Unless you're talking about the Hungarian-Australian soccer commentator (who is brilliant and awesome,) no. No you don't. He's a bigotted misogynist horror of a conservative, who was best friends with our previous Prime Minister (aka Chief Bigot).
He was given the job of writing a preamble to the Australian Constitution that would guarantee it would fail to pass: which he did admirably, by referring in copious amounts to "mateship" and Gallipoli and not at all to anyone who wasn't white and male.
Having said that, from the bits I've read, he does seem to be a decent poet, though. I mean, I can't stand Roy Campbell's political opinions, but he was quite good with words.
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Date: 2010-04-29 10:44 pm (UTC)Clearly I need to read some Les Murray...
Unless you're talking about the Hungarian-Australian soccer commentator (who is brilliant and awesome,) no. No you don't. He's a bigotted misogynist horror of a conservative, who was best friends with our previous Prime Minister (aka Chief Bigot).
He was given the job of writing a preamble to the Australian Constitution that would guarantee it would fail to pass: which he did admirably, by referring in copious amounts to "mateship" and Gallipoli and not at all to anyone who wasn't white and male.
I'm kind of opinionated in my dislike of him.
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Date: 2010-05-02 09:28 pm (UTC)Having said that, from the bits I've read, he does seem to be a decent poet, though. I mean, I can't stand Roy Campbell's political opinions, but he was quite good with words.