Where its capacity to betray any alleged values is concerned, the Australian Labor Party rarely disappoints. Since coming to power in the federal election in May, the ALP has once again revealed itself as a party of capital—allegations from the commentariat that this is news notwithstanding. This time around, federal Labor is not introducing neoliberal economics to Australia, nor upholding anglo-extractivism via the White Australia policy. Nor is it supporting racist land grabs in the Northern Territory, nor scapegoating refugees and committing human rights violations by holding them indefinitely in offshore gulags without trial. This time, the ALP is, in the words of Environment Minister Tanya Pilbersek, tilting towards a “Green Wall Street.”
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