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Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Only the priviledged few heard the Carr explosion in Sydney: With the formidable Bob Carr in one corner, the formidable Gerry Gleeson in another, and the formidable Kerry Packer in the other,
Back Pages can't help thinking that our media is either asleep on the job or hemmed in by legal restrictions on this one
Eye on Politics & Law Lords: Style over Substance
Mark Schmitt wonders why the Senate has so many problems and Senators are not Great Men™.
How did the institution come to this point? It's not because the Senators of today are lesser individuals than in the past, although that may be true also. Rather, I think, it is the way the Senate goes about its business that brings out the worst in those individuals, whereas there are things about the Senate in the past that brought out the best democratic and deliberative capacities of its members.
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