CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA (AP) – The Australian government will launch an inquiry aimed at preventing a prime minister from ever again secretly amassing new ministerial powers, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said yesterday. Albanese’s predecessor Scott Morrison secretly appointed himself to five ministerial roles between March 2020 and May 2021, usually without the knowledge of the original […]
Author: Chris Wallace
(MENAFN - The Conversation) Federal opposition leader Anthony Albanese s recent six-day tour of Queensland came not a minute too soon for Labor s prospects in the possible election year of 2021.
The old adage that you can t win an election without winning Queensland was proven roundly by ex-Labor leader Bill Shorten s performance in 2019 . Albanese knows the party has to pick up at least three or four Queensland seats to have any hope of dislodging the Coalition government.
The smoking ruin of 2019
The scale of Labor s 2019 Queensland disaster bears close inspection.
With a primary vote of just 26.7%, Labor won only six out of thirty Queensland seats. This was the party s worst House of Representatives result since the Dismissal election of 1975 when it was left with just one.