An interesting take on Albo’s leadership.
I would tend to think he has been over cautious since the referendum, glacial movement on the middle east and a failure to so anything meaningful on housing.
Maybe slow and cautious is the way we get real reform. Infuriating but effective?
Cannot take this argument seriously. In a world with a recent uptick in violence and perceived decline, the article is praising a person that has no values and does very little as the epitome of leadership.
Albanese is considered to be on the left-wing of the Labor party. He’s extremely cautious and with good reason. Culture wars, tax reform, and defying America are all election losers.
If you want to see someone who has no values look at Gillard. She couped Rudd by offering to drop the taxes on mining corpos, governed based on spectacle rather than long-term outcomes, and now spends her days campaigning on behalf of Israel last I checked.
He can hide behind a veil of caution all he wants, it doesn’t change the fact he’s getting people killed and ruining lives for a lot of people. He isn’t being patient anyway, he’s actively making a lot of stuff significantly worse and betrayed even the most hardcore Labor supporters I know.
What is he doing that’s getting people killed?
For a start:
https://michaelwest.com.au/billions-in-israel-defence-contracts-put-australia-at-risk/
https://michaelwest.com.au/more-gas-labor-amps-it-up-past-twenty-fossil-fuel-approvals/
He doesn’t have morals. He’s another corporate boot licker with a vague excuse.
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I see. You aren’t interested in engaging with reality.
Labor has no good reason to open fossil fuel extraction projects years after we’re meant to be beyond that. The fact that you’re just deciding the story is fake is incredibly telling…
The salmon farming thing was indeed an election promise. It was also pure fucking evil, that’s my entire point. Albo sentenced an entire species to extinction for politics. How do you not see the problem here?
America does own us! Because of spineless politicians who keep bending to their will. We don’t have to be where we are now, we don’t have to keep propping up a self justifying system of death. We should never act like any of this is even slightly okay. I don’t understand how you aren’t outraged at the fact that this is all happening for nothing more than greed.
The systems you’re using to justify this aren’t actually justifications, they’re mechanisms fullfilling their intended purpose.
Yeah, we’re much better off with…
…Sussan Ley?
Yes, my entire point is obviously that we should just bend over and accept evil because someone else might be a bit worse. /s
Don’t strawman me.
You can’t go around giving people a free pass for being spineless and corrupt just because someone else is worse. That’s literally the reason the system slides further and further right. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Would I rather have Albo? Sure. Doesn’t mean he isn’t a turd who’s actively making it worse under the guise of electoral reform and it sure doesn’t mean we should accept it. Do you want a two party system? Because this is how we get one.
So angry - I think he is doing the best he can.
Can’t find the link but friendlyjordies was not a fan of that Australia institute report, or much else they do.
Sorry for the anger, I’m just very upset about this because I’m constantly watching people’s lives be ruined by a government that’s at best ignoring their needs, and at worst literally sending violent thugs to assault them at home. I apologise for directing it at you, but Albo isn’t someone you should support.
The Australia institute has some problems but they’re pretty much on point with this one; they’re generally accurate on facts, it’s just that sometimes have weird takes on how to handle issues.
I can’t agree he’s doing the best he can, unless you mean he’s doing well at ruining democracy and siding with corporate interests. He’s not making the changes that are needed here and now, he’s still part of a corrupt neoliberal system and hasn’t made any moves to meaningfully move beyond it.
He could help people immediately: he could stop deporting marginalised communities, he could stop the states from criminalising protest, he could stop the AFB from assaulting immigrants or VicPol from putting trans journalists in the hospital and killing Aboriginal people in custody. He could do something about climate change instead of worsening it. He could end a number of human rights violations like offshore detention and the handling of youth in the criminal justice system. He could stop doing openly corrupt things like ramping up state surveillance of while hiding behind “it’s to protect children” etc.
In the end, he’s just another shitty politician with good rhetoric.