As federal Labor continues to dissect where it went wrong at the 2019 election, shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers concedes the party clearly won't take an identical set of polices to the next election.
"We won't win in 2022 by recontesting and re-prosecuting the 2019 election," Dr Chalmers said in a keynote speech in Bathurst, NSW on Saturday night.
Delivering his Light on the Hill address, that honours the life of Labor stalwart Ben Chifley, he said the party must recognise business is central to job creation and the importance of budget responsibility.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Source: AAP
While light on detail, Dr Chalmers said the party must look ahead, work out which polices need updating, which should be discarded and what replaces them.
"We will take our time to do that," he said.
Deputy Opposition Leader Richard Marles can expect to be questioned on Labor's way forward after the disappointment of the May election result when he appears on ABC's Insiders program on Sunday.
Mr Marles, Labor's defence spokesman, was in China last week delivering a speech to the Beijing Foreign Studies University at the same time Prime Minister Scott Morrison was in the US building his relationship with President Donald Trump.
