Even the most relative right-wing elements in the ALP should be relatively Left on the broader spectrum. We all need to see ourselves as part of a ‘broad Left’, and in this sense having common cause. Once we agree on this perhaps we can truly ‘move forward together’.
Source: The ALP – Arguing for a Minimum Program – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The Labor national conference has a deep historic legacy, having shaped some of our young nation’s most consequential policy decisions. Despite diligent efforts to quell the detractors and instil a sense of unity, the conference couldn’t avoid public rancour bubbling up over the half-a-trillion dollar target that is AUKUS: Australia’s largest military spend since the Second World War.
Source: ‘War is peace’: What does AUKUS get us into, and why? – The Shot
Are you convinced?
You have to laugh though Peter Dutton talked about the “Great Division in the ALP” about AUKUS. Yet again it was something that proved not to exist.
“We have to analyse the world as it is rather than as we would want it to be,” he said. “These are the choices of a mature nation.”
Source: Why Labor has embraced AUKUS with so little party dissent
Labor has a long history of profiting from poker machines. Will they move a motion at the ALP National Conference to address gambling harm? Veteran anti-pokies crusader, journalist Stephen Mayne reports.
Source: Action from Labor on pokies, gambling, more long-shot than sure bet – Michael West
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