There is no getting around it. Albanese is not some new incarnation of Bob Hawke, he is the leader of a party that just got over the line last year and abysmally failed on the Voice.
For the past four years, the Australian Labor Party at the national level has acted more like a corporate brand than a political party, with Anthony Albanese holding down the CEO role. No talking back, no second-guessing. His way was the way. The product line of policies was stripped back to be, in the words of frontbencher Mark Butler, “more focused and less ambitious”.
It’s a difficult call. Every prime minister who has led their side of politics from opposition into government deserves special consideration from colleagues and supporters because it’s a massive attainment. How far and for how long this consideration should be extended is the issue.The referendum has been and gone, and these days events recede into the distance quicker than ever. People want to move on.
He messed up the first two days of the election campaign and was lucky that a bout of COVID helped him reset and gain back lost ground. He knew the historic failure rate of referendums, too, and knew how much Labor’s primary vote had contracted at the past two elections. But he pressed ahead with the referendum anyway.Credit:Albanese had more than 20 years to observe Peter Dutton in the parliament.
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