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Techtonics: why the party of the workers has a problem with working people – and why it matters

30 October 2019

12:02 PM

30 October 2019

12:02 PM

This is the first in a series of articles on shifts in Australian politics and the future of the ALP.

The forthcoming book by Dr Nick Dyrenfurth, Getting the Blues, might be the most important book written for and about the Labor Party in the last ten years.

Most of the comment has centred on Dyrenfurth’s call for quotas for working-class people in Labor, with a percentage of seats set aside for tradespeople, hairdressers, mechanics and the like.

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