Liberals’ lesson down under
By E. J. Dionne | Tuesday, November 27, 2007 | The Washington Post
“…The triumph of [Australia’s incoming Prime Minister Kevin] Rudd and his Australian Labor Party holds lessons for Democrats and other center-left parties. John Howard, the conservative incumbent swept from power after 11 years in office, had presided over record prosperity. For the first time in the country’s history, wrote Peter Hartcher in the Sydney Morning Herald, a government was tossed out in unambiguously strong economic times….”…BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/26/AR2007112601854_pf.html
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