The government must deliver on ”bread-and-butter issues” to win voter support for more ambitious policy reforms such as pricing carbon and gay marriage, the Labor senator Doug Cameron says.
In a ”Politics in the Pub” speech to be delivered in Sydney tonight, the Left faction senator will also call for reform of the party’s rules and structures, accuse the Right faction of stymieing reform and take a shot at the embrace of ”neo-Liberal” polices such as unilateral free trade by the Trade Minister, Craig Emerson.
Senator Cameron will say Labor cannot continue to pander to conservatives ”and expect our own base to stay intact”.
”We may well hold [the marginal western Sydney seat of] Lindsay, but Tony Abbott will be prime minster.”
Senator Cameron will also demand that the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, allow the caucus to select the frontbench.
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