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Remembrance of rorts past: why the McKenzie scandal might not count for a hill of beans

  • Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
Remembrance of rorts past: why the McKenzie scandal might not count for a hill of beansAAP/Mick Tsikas

The sports rorts scandal has evoked in some commentators considerable nostalgia. There was a time, we are assured, when politics was governed by genuine integrity. Andrew Peacock offered John Gorton his resignation after his wife appeared in an ad spruiking bedsheets. Mick Young had to step aside from the Hawke ministry over a...

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