Bill Shorten’s rebuke of Anthony Albanese for a tiny policy agenda can be read in one of two ways: a passing swipe at the man who shadowed and then replaced him after six years, or a portent of darker days ahead for Labor in 2021.
Labor Leader Anthony Albanese, with girlfriend Jodie Haydon and son Nathan, leaves Royal Prince Alfred Hospital after he was in a car crash in Marrickville earlier this month.Albanese, as leader, has jettisoned Labor’s unpopular franking credits policy and adopted a “small target” strategy, much to the annoyance of some within the caucus.
“Both the Left and Right [factions] are concerned. No one thinks he can win. He has been unlucky because of COVID; it’s not all his own fault. But people don’t think he can beat Morrison,” is the scathing assessment of a senior MP who asked to speak anonymously so that he could freely share caucus discussions.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese had reason to crow after Labor held on to the seat of Eden-Monaro.As another MP, and opponent of Albanese, puts it: “The party has abandoned what it stands for. What is our argument to voters [to be elected]? Why are people turning their back on us? It’s our obsession with identity politics.”
“I’m very confident that this year, continuing to hold the government to account whilst putting forward an alternative plan for a better and stronger recovery, the plans that we have put forward already for a future made in Australia, for our childcare reform, for assisting to improve the standard of living by making work more secure, by taking action on climate change, on all of these policies we will have a very strong alternative to the government.
“Our fundamentals are better than theirs,” the MP said. “They have not turned the pandemic into a strong position. Morrison’s approval remains high, but that hasn’t translated to a vote shift, and the second thing we are seeing is the Australian public have a line and length on Morrison not being there when he needed to be there.
Tanya where are you!
Anyone is better than Bill shorten
Albenese is a wonderful leader and your murmurings are bull.
Challenge is serious as I spoke with him yesterday
Anyone else smell a media agenda? propaganda
All year on twitter we have had Lib spills , Scomo this & Scomo that & you are saying that Labor are the one that have the popularity issues
The ALP has got to break away from the NSW Labor Party for it's leadership. It has been ineffectual except for PJK for far too long. It has to be seen to be free and unaffected by the rampant corruption if that state on both sides of politics. Rum Rebellioners.
He has to go.
Penny Wong for pm
I noticed Channel 7 picked up on this tonight too (don't judge me for having Ch 7 on, the remote slipped).... Its obviously part of the LNP Playbook... Of course they continue to blindly forget about ScoMos issues...Refugees, RoboDebt, Australia Day gaffes, Covid response
Five minutes I hope
So how's your new editor going over there? Seems to have made a huge difference to the quality of your rag.
AlboMP is a decent man. I hope that they reflect on this. Shorten won’t win despite his protestations. It’s fair to let him stay on. IMHO others here in the UK should step down as they are not suited to governing.
In politics where there is smoke there is always fire and an advanced plan. Let’s face it though Shorten and Bowen are also failures of the past. Maybe it’s time for Keneally? KKeneally AlboMP billshortenmp Bowenchris
There's a rumour circulating within the Nationals nest that Scotty is no sure thing to be pursuing a further term as PM.
Albo will be one of our best PMs.
Do you really think you're going to get a click out of me for that sort of BS?
Does the Age is reported facts or is try to do electoral propaganda for PM SCOTT MORRISON Coalition's government to ripping of more the worker's to get the rich richest at the expences of disadvantage vulnerable humans,modern slavery workforce?
jamesmassola presents flimsy hearsay evidence of calls for leadership change in the ALP. Every opposition party looking at an election within a year has its doubters and malcontents. Shorten had them too. The pandemic has obscured the underlying political dynamics.
Looks like Fitzgibbon may have a crack !!
Is te age now a skynews clone?
Mainstream Media obviously see Anthony Albanese as a threat & are desperately attempting to undermine his Leadership with their diatribe that they call news stories. We not only need a MurdochRoyalCommission , but a Royal Commission into all mainstream media newspapers & outlets
“The media is criticising him so he must be gaining support” lol no what planet have you been living on?
