“After a decade of inaction, you can’t simply wish things to happen. You have to have an orderly way in which you’re certain they will happen”.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Anthony Albanese is quick with a riposte when asked if he has been too slow to act during his first year in power. The prime minister will not give an inch to critics who want faster work on every front after Labor triumphed at the federal election last May.
“The difference between Labor and people who don’t seek to be a party of government is that they can promise whatever they like because it never has to be delivered,” he says. “Our task is to entrench that. And I think a year – which has been a busy year – is enough time for people to have had a look at us and formed a view. And they might not agree with everything that the government has done, but I think that any fair analysis would say that we have done what we said we would do.
The most abrasive moves of the past year have been the caps on coal and gas prices – a radical step after warnings about high power bills – and theFederal treasurer Jim Chalmers says he’s got th balance right on taxes and spending in the May budget.The government is exposed on the economy at a time of high inflation and new warnings about future interest rate hikes at the Reserve Bank, but economists are divided on whether the May budget adds any pressure to inflation.
Only one issue, the Voice, sets up an extreme risk for Albanese and Labor. This is now a crash-through-or-crash issue for the government, utterly different to its cautious approach on every other front. Victory at the referendum will entrench the prime minister’s leadership but failure could weaken his authority. Albanese has invested huge amounts of time, energy and political capital in the Voice when he is also trying to build support for Labor for the long term.James Brickwood“Yes, and you can see some of that being laid out now in education,” he says. “And I think that in employment services we need to do better at assessing the long-term unemployed.
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