For more than two decades no one had greater access to our national parliament and its politicians than Alan Ramsey. Informed, insightful, and unafraid, his columns in the Sydney Morning Herald were essential reading for many thousands of Australians. Here are 150 of his unflinching views of key political events of that era, among them: the often turbulent Hawke/Keating years, the 1990 recession they "had to have," Labor's stunning dumping of Bob...