The only upside of watching US elections and electoral processes is, as Peter Hartcher says, to develop or renew one’s own appreciation of Australia’s electoral system
. Apart from the “inherently undemocratic” aspects of the US system that Hartcher describes, there’s the obscene amounts of money needed to fund campaigns that run endlessly from one election to the next and, in recent times, state legislators passing laws to make it more difficult for targeted populations to vote and/or for the vote count to be “doubted” after the fact.
If Albanese “did a Biden” and stepped aside for the good of all, there would be alternatives ready and able to carry the baton.I chortled when I read Ross Butler’s letter on the lack of talent in the current Labor caucus. He has obviously forgotten the talentless lot who were in charge for nine years before the current government came to power. The names Bernardi, Brandis, Hockey, Abbott, Pyne, Morrison, Bishop, Payne, Robert and Cormann spring to mind.
Together with 12,000 other mostly Jewish people, more than a quarter of the Jewish population of Sydney, I attended the community vigil in Sydney on the anniversary of the Hamas atrocities on October 7. It was a dignified and moving commemoration with a Jewish community that has never been more united.
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