Save the Labor Party save the country
It's time for Albanese to go
As the non-Labor side of Australian politics continues to reshape itself—a bit like Jeff Goldblum in The Fly—there is a dawning recognition amongst commentators and the broader political class that some longstanding presumptions of Australian politics no longer hold. Everything from the values of the major parties themselves, to the idea that we operate in a two-party system, to our relationships with China and the US are in state of flux that requires new thinking.1
Australia is under enormous pressure from international forces that are religitimising different degrees of fascism, and this includes undermining post-War shifts on gender and racial equality. Even in—or especially in—the United States, a dangerous plurality no longer believe in the presumptions of liberal democracy and international humanist equality and we are seeing abuses of the most vulnerable become increasingly normalised.
What’s more, the T…
