In relative terms, Bill Shorten, Labor leader since September 2013, has lived a charmed existence. Until he took the job, Labor leaders had a life expectancy in the big seat up the front that was measured in months, not years.
Reports of cracks emerging between Shorten and his frontbencher Anthony Albanese emanate from a speech Albo made to the Transport Workers Union in Western Australia in which he claimed a victory over the government’s budget. The Turnbull government, Albanese said, had shifted towards Labor policy and platform and this should be celebrated.
Meanwhile, his leader was running around telling anyone who cared to listen that the budget was not a Labor budget at all.
Given leadership spills or even the hint of them are a drug of addiction to many in the media, the clear contradictions caused a stir.
Appearing on the Nine Network’s Today program, Albo’s segment counterpart, Liberal Christopher Pyne, delighted in turning molehills into mountains. But Albo was having none of it and turned to a politician’s quick and easy answer when confronted with a difficult question.
Full column here.
After a ten year intermission to feed the elephants and re-apply the clown make-up Cirque de Schappelle Corby is back in town!
B’MAN – this says it much better than I ever could: https://www.cis.org.au/commentary/articles/ramshackle-federalism-lives-on/
Yes…very well put Son
Well, Mr Insider, POTUS Trump does say “America First”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4otCS3FJxas