It is tempting to suppose Albanese’s Labor is emulating the pragmatism of Hawke. In fact, it is approaching one thing nearer to Howard.
“The pressures on the funds are acute,” the treasurer advised the nation final week, his silhouette briefly shielding the dour prime minister sitting behind him. “However as a Labor authorities, we are going to all the time attempt to assist those that want it essentially the most. That’s why, tonight, we announce a $40 per fortnight enhance for JobSeeker recipients.”
“Hear, hear”, murmured the room in response to a tweak that does nothing to silence the drumbeat of poverty immiserating hundreds throughout the nation.
There was, on any view, one thing deeply disquieting about Anthony Albanese’s mounted grimace as he noticed Treasurer Jim Chalmers interact in one in all a number of acts of classist sophistry on funds evening. On the time, it was unclear whether or not this grim resolve, redolent of somebody sitting in a dentist ready room, was the product of some practised expression of seriousness designed to replicate the burden of the event. Or whether or not, quite the opposite, it was emblematic of some haunting prick of conscience — a way that this explicit philosophical failing was one too many.
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