Unburdened by a sense of destiny, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is not getting carried away. He has a simple plan: to keep doing what he’s doing.
When Anthony Albanese led Labor to victory in May last year, he became the seventh different prime minister to be elected in seven elections. Starting with John Howard winning his fourth and final term in 2004, each successive election delivered the nation a different leader.and a routine blitz through four states in three days, the trend of each election ushering in a new prime minister is one Albanese is determined to end.
Saturday’s victory in Aston was the first time an opposition has lost a seat to a government in a federal byelection in 103 years. Albanese sees it through a slightly different lens – Aston was the first time a government has won an opposition seat in a byelection since 1920. Howard won 29 extra seats in his 1996 landslide against Paul Keating, but in those days the major party vote had not fragmented. There were no teals or Greens in the lower house.
He contrasts this to “the chaos” of Tony Abbott’s first term the last time there was a change of government.
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