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Australia’s most famous public intellectual, leftist and atheist, Phillip Adams, has not renewed his membership in the Labor Party.
He outlines his reasons for doing so (not doing so) here.
Lest the link disappear in days to come:

Removing a PM from office is a job that properly belongs to the electorate. It’s what elections are for. Now the faceless men are back in the saddle and I’ve had enough. For over a month my membership renewal has been languishing on my desk. Paying to remain in the NSW branch seemed problematic. The assassination of Rudd makes a final decision all too easy. After 50 years of membership, through thick and thin – mainly thin – I’m resigning.

And we argued about his [Rudd’s] climate change strategy. I by no means agreed with other policies and tactics. But nothing would have persuaded me to support a move against the leader who’d defeated Howard, made that superb “sorry” speech and handled the GFC with such skill. The right to dismiss a PM belongs to the electorate at an election, not to a drunken governor-general or factional bullies drunk with power. Rudd goes, so I go too. Seems the lethal Latham was right.

It makes an interesting bookend for the news that Malcolm Fraser, onetime Liberal Prime Minister of Australia is not longer a member of that Party.

Mr Fraser, the prime minister from 1975 to 1983, confirmed his decision to quit today, [May 26, 2010] saying the party was no longer a liberal party but a conservative party.