No more labour heartland

By: Denice (Registered ) on 03-10-2007 20:07

This is how I grew up, with my parents telling me the ALP was the workers' party, the only party that looked after the ordinary man in the street, etc - the sentiments expressed mirror exactly my experience growing up. However, in later life - starting with Gough Whitlam and followed by Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and Wayne Goss - my parents became disillusioned with the ALP and began to seriously question that their "beloved party" (as my father used to say) was still representative of the worker. My father cast his last vote a few days before he died of cancer and he very happily admitted he wanted to do so because for the first time in his life he was not going to vote ALP but voted Liberal instead, such was his disappointment in the party which supposedly was for the worker but which, in his opinion, had failed the worker.

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