Trouble at an early hurdle
May 01, 2022
4 minutes
by ELEANOR DE JONG
What a difference a fortnight makes. When the Australian election campaign got under way in mid-April, Labor leader Anthony Albanese was the clear favourite, both among the seasoned political pundits and in public opinion polls. The job was his for the taking, it seemed.
Scott Morrison, the Liberal coalition Prime Minister since 2018, has spent his term bouncing from one blunder to the next, from fleeing the country for a Hawaiian holiday when the 2019 bushfires were wreaking destruction on the country’s east coast, to making insensitive gaffe after gaffe on Canberra’s multiple sex scandals and its treatment of women.
We have blustering, showy confidence from Morrison and a consistent lack of charisma from
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