CANBERRA OBSERVED Can Labor learn a lesson or is it unredeemable?*

Federal Labor, post the 2019 election result, has had to deal with a policy malaise the likes of which it has not experienced since the Mark Latham experiment in 2004.



Recall that Latham went to that election with a bold agenda, the centrepiece of which was Julia Gillard’s Medicare Gold for the nation’s elderly.
On the surface, it was a popular policy, described by Latham at the time as the “greatest extension in federal responsibility for hospital c…

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