Dutton understands Labor voters better than Albanese
Coalition wins for the No vote from 2022 Labor two-party preferred voters were huge, and spread across what used to be safe ALP outer-suburban or provincial city seats.
The idea of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton becoming prime minister in 2025 without regaining teal seats is not as silly as it seemed after last year’s election, thanks to the hubris of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in pushing ahead with the Voice referendum, despite all the evidence and advice that it would fail without Opposition support.
Albanese owned the Yes campaign since he effectively announced it when he claimed victory on election night on May 21, 2022, and called for “a Voice enshrined in our Constitution”.
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