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Frank, who is in Australia for events organised by the Chifley Research Centre, told the Guardian: “Trump is his own worst enemy of course – that news conference with Vladimir Putin – it’s just insane what this guy does ... but he could blunder into re-election, hell yeah.”

GM Holden began auto production in 1948 with then-Prime Minister Ben Chifley driving the first car off the production line, declaring it “a beauty”.

GM Holden began auto production in 1948 with then-Prime Minister Ben Chifley driving the first car off the production line, declaring it “a beauty”.

In a speech in delivered at Westminster over the weekend, Michael Cooney – a former adviser to Mark Latham, Kim Beazley and Julia Gillard, and now an influential player as Chifley director – says Labor must push past the orthodoxies of the Hawke and Keating years, and the Blairite period in the UK, in an effort to find new centrist ground in the lead up to the next election and beyond.

Taking over the leadership in 1951 at the death of ex-Prime Minister Ben Chifley, Evatt was immediately caught up in a bitter sectarian fight between Communists and Catholic Actionists inside the labor movement.