The Good Fight

<h2><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The 100th issue of Australia's leading agenda-setting journal of politics culture and debate</span></h2><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In Quarterly Essay 100 Sean Kelly considers the enigma of the Albanese government. With wide yet shallow support will it change the country? Does it have big ideas or is it content just to become the natural party of government?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Kelly gives a definitive account of Albanese's political style and asks what lies behind it. In speaking to a fragmented disengaged electorate the Prime Minister places a high value on moderation. Often that means ducking fights with entrenched interests. But this runs the risk of embedding an ever more unequal nation led by a government that can seem gutless.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In this subtle and brilliant essay Kelly explores whether Labor is still up for the good fight.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Labor has cast itself as a version of what the conservatives once were: the defender of the way things are. This may well appeal to large numbers of Australians as it did in this last election. [But] Labor's task historically has been to change things on behalf of those who desperately need them to change. -</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Sean Kelly <em>The Good Fight</em></strong></p><p></p>