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[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Can someone explain to me the factional differences between the Labor Right and Left?

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Can someone explain to me the factional differences between the Labor Right and Left?

They're more blurred than they used to be.

Labor right = old school Labour values, but evolved over the last 30 years to be about the market, while at the same time focusing on protections for working people. Social justice is very important, but with a tendency to be focused on the alleviation of poverty... doesn't like to get entangled in issues like gay rights, environmentalism, worked hard against abortion until the mid 1980s.

Labor left = basically, less interested in the market, and with time for more clearly identified left-wing social issues.

So, if I'm reading this correctly, the Labor right has a history of affiliation with Catholicism as well while the Labor left was more secular? Everything I've read says that the differences between the two aren't ideological but based off of discreet patronage. Is this true?

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

If Abbott wasn't heading the opposition, I'd want this dysfunctional party to fall from power asap. They need to reform themselves in a massive way so that the next time they're in control they can actually achieve significant policy changes without nattering like kids and having rampant factional problems. And I thought Democrats were aimless...

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

If Abbott wasn't heading the opposition, I'd want this dysfunctional party to fall from power asap. They need to reform themselves in a massive way so that the next time they're in control they can actually achieve significant policy changes without nattering like kids and having rampant factional problems. And I thought Democrats were aimless...

The ALP is essentially our Democratic Party, and it's just as competent.

It's more disappointing to see this from a nominally "socialist"/"progressive" party though.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Well, I wish Gillard luck. This prick has no business being anywhere near the premiership.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

I suggested that Kevin Rudd was a prick on reddit and was met with angry responses from Australians (one called me a c_nt). I don't understand how this guy is inspiring. He comes off as an accountant or a low-level bureaucratic official.