“He's a pre-Copernican obscurantist.”

— Paul Keating

Referring to Prime Minister John Howard's attitude to industrial relations. ABC Radio interview http://web.archive.org/web/20070503051216/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1911526.htm, May 1, 2007.

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