then Federal Shadow Minister for Resources). | |
| Keating, Paul | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Capital Gains Tax (reprints speech to ALP National Conference) | |
| Kelly, John (alias for John Russell) | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | The Revenge of the English Upper Class. | |
| Kelly, John (alias for John Russell) | Vol. 5 | No. 2 | June 1981 | Man of Marble (film review). | |
Kelly, John (alias for John Russell) | Vol. 5 | No. 2 | June 1981 | Against The Tide (review of B.A. Santamaria’s autobiography of same title) | |
| Kelly, John (alias for John Russell) | Vo. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | “Challenge” and Joseph Stalin – A Meeting of Minds | |
| Kelly, John (alias for John Russell) | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Review of Quadrant 25 Years edited by Peter Coleman, Lee Shrubb and Vivian Smith. | |
| Kelly, Peter | Vol. 5 | No. 4 | December 1981 | Book Review of Russell Schneider’s War Without Blood: Malcolm Fraser in Power | |
| Kelly, Peter | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | May 1982 | Book Review of Claire Sterling’s The Terror Network. | |
| Kelly, Peter | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | Nation at War (Review of Chaim Herzog’s The Arab-Israeli Wars) | |
| Klugman, Dick | Vol. 2 | No. 1 | March 1979 | Foreign Affairs and the Future | |
| Klugman, Dick | Vol. 2 | No. 2 | June 1979 | Moderates Have Best Image (Letter) | |
| Klugman, Dick | Vol. 4 | No. 3 | June 1980 | Klugman Slams Double-Talk | |
| Klugman, Dick | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Speaking The Truth | |
| Klugman, Dick | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | The Gallagher Jailing | |
| Klugman, Kris | Special Edition | March 1979 | The Role of the Community Nurse | ||
| Kolakowski, Leszek | Vol. 4 | No. 3 | June 1980 | The Fantasy of Marxism (extract from third volume of the author’s Main Currents of Marxism) | |
| Kolakowski, Leszek | Vol. 4 | No. 4 | December 1980 | The Fantasy of Marxism (continuation of earlier extract). | |
| Langley, Keren | Special Edition | March 1979 | Are We Ignoring The Needs of Country Women? | ||
| [Loosely, Stephen] | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | Support The Representative Team | |
| [Loosely, Stephen] | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | Centre Unity Group Forges Ahead | |
| Loosely, Stephen | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | The Socialist Objective | |
[Loosely, Stephen] | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | May 1982 | Solidarity and Principles At Stake In Inner City | |
| [Loosely, Stephen] | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | May 1982 | NSW Labor Attack On The Tories Rolls On! | |
| [Loosely, Stephen] | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | May 1982 | Labor’s Best Senate Team | |
| [Loosely, Stephen] | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Moderates Triumph in Marginal Seats | |
| [Loosely, Stephen] | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Editorial: The Leadership | |
| Loosely, Stephen | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | 21st Year of Detention For Mandela | |
| [Loosely, Stephen] | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Why Electoral Reform Matters | |
| [Loosely, Stephen] | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Computerisation Facts Versus Myth | |
| [Loosely, Stephen] | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | Winds of Change in Macquarie Street | |
| For Stephen Loosely, see also entries for Canberra Correspondent; Arthur Matthew. | |||||
| MacBean, John | Vol. 4 | No. 3 | June 1980 | Unions: We Do Need ’Em | |
| MacBean, John | Vol. 4 | No. 4 | December 1980 | Why Compulsory Secret Ballots Can’t Work | |
| MacBean, John | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | As the 35 Hour Weak Issue Builds Up Fraser Provokes Confrontation | |
| Magee, Bryan | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | British Labour’s Crisis: The Case For Staying in (Reprints an article from the London Times) | |
| Magee, Bryan | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1982 | The Distortions of Socialist Newspeak (Reprints an article from the London Observer) | |
| Magee, Kerrie | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | May 1982 | Review of Shirley William’s Politics Is For People | |
| Magee, Kerrie | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | One Man’s Gandhi (Film Review) | |
