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Clare O'Neil was ruled out of the Labor Party deputy leader's race and supported his compatriot, Victorian right wing Richard Marles.
The shadow minister of financial services told ABC Insiders on Sunday that she thought she could play the role of the "front" role, but that Marles, the shadow minister of defense, would be more effective in Internal aspect of "gathering the party behind the leader". .
O'Neil also made a rough badessment of the Labor Party's proposed policy in the 2019 election, describing it as a "bad platform", cumbersome and risky, and suggesting that the party will have to give up or at least review any policy aimed at reconnecting with voters.
With the closing of the nominations Monday, Anthony Albanese will become the leader of the Labor Party without opposition, thus avoiding the necessity of a long vote of the members.
Now that O'Neil and Jim Chalmers have departed, Marles is likely to run as a vice-presidential candidate when the Labor caucus meets Thursday in Canberra, barring a surprise nomination.
O'Neil stated that Marles had the skills, qualifications and experience required for the position and that he would be a "brilliant" MP.
O'Neil stated that she had come forward because it was "essential for [her] to be as a feminist "that a woman should be in the running for a leadership role.
She stated that she had been heard fairly and that nobody, having only 38 years, suggested not aspiring to occupy this position, she had withdrawn after respectful and honest conversations with colleagues on the need for the new MP to bring the party closer.
O'Neil argued that the Labor Party would have a male leader and a deputy, citing Penny Wong as a Senate leader and Labor "having high-ranking women in the shadow cabinet and in direction".
Senator Kristina Keneally is expected to nominate the Deputy Leader of the Labor Party in the Senate, a role currently held by South Australian Don Farrell.
"The Labor Party is the party of Australian women … The stars did not align themselves on this occasion to place a woman at one of these two positions."
O'Neil said that 46% of the Labor Caucus members were women – almost reaching its target of 50% – versus 22% on the coalition side, which she called "unacceptable".
She said the Labor Party had "failed" and should consider pre-selecting women in safe seats to give them "longevity" in Parliament that will support a leadership or deputation race.
The opposition will also have to "redefine a political platform that will focus more on the people we are voting on," she said.
"We presented the wrong platform in the elections and we need to reconsider every aspect of it and look closely at why we were so wrong.
"When we think about what's wrong, we have adopted a heavy and complicated political agenda that is hard to explain, difficult to defend and very easy to handle."
O'Neil said the electorate was "extremely disillusioned" and that marginal-seat MPs reported that voters simply did not believe Labor could impose costly policies.
The Labor Party has proposed a series of new social expenditures, including $ 2.3 billion for cancer and $ 2.4 billion for seniors' dental care, funded by tax cuts for seniors. middle-income and high-income earners, while reducing the tax benefits to real estate investors.
O'Neil said the Labor Party was facing a higher bar to be elected to the government because it defended "the changing society and the redistribution of power, which offended some people" who were opposed to the Labor Party .
O'Neil said the party needed to "get back to basics, showing that we can do something concrete and that Australians would allow us to do bigger and more daring things we dream of".
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