‘We have the full range of politics here tonight — from the hard Left to the soft Left.’ The ABC’s Chaser, Julian Morrow, was launching the BBC’s Nick Bryant’s The Rise and Fall of Australia at Sydney’s Gleebooks. It was a tossed-off one-liner but he was right that hardly anyone in the crowded audience was ready to spring to the defence of the mainstream parties or their leaders.
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