Hello all, hope you've kept yourselves well during the GrodsCorp hiatus. I wanted to write to say a big WELCOME BACK to our dear Ed, who has been off educatin' for the past three weeks. We look forward to your insightful and edifying account of your travels as soon as you can get around to it, mate…

And in the meantime, a little something here about the ALP and the stacking of the branches. My favourite quote:

“… right-winger Kelvin Thomson accused the Left of “hypocrisy and double standards” and of having a “born-to-rule mentality” in the Victorian ALP. He labelled the Independents faction, associated with ALP national president Barry Jones and former premier John Cain, as “the Australian Democrats of the Labor Party” - they had no future and no idea what they stood for.”

Hey! I resemble that remark.