Sydney residents will understand immediately where I’m coming from. Labor has form when it comes to denigrating the contributions made by people born overseas, or of their children. For me this current debate – which centres on the party’s moves to push aside a candidate from a CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) background in favour of Senator Christina Kenneally – has strong echoes of 2019. Kenneally had been in danger of slipping down the ladder of places in the list of Senate candidates , so wanted to move to the lower house of Federal Parliament in order to stay there. The casualty was Tu Le, who’d already put herself forward for Fowler. But on 25 March 2019 the ABC ran a story that contained this: NSW Labor leader Michael Daley has announced that he will be standing aside as the state's Opposition Leader until the upcoming federal election is over, calling it "the right and proper thing to do". A little before that date he made a gaffe that cemented his...