Many of those in mainstream politics have a sneaking disregard for the Democrats. They don’t always try to conceal it. When Labor was in government back in the eighties of the last century, a senior Minister, Senator Walsh, slightingly referred to the Democrats as the ‘Fairies in the bottom of the garden’ party. It is a phrase which better characterized the party’s past than its present, but somehow it stuck.By contrast, the Coalition has always seemed more tolerant of the Democrats – perhaps be…
