Anthony Albanese Scott Morrison

2022 - 3 - 16

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Scott Morrison doubles down on criticism of Anthony Albanese's ... (Sky News Australia)

Mr Morrison referenced a speech Mr Albanese delivered last week in which the Labor leader said, if elected as Prime Minister, he would take his lead from Bob ...

"I'm not pretending to be anyone else. I'm not pretending to be anyone else." "I'm not pretending to be someone else. "As for makeovers, I remember Mr Morrison before the last federal election, you know what? Because it's frankly not his history," he said. "You can't present yourself to the Australian people as something that you're not.

Blame-shifting and stunts won't win Morrison an election (The Sydney Morning Herald)

When Scott Morrison came under fire over his handling of the flood crisis, there was one person who did not come out swinging.

Too late for it to make a difference and too late to engineer it. They say they could lose five seats in Western Australia, one in South Australia, four in Victoria and two in Tasmania. Another plugged-in Liberal has drawn up a list of 24 seats at risk across the country. Not too much to ask, is it? This from the man who created the daggy dad persona – a character his colleagues had never previously seen – for the 2019 election, then ever since has pretended to be everything from a hairdresser, to a welder, to a lab technician, confident that goofy pictures would grab voters’ attention. They are convinced the election is lost. “So I’m happy in my own skin, and I’m not pretending to be anyone else. Liberals who a few months ago rattled off a list of up to a dozen gettable seats in NSW as their pathway to victory are in despair. The lost weight, the new glasses, the tamed hair, the sharper suits was part of the transformation process, and this more measured reaction in a crisis, criticism delivered with a skewer rather than a meat axe, just as people are beginning to pay more attention, built on that. Added to that, COVID-19 not only prevented Albanese from defining himself early on, it also blocked the government from doing it for him. And when you, when you’re Prime Minister, you can’t pretend to be anyone else. “I’m not pretending to be anyone else. The Opposition Leader’s response was – by conventional political standards – restrained.

Scott Morrison slams Anthony Albanese over missing lines in his CV (Daily Mail)

The Prime Minister claims the Labor leader is not qualified for the top job because he has never held a treasury or national security portfolio in ...

'And when you're Prime Minister, you can't pretend to be anyone else. The Labor leader Anthony Albanese has shed 18kg and embraced a lifestyle transformation in recent months Labor frontbencher Chris Bowen responded to Mr Morrison's dig at Mr Albanese by tweeting a series of pictures showing the PM washing a woman's hair, driving a truck and sitting in a plane cockpit. Mr Morrison said Labor would ruin the nation's finances by going on a spending spree and said Mr Albanese would have spent $81billion more than him during the Covid pandemic. 'What you would have if the Government isn't returned is Anthony Albanese as the Prime Minister of this country, someone who has never held a financial portfolio in all of his time in Government, never done a budget, never held a national security portfolio,' Mr Morrison said. Scott Morrison has attacked Anthony Albanese over his level of experience after savaging him for his weight-loss and makeover.

PM's health-kick quip to Anthony Albanese labelled 'pretty crooked' (4BC)

Prime Minister Scott Morrison's apparent sledge towards Anthony Albanese over his weight loss has been called “pretty crooked” by the ALP.

“We’re still wearing the same glasses. Sadly, the same suits. “I think last night him making fun of Anthony Albanese because of the way he looks, is pretty crooked and I don’t think most Australians will buy it.”

Albo responds to PM's weight loss sledge (NEWS.com.au)

Anthony Albanese has hit back at Scott Morrison's “strange criticism” of his weight loss, defending his decision to get fit in the lead-up to the federal ...

“I remember Mr Morrison before the last federal election. “Albo has lost 14 kilograms because he went on a health kick. I’ve seen the same person 20 years ago when I came into politics as I see now,” she told the Nine Network. I weigh about the same size and I don’t mind a bit of Italian cake. “(The) glasses you wear doesn’t make you a prime minister. “Sadly, the same suits.

Labor has reinvented Anthony Albanese in time for the election, but ... (SmartCompany.com.au)

Labor has engaged in a disciplined strategy to rebuild the public presentation of Anthony Albanese — and the reinvention seems to be working.

Today he doesn’t look or sound exactly like the Albanese who was elevated, unopposed, as Labor leader — and thus alternative prime minister — in May 2019. One reason for part of the overhaul might be that Albanese did not look or sound like a prime minister. This in part is a consequence of the absence of a detailed policy competition — it threatens to be a policy-free electron. Labor has been sprucing up Albanese — and the reinvention seems to be working. Propelling Albanese towards what he hopes will be victory is Morrison’s baggage of widely nominated shortcomings. The promotion of Albanese’s credentials has been a theme of the redo, in part as a counter to Morrison’s attack that his “inexperienced” rival — who actually was a deputy prime minister in his ministerial career — has never had to manage the national accounts.

'Who knows what they stand for?' ScoMo targets Albo's 'inexperience' (Courier Mail)

As petrol and grocery prices rise, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is ramping up pressure on Labor's small-target campaign and economic “inexperience” as ...