Labor has stormed to victory in the federal election and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will lead a majority government following a disastrous night for the Coalition and Peter Dutton.
At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.
It depends who you ask.
In practice, the former.
I want to believe some Labor politicians are the latter, but afraid to show it because it’s punished the party politically in the past. There are definitely right and left factions within the party, it’s just not clear what the balance is.
If you look at the vote compass Labor currently sits a little left and slightly progressive, they have implemented/supported their fair share of authoritarian right legislation though