Saturday, 10 July 2021

‘Not like Tony Abbott’: what kind of PM would Anthony Albanese be?

Albanese has been attacked for seeking to win by attrition, but could he just be Australia’s Joe Biden?

Tony Windsor didn’t have much time for Anthony Albanese when he first arrived in Canberra. The former independent from regional New South Wales felt he had the measure of the current Labor leader. “A smart arse, a student politics type,” he says.

But Windsor’s perception changed during the 43rd parliament, when he was a kingmaker in the House of Representatives, and Albanese wrangled the daily parliamentary business of the minority Gillard government.

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