Ready, steady, go!

2025 is an election year

They had miles of proof that when Labor men got into power they had
forgotten the class that put them there. For twenty years they had been
urged to obtain Labor majorities. They had gotten those majorities, but
where was their heaven? ... Where were the golden streets? They could
see plenty of slums, of misery, of prostitution and poverty. They had been
following a vain dream and mirage.
Adelaide unionists, 1910, quoted in Jim Moss (1985) Sound of Trumpets

Let’s ease ourselves into the New Year. Or maybe not.

The Australia of the two-party heyday. (John Bracks, Collins Street, 5pm.)

The 2025 election will be the last chance for the Labor Party to be at the vanguard of a new political settlement. If they end up leading a minority government after the 2025 election, it will be within their ability to reshape our political landscape and install themselves as the natural party government for the foreseeable future. They will be able to reinvent our parliament around a cooperative, deliberative m…