OPINION: The Labor leader has to shut down a brutal insight into how his party works just as he emerges into the forefront of the election campaign. He must hope the narrative does not stick.
Kimberley Kitching, a 52-year old first-term Labor senator from Victoria, died by the side of a suburban Melbourne road just over a week ago, after suffering a heart attack. She will be farewelled at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne on Monday.As a politician, Kimberley Kitching was a fierce warrior for her cause, and deeply embroiled in the often murky machinations of Victorian Labor politics.But Kitching was not just a woman who died suddenly and too young.
Kitching told her many friends and acquaintances that she was stressed about what was happening. Later came allegations that she was equally under stress because of her treatment at the hands of senior Labor women in the Senate.She would know better than most, however, that for those beyond her circle of acquaintances, the raw politics of these events will have wider significance.
Refusing to discuss it may have started out looking respectful, but has increasingly just looked like an alibi.
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