Fluffer job with Frydenberg and this hatchet job on Albo on the same day. Do you still have the words 'Independent. Always' on your masthead? Because this looks like you're under some kind of influence.
hey look over here
Shitting your pants. Got to start digging up some dirt or making it up as you go along. The Age what a pathetic waste of a once great Rag. Certainly on its last legs.
Conservative cabal media outlets & strategists just keep recycling the same tactics. - Labor Leadershit Really Why doesn't this start other media & public questioning Morrison's leadership? auspol
A positive story on Mr. notaleaderjustaliberal and a negative story on Albo Morrison just gifted Murdoch a medal as a symbol of his binding loyalty An Election is Coming!!! AustralianLabor
Poll numbers can't be good for Morrison.
Oh look Labor Leadershit speculation from a cabal media outlet. Surprised it's taken this long. Guess there is no mention of questions about Morrison's leadership. Joshie is doing lots of media. Obviously there are backroom questions & plotting. LNPSpin LNPHypocrisy auspol
So an election coming up then? Time to slice and dice Labor? Got any journalists left there or are they all LNP stenographers?
Are you paying Twitter to post this rubbish?
Labor needs a visionary and fresh team to lead into the next generation . This is a seminal point in its direction forward . Action must be taken to regenerate Labor and its base .
Meanwhile we have a corrupt, lying, god bothering, shit stirring nut, running the joint but no biggie eh Fairfax?
This broadsheet is a purveyor of hate and division.
He’s toast.
The Age Newspaper just another propaganda machine for the LNP.
Labor have nobody else. Shorten and Bowen damaged goods. Anyone in Vic now damaged thanks to Chairmandan and his incompetence. Who would you choose? Massive LaborFail
What? 😂
AlboMP is safe because of MrKRudd ‘s silly rules he introduced to keep him safe.
Oh dear, Albo must be cutting through, so the attack dogs have been called in.
How serious a threat is it to The Age for its readers to see yet more evidence that they are doing the bidding of their Liberal Party boss Peter Costello and riding shotgun with Murdoch’s media for ScuMo’s reelection?
. . . .sooo bad is ALBO , that , he makes Shortbrains look like he was actually a bloody genius .
I have juat 2 words to summarise my feelings towards ALBO : A L B O - H O P E L E S S ' O !
JasonClareMP should take over. Its a no brainer.
They're trying to distract the people from the real issue, the incompetence of the PM Why do so many in our media acquiesce so easily to the PM's demand to be unaccountable to the people he is supposed to represent? When will we get accountable government again in this country?
Is Chloe Shorten going to try & go round a second time as Labor leader ?
according to who?
Its only Joel 'cover my coal fired arse' Fitzgibbon doing the murmuring
They cant win with him there and they know it...
Albanese was only ever keeping the seat warm, I doubt anyone expected him to take the ALP to an election
Getting nervous, Costello Libtrash!
Keep him around, I’m enjoying the train wreck and the left losing their minds
If Australians have half a brain they will dump Morrison like Trump got dumped, one can only hope that Labour learned some valuable lessons at the last election.
Must be an election coming up, I see the Murdoch-LNP sponsored media is now trying to white ant the opposition...
Just guessing, but at least Albo would know his country's history, not a loud mouthed clown hiding his ignorance behind flags pretending too.
He's hopeless
As Peter Costello would have any idea!
When does journalism become propaganda?
He should try being more positive. Focus on what he will do and how he will make Australia better.
He has to go
More like 'murmerings' from anti- Labor MURDOCH media AGAIN using its overwhelming media majority influence to undermine our democratic process and groom/influence political outcomes as it tried to do during the QLD election & as it is trying to do with the Victorian government!
There would not be one Labor front bench occupier, who wants to swap their cushy number, for the pain of Govt. Albo guarantees their safe opposition seat. He is going nowhere.
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