| Magee, Kerrie | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | Low Level Python (Film Review) | |
| Magee, Stephen | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | Bobby Goes to the Land of Saints and Scholars | |
[Magee, Stephen] | Vol. 5 | No. 4 | December 1981 | Moderate Victory in A.R.U. | |
| [Magee, Stephen] | Vol. 5 | No. 4 | December 1981 | Breach in Left Monolith. | |
| Magee, Stephen | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | May 1982 | How The Communist Party Helped Menzies Win Office in 1949 (Historical Feature) | |
| Magee, Stephen | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Nicaragua – A State of Terror | |
| Magee, Stephen | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Forgotten Prisoner (Review of John Bierman’s Righteous Gentile) | |
| Magee, Stephen | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Fish Are Jumpin’, Corn is High (Review of Bob Ellis’ The Things We Did Last Summer) | |
| For Stephen Magee, see also Matt Creighton | |||||
| [Marchant, David] | Vol. 2 | No. 2 | June 1979 | Landa Makes It Happen | |
| Matthew, Arthur (alias for Stephen Loosley) | Vol. 5 | No. 2 | June 1981 | What’s Left | |
| Matthew, Arthur (alias for Stephen Loosley) | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | Steering Committee Wrecks Party Peace | |
| McAdam, Anthony | Vol. 4 | No. 1 | November 1979 | Is Australia Failing The Challenge of Vietnam Boat People? | |
| McAdam, Anthony | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | The Human Rights Muddle | |
| McAloon, Mauveen | Special Edition | March 1979 | The Tragedy of Teenage Parents | ||
| McAloon, Nanceye | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | The View From The Trenches: What’s Wrong With Labor Women’s Conference | |
| McArdle, Chris | Vol. 2 | No. 1 | March 1979 | Why We Support Compulsory Unionism | |
| McArdle, Chris | Vol. 4 | No. 4 | December 1981 | Should A Union Be Permitted To Act Against Its Members? | |
| McCarthy, John [and Bob Carr] | Fourth Edition | November 1978 | After The Giant Win … State Victory Points Way Forward For Labor | ||
McCarthy, John [and Seumas Dawes] | Vol. 4 | No. 3 | June 1980 | ‘Labor Split – Hayden Rebuff’ | |
| McClelland, Jim | Vol. 2 | No. 2 | 1979 | Industrial Law: It’s No Ivory Tower | |
| Morris, John | Vol. 2 | No. 2 | June 1979 | Penalty Rates Campaign | |
| Morrison, Bill | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | Afghanistan – A Victim of Big Power Politics | |
| Mulock, Ron | Vol. 4 | No. 1 | November 1979 | Minister Ron Mulock Attacks Radical Conservationists | |
| Mulock, Ron | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | ‘Education, Damn Lies and Statistics’ | |
| [Murray, Jan] | Special Edition | March 1979 | An Unmarried Woman | ||
| Murray, Jan | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | Maybe This Time (Film Review) | |
| Murray, Jan | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | Is It Enough? | |
| Murray, Jan | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | May 1982 | High Priestesses of Hypocrisy | |
| Murray, Jan | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | The Politics of Motherhood | |
| Murray, Jan | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | Real People (Review of Fay Weldon’s The President’s Child) | |
| Murray, Jan | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | The Unused Trump | |
| Murray, Jan | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | The Historical Role of Barbeques in ALP Policymaking (Review of Bob Ellis’ The Things We Did Last Summer and Anne Summer’s Gamble For Power: How Bob Hawke Beat Malcolm Fraser) | |
| North, Tim | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | Brickbats | |
| Onlooker (alias for John Russell) | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Life With The Steering Committee at the Barricades | |
| Our State Politics Roundsman | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | Wran Government Underfire: Will The Real Opposition Please Stand Up | |
| [Purcell, Terry] | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Conservatives Rort Convention. The Constitutional Convention – A Perspective | |
Rannard, Jim | Vol. 1 | No. 3 | June 1978 | Urban Development. Where you Live and What are the Costs. | |
| Rannard, Jim | Vol. 1 | No. 3 | June 1978 | Housing – A New Housing Platform Proposed | |
| Revel, Jean Francois | Second Issue | 1978 | Jean Francois Revel on the Totalitarian Left (Reprints Article from Social Democrats USA publication taken from a speech to US union leaders) | ||
