How Albanese learnt from Labor losers and won big on Saturday
For six months, he has been privately telling his supporters that he had the plan to deliver Labor a second-term majority, and the skill to pull it off.
To close out Channel Nine’s election night coverage, its political editor and resident election expert Charles Croucher gave us some wisdom from Jay-Z: “This ain’t a loss, it’s a lesson.” A political party in Australia hasn’t received an electoral lesson so thorough, so brutal, so unforgiving, in 50 years.
It feels insufficient to call this a loss for the Coalition, or even a landslide. This was a defeat of historic, epic, near-apocalyptic proportions.
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Lidija Ivanovski is a partner at Brookline Advisory and former chief of staff to Richard Marles.
