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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Karen Middleton Political editor

Labor has been damned as ‘mired in mediocrity’ – and Albanese cannot risk a steady-as-you-go approach

Prime minister Anthony Albanese has rejected the suggestion that his government has been too timid.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has rejected the suggestion that his government has been too timid. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

It stung a few in the Albanese government this week that Hawke-Keating era union leader and Labor hero Bill Kelty had declared them “mired in mediocrity”.

The former ACTU secretary, who held office longer than the governments of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating combined, was reported in the Australian Financial Review as having offered a withering private assessment of Labor’s latest ruling incarnation.

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