From Rousie, in the comments on Nicola rocks on:

Leftism is the perfect ideological cover for base self interest. There is no longer a single sacred cow that trumps personal ambition among this lot.

The modern ALP is a cabal of career careerists whose every waking moment is now spent trying to snuff out any light that might show them for the hollow, hateful, self-serving, incompetents that they are.

Smear your opponents, threaten the private sector & spend billions funding rent-seeking constituencies. Will there be a worse legacy in Australian history?

Exactly right, it seems to me.