Michelle Grattan

Bill Kelty has been a member of the Labor Party since 1964 but he is not among the hundreds of delegates at the party’s national conference in Adelaide. If he were, the conference’s Thursday debate on the economy might have seen a touch of fire.

Labor national conference has been a textbook exercise in managed democracy.

The spectre of Pauline Hanson hangs over this three-day conference. One Nation is a convenient punching bag, but Labor is also increasingly aware of the potential threat the populist party could present to it. It received numerous references.

From Victoria's beleaguered Labor Party moving onto its third premier in one term ahead of November's state election, to the national rise of One

Federal Labor member Luke Gosling, who holds the Northern Territory seat of Solomon, has been arrested over an alleged assault on NT Administrator David Connolly.

Federal Labor member Luke Gosling, who holds the Northern Territory seat of Solomon, has been charged over an alleged assault on NT Administrator David Connolly.

At last week's Labor conference, which was totally under the prime minister's thumb, only one issue was contested on the floor: support for the use of telehealth in voluntary assisted dying care.

At last week's Labor conference, which was totally under the prime minister's thumb, only one issue was contested on the floor: support for the use of telehealth in voluntary assisted dying care.

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The Albanese government will expand the scheme providing incentives to households and businesses to acquire renewable energy to enable larger