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How the left has been left-behind by the right

By Steven Meyer - posted Monday, 12 September 2011


Message to the left:

It's not about gay marriage, or Somali pirates or a carbon tax or soon-to-be obsolete NBN or the rights of women in Hucaresistan or asylum-seekers. It's not even about Israel.

Depending on your predilections each of these may be worthy causes in their own right.

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But your primary function, the whole raison d'etre of your existence, is looking after the interests of the less powerful right here in Australia without regard to race, religion or gender. You are even supposed to look after the interests of the never-to-be-sufficiently-derided white working-class Australian men.

In fact I would say you should put the interests of white working-class Australian men ahead even of cheering David Hicks.

Yes, even ahead of cheering Hicks.

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Steven Meyer graduated as a physicist from the University of Cape Town and has spent most of his life in banking, insurance and utilities, with two stints into academe.

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