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Primal screams.(The Howard Years)(Book Review)

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The Howard Years, edited by Robert Manne; Black Inc. Agenda, 2004, $29.95.

MUCH HAS HAPPENED in the short period since this collection of political tracts was put together, for by the time it hit the streets, the Labor Party, for whom the symposiasts were quite visibly writing, had taken on a new leader and changed tack. Mr Latham does not appear to care to be associated with much of the excitable polemic which circulates through the Manne collection. Mr Latham would like Labor to rejoin the mainstream in the community, and if he is successful, it makes much of what appears in The Howard Years as ideologically obsolescent as Gough Whitlam's speeches in the 1972 ...

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