Don Bradman's letter to Malcolm

[Not Important]

Calling someone a nutjob for sharing their political views is offensive towards the mentally ill. Why are leftists so insensitive?

for someone who berates progressives 4 the left/right thing u spend a lot of time doing just that. and in s nastier crankier way.

btw, the letter from bradman shouldn't b a surprise. great player, but arch reactionary and average person as many of his team mates have written. many stockbrokers too

 

[Chief]

Calling someone a nutjob for sharing their political views is offensive towards the mentally ill. Why are leftists so insensitive?

Yeah, the mentally ill don't want to be lumped in with the RW mob. Good call.

 

[Gough]

for someone who berates progressives 4 the left/right thing u spend a lot of time doing just that. and in s nastier crankier way.

btw, the letter from bradman shouldn't b a surprise. great player, but arch reactionary and average person as many of his team mates have written. many stockbrokers too

Great cricketer but for a long time he's been allowed to become so much more than that and he has been held up as the sort of Australian we should aspire to be, Howard would have had that you couldn't become a citizen without knowing about him. That's why that right wingers are kicking back at this, we can't have his post colonial, anglo christian halo slipping.

 

[mighty tiges]

Everyone knew Bradman's conservative & religious (Mason) views. This letter is hardly news. As far as the religious divide which was a big thing back in the 1920s-40s, there's the famous story of one or two of his former Catholic teammates in the Australian test team laughing when Bradman got out for a duck in his last innings and he missed out on the '100' batting average.

The only thing in this letter is the irony. The free enterprise he praised in the letter only a year later came for Cricket via Kerry Packer and World Series Cricket which Bradman opposed.

‘Total control of Australian cricket must remain with the Board and the states, and not be sacrificed for a handful of silver,’ Bradman continued in his letter to [Arthur] Morris. ‘Surely money cannot buy such a principle.’

New letters reveal Bradman’s fight against Packer and World Series Cricket

A new book on the Sydney Cricket Ground contains previously unpublished letters from Sir Donald Bradman in which he stridently fights against the cashed-up new competition of Kerry Packer.

www.smh.com.au

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Calling someone a nutjob for sharing their political views is offensive towards the mentally ill. Why are leftists so insensitive?

You're better than that kind of post.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Latham having a perfectly normal one.

 

[Cooldude]

Feels like some performative victim-playing outrage wankfest, no one really gives a s**t about the letter other than the ones dying to whinge about being "cancelled"

 

[kalex6251]

wait till the cookers hear ol' donny boy was a mason

 

[Mofra]

Old man 50 years ago skewed conservative. To the shock of nobody.

He's still The Don and always will be.

 

[Pistol Night]

Old man 50 years ago skewed conservative. To the shock of nobody.

He's still The Don and always will be.

This ones missed the boat a bit. He got the ultimate cancel 25 years ago

 

[Sqotty from office works]

Old man 50 years ago skewed conservative. To the shock of nobody.

He's still The Don and always will be.

When asked how he kept fit?
" I run between the wickets".

 

[peetoo]

Didn’t stop Fraser being one of the wettest lib pms ever

-that’s not meant as an insult by me

 

[stax on the mull]

The Australian newspaper wrote a critical piece about Bradman less than a year after he died.

Cricket: 'The Don' accused of underarm tactics in financial scandal - NZ Herald

Latest breaking news articles, photos, video, blogs, reviews, analysis, opinion and reader comment from New Zealand and around the World - NZ Herald

www.nzherald.co.nz

 

[QuietB]

Conservatives are doing this all wrong.

1/ Let the left cancel Bradman. Faux outrage of course, but encourage them.
2/ Remember the ABC uses Bradman’s batting average in every state for their address and phone numbers.
3/ Obviously if you cancel Bradman you have to shut down the ABC - it is the only decent thing to do given the connection.
4/ Knight Murdoch
5/ Win

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Secondly it’s not accurate to compare him to the likes of Margaret Court. She’s been incredibly vocal on her views and ardently pushed them for decades. At worst Bradman wrote one quiet letter to one Prime Minister but then for the most part chose to not make public political statements.

