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Albo can lose by sticking to the Labor script
ALP-friendly issues such as Medicare haven’t worked at the last three elections. Labor can’t avoid talking about the economic and fiscal repair issues that matter to swinging voters.
Nick DyrenfurthResearcherAt first glance it might appear odd for Labor leader Anthony Albanese to heed the example of the infamous ALP “rat” Billy Hughes. Yet World War I provides a salutary, if paradoxical, lesson in this federal election year.
Then Labor prime minister Hughes left Australia to attend the Imperial War Cabinet in London early in 1916, visiting troops on the Western Front, proceeding on a well-publicised speaking tour, urging a renewed war effort, and all but advocating for conscription for overseas service.
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