Via the AFR comes ALP rising star Richard Marles:
Acting Opposition Leader Richard Marles said Labor failed its base at the last election by offering “handouts over hope”, as he joined calls for the party to move its economic focus away from tax and spend and towards generating growth.
Speaking to the John Curtin Research Centre in Melbourne on Thursday, Mr Marles cited Labor’s big spending promises on cancer treatment and dental care for pensioners as policies which failed to resonate with, and maybe even alienated, the low-income voters they were aimed at.
