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Labour’s leader should take note of the quietly confident approach to government that served Anthony Albanese so wellKatharine Murphy is Guardian Australia’s political editorOn a visit to London shortly after Anthony Albanese, a veteran of the centre-left Labor party, won the Australian elections, progressives peppered me with questions. How had the Labor leader pulled this off? Was Labor’s victory, following Joe Biden’s triumph over Donald Trump in the US, a harbinger of a progressive renaissance? Could Keir Starmer replicate this with a Tory-felling success?Albanese had managed to defeat Scott Morrison – a polarising antipodean echo of Trump and Boris Johnson pumped up by the Murdoch media machine – despite the Labor party recording its lowest primary vote since the 1930s. Continue reading...