That the Albanese government believes Graham Richardson deserves a state funeral tells us a lot more about the ethics of the current iteration of the federal Labor Party than about the late “powerbroker” and rotten-to-the-core Sydney identity. Certainly it traduces the notion of state funerals being a special recognition of achievements in political and public life because, whatever else he might have believed in, Richardson didn’t believe in democracy or the rule of law.
The Nine newspapers, to their credit, have given the grub the send-off he deserves.