Nationals Senator Matt Canavan’s latest pitch for coal powered fire stations and cheaper energy is indicative of growing dissatisfaction with the party’s leadership, according to Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell.
Mr Canavan and other Nationals backbenchers have put together a nine-point manufacturing plan which purports to create approximately 800,000 jobs in the next 15 years.
“We’ve got to have cheaper energy, we’ve got to protect our manufacturing industries, we’ve got to support strategic industries through tax incentives, we’ve got to build overseas markets,” Mr Canavan told Sky News.
Mr Clennell said he thinks “Canavan and Joyce are on the move again against McCormack”.
“The thing is Littleproud and Pitt both want McCormack’s job as well so they can’t unite around one candidate so we’re going to have this pot continue to be stirred."
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has touted The Australian Labor Party’s policy platform and critiqued the Morrison Government’s 2020 performance during an exclusive interview with Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell.
Mr Albanese defended himself against the accusation he had failed to deliver the policy he promised in January 2020, blaming the pandemic and saying the ALP had decided to put the nation before politics.
“Australians wanted us to put the national interest before partisan political interest. We did that,” he said.
He argued Labor had put forward constructive suggestions which were “taken on board” by the Morrison government.
“It was Labor that put forward the plan for wage subsidies that became JobKeeper”.
“It was Labor who were arguing last year that New Start, which became JobSeeker, needed to be increased.
“It was Labor that put forward issues such as quarantining. We continued to raise issues such as the stranded Australians overseas.
Former President Donald Trump’s style of messaging based on “spin” and “exaggeration” may live on in American politics according to Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell.
He said the concept of ‘Trumpism’ is about putting spin on a message, a tactic which had been applied successfully by the Trump Administration over the last four years.
“Biden’s people will say they will be lily white”.
However, Mr Clennell suggested the Biden-Harris Administration may “have to go for some Trump style tactics eventually”.
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A draft of the World Health Assembly report into the origins of COVID-19 is due to be tabled in May, according to Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell.
“I guess we will know then whether all this sabre-rattling, including going it alone to call for the independent inquiry originally this year, was worth it,” Mr Clennell said.
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