Anthony Albanese - How long? -3-

[Gralin]

I think it was 7 who did a piece on the negative aspects of electric cars recently. There has been enough legitimate feedback on it to affect their credibility.

7 Have decades of this behaviour and they're still going strong

 

[Crankyhawk]

I think it was 7 who did a piece on the negative aspects of electric cars recently. There has been enough legitimate feedback on it to affect their credibility.

Nothing to see here, Press Council says after News Corp tabloids’ front-page undisclosed advertorial gassing up fossil fuel | Weekly Beast

No breach, self-regulatory Australian Press Council rules; plus BBC embarks on big bureau expansion

www.theguardian.com

Mainstream media get to bullshit it as “opinion” and the (likely corrupt) press council go nothing to see here.

Sack the useless campaigners on the press council.

 

[peetoo]

So, do we think Albo has stepped up?

 

[QuietB]

So, do we think Albo has stepped up?

More like kept his head down while the other mob implode.

Albo apparently said that his second term would see some reforms - if he wins, it will be interesting what we get.

 

[nut]

So, do we think Albo has stepped up?

As a leader of a united team I say yes.
He’ll never be a Bob Hawke but he has the political strength to hold party lines.
He is disciplined and I reckon he’ll know when his time is up.
He knows long term Labor can make lasting change for the good.

 

[The Punter]

As a leader of a united team I say yes.
He’ll never be a Bob Hawke but he has the political strength to hold party lines.
He is disciplined and I reckon he’ll know when his time is up.
He knows long term Labor can make lasting change for the good.

We've had the last Hawke. He'd never make it to an election now. Way too much baggage.

 

[Not Important]

 

[FlowersByIrene]

More like kept his head down while the other mob implode.

Albo apparently said that his second term would see some reforms - if he wins, it will be interesting what we get.

He of course won't say what these are before the election? Why would he?!

 

[Not Important]

We've had the last Hawke. He'd never make it to an election now. Way too much baggage.

cough trump.

 

[The Punter]

cough trump.

Trump would never get elected in Australia.

Now you all get to make exactly the same observation for the next three pages of this thread. You know, like the rest of this area of Big Footy.

 

[Chief]

We've had the last Hawke. He'd never make it to an election now. Way too much baggage.

What sort of baggage?

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

As a leader of a united team I say yes.
He’ll never be a Bob Hawke but he has the political strength to hold party lines.
He is disciplined and I reckon he’ll know when his time is up.
He knows long term Labor can make lasting change for the good.

Bit of a Lleyton Hewitt baselining clinic so far. What's his worst moments been? Some awkward moments in the debate with questions around negative gearing and when energy prices will drop? I reckon we must be into double figures of Liberal moments on the campaign to date which have been at least as bad as that.

 

[The Punter]

What sort of baggage?

I think some family stuff has been touched on publicly. The drinking would be ventilated in a different way in this day and age. Either way, the digging for stuff to tarnish him would be done much more in earnest in this day and age.

 

[Not Important]

Trump would never get elected in Australia.

Now you all get to make exactly the same observation for the next three pages of this thread. You know, like the rest of this area of Big Footy.

so you haven't noticed the trend then, t.p?

 

[JackOutback]

So, do we think Albo has stepped up?

There was talk Dan Andrews was advising him ahead of the first debate and you can see it in his press conferences. He's been much spikier with right wing media, pushing back on their nonsense questions, and I think he can see the benefit of trying to set his own agenda and not please interests that will never be pleased.

 

[GrayRanga]

I think some family stuff has been touched on publicly. The drinking would be ventilated in a different way in this day and age. Either way, the digging for stuff to tarnish him would be done much more in earnest in this day and age.

Worked with a woman who worked in PMC prior to and during to the Member of Wills ascention to power; shall we just just say the News Corp PC brigade would have let fly with a "Me Too" response which would make the Lehrman saga be relegated to page 10

The past is a different Country

 

[Sinjin Smith]

So, do we think Albo has stepped up?

Nah, just watching the LNP self immolate

 

[Not Important]

love this from birmo@bluesky.

"Somebody stick a fork in this blunder-spud, he’s done. It seemed apparent in the campaign’s first week that Peter Dutton was off the pace. He punched himself in the dick so many times that astute observers (me, basically, being super astute) had to wonder whether he’d done the prep needed for a five week cage fight."

Labor takes large leads in YouGov and Morgan polls as surge continues

With the final week of the campaign about to begin, Labor’s advantage in the polls continues.

theconversation.com

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Amid Dutton’s messy decline in the polls, is Albanese on the verge of becoming the John Howard of his era? | Peter Lewis

It is a terrible thing to say about someone who entered politics to ‘fight Tories’, but there are parallels between the two leaders

www.theguardian.com

Albo the new John Howard? Well, I!

 

[DaRick]

Amid Dutton’s messy decline in the polls, is Albanese on the verge of becoming the John Howard of his era? | Peter Lewis

It is a terrible thing to say about someone who entered politics to ‘fight Tories’, but there are parallels between the two leaders

www.theguardian.com

Albo the new John Howard? Well, I!

More so in terms of being a long-term PM that can adopt the 'boiling frog' approach to policy.

Hawke/Keating and Howard are notable because they could do this, while Abbott/Turnbull/Morrisson could not.

Though I think he lets Jim Chalmers take the reigns before 2028 (Albo and Chalmers will be 65 and 50, respecitively). Chalmers is a Queenslander, and a stronger media performer than Albo. Should the ALP not overperform, he can then begin Stage 3 of ALP Rule - targeting the QLD seats (Stage 1: Beating ScoMo, Stage 2: Holding the Fort, Stage 3: Expansion).

Consolidating their rule like this will make it very difficult for the LNP to form anything beyond a minority government, and they're too estranged from the teals to do that effectively.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

More so in terms of being a long-term PM that can adopt the 'boiling frog' approach to policy.

Hawke/Keating and Howard are notable because they could do this, while Abbott/Turnbull/Morrisson could not.

Though I think he lets Jim Chalmers take the reigns before 2028 (Albo and Chalmers will be 65 and 50, respecitively). Chalmers is a Queenslander, and a stronger media performer than Albo. Should the ALP not overperform, he can then begin Stage 3 of ALP Rule - targeting the QLD seats (Stage 1: Beating ScoMo, Stage 2: Holding the Fort, Stage 3: Expansion).

Consolidating their rule like this will make it very difficult for the LNP to form anything beyond a minority government, and they're too estranged from the teals to do that effectively.

I would hope they'd add on Stage 4: actually implement some real, earth-shattering reforms on climate change, housing, taxation, public education and public health, but I hold little hope they will.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

love this from birmo@bluesky.

"Somebody stick a fork in this blunder-spud, he’s done. It seemed apparent in the campaign’s first week that Peter Dutton was off the pace. He punched himself in the dick so many times that astute observers (me, basically, being super astute) had to wonder whether he’d done the prep needed for a five week cage fight."

Labor takes large leads in YouGov and Morgan polls as surge continues

With the final week of the campaign about to begin, Labor’s advantage in the polls continues.

theconversation.com

"Blunder-spud". I like that.

 

[Borough Blood]

Labor cooooooooooooooooooooked

 

[Chief]

Labor cooooooooooooooooooooked

April fools!

 

[Chief]

I have friends