Kos Samaras on X:
Albanese is about to deliver a line that would have been unsayable in mainstream politics five years ago. (Speech scheduled for today at the National Press Club). The free market consensus - cut TAFE, offshore manufacturing, let multinationals price-gouge gas, store your fuel reserves overseas, didn’t die because the left finally won the argument. It died because Trump and others like him, who were and are the champions of Neo liberalism torched it. Not on purpose but because they were so blinded with their school yard international doctrine, they have been completely outwitted by the Iranians. Over the last month or so, they criticised other countries for not falling in line behind an America that was blowing up the very order they’d built their politics around, live…in real time. That’s the vacuum Albanese is walking into.