Anthony Albanese and his Labor ministers are taking a leaf from the US Democrat playbook and painting their opponents as a bunch of nasty oddballs.
Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz was catapulted into the limelight when he called Republicans Donald Trump and JD Vance “just weird” in a TV interview. The barb hit a nerve and his party latched onto the theme.Albanese labelled Barnaby Joyce “weird” when at an anti-wind farm rally late last month he likened voting to loading a firearm to say “goodbye” to Labor MPs.
“If awards were handed out for cookers, this bloke would win a Michelin star,” Education Minister Jason Clare said of Senator Gerard Rennick on Monday, after he said Labor’s childcare policies were destroying the traditional family unit.Albanese continued in question time: “Our friend senator Rennick, personally endorsed by ... went on to say it ‘brainwashed children early with the woke mind virus’. I mean, this stuff is just extraordinary”.
Putting Dutton to one side, Albanese is on more solid ground trash-talking MAGA-style backbenchers like Rennick and Alex Antic, as well as more obscure and underperforming shadow ministers.
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