Australian Labor isn’t alone. Parties of the left are making a comeback
- Written by Rob Manwaring, Associate Professor, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University
One aspect of May’s federal election has been strangely overlooked: Labor’s win follows a pattern among the main centre-left parties in Europe and comparable countries. Traditional social democratic and labour-based parties are resurgent, and now hold office (on their own or in coalition) across all of Scandinavia and in Germany,...
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