CANBERRA OBSERVED Lee Rhiannon: too Bolshie or not Bolshie enough?*

At least with Lee Rhiannon, you pretty much knew what you were getting.
The long-time Greens Senator from New South Wales, who has announced she will retire in mid-August after months of bitter infighting in the party, was an old-fashioned, unreconstructed Communist, indeed, perhaps the last of her kind in the Federal Parliament.



Personable and well liked among senators from all sides of politics, Rhiannon has at least been consistent during her long political career …

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