West voters lodge disapproval: one term enough for PM
Call it buyers’ remorse, but the state that put Anthony Albanese into the Lodge has had its ‘come to Jesus’ moment.
Call it buyers’ remorse, but the state that put Anthony Albanese into the Lodge has had its ‘come to Jesus’ moment.
You are far more likely to find the Prime Minister’s face on the WA Liberals’ campaigning material than that of Labor.
Half of voters in the crucial election state of Western Australia believe Anthony Albanese does not deserve to be re-elected, despite Premer Roger Cook being on the verge of delivering a third landslide victory for WA Labor.
The descendants of those who perished in the camps and who found safe haven in the West and in Israel would certainly rather she had not been there.
While Anthony Albanese has avoided something that befell all his predecessors in the past three decades, he has suffered a seemingly inexorable decline in support.
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have attended a solemn ceremony in Perth to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, as world leaders gathered in Germany to commemorate the atrocity that took the lives of six million Jewish people and millions of others.
A majority of voters for the first time expect the Coalition to win the next federal election, with Anthony Albanese sliding to the lowest approval levels since becoming Prime Minister amid a fall in support for Labor.
Other prime ministers – like John Howard and Paul Keating – have been in similar positions in their first term and won. But Anthony Albanese’s slide has been gradual and consistent.
Former Victorian Liberal premier Jeff Kennett is convinced that the level of anger at Victoria’s Labor government could cost a considerable number of seats at the federal election.
Labor’s danger is that Middle Australia will conclude the government has lost control of the economy.
Employers have attacked Labor’s tough new laws criminalising the deliberate underpayment of workers as a ‘sop to unions’ that would be used to threaten businesses ahead of the federal election.
Adam Bandt urges Anthony Albanese to learn from the past and co-operate with the Greens if there’s no clear winner after the election.
As the curtain falls on a troubled year for the federal Labor government, and the country, minority government remains the best outcome it can hope for at the next election.
Victoria has emerged as a key battleground for the next federal election alongside NSW, as the Albanese government sheds critical support from Middle Australia amid the cost-of-living crisis.
Albo gives the Solomon Islands an NRL team, Wayne Swan appoints Tim Pallas as Cbus exec and Tony Burke publishes a biography titled: ‘Australia’s First Palestinian MP’.
Conservative Liberal leaders are highly effective at attacking Labor. This has been obvious for years. Yet progressive apologists typically don’t get it.
Peter Dutton has declared he would never address the nation with both the Australian and Indigenous flags behind him at press conferences should he become prime minister.
Labor donors were entertained by Anthony Albanese over drinks on the banks of Perth’s Swan River, and he then played tennis with members of WA’s most prestigious lawn court club as Jewish Australians prepared for a vigil near the burnt-out synagogue.
The view of Anthony Albanese as being gripped by indecision and weakness of leadership is becoming perilously entrenched.
Anthony Albanese is the weakest prime minister in decades, according to the latest Newspoll, despite a two-party contest that has the Coalition and Labor back to a neck-and-neck race.
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