ALP campaign veterans are now trying to work out how the prime minister has diminished the Yes vote to its current desperate position.
on October 14 marks the half-way point of the first term of the Labor government, and the outcome for the Voice is fast turning into a proxy referendum on the leadership of Labor’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.at the expense of air travellers and the Australian tourism industry, and critics have grown to include two state Labor governments and the president of the ALP Wayne Swan, with the latter likely to trigger nightmares for any sitting Labor prime minister.
ALP campaign veterans are now trying to work out how Albanese’s leadership has managed to diminish a potential Yes vote of 65 per cent across the polls late last year to its current desperate position in the low 40s.Brennan has been a widely respected and fearless advocate for refugees and Indigenous Australians since the early days of Mabo, even earning the honorary title of “meddlesome priest” from former Labor prime minister Paul Keating.
You can sense the desperation from Brennan, when he wrote to Albanese in November 9 last year, in effect, pleading for Albanese to set up a parliamentary committee process allowing anyone and everyone to have their say on the proposed words of the Voice amendment, and secondly, to return to formal bipartisan co-operation between the prime minister and the leader of the opposition, to maximise the prospect of Coalition support for the referendum.
At this point, any chance of a deal with the Coalition involving Indigenous recognition in the Constitution and a compromise on the power and composition of the Voice itself was lost. So, October 14 is likely to be a resounding defeat for the Yes campaign and for Albanese’s performance rating, which in Monday’s Newspoll had already hit negative territory for the first time. The loss of a Labour government in New Zealand on the same day will focus Labor MPs here on their own fate.
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