The new Australia is the type of Australia our new class of oligarchs would like us to have, and furthermore continue to nurture.
The Australian Labor Party simply is in the way of people who are more dedicated, but also more able, to ride this class war to ever new heights. Labor can only go thus far and no further.
It does not matter who leads Labor; that will remain the case so long as there exists another political party more in line with corporate power.
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Julia Gillard was, in part, elevated to the Labor leadership in order to head off a challenge waged against Rudd by the oligarchs. That worked, to a degree, but the oligarchs redoubled their efforts and Real Julia is no more. Support for Julia Gillard collapsed because of an unremitting campaign waged against her by the corporate media, a sharply right wing Liberal Party marching in lock step with the oligarchs, and a sniping megalomaniac determined to unseat her from within.
To head off this determined assault Labor has now, sadly necessarily so, gone back to Rudd.
This is a deft political move borne of desperation. Labor now finds itself with little room for manoeuvre in the new Australia.
The oligarchs were against Labor not because of Gillard, rather, they were against Gillard because of Labor.
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Mark Beljac teaches at Swinburne University of Technology, is a board member of the New International Bookshop, and is involved with the Industrial Workers of the World, National Tertiary Education Union, National Union of Workers (community) and Friends of the Earth.