The high drama and budgie smugglers of ALP conferences past

Bob Hawke in speedos. Gough Whitlam delivering a keynote in a Hawaiian shirt. A well-stocked bar in “suite 1002”. Labor Party national conferences aren’t what they used to be. The days of Labor Party luminaries disporting themselves in budgie smugglers while surrounded by young bikini-clad women are, sadly for us in the political circus industry, long gone from ALP national conferences.