The party machine is the ALP’s biggest problem. They have parties within the Party and there is no way a person can lead the ALP without owing something to some person or group of people. Dan Andrews is no different.Dan doing to the state party what Albanese should have done to the feds 12 months ago.
However if we think the LP and the NP are fundamentally different we would be wrong in my view.
We have no true social Democratic Party in this country and to me it is a gaping hole in our political landscape, but nor is the Liberal Party the Party of the principles it was founded on. They are morphing into Tories.
If anyone is a Labor supporter IMO supporting true reform in that party is the only forward. In its current form it can only ever become the federal government as the best of a bad lot.