Every first-term government since Whitlam has gone backwards at their next election. It’s a sobering statistic for a government with a three-seat majority.
“Welcome to the trip from hell,” Anthony Albanese joked when he boarded his RAAF jet on Tuesday afternoon for a three-nation, two-summit, five-day dash through South-East Asia and the subcontinent.
Today, thanks to a more volatile and intertwined world, the prime minister has to travel overseas many times each year. While the opposition understands and supports the international commitments, it doesn’t mind pushing the button now and then. Indeed, when John Howard was called in to give a pep talk to deflated Liberals after the May 2022 election loss, he said circumstances would determine whether the Albanese government succeeded or failed.
Yet, on Monday, in unprecedented scenes inside the House of Representatives, about 200 pharmacists who had come to Canberra to protest the government’s 60-day prescription rule, erupted in anger as Health Minister Mark Butler dismissed their concerns about their livelihoods, saying the cost to the consumer was what mattered.
Nor will the Senate roll over and have its tummy tickled over the omnibus bill of industrial relations changes, as it did last year when it waved through the first tranche before Christmas. It has already delayed the legislation until next year.
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