Victorian scandal makes Albo's difficult task impossible
Anthony Albanese has been trying to establish himself as leader of a party focused on the community rather than its own internal convulsions and factional warfare. Then the branch stacking allegations emerged.
It’s just what Anthony Albanese doesn’t need. The impact of filmed cash exchanges, abusive threats and forged signatures sets the image of a party mired in the political mud.
It didn’t take too long for Victoria’s Opposition Leader – what’s his name again? – to recycle the lines about a party not being fit to govern the state if it couldn’t govern itself.
