Sometimes former Labor leaders become libertarians. This is how we’ve started the week, with Mark Latham joining the Liberal Democrats to much fanfare.
The landscape has been changing elsewhere also, with much more consequence. As strange as it might be to see a Labor man go gaga for freedom, any student of Australian history will find it even weirder that the party of Menzies and Howard is engaging in an escalating political skirmish with Catholic schools.
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