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The Nationals may be heading into the wilderness, forever : Comments
By Geoff Robinson, published 17/9/2007It is 84 years since the federal Coalition was formed, but on current trends it is unlikely to make its centenary.
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As an oldie going on 87, glad I left school early to work on the farm during the Depression, earlier in the last year cheering cockies as they picketed the one Wesfarmer's weighbridge, part of the wheat hold-up that finally threw out Big Biz middle-men, Bunge and Dreyfus, the Pollard Labor Federal government allowing the formation of the single-desk AWB which by backing the cost of production allowed what was left of the cockies to stay on the land.
Now as a crazy old student looking back, now realise we were agrarian unionists, and must say still real proud of it, and must still say ordinary cockies with a mind for sport and general local friendliness, will never be part of the corporate culture that now props up the ersatz liberal Party - never really a party of the ordinary folk.
Regards, BB - WA.