You may have noticed, even as the 2024 political year trudges to an unedifying close, that people are still referring to the possibility of an 'early election'.
You may have noticed, even as the 2024 political year trudges to an unedifying close, that people are still referring to the possibility of an " early election ".Now, it seems to mean the difference between an election in February and an election in May, in what will be very close to a full three-year term served by the first-term Albanese government
Bob Hawke did the same thing in 1984 after winning in 1983 and John Howard took us back to the polls in 1998 after winning in 1996. And then there was Kevin Rudd. Rudd had soared in the polls in the early stages of his government, elected in late 2007, and through the dark days of the global financial crisis.
Beyond all the circumstances that might apply to any of these individual elections, the early election record would seem to add to that argument you will often here about why voters would support a first-term government: the "fair go".The Albanese government has handed down its mid-year budget update.If you've been in power for 18 months, you may have had enough time to clear the place out of the last mob's worst efforts, and be coming up for air to implement some new ideas.
Cross-benches in the Senate, and now in the House of Representatives, have become substantial voting blocs, which means minority government is much more likely after an election, and holding an election just to get better numbers in the Senate is a strategy fraught with risk.Amid all the other political dramas this year, the regular revival of "early" election speculation has come and gone.
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