By Nicholas Stuart
If you want to know why Labor won’t – perhaps doesn’t deserve – to win the coming election, look no further than the party’s reaction to the government’s decision to buy nuclear submarines. Its leadership was summoned to Scott Morrison’s office just hours before the announcement, told what was happening, and dutifully marched in lock-step straight back down the corridor. With the exception of some comments from Foreign Affairs spokesperson Penny Wong we’ve barely heard a peep from them since.
