Trump’s revolution leaves Albanese deeply exposed
The stakes for Australia cannot be denied – the more Donald Trump succeeds, the more Labor’s policies will look feeble, ineffective and missing the big picture.
The stakes for Australia cannot be denied – the more Donald Trump succeeds, the more Labor’s policies will look feeble, ineffective and missing the big picture.
The wild ride about to engulf US politics will have loads of blowback across Western democracies, including Australia.
The PM, somehow, needs to fashion a working relationship with the new president, while Peter Dutton’s problem will be his populist conservative base whose obsession will go into overdrive.
America’s progressive march has been halted in its tracks. The Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves. This is a defeat for their economic priorities, climate-change action and identity politics.
Anthony Albanese is throwing the switch to campaign mode. His focus is Labor’s agenda for the next term and his real purpose is to speed up the Labor-Coalition election contrast.
The Covid report is too polite to state the obvious: Victorians were the victims of a huge experiment in mass population control conducted by Daniel Andrews and his health bureaucrats.
Steven Miles, a big-grinning ‘nothing to lose’ populist huckster ready to trade anything away to sandbag his vote, was deservedly thrown out. Yet his successor, David Crisafulli, inspires no confidence.
Anthony Albanese is merely the latest in a line of Australian leaders across the past 17 years whose legacy is modest improvements but busted dreams.
Australia’s colonial experience is a mixture of the good and the bad. We need to hold both truths in our mind and not succumb to polemical narratives of either the all-good or all-bad history.
The voice represents a tragic saga for Aboriginal Australians. The wounds are still fresh – and there’s little sign of leadership to identify a way forward.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/paul-kelly