The danger in Albo's consensus project, modelled on Hawke, is centrism. Finding a consensus somewhere 'in the…

The danger in Albo's consensus project, modelled on Hawke, is centrism. Finding a consensus somewhere 'in the centre'. Politics has been dragged first to the Right, and then into populism. There is no 'centre' now, cosily between Left and Right. Populism rejects both.