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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made a visit to the Governor-General’s office this morning to officially call this year’s federal election for May 3.
This announcement will now send Parliament into a five-week campaign, as both major parties compete with each other – and an ever-growing wave of Independents and minor parties, in their quest to win the approval of the Australian people.
This election is tipped to be centred around both the cost-of-living crisis, climate change, and whether or not Aboriginal flags make voters feel uncomfortable.
Prime Minister Albanese has enjoyed a spike in the polls over the last three months, beginning with his announcement to introduce a Papuan rugby league team into the NRL to protect Australia’s sovereignty from expanding Pacific super powers. A rate cut earlier this month has also put to bed the ‘bad economic managers’ narrative that was being weaved by his Opponents who left the power in 2022 with record-breaking inflation.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will now take part in his first Federal Campaign, and will not be able to hide from cameras for the next five weeks.
Unlike his success in shutting down the Indigenous Voice Referendum, this election campaign will be centred on Peter Dutton himself – not Jacinta Price or Warren Mundine.
After months of waiting for a date, it appears that the post-Voice momentum that the Liberals had built up has since evaporated.
Australians have learnt to grin and bare the cost-of-living crisis, and remain thankful that they are experiencing the turmoil that is currently taking place in American politics.
This does not change the fact that they have spent the last year punishing Albanese in the polls, constantly threatening to elect Peter Dutton unless he gets his act together.
We now get to find out if they really want to do that, or were they just trying to put the dog up the Government.
Voters are still white-knuckling through a cost-of-living crisis caused by corporate profiteering and overwhelmingly complicated global instability. They have made peace with how shit things are. We will know who they blame for all of this on election day.
5 more weeks of this to come.
