JULIA Gillard should certainly follow Tony Blair's advice and govern from the centre, especially in foreign policy. While the balance of the federal parliament seems to have swung to the Left, with the Greens to gain sole balance of power in the Senate, and a Green and a left independent displacing two Labor members in the House of Representatives, any future for Labor still lies, as it always has, in the centre.
Gillard's only chance of forming a long-term government is to push hard into the centre. She should try to be especially bold on foreign policy. This goes against every normal expectation of coalition government in the new dispensation, but it's the only way her government can succeed.
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