Unhappy High Commissioner

If I stayed in Scotland … I should have been able to heckle my member on questions of Imperial policy and vote for or against him on that ground. I went to Australia. I have been Prime Minister. But all the time I have had no say whatever. Now that can’t go on. There must be some change.

Andrew Fisher, interviewed in The Times, 31 January 1916, quoted by Neville Meaney, p. 47

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