The prime minister is already crafting a post-referendum Plan B, while the Liberals seem to be banking on chaos and instability of the past to see them through.
There is no doubting Anthony Albanese’s heart is in the right place. But he needs to get his head straight too.
The objective is to sour the public mood to the point where, at the very least, the next election plunges Labor into minority government. Right now, there is no whiff of tension around Albanese’s leadership as there was with Rudd. Obviously, he will be wounded if the referendum is defeated but, unless he crumbles after a massive loss, there will be no move against him.Senior Labor figures from the Rudd days remind one another not to repeat the other mistake of the Rudd years and to underestimate Dutton, as they did Abbott, by thinking he was unelectable.
Government insiders are determined not to allow the issue to continue to dominate the political debate. As Albanese says, if the referendum is defeated, there is no mandate to legislate a Voice. Another senior Labor figure was blunter, saying they cannot afford to allow themselves to be “held hostage by the fate of the Voice”.
No more angry ant PM either. He needs to keep his cool, no matter how irritating he finds journalists asking legitimate questions, then steer discussion to the positives of the Voice and the economy. And this: of particular concern in the results is that in seats with high numbers of female professional voters, the Liberal Party only holds three of the top 30 seats where previously it held 15.
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