Opinion

100 years after WWI, a glaring lack of leadership on difficult issues

By Crispin Hull
November 17 2018 - 12:00am

When US President Woodrow Wilson tried to belittle Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes at the 1919 Versailles peace conference by asking who he represented, Hughes replied: “I speak for 60,000 Australian war dead.”

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