What does Albo stand for? |
With a commanding parliamentary position and no credible opposition, Labor has unprecedented room to lead. Instead, caution, foreign policy timidity and deference to powerful lobbies are defining its moment.
In December 2024 I wrote that Anthony Albanese should be replaced as Labor leader and Prime Minister. His wrongheaded decision to kowtow to the Israel lobby and invite Israeli President Issac Herzog to visit Australia confirms that he lacks the acuity and courage to lead the Labor Party. His invitation clearly fostered sharp division in the country. He should be called out for demanding overseas conflicts be kept out of Australia while welcoming and honouring the head of a foreign state accused of war crimes and genocide.
I included Labor’s “factional assassin”, Defence Minister Richard Marles, and our dissembling Foreign Minister, Penny Wong as well. Marles’ has kept us captive to the floundering AUKUS project and in unnecessary conflict with China. Wong’s handling of foreign affairs has the nation clinging to Trump’s toxic America – and to Israel’s grim determination to “bury the idea of a Palestinian state”. Both of them know that AUKUS, Trump and Israeli warmongering are massively unpopular in Labor ranks. But they persist because they are lackeys for the US military-industrial complex and the Zionist lobby in Australia. They should go too.
My call in 2024 was followed by the luckiest break ever handed to a Labor government. The implosion of the Liberals under the leadership of Peter Dutton at the May 2025 election was a stroke of massive good fortune for Labor. That Tory collapse continues to pay windfall dividends for Labor in power. The rise of uber-conservative Angus Taylor to lead the fractured party could see them smashed completely as a viable opposition – let alone an alternative government. In the stinging words of Malcolm Turnbull, Taylor is........