Coalition’s ‘warmongering rhetoric’ backfired on Morrison: Labor campaign chief | croweDM
The clash over Chinese influence helped Labor win the federal election, the party’s campaign chief has concluded in his first public assessment of the way Prime Minister Anthony Albanese swept into power on issues including national security, wages and housing.
“Assertions that the Chinese Communist Party were backing Labor, warmongering rhetoric on ANZAC day, talk of ‘red lines’ and failed attempts to suggest Labor opposes the AUKUS arrangement. “The contrast couldn’t have been clearer and voters reached the inescapable conclusion that the Coalition had completely dropped the ball,” he says.Advertisement, referring to a 1960s movie in which a United States soldier is brainwashed by communists to become a puppet for a foreign government, was levelled at Labor deputy leader Richard Marles in parliament in the months before the election.
Erickson says the Liberal Party denied there was anything the government could do but went too far whenfor essential workers to keep up with inflation of 5.1 per cent. Some Labor insiders have privately criticised aspects of the party’s campaign, including moments where Albanese stumbled over his answers or made mistakes, as he did on the first full day of the campaign when he could not name the unemployment rate.
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