Quarterly Essay #49

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Not Dead Yet - Labor's Post-Left Future

Mark Latham

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English

Black Inc
08 March 2013

Political ideologies; Political parties; Australian Society

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Not Dead Yet is an essential contribution to political debate, which addresses the question- how can Labor reinvent itself and speak to a changed Australia?

With an election looming and criticism of the ALP now a national pastime, Mark Latham considers the future for Labor.

The nation has changed, but can the party?

With wit and insight, Latham reveals an organisation top-heavy with factional bosses protecting their turf.

At the same time Labor's traditional working-class base has long been eroding.

People who grew up in fibro shacks now live in double-storey affluence.

Families once resigned to a lifetime of blue-collar work

now expect their children to be well-educated professionals and entrepreneurs.

Latham explains how Labor has always succeeded as a grassroots party, and argues for reforms to clear out the apparatchiks and dead wood.

Then there are the key policy challenges- what to do about the Keating economic legacy, education and poverty.

Latham examines the rise of a destructive and reactionary far-right under the wing of Tony Abbott.

He also makes the case that climate change is the ultimate challenge - and even opportunity - for a centre-left party.

Not Dead Yet is an essential contribution to political debate, which addresses the question- how can Labor reinvent itself and speak to a changed Australia?

'The grand old party of working-class participation has become a virtual party.

In no other part of society . . . could an organisation function this way and expect to survive.

This is the core delusion of 21st-century democracy, that political parties can fragment and hollow out, yet still win the confidence of the people.' Mark Latham, Not Dead Yet

Quarterly Essay presents significant contributions to the general debate.

Each issue contains a single essay written at a length of about 25,000 words.

It aims to present the widest range of political, intellectual and cultural opinion.

By: Mark Latham
Imprint: Black Inc
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 167mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 188g
ISBN: 9781863955973
ISBN 10: 1863955976
Publication Date: 08 March 2013
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified