The Wire

Political correspondent Bernard Keane looks back over the events that shaped politics in 2011. He says it was a year when the Labor Party’s fortunes hit rock bottom, then appeared to begin to rise after some brave policy decisions.

He says the passing of the Carbon Tax has taken some of the wind out of the Oppositions’s sails. Keane also says he believes asylum policy, especially today’s announcement of an increased humanitarian immigration quota, has the potential to sort out what has been a vexed issue and give Labor some much needed moral high ground.