🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 05 May 1996 16:24:07 +1000, petemack@ozemail.com.au (Peter
Mackay) wrote:

>> As far as i know there is no written binding contract...any implied
>> contract would have a big clause that says "If P. Keatings party fails to
>> hold a majority, he will retire from office". Remember people voted for
>> him in full knowledge of what his plans were. John Howard expressed the
>> same intent.

>What rubbish!  Neither individual admitted, neither on the great debate 2
>when they were asked this specific question, nor in any other public forum,
>that they were planning to retire if defeated.  There was intense media
>speculation on the issue, but without public confiurmation from the
>principals at the time, that was all it was.  Go shove your "full
>knowledge" back up where you got it out of from.

While they may not have said it plainly, Most understood that they
intended to retire if unsuccessful.  Politics is a subtle business.

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Bryan Palmer
bpalmer@pcug.org.au
Canberra - Australia's National Capital