Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is moving aggressively to ready Labor for an early election campaign, flying to Tasmania to announce high-profile candidates for Braddon and Lyons.
Anthony Albanese is moving aggressively to ready Labor for an early election campaign, flying to Tasmania to announce high-profile candidates for Braddon and Lyons.
At a separate media conference two hours later, he confirmed former state Labor leader Rebecca White would contest Lyons. Labor holds the seat, won in 2022 by retiring MP Brian Mitchell, with a knife-edge margin of 0.3 per cent. Mr Albanese told reporters in Tasmania that he had not spoken to Mr Cook about the issue and said an election would be called "April or before".
Factors that may influence his decision include the first Reserve Bank of Australia interest rate meeting on February 18 and the one after on April 1, whether to cancel the budget scheduled for March 28, and the timing of the Easter/Anzac Day school holidays.A five-week election campaign called in late January or early February means the federal election would take place simultaneously with West Australia, where Labor is desperate to retain seats it won at the 2022 election.
Critics of current electoral laws point to the outsized influence of figures such as Simon Holmes à Court, founder of Climate 200, a group that helps fund teal independents, and Queensland mining billionaire Clive Palmer.
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