Despite a thumping win in this year’s federal election and the current disarray of the Coalition, the Labor government has favoured incremental change rather than pursuing an ambitious policy agenda.

Dylan Bird is joined by writer and former Labor staffer Sean Kelly to dive into his new Quarterly Essay The Good Fight: What Does Labor Stand For?, exploring his experience working with the party, the nature of belief and behaviour, Labor’s legacy and recent moves, and much more.

“There’s a sense that while [Labor] does some things, it always stops a bit short of the most important thing or the best possible answer to things … that pattern of behaviour tells you something about what the government believes … this government behaves often in a way that suggests its beliefs are not quite as strong as it would like you to think”

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