Excellent insightfull assessment. Could we have a further assessment of the greens? There appears to be a degree of inner gazing without a view of policies. Perhaps a name change to more accurately reflect their policy positioning?

The re-writing of History has been extensively done by Socialists for the past 50 years in Australia.

Having now changed the past , they will now re-write the present.

But... but... but they were POLITICALLY correct! It must have been reality that got it wrong!

'... the Labor story is the same: ... it was just "negative" tactics of the conservatives, a biased media and party disunity that blinded the electorate to party successes'

Well ... yes, they do claim that, don't they? That's because it's true.

Of course, the conservatives will never admit to their negative tactics and the biased media will never own up to their bias. Why should they, when it's they who control the narrative?

At least the ALP will admit to its party disunity, even though they are too afraid of Murdoch to lay much of the blame for that disunity on the relentless obsession of his newspapers to portray everything they did as incompetent.

Come off it Killarney, there was never ant need to "portray" Labor as incompetent. Everything they did proved they were incompetent along with vindictive, nasty & vicious as well.

No one needed Murdoch to point out what a bunch of twits they were, it was only those with their eyes totally rusted shut who could not see it.