
THIS WILD ELECTION: EP 6, What if Anthony Albanese becomes PM? with Karen Middleton
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Show Notes
Who is “Albo"? The Labor leader has been in politics for 26 years and yet many Australians struggle to name the guy or pick him in a line-up. His opponents capitalise on this and paint him as meek and not upfront, even “not on the ball”. In this chat with Karen Middleton, chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper who also wrote Albanese’s biography, we get a very different picture of a sensitve but gritty and strategic operator who “operates 10-steps ahead of anyone else”. We talk his childhood growing up in a council flat, That Gaffe, his relationship with, and policies for, women and why Labor is not banning fossil fuel projects (it’s a strategy). This ep runs a little longer, but it covers other issues many of you have been asking about and Karen is a font of political information…I figured you’d enjoy the lot!
Read Karen’s columns in The Saturday Paper https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/contributor/karen-middleton
Her biography of Anthony Albanese is called Albanese: Telling it Straight
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