“The blows never really stopped from the right or the left, but he continued on because for Daniel Mannix the spiritual and the practical missions were connected the why and the how they informed each other and they enriched each other. Now Daniel Mannix was one of a kind and during the Labor split I couldn't say his role was a good one, there might be others in the audience who disagreed, but there's so much that we can learn from his long life.”