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Cian Hussey

Dry Profile: Peter Shack

“… I found the ‘what should be’ far more exciting than the ‘what is’.” When he was first elected in 1977 at 24-years-old, Peter Shack was the youngest MP in the Australian parliament. Following in

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Cian Hussey

Dry Profile: John Hyde

“…lags are long and another generation’s fortunes turn upon what we do now.” As Bert Kelly was nearing the end of his parliamentary career, a young, one-armed farmer from Western Australia joined him on the backbenches. John

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Cian Hussey

Inspiring the Dries: Bert Kelly

The Modest Member In a previous article in this series, I recalled the simple argument that the dries made and highlighted that it had a long history in Australian politics: “Markets are rarely perfect,” John Hyde later

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Cian Hussey

When the dries came together

The Liberal counter-establishment Australians are taught in school all about the dismissal of the Whitlam government on 11 November 1975, but they miss out on learning about how a group of backbenchers known as the

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