Content-wise, the Greens leader unabashedly promoted his movement's progressive ambitions to tax big corporations. But in style, his performance was pure Donald.
Not on the content: the Greens leader unabashedly used his National Press Club address on Wednesday to again promote his movement's progressive ambitions to tax big multinationals, banks and supermarkets for new welfare and entitlement handouts.Which creates a unique moment for Anthony Albanese and his strategy of dealing with Labor's arch left-flank enemies, particularly if Australians deliver a hung parliament after the coming election.
"Millions of people are being robbed, fleeced and plundered by big corporations and billionaires in a heist facilitated and enabled by the politicians from Labor and the Liberals," said Bandt. The question – as it is for Trump, whose re-election ambitions need to overcome the fact that he suffers from a high floor and low ceiling in primary numbers – is whether Bandt's doom and gloom approach can win a larger audience.
It's a swag of potential lower house seats that would put Bandt in the box seat for a hung parliament.Albanese is quietly convinced that mainstream voters, as the election nears, will turn off the Greens' burn-the-barn-down approach.
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