The Labor Party is a rudderless ship with no values, no policies and no direction after confirming at its weekend state conference that it will abandon its state platform while its cynical manipulation of voters continues apace.
At its conference, it stage-managed a debate to give the illusion that it would not allow the Greens to be in a future Labor Cabinet. Delegates spoke against the motion and even though the motion was carried it was hollow.
The motion allowed the ultimate decision as to how a Labor government could be formed to be "referred to the Administrative Committee for endorsement."
Effectively this means that the Administrative Committee can allow the Parliamentary Labor Party to form a coalition government with Greens as Parliamentary Secretaries or even as Cabinet Ministers.
It is clear that Labor is calculating that it can win ten seats at the next election and the Greens four, allowing them to form another Labor-Green government.
The motion was an exercise in smoke and mirrors semantics.
And while trying to hoodwink voters with hollow motions the Labor Party has also abandoned its Platform – its principal statement that guides policy formation.
No Platform equals no policy.
Further, at the specific request of Bryan Green, chapter one which deals with Labor's "enduring values" will be rewritten.
That means that Labor has abandoned its "enduring values" making it a rudderless ship.
That Labor lacks any consistency or sense of purpose is revealed by the fact that the Platform was last updated in June 2013, and now it has been cast adrift.
It seems that Labor's "enduring values" and Platform now have a shelf life of just 12 months.