Plibersek will raise the issue at July's ALP national conference, putting her at odds with the party's leader, Bill Shorten, and other members of the frontbench.
A hugely influential writer of short stories, the sheer mass of his extremely uneven body of work – 300 stories, 200 articles, six novels, two plays, and three travel books churned out between 1880 and 1891 – can obscure his genius like clouds around an alp.
Abbott's own expert business panel – Dick Warburton, Catherine Livingstone and the former ALP industry minister Greg Combet – recommended in favour of CCA, which had agreed to kick in $150m (to its own business).
As a child I didn't really comprehend my father's affection for the land, nor for the steep-sided alp to which he returns as to an altar: Avalanche Peak, a six-hour ascent above the cloud-filled valley of the pass.
And then there are things such as the 6ft 2in, 23.5-stone Atlas robot, which looks like it would be as happy shouting "Danger, Will Robinson!" as it would folding your skeleton up like a bony accordion and punting it over the nearest alp.
Yet, with the ongoing collapse of the infrastructure of Laborism (both the union movement and the Labor party's own organisation), it's equally impossible to imagine an ALP leader resuscitating the strategy of 1983.
The businesspeople and politicians gathering on their Swiss Alp next week should certainly spend more time worrying about the citizens of Galax; but they also need to be far more courageous about defending a process that can do so much good even if its impact can sometimes appear so cruel.
In modern times, Nietzsche's friend Paul Rée fell off an Alp and Moritz Schlick, a logical positivist, was shot to death by a deranged student.An eye-catching list perhaps.
Some ocean floors which are shallow enough for carbonates to precipitate out as sediment in current conditions will be out of the game when the compensation depth has risen, like ski resorts too low on a warming alp.
The sequence of Triassic rocks ends south and east against the great Jurassic scarp of the Swabian Alp (Schwäbische Alb), rising to more than 3,300 feet (1,000 metres), and its continuation, the lower Franconian Alp (Fränkische Alb).
Balmain and the central Queensland town of Barcaldine are claimed as the "birthplaces" of the ALP.
