PM takes control but risks a backlash
Anthony Albanese failed on the voice but his government’s comeback is devastating. However, there are risks on the road to re-election.
Anthony Albanese failed on the voice but his government’s comeback is devastating. However, there are risks on the road to re-election.
You think Scott Morrison was a bulldozer? You haven’t seen anything. Consider our 1976 prime minister – big, tall, cumbersome and brutal. Malcolm Fraser was the authentic bulldozer.
The opposition has the material for a devastating TV campaign that ruins Albanese’s credibility starting with his ‘my word is my bond’ pledge – anchored across the next election campaign.
Australians should enjoy their July 1 tax cuts, because working middle-class people are destined to be throttled on higher personal income taxes many years into the future.
If Anthony Albanese was prepared to revert to old-fashioned Labor ideology to revive his government, what other policy might he abandon or resurrect when electoral and party pressures intensify?
We must have an urgent conversation to address the coming challenges that government can no longer ignore.
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The Albanese government is losing its way on principle and high politics. There is no worse mistake for a government than confusion and irresolution on an issue of war policy.
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The old rules of politics are falling apart. The troubles of the government have two sources – its own mistakes and the fracturing of our political culture.
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