Maxine McKew's husband, Bob Hogg, would already be aware of this hopefully unnecessary concern, but experience prompts this posting, just to make sure.
Young Liberals are the closest thing to Hitler Youth this country possesses, and the NSW branch is the ugliest of the lot. Their Führer, John Howard, has been toppled by an upstart who is a woman and, above all, a woman connected to that dreaded hotbed of socialism, the ABC.
History unfortunately shows that it is always the "good guys" who get assassinated. From John F. Kennedy to Yitzhak Rabin, the killers have always come from the far right. In Australia, that is the political leaning of the majority of Young Liberals.
In all probability nothing will happen. But you can bet some of them are thinking about it.
Bilegrip admin have hit the nail on the head. At the moment some of the most rabid of the idiot right can be found among some of the Young Libs. Some of them are from families with a history of being in the Industrial Groupers of the 1950's and others from even more conservative backgrounds in Europe. They feel very dejected and very threatened at the moment by the "Socialist" ALP. The unpredictable hotheaded ones may well retaliate.
Your advice is better well heeded than ignored. This applies to any prominent activists who fought against conservative fascist trends as well as our wonderful 'Howard-eliminator' Maxine McKew. Don't be fearful, simply be prepared.
Posted by Ugly on December 2, 2007