(1985) A Note on Labor Leader, 1977-1985

A Note on Labor Leader.

First circulated at the NSW ALP Council Meeting¹held 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.

Bob Carr’s cartoon in the first, October 1977 issue of Labor Leader accompanied the article on Rodney Cavalier’s university thesis on the Left. — Bob Carr’s cartoon in the first, October 1977 issue of *Labor Leader* accompanied the article on Rodney Cavalier’s university thesis on the Left.

One of many articles that appeared in *Labor Leader.*

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	40^th 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 10^th 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	21^st 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

Occasionally some humour was needed! I wrote this piece in Young Labor Leader. — Occasionally some humour was needed! I wrote this piece in *Young Labor Leader.*

Another Young Labor Leader spoof. — Another Young *Labor Leader* spoof.

Andrew Ferguson was idealistic, driven and a good Labor Leftie infatuated with Cuba – someone to take the “mickey” out of. This also appeared in Young Labor Leader. — Andrew Ferguson was idealistic, driven and a good Labor Leftie infatuated with Cuba – someone to take the “mickey” out of. This also appeared in *Young Labor Leader.*

At first called “Social Democrat Schools” in the late 1970s, and organised by Bob Carr, I took over the re-named McKell Schools. With the Social Democratic Party split from British Labour, Bob and I thought McKell was the name to appropriate. We were fans of the traditions and style of government he initiated in NSW from the early 1940s.

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.

(1985) A Note on Labor Leader, 1977-1985

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