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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Josh Butler

Lessons learned, Medicare and attack lines: nine key takeaways from Albanese’s first major speech in 2025

Anthony Albanese put the blowtorch back on Peter Dutton in his first major speech for the year as he outlined Labor’s election pitch and claimed the Liberal leader would be “weak” if elected to office.

Albanese’s scene-setting speech did not contain a lot of new information or policies, rather it set out a largely boilerplate Labor party election platform focusing on health and Medicare, education, care workers and job security.

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