John Singleton with Bob HowardRip Van Australia (Stanmore: Cassell Australia, 1977), p. 20, under the heading “Australia Party”.

If you live in Glebe, wear a Solzhenitsyn beard, drive a Renault 16 with a “Don’t Mine Myall Lakes” sticker on the back, hold trendily “radical Left” opinions indicating “a deep concern for humanity” and “social awareness,” and work somewhere in the social work/welfare field, then you probably vote for, or have voted for, the Australia Party.

At best the Australia Party is a classier, more socially acceptable way to vote for the Labor Party through the preferential voting system. At best(?)