OPINION: The ALP knows how to impose its agenda. Meanwhile, the sanguine Liberals are trusting in luck for government to land back in their lap.
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They acted as if they owned the place. And as if they’d never left. Labor is behaving as if its “mandate” is a result of an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives. In fact, it has 50.99 per cent of the available seats. For a party that has spent so little time in government federally, the Labor Party is very good at imposing its agenda. The difference between the ambition of the ALP in office and the meekness and timidity of the Coalition is stark.
Conservatives govern as if they’ll be in power forever. That’s why they achieve so little. The left, appreciating its hold on popular support is only ever tenuous, uses every means at its disposal to implement its policies.Labor introduced into parliament this week is a good illustration of this. In it is a little-noticed provision far more significant than the enshrining into law of a 43 per cent reduction in emissions by 2030.
At the moment at least, Coalition MPs appear remarkably sanguine about all of this. The vast majority believe one or both of the following.
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