The history of the ALP at the national level is one long lesson in humility.  More often defeated than victorious, glorious in government but only in retrospect. This is our party. The thirteen-year golden era of Hawke and Keating between 1983 and 1996 created Medicare and universal, compulsory superannuation; broke the back of inflation; set … Continue reading Faithful and Labor: What Labor Ignores at its Peril Continue reading »