A few stun grenades have been thrown by the Morrison government at the Albanese opposition recently. But now, the South Australian state election result has gone off like one in the Liberal Party nationally as it prepares for the federal election expected to be held on May 14, just eight weeks away.
said Malinauskas was “putting us to sleep”, and wondered aloud whether SA Labor needed someone new who could engage voter attention. The election was winnable but only if “Mali” changed what he was doing, Abraham said. He looked fitter to govern than Marshall and, crucially, crafted and communicated substantive policy tightly focused on immediate voter needs – like health, and future-oriented needs, like new generation jobs. His $593 million green hydrogen plant pledge for regional Whyalla was a campaign centrepiece.
The Prime Minister is searching for the issue that can knock his opponent, Labor leader Anthony Albanese, down a few pegs to give the Coalition a chance to rebound in the campaign, Morrison’s alleged specialty. But this claim is based on just one victory where, on the back of voters’ scant knowledge of him at the time, he successfully sold a benign “daggy dad” persona to the electorate.
A year ago Albanese, like Malinauskas, was considered an asset by the Coalition governments they sought to defeat. Not any more.The first, that Albanese is weak on China policy, was laughed out of town.