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‘Albo knows best’: Inside Labor’s discontent with PM
A series of missteps has raised questions about Anthony Albanese’s judgment. Is he too confident in his own instincts?
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during the final parliamentary sitting week of the year. Labor is facing increasingly dim polls ahead of next year’s election. Alex Ellinghausen
There is frustration in Labor’s ranks that on the few occasions politics has cut through with voters this year, it has often been an own goal by Anthony Albanese.
The prime minister has struggled to articulate a clear narrative in his first term, and his government has suffered in opinion polls as a consequence. The Australian Financial Review/Freshwater poll shows Labor has lagged the Coalition in the popular vote since July while Albanese has slipped as the preferred prime minister and is now statistically tied with Peter Dutton.
A previous version of the story said David Epstein worked as a government relations executive for Qantas and Emirates. This was incorrect, he only worked for Qantas.
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