STRAWS IN THE WIND: In days of old, when knights were bold / Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings / When the music stopped / The never-ending blood feud / Keeping the lid on our schools
In days of old, when knights were bold Some friends and I are starting to put together all the things that I’ve written since returning from England in 1965, and it reminds me a bit of Ben Chifley’s definition of politics. All it is, he said, is millions, and millions, of words. What we will finish up with – and what if anything I might do with the results – we shall see. But, quite apart from anything else, what is painfully emerging so far is the remorseless decline of the standards of social and political life in Australia during…
