Risk-averse voters want caution and visible reform. Can Albanese deliver both?

Risk-averse voters want caution and visible reform. Can Albanese deliver both?

As citizens, we decide whether governments deserve to be rewarded, punished or replaced – often with imperfect information. The First Albanese Government offers a clear‑eyed account, as Labor proceeds through its second term, of its first: the reforms, missteps and limits. As a political scientist, I am – by training and instinct – in the business of criticising political parties. That usually means cataloguing failure, inconsistency and over-pr…

Albanese risks losing the voters who put him there

From foreign policy to domestic reform, Labor risks alienating key supporters and wasting a moment of political opportunity in a volatile landscape. No good crisis should ever be wasted, as Rahm Emanuel, a one-time chief of staff to Barak Obama, used to say. Donald Trump is in trouble with both his American and his international […]