here's an article from todays oz.JULIA Gillard must confront the...

here's an article from todays oz.

JULIA Gillard must confront the Greens to save the Labor Party and stop practising the politics of appeasement with the far-Left.

This is according to a devastating analysis penned by former NSW treasurer Michael Costa.

Slamming the "voodoo politics" that has allowed ALP policy to become a slave to focus groups, and calling for abolition of the "diseased" NSW Right faction, Mr Costa writes in The Australian Literary Review today that Labor must also confront entrenched union power.

His 4000-word essay was last night praised as a "searching and hard-headed piece" by former NSW premier Bob Carr, who will soon release his own Labor Party review of the 2010 election result.

Mr Costa blames Kevin Rudd's incompetent management of the fiscal stimulus program for "throwing away decades of hard work" by Labor governments, citing the Building the Education Revolution cost blowouts and the pink batts program. And he warns the Prime Minister she must confront the Greens. "Labor must reframe the debate to focus on the destructive social and economic consequences of Greens policies," Mr Costa writes. "The Greens need to be confronted rather than appeased. This is precisely why federal Labor's political deal with the Greens is so damaging.
the full article is here..

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/dont-appease-the-left-confront-it-michael-costa/story-fn59niix-1225963579493