Despite our expensive subsidies for property investors,commentators who have made their careers by calling for ever more reform hate Labor’s signature policy.
Governing is mostly doing running repairs,but inevitably a time comes when the problems have accumulated to the point where our systems need to fully refresh. This is one of those times.
Anthony Albanese got engaged,went to Taylor Swift,Katy Perry and the tennis. Meanwhile,he allows his government to drift on homeownership,cost of living and inequity. Alarm bells should be ringing.
The Greens are struggling to break out from being a boutique,purist,inner-city outfit that tells its existing supporters what they want to hear.
Federal politics has changed over the past 20 years. It’s been a dog’s breakfast. It’s now conducted in a permanently febrile atmosphere.
Anthony Albanese’s patented “waving to the crowd” ways have well and truly lost their utility. Jim Chalmers will feature more prominently,in the tradition of the great PM-treasurer partnerships.
Scott Morrison,Australia’s most insubstantial prime minister,delivered a truly substantial election victory that still resonates with Labor and the Coalition through the polity. He leaves a disturbing legacy.
A lack of policy ambition and an unwillingness to engage in robust arguments has left the Labor Party adrift and voters turning away.
As the diasporic vote increases and intensifies in specific geographic locations across Australia,the politics of how major parties handle issues becomes even more politically fraught.
There is no getting around it. Albanese is not some new incarnation of Bob Hawke,he is the leader of a party that just got over the line last year and abysmally failed on the Voice.
Too many in the Liberal Party still see the Victorian political environment as a level playing field,where they’re just one attack line away from fatally wounding the government. It’s a fantasy that ultimately only hurts them.