Federal election 2022: Anthony Albanese victory will inspire battlers

There could be no more deserving election winner than Anthony Albanese.

Labor’s march to victory continues unimpeded.

The attack advertisements from the Liberals are in full swing but they are falling on deaf ears.

The mob have made up their mind and it is looking very likely that Anthony Albanese will be the victor on Saturday.

He will emerge with a comfortable majority in his own right. He will not need to negotiate with the independents.

If Albo, as I fully expect, picks up eight to 10 seats, he will not have to worry about the whims and fantasies of a single member who believes he or she has had greatness thrust upon them.

There will, of course, be hiccups along the way and you can’t help but wonder if Kristina Keneally will be one of them.

It is too late for Scott Morrison to introduce policy. Picture: Getty Images

Parachuted into the blue-ribbon Labor seat of Fowler in Sydney’s western suburbs over the head of a really good local candidate from the Vietnamese community, Keneally is once again the fish out of water.

The locals did not want her but Fowler is so safe that even Keneally couldn’t lose it. Could she?

NSW is the only state in which rank and file preselections, with no central input, still exists. Once again the rules had to be bent for her because she would have been massacred in a genuine rank and file ballot.

As I wrote last week, you will recognise her easily – she will be the one in the $2000 dress. Labor’s rank and file will not wear too many more of these decisions made on high and then foisted on underwhelmed electorates who know they could have done much better if left to their own devices.

The Labor Party glitterati will be out in force campaigning for Keneally to ensure the embarrassment over her selection is kept to a minimum.

On another front, these teal independents are a pretty strange bunch. They have chosen to oppose only Liberal moderates who have pretty similar views to their own.

Why they chose to leave the Liberal conservatives alone is anyone’s guess. They must have some brilliant strategy up their sleeve, so brilliant that a mug like my good self cannot imagine what it might be.

There are so many teals that they should form their own party. The Australian Electoral Commission should keep a close eye on that. They all have the same quack and waddle as your average duck. That is more than sufficient to have them labelled as a duck.

The Labor Party has a history of finding a way to lose elections, but this time is different. As he rounds the bend to the home straight, Albo is quickening his pace and finishing strongly.

He is relentless in pursuit of his rightful victory. It is too late for Morrison to introduce policy and even if he offered every voter a gold bar he would still fail to clinch a win.

This time Albo is taking home the chocolates and I am delighted for him. There could be no more deserving winner.

His victory will be a win for the battlers. It will demonstrate that battlers can make it to the very top.

The Lodge will never have had a resident with a higher character.