In 2003, a young student named Paul Erickson was gasping for air on the floor of the University of Melbourne’s Union House. “They fucking flattened me,” he said, cradling his shoulder. He told friends that members of the campus Liberal party had allegedly chased and assaulted him during a student election campaign.
Two decades later, as the national secretary of the Australian Labor party, a “fucking ruthless” Erickson has flattened the Liberal party.
