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Anthony Albanese has yet to grow into the prime minister’s job

The prime minister is a political operator rather than a visionary. His inability to persuade and sustain arguments is beginning to show.

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Anthony Albanese has always been a party organiser par excellence. He has never been a big picture politician.

Pushing and shoving his faction into line has long been his metier. Not articulating, as Paul Keating described the prime ministership’s essential role, “an ideal of the nation and its aspirations”.

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James Curran is professor of modern history at Sydney University.
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