Paul Kelly: Shorten’s reform risks could kill Labor

Advertisement

Via Paul Kelly today:

The fascinating story of Bill Shorten is the rising tide of audacity and risk that simultaneously surrounds his leadership — the more the Opposition Leader tries to set the agenda, the more he raises doubts about his credibility and offers opponents a generous target.

So far this has worked for Shorten. He has made himself a big target, not nearly as big as John Hewson did with Fightback! in the prelude to the 1993 election, but Shorten runs the most adventurous policy of any opposition leader since then.

The full text of this article is available to MacroBusiness subscribers

$1 for your first month, then:
Cancel at any time through our billing provider, Stripe
About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.