Surprise appointmentFormer Victorian Labor Premier Steve Bracks seems to want to put as much distance between himself and Melbourne as soon as possible. Not many of us would have anticipated his becoming the adviser to East Timor’s Xanana Gusmao, the latest prime minister of what has been a basket-case state.Mr Bracks is going to help establish an efficient and democratic political and administrative system for East Timor – he’ll be a kind of Plato or Lykurgos. Whether he might be asked to…
