Welcome to The Friday Fight, our new weekly debate series where two writers make their case on a hotly contested topic.
Today’s question: should Labor ditch its caucus rules? The party’s internal machinations were thrown into the spotlight when WA Senator Fatima Payman last month crossed the floor to support a Greens-backed motion to “recognise the state of Palestine”. At the time she was indefinitely suspended for breaching caucus solidarity.
In the affirmative corner we have Rachel Withers, former editor of The Politics. Arguing in the negative is Crikey’s political editor Bernard Keane.
If one moment encapsulates how cultish Labor’s solidarity rules have become, it was Anthony Albanese’s response
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