Garrett for MP?

Does Mark Latham know what he's doing? The Labor Party leader wants to install Peter Garrett into a safe Sydney seat. Yes, Peter Garrett, the former rock singer, who used Australia Day in 1997 to declare that Australians risked remaining,

what we have always been: a people without a soul, not a nation but a community of thieves.

Great, we're going to have a parliamentarian with an absurdly negative view of his own country. And, to make matters worse, we have a Labor Party leader who is willing to call such a man "an inspiring person".