Opinion: Opinion | Now is the hour for Albanese, small-target man, to grow in stature
Albanese wasn’t elected to give us relief and reassurance that we have a decent and honest man in charge, although that might be a pleasant side benefit; he was elected to win important fights for Australia’s future.
It is fair for the opposition to ask questions about Albanese’s trip, although the nature of the questions show that there are still some basics that elude their understanding. The shadow treasurer Andrew Peacock, sorry Angus Taylor, in likening the Albanese international mission to Scott Morrison’s holiday in Hawaii, only showed a vision stuck in the rearview mirror and a petty proneness to false equivalences.
Those internal differences made it too hard for Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard to bed down lasting climate action, and they remain in front of the current prime minister. The incoming government has accumulated plenty of brownie points. It now must spend them on tough stuff - confronting the fossil fuel industry, internal climate sceptics, the full panoply of interests that are going to be angered when Labor begins to enact real change on that front with economic challenges on the other.
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