The lack of a strong, economically rationalist Labor Right that is prepared to challenge union dominance and left-wing economic populism means this Labor government has no credible economic agenda.
During the Hawke-Keating government of the 1980s, Labor’s right-wing factions controlled the party.
that starts in Brisbane on Thursday. Yet a Labor prime minister from the party’s “Midnight Oil” wing and a foreign minister from the party’s Left will entrench Labor’s commitment to Scott Morrison’s $386 billion AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine partnership with Britain and the US. It’s not that far from the demands for a “tycoon tax” on banks from the Greens’ young Albo-baiter, Max Chandler-Mather. It’s not far from socialist Left Victorian Labor premier Daniel Andrews’ nostalgic revival of the Victorian State Electricity Commission that was privatised by the Kennett Liberal government in 1994.
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