A life-long supporter of the ALP, never in my 66 years had Labor’s primary vote sunk to the level it did at the 2013 election. And my party’s woeful performance in the recent Western Australian Senate election rerun adds underlining and an exclamation mark. So I ask myself: where is my party heading on policies for social and economic reform? For you cannot separate social from economic policy.
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Michael Thompson is author of Labor Without Class: The Gentrification of the ALP (1999).
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