Albanese, Wong dine with CCP friends
Labor has courted Beijing-backed property developers and senior figures in the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign influence arm in a pre-election push for donations and votes in key seats.
Labor has courted Beijing-backed property developers and senior figures in the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign influence arm in a pre-election push for donations and votes in key seats.
Every government that has held a two-party-preferred lead in Newspoll one week before polling day has gone on to win the election.
The 2022 election result fell into place in Western Australia and, if the leaders’ travels are anything to go by, the major parties reckon it could well happen again.
The crash in female support since the start of the election campaign has the potential to hurt the Coalition’s chances most acutely in one of the seats it is most desperate to win back: Kooyong.
Anthony Albanese hopes to snatch Sturt, Deakin and Leichhardt from the Liberals while Peter Dutton is pouring energy into a swag of Labor seats headlined by McEwen and McMahon.
Peter Dutton’s campaign has focused heavily on the outer suburbs of most of the state capitals.
Adam Bandt says he would be ‘astounded’ if Anthony Albanese refused to do a deal or work co-operatively with the Greens in minority government.
The notion that the Labor campaign machine is a superior outfit to that of the Liberals and Nationals is false, with Newspoll trends showing Labor going backwards in every campaign in the last seven elections.
These are the seats that will decide the result; Labor can afford a net loss of just two to hold on to majority government; the Coalition needs a net gain of 22.
Peter Dutton’s challenge to become PM in the 48th parliament is monumental, requiring a net gain of 22 seats.
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