The Victorian premier has repeatedly charmed the state by ‘getting issues accomplished’, with seen initiatives overshadowing the celebration’s missteps elsewhere.
Premier Daniel Andrews seems virtually sure to bag one other election victory on November 26, securing Victorian Labor 12 years in energy. As Margaret Simons wrote in Guardian Australia: “That is the sort of longevity that adjustments societies, dominates notions of the politically attainable, and defines communities.”
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese little doubt aspires to comparable longevity in energy on the federal stage, and to likewise forge a historic legacy. However Albanese is but to emulate what we’d name Andrews-ism. Critics counsel the polarising premier lacks a “guiding philosophy”, however I’d argue Andrews-ism constitutes a coherent principle of centre-left management.
Regardless of its flaws, it’s an strategy Albanese may study lots from, for it gives steering on a few of his authorities’s thornier political challenges.
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