| Richardson, Graham | Vol. 5 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Graham Richardson (interview) | |
| Richardson, Graham | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Uranium (Reprints Speech to ALP National Conference) | |
| Ross, Lloyd | Vol. 5 | No. 2 | June 1981 | One Minor, One Major (Letter correcting errors in a profile by Michael Easson) | |
| Russell, John | Vol. 1 | No. 3 | June 1978 | Victimless Crimes: Slowly Does It | |
| [Russell, John] | Vol. 1 | No. 3 | June 1978 | Beyond Good and Evil. “Challenge” After Eighteen Months. | |
| For John Russell, see also entries under John Kelly; Onlooker | |||||
| Sams, Peter | Vol. 5 | No. 2 | June 1981 | The Sinai | |
| Scully, Carl | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Young Labor Blues | |
| Scully, Carl | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | The Continuing Irrelevance of Young Labor | |
| Scully, Carl | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | The Politics of Tariff Protection | |
| Scully, Carl | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | Who Killed Senator Aquino? | |
| Sheahan, Terry | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Power For The Future | |
| Sibraa, Kerry | Vol. 4 | No. 4 | December 1980 | Only State To Elect Three Labor Senators | |
| Sibraa, Kerry | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Namibia, How South Africal Helps The Soviet Union. | |
| Silberberg, Robert | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Good and Evil (Book review of Leszek Kolakowski’s Religion) | |
| Silberberg, Robert and Magee, Kerrie | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | May 1982 | Man of Iron (Film Review) | |
| Spooner, Keri | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | Unemployment – The Figures Show The Facts | |
| Spooner, Keri | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | June 1983 | Cameron on Crisis (Review of Clyde Cameron’s Unions in Crisis) | |
| Stewart, Andrea | Special Edition | March 1979 | Don Dunstan: A Great Labor Leader | ||
| Stewart, Andrea | Special Edition | March 1979 | What’s Behind Britain’s Industrial Crisis | ||
| Stewart, Andrea | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | Young Labor Can Be Reformed | |
| Sutherland, Doug | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | The City of Sydney and The Construction of Social Justice | |
| [Swan, Rodney] | Fourth Issue | November 1978 | New Reforms Ahead. The Labor Government and The Public Service | ||
| Sydney University Correspondent [i.e., Bob Carr and Michael Easson] | First Issue | 1977 | Cavalier Blasts Left. Stunning Attack On Extremist Group | ||
| Tasmanian Correspondent | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Socialist Left in Tasmania | |
| Tasmanian Correspondent | Vol. 5 | No. 4 | December 1981 | Lowe Resigns As Left Moves In | |
| Tasmanian Correspondent | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Tasmanian ALP Lost in the Wilderness | |
| Toplis, Paul | Vol. 4 | No. 1 | November 1979 | Committee Campaigns for Union Rights [in Eastern Europe] | |
| Unsworth, Barrie | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | Fraser Using Section 45D to Wage War | |
| Various | First Issue | 1977 | Loose Talk (Gossip column) | ||
| Various | Second Issue | 1978 | Loose Talk (Gossip column) | ||
| Various | Vol. 1 No. 3 | June 1978 | Loose Talk (Gossip column) | ||
| Various | Fourth Issue | November 1978 | Loose Talk (Gossip column) | ||
| Various | Vol. 4 | No. 1 | November 1979 | A Quick Look at People and Events (Gossip Column) | |
| Various | Vol. 4 | No. 1 | November 1979 | Around The Unions (Column with small items on industrial issues). | |
| Various | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | Food For Thought (Gossip column) | |
| Various | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | More Food For Thought (Gossip column) | |
| Various | Vol. 4 | No. 3 | June 1980 | Food For Thought (Gossip column) | |
| Various | Vol. 4 | No. 3 | June 1980 | Cavalier Ko’d By United Front (Mainly consists of reprints various letters from the press on the role of unions in the ALP) | |
| Various | Vol. 4 | No. 4 | December 1980 | Food For Thought (Gossip column) | |
| Various | Vol. 5 | No. 1 | April 1981 | Loose Talk (Gossip column) | |
| Various | Vol. 5 | No. 2 | June 1981 | Loose Talk (Gossip column) | |
| Various | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | Loose Talk (Gossip column) | |
| Various | Vol. 5 | No. 4 | December 1981 | Loose Talk (Gossip column) | |
