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Edward Reilly b. 1944 Adelaide, South Australia, now living in Geelong, Victoria. He holds an MA (Deakin 1992) for a thesis on Thomas Kinsella, and a PhD (Victoria 2000) in Creative Writing.
Since retiring from secondary teaching in 2003, he has taught in Lithuania, travelled to China & now works as a sessional lecturer in literary studies & education at Victoria Uni., Melbourne.
He has published poetry, student guides & literary criticism, and has two novels seeking publication. A third novel, "Hotel Tavistock", which addresses issues of urban terrorism, is in progress.

Politics, News & Issues > US Elections Why Hispanics will turn back to Democrats for the 2008 elections

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I'm not Hispanic, I'm not even American; but if I were either, I'd be voting Democrat next year. Why? You may well ask, so I'll give it to you without beating around the bush. The USA, like Australia where I live, was born on the backs of hopeful immigrants, political exiles and socially dispossessed. Forget the polite lies about the settlers who came over on the "The Mayflower", they were well-heeled religious bigots whose political party had murdered their king and ultimately failed in a right-wing religious revolution that had attempted to set up a theocratic state ( a bit like some of ...

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