cont'd ...

I forgot to make it clear that Bob Hawke gave
up alcohol around 1980 - and he did not drink
during the entire time he was PM. Graham
Richardson amongst others testifies to that.
However what he did after he left parliament
is of course open to question.

If anything, Hawke's passing is a reminder of the motivation behind the ALP - to improve things for the majority and to drag the country into the present and not leave it as a rotting financial carcass to be picked over by corporate sponsors and mates.

Bob was out of the box, I will idolise him forever
Unlike most here I could once call Shorten mate
He is brilliant, and if he gets the chance will see his poll numbers skyrocket
He is a true Labor reformer, once the weight of pulling a bruised party to an election win is over he will impress most

Dear Belly,

Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

Belly, a sad loss, firstly to his family, then to Australia, and of cause to the Labor Party. Bob Hawke, ably assisted by Paul Keating did so much to improve Australia. Bob was not right all the time, he had his flaws and he made mistakes, as all us humans do, but the positives certainly outweigh the negatives by a big margin.

Nice words from John Howard today, he moved up a notch in my opinion of him. I cannot say the same for Tony Abbott who tried to give a Liberal Party slant to Hawke, with an eye on tomorrows election. Hawke would have chewed up Abbott and spat him out! One a PM of great achievement, the other a grubby failure as PM, in every sense of the word.

Foxy/Paul up early a bit of a drive to my booth
SMH has an interesting poll
It confirms the 51/49 from early in the week
But too tells us Labors lead is much bigger in Victoria
Bigger but not as big in NSW
Not too bad in QLD and WA
So it looks ok to me, we need change, we need true change, like an end to fear tactics and addressing policies during campaigns, enjoy the day
We make history today