Opening the Labor Party conference, Julia Gillard told her party
faithful she wanted the ALP to be the party that says ''yes to the
future''. Yet the Prime Minister spent the next three days advocating
for the resurrection of the old, tired conservative policies of John
Howard. On policies covering asylum seekers, uranium and same-sex
marriage, Labor’s leader backed the stance of the former
ultra-conservative Liberal prime minister.
As a result, the ALP ''platform'' now consists of Liberal party policies at which most progressive voters will be horrified. Labor now has an officially enshrined policy of offshore assessments of asylum seekers’ claims and will sell uranium to India. On the one progressive shift – marriage equality – the conscience vote for MPs is a get-out clause that means it won't even be supported by the Labor leader or delivered by her government. Julia Gillard has proven herself to be more about the past than anything to do with the future. Full Read
As a result, the ALP ''platform'' now consists of Liberal party policies at which most progressive voters will be horrified. Labor now has an officially enshrined policy of offshore assessments of asylum seekers’ claims and will sell uranium to India. On the one progressive shift – marriage equality – the conscience vote for MPs is a get-out clause that means it won't even be supported by the Labor leader or delivered by her government. Julia Gillard has proven herself to be more about the past than anything to do with the future. Full Read
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