What Sussan Ley’s bus trip reveals about modern politics

by · Australian Financial Review

James Button
Sep 4, 2026 – 8.00pm

Where have all the good politicians gone? I hear older people ask this all the time. Where’s our Bob Hawke or Paul Keating, Malcolm Fraser or Gough Whitlam – leaders who spoke their minds and did big things, not just twiddle the dials? Though some who ask are driven by pure nostalgia, they have a point: politics has changed profoundly.

I was reminded of this recently when I watched Sarah Ferguson interview Sussan Ley on 7.30, then read a long piece Ley wrote in this newspaper.

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