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Not everyone's abandoned hmas albo
It feels a bit unfair to suggest that Labor Ministers have left a sinking ship as rats recently, but it is difficult not to give the idea at least a passing thought.
Although the work is only in the government in the first term, it is in the back of the polls and Anthony Albanian is already as unpopular as Scott Morrison became like PM towards the end of his days.
That said, I still expect that Labor will win later this year.
But does a Conga line from ministerial departure agree with me? It was at the end of last year Brendan O'Connor” Linda Burney And Bill shorten They all announced that they stopped. Last week, assistant treasurer Stephen Jones Did the same, until the relief of some colleagues I hear.
Who else can follow?
To be honest, there are also senior coalition front benchers on the way to the output door. Senate leader Simon Birmingham and manager of opposition company in the house Paul Fletcher retire, just like National Frontbencher Keith Pitt.
There has long been scuttlebutt that attorney general Mark Dreyfus Plans to also pull the pin on its political career, but I can confirm that rumor – like so many others in and around Canberra – can be rejected as false.
Dreyfus tragically lost his wife to a long fight against cancer at the end of 2023, who probably started the rumors that he could stop it. But I think losing his life partner makes it more likely that the AG will stay instead of further.
One of the suggestions was that he would now go out to make a judicial appointment of the Supreme Court through his Victorian Home State Labor government.
There has long been a scuttlebutt that Attorney General Mark Dreyfus is planning to pull the pin code on his political career, but I can confirm that rumor – like so many others in and around Canberra – can be rejected as false
Although the temptation of a lifelong legal pension sounds like a good reason to get from politics and on the Victorian Supreme Court-Bank, there is a fairly clear fly in the ointment of that hypothesis.
Dreyfus is already 68 years old. Victorian judges are forced to retire at 70. Why would the already rich Dreyfus leave politics to sit on the couch for a little more than a year before they are kicked off?
It won't happen.
Dreyfus will run again in these elections, and his seat of Isaacs will be heavily directed by hopeful liberals as one that they can pick up on their way to the government.
In my opinion, that is less likely than more, with the margin of the chair at around 9.5 percent, according to the last redistribution, which suggests that Dreyfus is satisfactory, even if Albo loses the elections.
Of course, if that is how things come out, I would certainly expect Dreyfus to get out of politics quickly after the elections, do not want to waste time in opposition.
Even under that scenario he would not look for such a short career on the couch. Instead, he would go back to the Barristers Bar – Dreyfus is the council of a king.
Give Bill a break!
Although Bill Shorten Technically, one of the rats that HMAS Albo left, nobody could blame him for
Although Bill Shorten technically one of the rats is that HMAS Albo left, nobody could blame him.
Leaving politics to take a well-paid Vice-Chancellor at the University of Canberra has many advantages for Short, outside the dollar bills.
Firstly, he no longer has to work for Albo and are frustrated around a cupboard table by part of the decision -making.
This week, predictable, there was some consternation about Bill's new starting salary of $ 860,000 a year, double that he earned as a minister.
That says more about how few ministers earn compared to senior bureaucrats and managers in the private sector, many of whom are part of the club of a million dollars. For example, most heads of government services make at least double what the ministers they report to earn.
There is nothing newsworthy about that.
So can we please remember the Tall Poppy Syndrome, Short Shorten for his new wage? It is not as if he is not qualified for the job.
Shorten is a former Minister of Education who led to one of the largest trade unions in the country before he enters the parliament, also Labor Leader and recently a cabinet minister for the second time.
Peter van Onselen has a peace sacrifice for Bill Shorten this week in his Sunday column
Yes, VCs are well paid, which usually happens when leading organizations with thousands of staff and budgets for millions of dollars.
But Bill has been set to earn a fraction of the salary from his predecessor, after he had specifically asked his sign to considerably reduce the wage package.
His predecessor, Paddy Nixon, had a package of $ 1.8 million a year!
And the differences do not end there. All future increases of Bill's salary are now linked to the Staff Enterprise Agreement (EBA), I am told, and there are no hidden bonuses to further increase his income.
Compared to what other VCs make throughout the country, Shorten is bloody good value. And I am willing to bet that none of the others have the most important access to the government he will have in the coming years.
Higher education is a sector that is heavily affected by the decision -making of the government.
The ability of Shorten to get into the ear of the government is also the case, regardless of who wins the elections of this year. He is famous very good at maintaining relationships in the particial aisle in Canberra, as many liberals have told me.
Grace not apparently
He can't say he wasn't warned!
I am talking about Albo's recent words with the former Grace Tame of Australian of the Year.
The prime minister was warned by his spin doctors that dealing with her would lead to a fall-out at some point, I can exclusively reveal.
Tame's graceless choice of clothing at Albo's Australia Day event in the Lodge last weekend, a T-shirt with the words 'f ** k Murdoch', was missing just like her social media post after the event that the words were meant '' not literally, *ew *'.
The prime minister had told his spin doctors that the associating of Grace Tame would lead to a fall-out at some point, I can exclusively reveal
Albo was pally with tame at the time of his election profit, but labor advisors saw problems brewing
Albo condemned the shirt as an attention -looking, inappropriate and disrespectful, what it was natural. Tame shot back that members of his staff had told her that they liked the shirt, but unfortunately she would not mention names.
I wanted to know if Nike also loved the shirt that their new brand ambassador was worn. That's right, Tame has a kind of new performance with the shoe manufacturer, to replace her earlier role as executive director of her own foundation. Just do it!
Until now, the radio silence of the international brand was and he argued for the fifth in response to my e -mails.
Perhaps Nike is afraid that Tame will encourage it in the same way if she will start Albo after his public criticism and decides that it is better to keep her in the proverbial Nike tent, even if she wears graceless T-shirts make it.
