It’s Monday and the dawn of a new era, write Stephen Brook and Samantha Hutchinson in today's CBD column. Turf out all the political rules opposition parties have been following ViscountBrooky SHutchinsonNews SAelection auselection auspolitics
CBD has come across some video of the good old days at a local ALP May Day event in Sydney’s southern Sutherland Shire in 2014, where, now the opposition’s education spokeswoman, appears bemused while the party faithful stand and perform the anthem in Russian.
“I can’t hear you … It is in Russian, just stand to attention,” says the event host, standing next to Plibersek. To be fair, Plibersek displays maximum awkwardness and minimal enthusiasm for the singalong, beyond seeming to mouth the chorus and some ineffective conducting. And alas, not even the shrewdest of political minds or foreign policy wonks would have foreseen the sharp turn geopolitics has taken this year with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine turning the country into an international pariah.Tanya Plibersek singing – badly – The Internationale in Russian at a Labor Party function in 2014.
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