Sydney’s newspapers: the night the censors called armed officers on the press

Likely so, and likely why that bastard Ming Menzies didn't have much trouble keeping Labor out of power for decades.

Ah, Good 'ol Arthur and that other fella Doc Evatt may have made Labor's power aspirations difficult but at least politics back then was never boring like the yawn it is these days.

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Edit: Menzies was one of the few people who would make me throw things at the TV when he appeared, but his quick wit and barbed responses also made politics interesting. Heard him at an election rally once, his response to a heckler was just milliseconds in coming and the putdown devastatingly effective.

"Ordinary" people seems like an important criteria here. The police still shoot people and raided the ABC not that long ago.