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Flat White

Bullying a child isn’t political debate

16 September 2018

3:45 PM

16 September 2018

3:45 PM

My great-grandfather, Hugh de Largie was a Labor senator in Australia’s first parliament.  He followed Prime Minister Billy Hughes out of the Australian Labor Party in the conscription split of 1916.

Great-grandpa was a fierce advocate of the ‘White Australia Policy’.  Something, that as a great-granddaughter, I feel incredible shame about.

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