It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see the 124-year-old Labor Party is in terminal decline in Queensland and eventually in wider Australia.
The Labor Party is at a crossroads in Brisbane. It faces existential threats and uncomfortable options.
Labor’s vote is down in its heartland of low-income, working-class suburbs and in trendy inner-suburban electorates, both of which were strongholds for the ALP in the past.what has just happened in the state seats of Inala and Ipswich West, past bastions for LaborBut Labor cannot live in the past. It has fundamental and life-threatening problems. These are not temporary setbacks, or the result of temporal issues like interest rates.
Queensland Premier Steven Miles speaks at a press conference after Labor’s loss of the byelection in the seat of Ipswich West.It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see the 124-year-old Labor Party is in terminal decline in this area and eventually in wider Australia.Ultimately, the only way I can see the Labor Party functioning in government is in partnership with and acting as a moderating influence on the Greens. I say that as a member of the ALP for 52 years.
Just as there is an LNP combining the remnants of the Liberal and National parties, so too there will be a GLP combining Greens and Labor.
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