No counting votes before the night for Albanese and Dutton
Better campaigning means nothing if you don’t win the vote and the Prime Minister faces the danger of being seen to have ‘lost’ if he loses Labor’s majority in the House.
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Coalition HQ confident Dutton can win at least 10 seats from Labor
Coalition strategists believe Peter Dutton can win as many as 10 seats from Labor, three from teal independents and one from the Greens – but admit he needs a miracle to beat Anthony Albanese.
Religious leaders seek assurances from crossbench
Faith leaders are calling on independent MPs to provide assurance that they will stand up for religious freedom in a hung parliament.
PM circles around all the important campaign questions
After five weeks of electioneering, Anthony Albanese has circled back to where he began.
Perhaps narky Albo is not so confident after all
Anthony Albanese is starting to get testy, narky and nasty as the pressure builds in the final days of the election campaign.
Brutal reality in major parties’ poll plunges
The major parties have never had lower support going into the final week of campaigning and with people already having cast their votes.
Labor knew of Russian request for Indonesia base access in March
The Albanese government was aware before the election campaign started of a Russian request to use Indonesian airfields for long-range military aircraft only 1300km from Darwin.
Serious people are not buying ALP’s Loch Ness nonsense
Albanese could have reacted in so many other ways on the Russia-Indonesia issue if he had been across his brief, confident of his position and more assertive towards Russia and China.
Underestimate this Labor underdog at your peril
There is a trap for the Labor critics and his political opponents who have judged Anthony Albanese to be a oncer and an easy beat ‘worse than Whitlam’. It’s the same trap Labor members fell for in the 1990s and 2000s when they convinced themselves that John Howard was unelectable.
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