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Latham: "I expect a Labor administration to be even more timid, more conservative."
Howard: "... Mark Latham says that we all expect, we all hope, that it will be a lot more, he uses the word 'progressive', I use the word 'radical', a lot more radical if the Labor Party gets in."
So conservative = progressive = radical. There's that whole damn semantic thing again.
I'm sorry I read this article (but I don't apologise for it).