Labor is COPping out as 2027 economic gloom looms

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The Albanese government faces a savage voter reckoning but is reluctant to change course. The temptation heading into Christmas will be to offer voters more financial Band-Aids and baubles.

Another double-shot latte from the Australian free coffee cart at Antalya, Turkey, please.

It could actually have been worse. Anthony Albanese wouldn’t have chosen to be among the crowds flooding a Turkish resort town for a major international conference on climate change when his government is under such pressure at home.

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