“Here, courtesy of my Byron Bay friend Jan, what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (in my youth called the Australian Broadcasting Commission) has to say about Hugo Lennon.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-08-28\/who-is-behind-march-for-australia-anti-immigration-rallies\/105657548?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Postscript on the idea that \u201cfar left\u201d and \u201cfar right\u201d are \u201call the same\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The story of Queensland medical doctor the late John McCarthy refutes this idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is true that John\u2019s political views \u2013 which were more or less shared in the 1970s, albeit off the record, even by such people as former governor-general Bill Hayden<\/a>, have not stood the test of time. The collapse of the Soviet Union could not be intellectually integrated by the then probably most influential Trotskyist theoretician, the Belgian economist Ernest Mandel<\/a>. Specifically Mandel\u2019s belief that the Soviet nuclear arsenal provided \u201ca measure of protection<\/a>\u201d to the Soviet state as such appears illusory<\/a>. But John McCarthy\u2019s devotion to justice and in particular to what are now known as \u201cfirst nation Australians\u201d was unquestionable. His companion of that time, the later well-known Marcia Langton<\/a>, would not dispute that, in my opinion. If she and John had remained together she herself might not have become a celebrity but on the other hand John also may not have departed this world at the relatively young age of sixty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n