Ben Chifley versus the banks • Stephen Mills

Ben Chifley versus the banks • Stephen Mills

Labor’s electoral mastermind Paul Erickson has reached back seventy-five years to find the right historical analogy to describe the implications of Labor’s huge win. In his campaign review at the National Press Club last Wednesday, Erickson recalled how “overreach” by Ben Chifley’s Labor government in the late 1940s had “let the Liberal Party back in.”  The electoral lesson for Anthony Albanese — seated right there in the Press Club audience — c…