The disproportionate Israeli response in Gaza to terror attacks on October 7 threatens to challenge the notion of proportionality, challenging the Albanese government to change a long held position.
The utter moral failures of Albanese’s ALP will create a more fractured Australia at the next election.
The bombastic, overbearing party hacks trying to bully the rank and file into toeing the Party lines on Palestine, AUKUS, Stage 3 and austerity will alienate them further from their constituency.
The incompetence, naïveté and hubris in managing aboriginal reconciliation will only compound this.
Albanese stumbled over the line, relying on the fact he was not Morrison. He seems more intent on placating a News Corp that will NEVER give anything to the left of Abbott a fair go than actually governing for ordinary Australians.
In a failing to deliver a genuinely socialist or even social democratic vision and agenda for Australia, he has left it more vulnerable than ever to a lurch to the Right and to authoritarianism.
“I fight Tories”, my arse! You have become one of them.
Bernie Sanders spoke against a cease fire last week and the next day Dr Norman Finklestein, a long time supporter of Sanders, came out calling Sanders a Moral Monster.
I wonder whether history will judge Albanese and his band of neocons and technocrats as Moral Monsters, or just Cowards.
What is happening in Gaza is absolutely horrific. It is genocide, no other words for it. One wonders how many dead, innocent civilians will be enough to sate Israel's bloodlust. Australia needs to grow some balls and stand up to the US and Israel and tell them we absolutely abhor what is happening and demand an immediate stop to all hostilities. The Palestinians have been living in an open air prison for 75 years after being displaced from their home lands and have received little to no help from the West. An absolute disgrace. I was once a proud Labor voter but no more. This is the last straw for me. I will never vote for them again.
Mike, I hope you write to Albanese and tell him exactly what you've written here. He needs to hear from once proud Labor voters. (I was too until many years ago) I sent emails to Albanese, Wong, Marles, Husic. And now I've just read that Albanese's own ALP branch has called for an immediate ceasefire. Unfortunately he's too welded on to the US to do anything independent. See AUKUS!
Well said Mike. What alarms me now is because of Labor's moral, political, strategic and policy failures there is a looming chance that the next election is lost. And then the question is what/who will replace Labor. I have a horrible feeling it will be the extreme right.
And thank you again Joel for your keen observations. And for your wonderful prose - so readable, engaging and exciting to read.
The utter moral failures of Albanese’s ALP will create a more fractured Australia at the next election.
The bombastic, overbearing party hacks trying to bully the rank and file into toeing the Party lines on Palestine, AUKUS, Stage 3 and austerity will alienate them further from their constituency.
The incompetence, naïveté and hubris in managing aboriginal reconciliation will only compound this.
Albanese stumbled over the line, relying on the fact he was not Morrison. He seems more intent on placating a News Corp that will NEVER give anything to the left of Abbott a fair go than actually governing for ordinary Australians.
In a failing to deliver a genuinely socialist or even social democratic vision and agenda for Australia, he has left it more vulnerable than ever to a lurch to the Right and to authoritarianism.
“I fight Tories”, my arse! You have become one of them.
That's well said Mal.
Bernie Sanders spoke against a cease fire last week and the next day Dr Norman Finklestein, a long time supporter of Sanders, came out calling Sanders a Moral Monster.
I wonder whether history will judge Albanese and his band of neocons and technocrats as Moral Monsters, or just Cowards.
What is happening in Gaza is absolutely horrific. It is genocide, no other words for it. One wonders how many dead, innocent civilians will be enough to sate Israel's bloodlust. Australia needs to grow some balls and stand up to the US and Israel and tell them we absolutely abhor what is happening and demand an immediate stop to all hostilities. The Palestinians have been living in an open air prison for 75 years after being displaced from their home lands and have received little to no help from the West. An absolute disgrace. I was once a proud Labor voter but no more. This is the last straw for me. I will never vote for them again.
Mike, I hope you write to Albanese and tell him exactly what you've written here. He needs to hear from once proud Labor voters. (I was too until many years ago) I sent emails to Albanese, Wong, Marles, Husic. And now I've just read that Albanese's own ALP branch has called for an immediate ceasefire. Unfortunately he's too welded on to the US to do anything independent. See AUKUS!
Well said Mike. What alarms me now is because of Labor's moral, political, strategic and policy failures there is a looming chance that the next election is lost. And then the question is what/who will replace Labor. I have a horrible feeling it will be the extreme right.
And thank you again Joel for your keen observations. And for your wonderful prose - so readable, engaging and exciting to read.