| Various | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | May 1982 | Loose Talk (Gossip column) | |
| Various | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Loose Talk (Gossip column) | |
| Various | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Loose Talk (Gossip column) | |
| Various | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Loose Talk (Gossip column) | |
| Various | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | Changing of The Guard (Profiles of John MacBean, Stephen Loosley, Terry Sheahan and Seumas Dawes) | |
| Various | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | New Federal Members. (Profiles of Gary Punch, Russell Gorman, Jeanette McHugh, Colin Hollis, Jim Snow, Graham Richardson, David Simmons, Alan Morris and Peter Baldwin). | |
Various | Vol. 7 | No. 4 | September 1983 | Loose Talk (Gossip column) | |
| Victorian Correspondent (alias for David Cragg) | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Inside The Victorian Socialist Left | |
| Victorian Correspondent (alias for Peter Hansen) | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | May 1982 | Labor Trounces Liberals in Victoria | |
| Victorian Correspondent (alias for Robert Bladier) | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Victorian ALP Pre-elections – A Mixed Hand | |
| West, Sue | Special Edition | March 1979 | Are We Ignoring The Plight of the Aged? | ||
| Wheeldon, John | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | Human Rights Issue A Challenge To Labor | |
| [Wheelwright, Tom] | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | Putting A Case | |
| Wheelwright, Tom | Vol. 5 | No. 4 | December 1991 | Winter of Our Dreams (Film review) | |
| Wheelwright, Tom | Vol. 6 | No. 2 | June 1982 | Reds (Film review) | |
| Wheelwright, Tom | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Unity Tickets (Historical Feature) | |
| Wheelwright, Tom | Vol. 6 | No. 3 | September/ October 1982 | Pixote (Film review) | |
| Wheelwright, Tom | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | When The Boat Comes In (Film review) | |
| [Wheelwright, Tom] | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | Bob Hawke and The Future | |
| [Wheelwright, Tom] | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | Valedictories (Profile tributes to Tony Mulvihill and John Armitage) | |
| Wheelwright, Tom | Vol. 7 | No. 1 | May 1983 | Flesh Culture (Film review of Blade Runner) | |
| [Wheelwright, Tom] | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | The Steering Committee Response – Hysteria and Exaggeration | |
| Whitfield, Keith | Vol. 6 | No. 1 | May 1982 | Film Review of “Winter of Our Dreams” and “The Trials of Alger Hiss” | |
| Whitfield, Keith | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Past and Future (Film review of Mephisto and Ådelen 31 | |
| Whitlam, Gough | Second Issue | 1978 | Young Gough and the NSW State Upper House. (Reprints an article by Whitlam as a student or the journal Blackacre in 1945/46 issue) | ||
| Williams, John (alias for David Cragg) | Vol. 5 | No. 3 | August 1981 | ‘Leadership Row Flares’ | |
| Williams, Shirley | Second Issue | 1978 | British Labour’s Problem. Should The Far Left Belong? (Reprints an article published in Socialist Commentary, a moderate UK Labour Publication). | ||
| Wise, Rod | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | State Redistribution is Helpful But Fair | |
| [Wise, Rod] | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | Leader Opinion. Alienation of Membership | |
| Wise, Rod | Vol. 4 | No. 2 | April 1980 | An Insight Into U.S. Techniques | |
| [Wise, Rod] | Vol. 4 | No. 3 | June 1980 | Leader Opinion: We Do Need A Left | |
| [Wise, Rod] | Vol. 4 | No. 3 | June 1980 | Ireland: Two Nations, One Island | |
| Wise, Rod | Vol. 4 | No. 3 | June 1980 | Imperial Tea-Cake Fight | |
| Wise, Rod | Vol. 4 | No. 4 | December 1980 | Putting Its Best Foot Forward | |
| Wran, Neville | Vol. 6 | No. 4 | December 1982 | Short Tribute | |
| Wran, Neville | Vol. 7 | No. 2 | June 1983 | Seven Years of Achievement (Reprints Speech by the Premier) | |
| Wreidt, Ken | Vol. 4 | No. 3 | June 1980 | Mid-East Mullah Menace | |
1. In 1977 the NSW ALP scheduled an Annual Conference at the Sydney Town Hall (on the June long weekend) and two or three State Council meetings (a smaller number of delegates attending the latter) usually held at the NSW Teacher’s Federation Auditorium in Sussex Street.
2. Henry Mayer, ‘Australiana—and Overseas’, Supplement to Politics, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 13, May 1978.