ATH IN ONE CORNER AND A ROBOTIC
R. AUSTRALIAN POLITICS – AS LED BY
ND BILL SHORTEN – REMAINS A CURIOUS
AND GENERAL INACTION. STILL, WHO
Y? WELL, THE LIST OF AUSPOL’S MOST
EYOND THE CONFINES OF CAPITAL HILL.
most
influential
people in
Australian
politics
Bill Shorten
The former union leader must
increasingly cast a gaze over his left
shoulder at Albo. But, Shorten will
point to two-party-preferred polls –
with Turnbull’s Newspol losing streak
showing little sign of slowing. Though
Turnbull still tops out personally. The
Labor leader must quietly curse his
party’s dive into the trough with the
inflamed dual-citizenship saga. This
will be Shorten’s greatest test of
credibility and power – even with the
gift that is Barnaby Joyce.
Malcolm Turnbull
There may be a Barnaby Joyce-
shaped shadow that continues to
jostle the PM, but as long as Labor are
unable to capitalise on the mayhem,
there’ll be a government with
Turnbull’s fingers pulling the strings.
The verve and the vigour and the
hope he rode in on back in late 2015 is
surely gone – so too the leather jacket
- though the 2018 budget, positive
infrastructure moves and a buoyant
economy will keep Mal in office as the
country’s most powerful pollie.
WORDS RICHARD CLUNE
