Forget a contest of ideas, Labor’s 50th national conference in Adelaide this week is a festival of fundraising – at least that’s what one attendee called it.While the party’s 400-odd delegates debate the future platform of the Labor Party (or just furiously agree with each other), three dozen cabinet ministers, junior ministers and even assistant ministers are tucked away engaging in what can only be called a form of political hyper-speed dating.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Labor’s political speed dating is working ministers to the bone
Some minsters will host more than 40 meetings across the two-and-half day event, which at 15 minutes a pop is 10 hours of listening to lobbyists beg and bemoan.
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