Letters to the Editor

Updated March 7 2017 - 11:08pm, first published 8:29am

Equality and opportunity must be at the heart of being Australian

Reading about the Hoges mini-series reminded me of his quest for PM. He promised to reverse Australia's falling inflation rate and return it to the world’s highest at 17 percent. At the end of the cabinet meeting, the ministers all rose, revealed to be wearing identical 'Hoges' outfits. In a country that celebrated difference and, perhaps naively, believed that your postcode and school didn't matter because anyone with the right attitude, skills and hard work could make it, here was the quintessential Aussie bloke enforcing a dress code.

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