Three, there’s some pretty f**ked up sh*t in the letter, calling to “re educate people”! Right wingers would blow a gasket if any leftie used the words “re educate”.

Fourthly it doesn’t change too much regarding Bradman, sure he may want an economic policy that even Ayn Rand would think is too extreme but for the most part he kept his opinions to himself and apart from the letter never tried to influence public opinion unlike Margaret Court. So he’ll be remembered for his sports achievements unlike Court who’ll mostly be remembered for being a religious nutter.

In fairness to Margaret Court (yes! I actually typed those words), people’s relationship to the media and the public sphere these days is completely different to how it was in 1975.

She’s hardly the first person in the last fifteen years to jump on social media and share her personal prejudices whether we want to hear them or not.

(In 1975 you could still ask the question “if a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Today the question is more like “if a tree falls in the woods and nobody posts it on SM, does anyone care?”)

In 1975, Margaret Court didn’t write to Malcolm Fraser, as far as we know.

In 2022, if The Don were still alive and in command of his faculties, there’s every chance he’d be sharing his pearls of wisdom on SM.

(Having said that, her views are still abhorrent.)

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Latham having a perfectly normal one.

Even by Latham’s standards that is extraordinarily hysterical.

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

Even by Latham’s standards that is extraordinarily hysterical.

Latham and the other right wingers seem genuinely distraught that normal people couldn't give a s**t about this. Now they're stuck with a massive culture war erection with nothing to bat the pain away.

 

[Gough]

If Pat Cummins continues his career trajectory maybe we could hold him up as the sort of person Australians should aspire to be like.

 

[Osho]

If Pat Cummins continues his career trajectory maybe we could hold him up as the sort of person Australians should aspire to be like.

A poisoned chalice.
Everybody farts.
Yes, everybody.

 

[Donakebab]

Don Bradman, greatest cricketer of all time, massive s**t campaigner.

 

[Not Important]

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Don Bradman, greatest cricketer of all time, massive s**t campaigner.

That is magnificent. And breathtakingly scandalous. Can anyone imagine today's cowed, gutless ABC commissioning something like that these days?

Effing Coalition and Murdoch must be sitting back toasting a job well done.

 

[Sydney Kicker]

Our Don Bradman - Now I ask you is he any good?
Our Don Bradman - As a cheapskate he is certainly "plum pud".
Progressives meet their fate,
For it's time to re-educate
When our right winger from Bowral takes the floor.
Our Don Bradman - Always manages to put down the poor.

Our Don Bradman - And I ask you is he any good?
Our Don Bradman – Guaranteed to give John Howard wood.
For when he goes in to bat
He knocks the lefty nutters flat,
Total hero of Sky news,
Our Don Bradman - Ev'ry conservative dips his lid to you.

 

[kranky al]

yep 91 seats to 36

55% to 45% of the vote


whitlam gets a lot of credit for things like universal health care but many fail to know the states introduced universal health care prior to this (in a similar time to UK, nordic nations and even in limited form in the US). One can argue the centralisation and now duplication of responsibility of health is part of the reason we have the challenges we have today.

whitlam was the prime minister we had to have after the menzie's reign, similar to the recession we had to have under keating. both necessary for the nation but we should be grateful the pain was short lived.

Sorta wonder if it wouldnt work better for wa at least if we had our own health care and tax accordingly for it. Our state liberal governments are no where near as right wing as the feds which would mean we wouldnt get the “kill medicare by a thousand cuts” that the federal libs do every time they are in power.

 

[Power Raid]

Sorta wonder if it wouldnt work better for wa at least if we had our own health care and tax accordingly for it. Our state liberal governments are no where near as right wing as the feds which would mean we wouldnt get the “kill medicare by a thousand cuts” that the federal libs do every time they are in power.

Can you elaborate on ripping the guts out? I couldn't see it in the figures



but yes, I believe the feds should simply hand the money to the states for health, education and police