WITH AN ELECTION LOOMING AND CRITICISM OF THE ALP NOW A NATIONAL
PASTIME, MARK LATHAM CONSIDERS THE FUTURE FOR LABOR. THE NATION HAS
CHANGED, BUT CAN THE PARTY?
With wit and insight, Latham reveals an organisation top-heavy with
factional bosses protecting their turf. At the same time Labor’s
traditional working-class base has long been eroding. People who grew
up in fibro shacks now live in double-storey affluence. Families once
resigned to a lifetime of blue-collar work now expect their children
to be well-educated professionals and entrepreneurs.
Latham explains how Labor has always succeeded as a grassroots party,
and argues for reforms to clear out the apparatchiks and dead wood.
Then there are the key policy challenges: what to do about the Keating
economic legacy, education and poverty. Latham examines the rise of a
destructive and reactionary far-right under the wing of Tony Abbott.
He also makes the case that climate change is the ultimate challenge
– and even opportunity – for a centre-left party.
_Not Dead Yet_ is an essential contribution to political debate, which
addresses the question: how can Labor reinvent itself and speak to a
changed Australia?
“The grand old party of working-class participation has become a
virtual party. In no other part of society … could an organisation
function this way and expect to survive. This is the core delusion of
21st-century democracy, that political parties can fragment and hollow
out, yet still win the confidence of the people.” —Mark Latham,
_Not Dead Yet_
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Labor's Post-Left Future
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ISBN
9781921870934
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Black Inc
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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