工党的FACELESSMAN介绍

Henrychen

Faceless man 已经成为一个澳大利亚的政治的永久词汇。它的兴起是在2010年时，工党派系领导人幕后团体，包括Bill Shorten， David Feeney，Mark Arbib 和 Don Farrell，还得到了工会领袖Paul Howes 的支持，他们导演了剔除时任总理陆克文，由他的副手朱莉娅·吉拉德取代总理的位置。

目前这几个人都是Julia的死党。

[ 本帖最后由 Henrychen 于 2012-2-24 14:27 编辑 ]

josephineyan

Faceless men
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Faceless men is a term from Australian politics. It was first used in 1963 by Alan Reid, a journalist working for Sir Frank Packer's conservative Sydney Daily Telegraph, referring to the 36 members of the Australian Labor Party's Federal Conference, which at that time decided the party's election policy. In the run-up to the campaign for the 1963 federal election, Reid commissioned a photograph of Labor Leader Arthur Calwell and his Deputy Leader Gough Whitlam standing outside the Kingston Hotel in Canberra, where the Conference was meeting, waiting to be told what policy they were to fight the election on. Neither was a delegate to the Conference, which then consisted of six delegates from each of the six states. Reid commented that the ALP was ruled by "36 faceless men" – a line that was effectively used by Liberal Prime Minister Robert Menzies and helped him win the election with an increased majority. This experience led directly to Whitlam's campaign to reform the Labor Party's structure when he succeeded Calwell as Leader in 1967.

The term "faceless men" then became a permanent part of Australia's political lexicon, nearly always used in a sense hostile to the Labor Party.[1] It was revived in 2010 when a group of Labor factional leaders, including Bill Shorten, David Feeney, Mark Arbib and Don Farrell, with the support of the union leader Paul Howes, arranged for the Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to be removed as party leader and replaced by his Deputy Julia Gillard.[2][3] Howes later published a book called Confessions of a Faceless Man.[4] The expression has also been used to refer to the figures in the New South Wales state Labor Party, such as Karl Bitar and (again) Mark Arbib who brought about the successive removals of Morris Iemma and Nathan Rees as Premier of New South Wales.

The term was again invoked on February 22, 2012, when former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd resigned from his position as foreign minister.

[ 本帖最后由 josephineyan 于 2012-2-24 14:37 编辑 ]

众禾土生

这个词最近出现频率很高

黑山老妖

澳洲总算也牛了一把，造了一个词。