So, #ALP (Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese)
Q: What's it to be? Support a Fascist United States or support the UN?

Remember the UN? The body Curtin, Chifley and Evatt did so much to bring into being. Holder of the rules? You remember, the 'Rules' part of the International Rules Based Order? Yeah, them.

(Spoiler They'll piss happily on Curtin's grave if Trump demanded another golden shower.)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/israel-gaza-war-un-sanctions

#FrancescaAlbanese #UNHCR #UnitedNations #Curtin #Evatt #Chifley #ausPol #sanctions

Just rereading L.F. Crisp's excellent biography on Chifley.

Something I previously missed.

Apparently #Chifley tried to make medicine free in 1945-46 (before the NHS was instituted!). But the full force of the British Medical Association successfully blocked it.

#Medicare is credited to #Whitlam. But 30 years earlier Chifley tried to nationalize universal free medicine. And he did so before the NHS was even a thing. Not bad for a train driver from #Bathurst

#auspol #history #aushistory