New-look Labor looks a lot like the old
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Now, the bad: Katy Gallagher, who was thrown out of Parliament amid the dual citizenship fiasco but returned to the Senate at the May 18 election, has been handed the finance portfolio and becomes central to Labor’s all-important economic team. Gallagher is talented but snatches the job at the expense of rising star Clare O’Neil, who was a no-brainer to enter shadow cabinet. Instead, Albanese has decided to allow of the party’s best hopes to languish in the outer ministry for a further three years.
Ed Husic’s move to the backbench remains a bad outcome for Labor. And Albanese has missed a chance to drop more underperformers from shadow cabinet who are only there courtesy of factions rather than merit.
Overall the team has more strengths than weaknesses and Albanese is right to boast that they are very capable of taking up the fight in Parliament. But that’s just the start – the real work lies ahead in a major policy and values reset.
If the same team that shares collective responsibility for defeat on May 18 doesn’t get it right this time, Labor’s brightest stars could be stuck with ‘shadow’ in their titles for an excruciatingly long time.
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