Despite efforts of senior Coalition figures David Littleproud and Angus Taylor to equate his trip to Ukraine with Scott Morrison’s holiday in Hawaii, Albanese has proved he knows the most fundamental requirement of leaders, writes Tony Wright | OPINION
Every prime minister has known it since at least Harold Holt. Holt, on an official visit to New Zealand, hurried to Tasmania to survey the ruins and speak to the victims of the Black Tuesday bushfires of 1967, declaring “I had to come to see it for myself”.
Albanese – having given a press conference in Perth on Tuesday on his way home from Kyiv in Ukraine – headed to outer-Sydney flood zones first thing on Wednesday morning.in 23 local government areas already declared national disaster zones and $400 for every child. It was, he claimed, the fastest such response to a disaster on record.
Legacies are made within such times. Morrison had already given himself a slogan to suffer beneath when, during the 2019-2020 bushfire catastrophe, he tried to excuse his absence by declaring “I don’t hold a hose”. During the 1983 federal election campaign, prime minister Malcolm Fraser and opposition leader Bob Hawke stopped campaigning when the Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia took 75 lives.praised Fraser for having “resumed his role as leader of the country, rather than that of a political party”. The humanisation of Fraser proved too late. He lost the subsequent election.
Prime minister Julia Gillard’s parliamentary address following floods and cyclones during 2010-11 was considered one of her“They are not just names on a list,” she said. “They were someone’s brother, sister, grandparent or child. No insurance payout is going to fill that.”for his furious, emotional response
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