{"product_id":"9781863955973","title":"Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith an election looming and criticism of the ALP now a national pastime, Mark Latham considers the future for Labor. The nation has changed, but can the party?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith wit and insight, Latham reveals an organisation top-heavy with factional bosses protecting their turf. At the same time Labor’s traditional working-class base has long been eroding. People who grew up in fibro shacks now live in double-storey affluence. Families once resigned to a lifetime of blue-collar work now expect their children to be well-educated professionals and entrepreneurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLatham explains how Labor has always succeeded as a grassroots party, and argues for reforms to clear out the apparatchiks and dead wood. Then there are the key policy challenges: what to do about the Keating economic legacy, education and poverty. Latham examines the rise of a destructive and reactionary far-right under the wing of Tony Abbott. He also makes the case that climate change is the ultimate challenge - and even opportunity - for a centre-left party.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNot Dead Yet\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential contribution to political debate, which addresses the question: how can Labor reinvent itself and speak to a changed Australia?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The grand old party of working-class participation has become a virtual party. In no other part of society ... could an organisation function this way and expect to survive. This is the core delusion of 21st-century democracy, that political parties can fragment and hollow out, yet still win the confidence of the people.” - Mark Latham, \u003cem\u003eNot Yet Dead\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrespondence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis issue also contains correspondence relating to the previous issue QE48\u003cem\u003eAfter the Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e by Tim Flannery. Correspondence relating to QE49 will appear in the next issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Latham was leader of the Australian Labor Party and leader of the Opposition from December 2003 to January 2005. His books include \u003cem\u003eCivilising Global Capital\u003c\/em\u003e and the bestselling \u003cem\u003eLatham Diaries\u003c\/em\u003e. He has a column in the \u003cem\u003eAustralian Financial Review\u003c\/em\u003e and appears regularly on Sky News.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032979947760,"sku":"9781863955973","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781863955973_p0.jpg?v=1763601251","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781863955973","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}