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Australian Notes

Australian notes

3 August 2013

9:00 AM

3 August 2013

9:00 AM

It was a stoic little gathering of Craig Thomson loyalists in the Celebrity Room of City Tatts in Sydney. Promoted as a rally and a $150-a-head fund-raiser, some 30 to 40 turned up and chatted quietly around the walls with beer and kebabs. They were Labor voters, getting on in years, who did not believe the fraud allegations against the federal Member or who felt sympathy for him in his troubles.

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