Labor’s history is one of compromise – and its conference delivered it in response to Albanese’s call for a decade in power

‘They are the blockers – we are the builders’ … Anthony Albanese used his national conference speech to criticise the Greens on housing policy. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

Anthony Albanese is famous for his mantra of wanting to “fight Tories”.

But the member for Grayndler, centred on the people’s republic of Marrickville, has proven just as adept fighting for decades on Labor’s left flank against the Greens and internal progressive disappointment.