The young speakers at Labor’s national conference had to settle for less than they wanted, but they made their presence felt. The result is a slow burn on policy change.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.The warning to Anthony Albanese on tax and housing sounded like a speech to a Greens rally when a couple of young speakers stood in Brisbane on Thursday to tell the prime minister what they thought of his policies.
Julijana Todorovic, an emerging leader in the Labor Left faction in Victoria, and construction union leader Zach Smith told Labor’s leadership they needed to do more on tax and housing.Her argument, backed by others on the floor of Labor’s national conference this week, was that big companies had to pay more tax to fund a more ambitious approach to increasing housing supply.
The debate was polite. Nobody yelled from the podium. It was certainly too gentle for Labor warhorses who remember the open brawls at Labor conferences in the past. But the demands on the government were there for those who took the trouble to listen. Lift your game, said these voices, because your policies look too weak.tax on company profits to pay for more housing
The agitators had to settle for less than they wanted, but they made their presence felt. The result is a slow burn on policy change.The pressure for tax reform is palpable: Labor delegates want Treasurer Jim Chalmers to look for new ways to raise revenue to fund social policy.
“We are in the midst of an energy transition that is, in truth, an industrial revolution,” he said. “Because net zero means the electrification of every home.” Albanese knew how to control the troublemakers because he used to be a troublemaker himself. As the president of NSW Young Labor, he agitated against the reforms led by prime ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating in the 1980s and early 1990s.in 1987. “If privatisation happens, make no mistake, the next question on the agenda will be deregulation of the labour market.
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