Nuance and nostalgia: Labor's election review provides useful insights and inevitable harking back to Hawke
- Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
The media have been itching for a report that blamed Labor’s defeat on a dud leader. But the Review of Labor’s 2019 Federal Election Campaign, chaired by former Rudd and Gillard government minister Craig Emerson and former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill, is proportionate in the blame it sends Bill Shorten’s way....