Tim, don’t blame the Catholics in this case for this stupid law. They didn’t ask for it. New South Wales currently has a Premier who is so unpopular and inept that he makes Gordon Brown look like bleedin’ Churchill.
There is a long and fairly interesting history of the links between the Australian Labor Party and the Catholic church – the voter base came historically from the huge % of Australians with Irish background. The anti-Protestant, anti-English, class resentment thing was thrown together into one giant mix.
Tim, don’t blame the Catholics in this case for this stupid law. They didn’t ask for it. New South Wales currently has a Premier who is so unpopular and inept that he makes Gordon Brown look like bleedin’ Churchill.
There is a long and fairly interesting history of the links between the Australian Labor Party and the Catholic church – the voter base came historically from the huge % of Australians with Irish background. The anti-Protestant, anti-English, class resentment thing was thrown together into one giant mix.