The Coalition is relying on a broad scale assault on Anthony Albanese’s economic credibility to drown out the criticisms of its various policy failings. Can Labor get out in front of the campaign vortex?
A week is certainly a long time in Australian politics. The first week abruptly shifted Labor from being the odds-on favourite to the challenger under pressure from a stayer gaining ground.
The Prime Minister obviously appreciates the level of public disgruntlement with the Coalition, the growing distaste for him personally and the new willingness to contemplate voting against the government. That’s as long as the alternative is not considered too much of a risk. The political arguments should be far more about quality than quantity of money but that’s always more difficult to pin down.
Yet Labor’s latest warning about the risk to Medicare under a returned Coalition is unlikely to resonate as it did in 2019, for example, given the level ofas proposed health minister to replace the retiring and reassuring Greg Hunt did give Labor the chance to resuscitate her 2014 comments about Medicare’s sustainability.
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