How could the ALP let this happen?
Extract from the book "Hansonism, trick or treat"
by Don Veitch:
"People at the Base (the voter) never achieve or have
impact on the power structure or on the direction of the Executive (senior
bureaucrats and those who formulate policy) policy, unless they are aligned
with a Central Oligarchic Groupings -COG - (such as oil cartels, wealthy
families etc...) and have higher support in the Executive arms. The media
selects what causes to promote, the COGs choose their allies, and the Executive
arms facilitate or disrupt those networks it chooses. The Base, which
votes for the Parliaments (state and federal) has no power, little influence
and is essentially an impotent shadow boxing forum. Voting is a circuit breaker
directing potential insurrection into the manageable forum of
Parliament."
