Australian Labor party president says authoritarian trends must not be ‘normalised’ in Australia Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Labor must not allow increasingly authoritarian trends in Australian politics to become “normalised”, ALP president Wayne Swan has warned, likening Pauline Hanson’s attacks on multiculturalism and journalists to Donald Trump’s hostile takeover of American civic life. “A toxic seed blooms into a garden of noxious weeds when we stop gardening,” the former treasurer said on Friday. Continue reading...