Labor has been damned as ‘mired in mediocrity’ – and Albanese cannot risk a steady-as-you-go approach | Karen Middleton Political editor

It stung a few in the Albanese government this week that Hawke-Keating era union leader and Labor hero Bill Kelty had declared them “mired in mediocrity”.

The former ACTU secretary, who held office longer than the governments of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating combined, was reported in the…