Anthony Albanese claims he has been fully transparent about receiving free flight upgrades courtesy of Qantas, as a new book lifts the lid on the freebies the Prime Minister accepted from the airline.
There is a dual and potentially fatal lesson for both Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton in the Queensland election.
The Coalition leads Labor on a two-party-preferred basis for the first time since the 2022 election in a political boost for Peter Dutton as Anthony Albanese’s approval ratings fall to a new low.
The PM’s brazen claims, to date, to have never lost a Newspoll have now been evaporated. By doing so, Anthony Albanese established a point of political failure.
The next election looms as a tale of two continents, with the Albanese government in decline in the east as voters flock to independents and minor parties, and Labor’s migrant base deserts it.
The major parties are copping a middle finger from Middle Australia, who aren’t happy with Labor but don’t yet see the Coalition as a solution to their problems.
Jim Chalmers can whinge all he likes but unless the root cause of the problem is dealt with, mortgage holders are going to continue to cop it, and the government in turn will feel it in the polls.
Voters may be faced with a simple proposition at the next election: do they really want a hung parliament and if so, how ugly are they prepared for that hung parliament to be?
Primary support for Labor has dipped to the party’s equal lowest levels since the 2022 election, as housing emerges as the most significant cost-of-living concern for the majority of voters.
Anthony Albanese is under pressure to explain why he and no-one else acted when he was first warned in 2014 by a CFMEU whistleblower that the union was being infiltrated by criminals.
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