Tuesday, 1st of July, 2003

Margo Kingston’s webdiary on the extraordinary power wielded by Johnny Howard… in which she makes some extraordinarily depressing observations.

Howard wants to go out on a high alright, but he wants the high to be higher than the one he’s already on. He wants to transform Australia so completely that the old Australia can never be revived. His vision is so radical that only a man in complete charge of the political agenda could even dream of it. And the cross media legislation - the one I’ve been writing about in such despair for a week now - is central to his plans.

She paints a pretty dismal picture. Whether it’s needlessly so, I don’t know.
She ends with “There are risks in all this, which I’ll write about tomorrow.” Thanks for leaving us hanging like that, Margo!
I’ll certainly be back to try and have some hope restored tomorrow then…

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