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Albanese’s pressing task to hold us together in a fractured age

The prime minister faces growing currents of economic and social disaffection. But is he up to the task of navigating a way through?

James CurranInternational editor

Nov 26, 2023 – 12.45pm

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Last week this column argued that moments of strategic churn ask fundamental questions about what holds a community together.

Amid chronic short-termism and a culture craving the immediate, that challenge becomes more pressing.

James Curran is The Australian Financial Review’s International Editor and professor of modern history at Sydney University.

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