When’s the next election? The PM’s upbringing might give us a clue

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There is a clear analogue to one of Albanese’s traits as PM: his careful attention to planning and sequencing, his belief that a large part of political strategy is doing things in the right order.

Around two years ago, Anthony Albanese told journalist Katharine Murphy that, growing up, he had to plan. “If I didn’t plan, my mum wouldn’t have food, we wouldn’t pay rent.” He told Murphy that he had literally never run out of anything at home: not milk, nor frozen food, nor coffee. He paid every bill before it was due.

The fact that such tensions are being expressed at this moment in time is perhaps due to the other way Albanese believes in “spending only what you have”. There has been much attention given to the difference between the tax cuts shift and other broken promises. The most common distinction made is between broken promises that hurt voters and those that benefit them. But there’s another, also important. When Paul Keating went back on his L-A-W tax cuts, it was a decade into Labor government, and plenty of voters had hardened opinions of him.

 

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