A Matter of Opinion – Alan Ramsey

A Matter of Opinion is a celebration of twenty-two years of writing about politics by one of Australia’s most incisive and provocative political journalists, Alan Ramsey.

For more than two decades, from mid-1987 to the end of 2008, no one had greater access to our national parliament and its politicians than Alan Ramsey. Informed, insightful and unafraid, his Wednesday and Saturday columns in The Sydney Morning Herald were always essential reading for many thousands of Australians.

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Here are 150 of his unflinching views of key political events of that era, among them: the often turbulent Hawke/Keating years, the 1990 recession ‘we had to have’, Labor’s stunning dumping of Bob Hawke in December 1991 after he had led his party to four successive election victories in eight years, the Howard Government’s slavish subservience to the Bush White House, the insidious channeling of Hansonism, John Howard’s ‘never ever’ GST, the invasion of Iraq, the disintegration of the Democrats as a political force after the 1997 defection to Labor of its leader, Cheryl Kernot, the manipulation by both sides of politics of the 2001 children overboard incident, and the scandal of the Governor-General who ultimately resigned after the cover-up by the Anglican Church in Queensland of serial child abuse in church schools.

Yet Ramsey’s keen eye often observed with affection the values and behavior of others in national life, and he was as ready to give credit as he was to lay into the humbug, pomposity and deceit of political, personal and sectional self-interest.

Links and Further Reading

• Watch Alan Ramsey discuss A Matter of Opinion on the 7.30 report

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