The major parties may seem bitterly divided, but we might be entering a new era of political consensus about the way we should be living.
Last week, making the case for those laws, Anthony Albanese conceded they wouldn’t work every time. “It’s like the ban on buying alcohol for under-18s – this weekend chances are there’ll be someone under-18 … who will get access to alcohol. That doesn’t mean that society doesn’t show its values by having that law in place.”This echoed something the prime minister had said the week before: “What this will do is send a social message about what society thinks is appropriate”.
Until perhaps quite recently, we have been living through a technocratic age. Experts have been given primacy, politicians say they are “pragmatic” rather than “ideological”, laws are evaluated, at least in part, by whether they will do what leaders claim they will. And so it is interesting to hear this government – which has definitely leant towards the technocratic – emphasise the moral and social consequences of its laws.
In Australia, you can see this even in an area where the two parties seem divided, such as climate change. At a broad level, they are united in their economic approach: both want massively interventionist industry policy .
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