Letter
Faithlessness-Based Politics
“….Payman hadn’t contradicted Labor’s policy platform, written in 2023,…. She had done the opposite… tried to get the government to implement its own policy platform, recognition of the state of Palestine…. the Labor caucus unanimously agreed to Albanese’s decision to indefinitely suspend Payman from caucus, Albanese pontificating that he showed “strength in compassion” in not expelling Payman from the ALP.”
A Labor PM has power to expel a member from the ALP? Truly?
“Pontificating” is surely the right term, and just when Mr. A comes out as an opponent of “faith-based politics.”
Labor now extends the Turnbull treachery by which a political party’s united front in parliament must be upheld even if that means over-riding parliament’s constituted supremacy. Political tractors stay on duty to level any attempt to rebuild the house of accountability to electors by all parliamentary members.
This suggests a dark political similarity to the recent SCOTUS decision ascribing monarchical immunity to an elected officebearer. In our case the conclave of self-defining cardinals are elected parliamentarians who presume to over-ride their own accountability to their electors.
The PM’s “compassion” drives a faithless-based party tractor into the house that should be protecting the polity’s social cohesion. BCW
— Bruce Wearne from Ballarat