The referendum and John Howard’s long political shadow

In this week’s ABR Podcast, Joel Deane argues that one person more than any other is the reason why more than sixty per cent of voters said No in the Voice referendum. Former prime ministers, he says, haunt Australian politics like Hamlet’s Ghost. Joel Deane is a poet, novelist and speechwriter. Listen to Joel Deane’s ‘A maddening country: The long political shadow of John Howard’, published in the December issue of ABR.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.