Anthony Albanese and WA Labor Senator Fatima Payman
Anthony Albanese and WA Labor Senator Fatima Payman (Images: AAP)

Margaret Callinan writes: Bernard Keane is right. “Labor’s foot-dragging on Gaza atrocities leaves way open to Payman fiasco” — and a well-deserved loss at the next election, I would add. 

You have to wonder why Anthony Albanese slogged away for decades in the Labor Party to become prime minister only to appear to not have had a single thought about what he would do the day after he was elected to the top job. Perhaps he never expected to win? He sits like a stunned rabbit in the headlights of the Libs and the Yanks on defence and AUKUS, and like a well-trained obedient dog awaiting its US master’s orders on Gaza.