Labor Back To The Future?

Thirty-nine years ago, a news photograph captured the then Labor leadership Arthur Calwell and his deputy, Gough Whitlam in all their humiliation outside Canberra's Kingston Hotel while the 36-strong ALP national conference met inside to decide policies that would bind their federal MPs. Robert Menzies ridiculed Labor as beholden to ``faceless men". It suited his short-term election goals but, in time, it would arm the Whitlam drive to reform party structures and, eventually, place elected representati