Kim Carr has joined other Labor luminaries in warning about the party’s prospects but does not want it to follow the Greens into “woke” policies.
Anthony Albanese’s government betrayed working-class Labor voters by championing the Indigenous Voice and its small-target strategy risks the party’s future, former Labor minister Kim Carr writes in his memoir.
“The practical effect of the referendum was to pit one part of Labor’s broad coalition of support against the other,” Carr writes. Failing to pull out of the 2023 referendum once polls showed it would fail “was nothing less than a disaster”.
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