What is the differece between the left and the right side of of Australian politics?
Here is what Pilger said.

This is what John Pilger wrote in his book “The new rulers of the world”, on page 175. 


Like Britain and the US, Australia is a single-ideology state with two competing factions, discernible largely by the personalities of their politicians. The difference between the Howard’s conservative coalition and the opposition Labor Party is that Howard’s policies are not veiled. The Labor governments of the 1980s and early 1990s oversaw the greatest redistribution of wealth in the country’s history: from bottom to top. They were Thatcherite and Reaganite in all but name. Indeed, Tony Blair described then Prime Minister Keating as his ‘inspiration’.

hawil wrote on Jul 10^th, 2010 at 5:29pm:


Enough said, but I'll add that Lenin said pretty much the exact same thing in the early 1900s.