Wyn Fountain served as a Welfare Officer in the Middle East and Europe and was away for over four years. Later he ran a very successful business in New Zealand and, with wife Shirley, grew a great family.
At 90 years old (in this clip) he brought history alive.
The parallels to a memorable election decades ago are unmistakable.
Tocqueville was generous, both with his biting criticisms and his reverent praises, whereby as a matter of necessity due to one social system springing out of the other – like Athena from the head of Zeus – the democratic experiment was compared most obviously with its aristocratic parent.
The quiet over-achievers of Australian history.
How passionately the Dutton opposition fights such Thought Police legislation – or otherwise – may be a harbinger of what to expect from an increasingly likely Dutton government.
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ABC boss waxes self-righteous about ‘misinformation’.
The wrong political theology is popular only because it is the only socially acceptable form of theology.
