Unleash the private sector
Childcare safety
Pick one, bruh
Not surprising, though I’m still trying to pinpoint how long ago it was that Labor turned into the Liberal party…
It dates back at least to the 1980s, during the Hawke era.
A Labor party that cast unemployed workers as “bludgers”. A Labor party that concocted a Neoliberal Accord with the ACTU to suppress the rights of workers, as a means to keep wages (and worker power to negotiate better conditions) down. A Labor party that devastated social support by making unemployment benefits far more difficult to obtain.
All this was an “unleashing” of the private sector the effects of which still rage around us today.
https://jacobin.com/2020/10/australia-labor-party-neoliberalism-accord
You want Albanese to single-handedly abolish global capitalism, against the will of the Australian electorate? I think, as far as capitalism goes, small business is on the less unethical side.
Albanese is an adult, he needs to deliver the best outcomes he can from within the system we’re given, not refuse to engage in the hopes that it would somehow fix things.
Gods you rusted-ons are so fucking insufferable.
You need to win election to fight capitalism. Could you even imagine Australia voting for Adam Bandt to be PM? Incrementalism is not evil, and sure beats the alternative of going scorched earth and handing us another decade of the LNP. This isn’t America, we can’t beat the LNP on turnout.
Keating.
The drift started post Whitlam but that movement is the result of voters. A more recent example, Labor lost to ScMo of all people, so they drifted further and we’ve ended up with yet another second rate Labor Government.
The only way to move Labour back is for voters to force the issue and Vote Green to shift the Overton Window, that seems very unlikely.
We really haven’t changed much since Horne’s iconic and ironic The Lucky Country,
In the '80s when Hawke bought neoliberalism to our shores.
If anything, we need to shorten the leash.
“Jobs and growth” :rolleyes: Change the fuckin’ record, dude. We hear enough of that from the LNP.
