Shadow Agriculture Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has apologized to the Australian public for getting “many things wrong” in the lead up to the May election and “missing an opportunity to become government”. Speaking to Sky News on Friday, Mr Fitzgibbon said the internal review into Labor’s handling of its election campaign “reminds us that we took too many policies [to the election] and managed to confuse and scare the electorate”.
“I reckon there were many people out there who didn’t understand our policies and took a lesson from Scott Morrison by playing it safe and going with the bloke who was promising to change nothing at all," he said. Mr Fitzgibbon said he hoped the review would give Labor a chance to “draw that line in the sand and move on”. He said it should also serve to give Labor leader Anthony Albanese the “authority he needs to take the party back to the basics of fairness and equal opportunity for all”.
fitzhunter Coal feels remorse...aww
fitzhunter Should have reflected earlier. It was obvious to many.
fitzhunter When’s the spill Joel ? Your the only hope of that side ... man up!!!
fitzhunter What does this politican really stand for? What can he offer? I think he's a fence sitter. No backbone and no clue. A typical useless Labor politician.
fitzhunter The old saying applies to labor 'fools rush in...' and you all backed the looser. Love it. So albo is the next looser. Backing him are we?
fitzhunter You are a goose!!!!
fitzhunter If you got so many things wrong during an election campaign how could you possibly be capable of governing the country for 3 years? Might be time for some long standing Labor MPs to fall on their sword & let some fresh blood take over.
fitzhunter I wonder how many “things he got wrong” would have surfaced if Labor had won? 🤔🤔
fitzhunter Happy you did. Can you imagine the mess we'd be in?
fitzhunter No one wants crazy socialists running the country!
fitzhunter Sounds like he is panicking for he knows he might lose his seat at the next election.
fitzhunter No mate, quite the opposite, thank you for not being in Government, Australia dodged a bullet there.
fitzhunter No apology needed. You helped save us from 'Prime Minister Bill Shorten'. 😱😳😩🤮
fitzhunter It’s ok Joel, we’re quite ok with the outcome.
fitzhunter At least he admits it.
fitzhunter Labor equals tax, inner city hippies, tax, betrayal of miners, betrayal of retirees, tax, unions, tax, betrayal of working people, tax get the picture?
fitzhunter Hmm, Not so long ago, Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon for the Hunter: ‘’Coal is on the way out’’
fitzhunter So the mantra is: everyone in the party start apologising. That'll work.
fitzhunter He can't fix the air pollution in his own seat or speak out about
fitzhunter Australian voters aren't sorry you screwed up. And it's no surprise you screwed up. That's Labor. One big screw up.
fitzhunter Communism is never going to be tolerated in this country! Jackie Trad addressing labor as “comrades” is the red flag Australia. if you want to end up in housing commission wearing the same thing as your neighbour - vote labor
fitzhunter Yet the same people who got 'many things wrong' are still there and poised to twist and rehash its failed policies into a new spin. We the people are not stupid and will not tolerate this faceless clowns.
fitzhunter Meanwhile the Coalition government load up neglected drought stricken farmers with more debt to further force them to take the advice of “JUST SELL YOUR FARMS” presumably to the LNP’s wealthy mining foreign corporations and Chinese mates at reduced prices
fitzhunter You know that you are in a place where you can’t afford to get things wrong, saying sorry won’t fix something that you broke!!
fitzhunter Why is the one bloke who speaks common sense doing the mea culpas? I’ll tell you why, because he has a fucking spine fitzhunter Not your can to carry where the fuck is billy Labor youth camp mr 30% approval measure me up for the lodge curtains on the 17th May 2019 Shorten?
fitzhunter Meanwhile the Coalition government will do absolutely nothing for the 16,000 elderly Australians every years that die in pain and suffering while waiting for home care packages highlighted in the aged RC..they don’t care about Australians
fitzhunter Meanwhile the Coalition government plans to MASSIVELY INCREASE FOREIGN WORKERS NUMBERS IN MORE CATEGORIES AND MORE OCCUPATIONS...now flooding high unemployment regional and rural communities as well all while cutting billions from training Australians
fitzhunter Meanwhile the Coalition government’s inaction neglect mismanagement incompetence and failures on energy and water policy and infrastructure will see rivers and towns run dry and major widespread blackouts this summer..and A MASSIVE $400 ELECTRICITY PRICE INCREASE THIS YEAR ALONE
fitzhunter So they should..GOT TO STOP THIS POLITICALLY SUICIDAL INCREASING OF MIGRANT AND REFUGEE POLICY..negative gearing policy that hurts mums and dads investors...do what the Coalition do..say as little as possible and run a negative campaign highlighting all the government’s failures
fitzhunter Whilst he has much to apologise for, he shouldn't be apologising for this. He did our nation & it's people a favour- especially the advice that if Aussies didn't like AustralianLabor policies, to not vote for them. Australia has really dodged a bullet- thanks fitzhunter !
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