Editing Labor Left (section)

=== Post 1990s ===
[[Lindsay Tanner]], writing in the early 1990s, argued that the principal "axis of division" with the ALP cut across the traditional left-right divide, namely the opposition of "[[Economic rationalism|rationalists]]" and "traditionalists", with the former supporting the [[Prices and Incomes Accord]] and union mergers, and abandoning or watering down their commitment to traditional Labor objectives such as public ownership, [[non-interventionism]] in foreign policy, and maintenance of working-class living standards, whilst the latter were negative towards the Accord, opposed to union mergers, sympathetic toward economic [[autarky]], and attached to traditional Labor policy objectives.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Tanner |first1=Lindsay |author-link1=Lindsay Tanner|date=June 1991|title=Labourism's Last Days|url=https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2349&context=alr |magazine=[[Australian Left Review]] |issue=129  |pages=10–14|access-date=31 July 2020}}</ref> This divide can be seen through the career of [[Joan Kirner]], who served as Premier of Victoria between 1990 and 1992 and was the first member of the modern Labor Left to lead a government, who supported the ascent of [[Paul Keating]] to the post of Prime Minister and his decision to privatise [[Commonwealth Bank]] to finance a bailout for the ailing [[State Bank of Victoria]]. This resulted in the formation of a splinter group from the Socialist Left, the Pledge faction, which opposed privatisation: in 1996, Pledge allied with another left split, the Labour Renewal Alliance, and the right-wing Labor Unity faction to take control of the party away from the Socialist Left.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://theconversation.com/joan-kirner-a-pioneering-leader-for-the-left-as-well-as-women-42639 |title=Joan Kirner, a pioneering leader for the Left as well as women |last=Robinson |first=Geoffrey |date=2 June 2015 |website=[[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]] |access-date=31 July 2020}}</ref><ref name=jacobin />