The Good Fight

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What Does Labor Stand For? (#100 Quarterly Essay)

Sean Kelly

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Black Inc
17 November 2025

Politics & government; Australian Society

Series: Quarterly Essay

The 100th issue of Australia's leading agenda-setting journal of politics, culture and debate. In Quarterly Essay 100, Sean Kelly considers the enigma of the Albanese government. With wide yet shallow support, will it change the country? Does it have big ideas, or is it content just to become "the natural party of government"?

Kelly gives a definitive account of Albanese's political style and asks what lies behind it. In speaking to a fragmented, disengaged electorate, the Prime Minister places a high value on moderation. Often that means ducking fights with entrenched interests. But this runs the risk of embedding an ever more unequal nation, led by a government that can seem gutless.

In this subtle and brilliant essay, Kelly explores whether Labor is still up for the good fight.

"Labor has cast itself as a version of what the conservatives once were: the defender of the way things are. This may well appeal to large numbers of Australians, as it did in this last election.

[But] Labor's task, historically, has been to change things on behalf of those who desperately need them to change." – Sean Kelly, The Good Fight

By: Sean Kelly
Imprint: Black Inc
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 168mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 165g
ISBN: 9781760645021
ISBN 10: 1760645028
Series: Quarterly Essay
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 17 November 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sean Kelly is the author of The Game- A portrait of Scott Morrison, an award-winning columnist for the Nine papers and regular contributor to The Monthly and a former adviser to Labor prime ministers.