Albanese's politics of patience: Democracy needs mature leadership

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• CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  On the other hand, the U16 social media was rammed through, and looks to be expanded to include search engines, with little patience or care.

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  • HalfEarthMedic@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    TBH I think the pattern is more that he can move quickly when Murdoch agrees work him.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      When the oligarchs give an order, they can move mountains. When the people genuinely want something, it takes years of public debate.

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• Tenderizer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  All the things people are saying he needs to be bold and aggressive on, Labor has done so in the past and it’s lost them election.

  The fact is we’re all too immersed in the American social media ecosystem and so we expect bold action to solve American problems that would only be vote-winners in a non-compulsory voting system where elections are fought on turnout (usually as a centrist vs. nutjobs race). Albanese knows the Australian political system well, that being that nobody really cares about politics here and if Labor wants to win they need to stay out of the press because it’s run by private school kids who hate him (at best).

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  • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Putting an election before lives is pathetic.

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    • Tenderizer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Putting lives before an elections means you lose both, if he even has sacrificed lives by being cautious.

      Cutting arms shipments to Israel would be merely symbolic and would get Albanese immediately couped like Whitlam and Rudd (if he would even be able to do it in the first place), the HAAF was meant to solve homelessness rather than housing stress and it was delayed by a few years by the Greens, and climate change requires policy maintained over multiple elections cycles to address on a domestic level.

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  • HalfEarthMedic@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    After all this time I’m still undecided on Rudd but I’m sympathetic to this argument. He’s cautious to a fault but moves where he can and does make real progress, not always where it’s most needed but where it’s achievable.

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• sola@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cannot take this argument seriously. In a world with a recent uptick in violence and perceived decline, the article is praising a person that has no values and does very little as the epitome of leadership.

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  • Tenderizer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Albanese is considered to be on the left-wing of the Labor party. He’s extremely cautious and with good reason. Culture wars, tax reform, and defying America are all election losers.

    If you want to see someone who has no values look at Gillard. She couped Rudd by offering to drop the taxes on mining corpos, governed based on spectacle rather than long-term outcomes, and now spends her days campaigning on behalf of Israel last I checked.

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    • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      He can hid behind a veil of caution all he wants, it doesn’t change the fact he’s getting people killed and ruining lives for a lot of people. He isn’t being patient anyway, he’s actively making a lot of stuff significantly worse and betrayed even the most hardcore Labor supports I know.

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