The Albanese Government: a criticism

Being in Government is not easy - in fact, being an MP is not easy, with 80 hour weeks common and normal family/life matters having the potential to be used politically. 

That being said, governments are there to do a job for their citizens, and deserve both praise for doing that well, and criticism or doing it badly - which is a key part of democracy. 

The Albanese government has unquestionably done some things well - on Indigenous matters, on restoring consideration of the environment and, to some extent, the climate crisis, and on not being the Morrison debauchery (I cannot describe what was led by Morrison as a government). 

However, they have shown moral cowardice on some issues, and the jobs summit - the existence of which is a positive (and I hope it would lead to a return of the CES) - shows two of those failings. 

The first is the continuation of tax cuts that are not only unnecessary, in that they benefit only the well-off, but actively harmful in both reducing government revenue and embedding social strata. You can read a little on that at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-01/stage-3-tax-cuts-ultimate-test-for-albanese-consensus-model/101392058. 

The other is a continuation of what seems to be a theme of LGBT-phobia, particularly transphobia, in the national ALP.

This is most obvious with the exclusion of LGBTIQA+ people from the jobs summit, which Alastair Lawrie has covered well here and here, and doubts about whether allies will be able to cover these issues effectively. 

We have had years of TGD-bashing by hateful bigots, with with passive compliance and thus tacit agreement of the mainstream media, as well as LGBTQA-phobic rants generally (I don't know whether these have also targeted intersex people), under the Morrison debauchery - which was paralleled by similar attacks elsewhere around the world.

The national ALP has to decide whether it is truly a progressive party for ALL people, or just those the party's leaders feel comfortable with. The presence of some LGBTQA people in the government is not a guarantee of anything - we've seen plenty of such people toe the official line, in a wide range of situations (not just political), in their quest for personal acceptance (or power?) at the expense of other LGBTQA people. 

Furthermore, the targetting of LGBTIQA people was shown early in Albanese's reign, with reviews of the ALP's National Platform using the number of references to LGBT as a starting point for review of the platform. 

Is Anthony Albanese personally biased against TGD or possibly LGBTIQA+ people? Others in Unions and the ALP have been, often for religious reasons.

This is doubly a tragedy, given how brilliant at least one state ALP government has been on the exact same issues. 

Is Anthony Albanese risking taking the ALP down the same self-destructive path that the Australian Democrats, who were notorious for abandoning LGBT people when push came to shove, did - eventually becoming completely undone over the GST despite their progressivism elsewhere?