Yeah. I can't imagine it. I guess we wouldn't be the rich country we are now if we'd gone down that track. They would have interfered with our elections and fucked us over and indebted us and got us onto some IMF and World Bank loans we could never pay back.

So weird how in the last years of his life I felt real affection for Malcolm Fraser though. Just goes to show how shittily centrist/rightward/draconian our governments are now that his commonsense comments on asylum seekers etc made him sound like a screaming raving pinko.

God it all just feels DOOMED today haha! Must go off now and dredge up some hope for change from out the bottom of the toilet,