Can Labor Rekindle Its Relationship With Australians in 2024?

Commentary They say a new broom sweeps clean. Most of us hope a new year will do the same. Australia’s first term Labor government is wishing and hoping that 2024 will bring with it a new start as well. Having finished 2023 in a degree of mayhem, from an overseas absentee prime minister, a spectacularly failed referendum, a population facing very genuine cost of living pressures, with an energy policy (if that is what it can be called) in disarray and soaring energy costs, together with an inept handling of asylum seeker issues it was little surprise to see the government beginning to struggle in the polls. ...