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It looked for all the world like a “kitchen sink” strategy to throw everything at Albanese to see what might stick – and a calculated response as the Prime Minister’s standing and character has declined (according to published polls) over a sustained period of time.
The free-ranging assessments of Albanese are also an attempt to define the small-target Opposition Leader in the minds of voters.
In appearing alongside his wife, Morrison’s media minders will be hoping this is the interview that begins to smooth the Prime Minister’s sharp edges and flaws – which have been on full display over the past few months – and humanise him ahead of a budget in March that will springboard into a poll expected in May.
There will be some people who will look again at the Prime Minister as a result of the 60 Minutes interview and the insights provided by Mrs Morrison (who is likely to play a more prominent role in the coming campaign than she did in 2019).
Interviews like these rarely change as many minds as the subject hopes and this is one is unlikely to be an exception. Morrison has been in the job for more than three years, has lead in his saddlebags and won’t be able to re-run his insurgent 2019 campaign.
The calculation is that combined with the full-frontal assault on the Labor leader’s character and fitness for high political office, a two-track strategy softening Morrison and tarnishing Albanese – going low and high at the same time – will cut through.
Above all else, it underscores how narrow the government’s path to a fourth term has become.
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It may have been lost in the drama of a government rife with internal divisions on the eve of an election.
But while the ruckus over the religious discrimination bill dominated the headlines last week, another decision in the Senate on Thursday, to kibosh draconian new regulations over superannuation, will likely have far wider implications for most Australians.
In a huge blow for Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, the Senate decision to roll his regulations on how superannuation funds can seek advice has dented his reputation and curtailed his determined and long-running campaign to make life easier for our captains of industry.
Last week's Senate mutiny centred around what is known as proxy advisors, a handful of firms that provide voting advice to big investors and whose growing power has sent shivers of fear through the top end of town. Mr Frydenberg had tried to nobble them via a harsh new regulatory regime that came into force just three days earlier.
More on that later.
For years, company directors and executives have expressed a growing unease at the rising power of superannuation funds, big institutional investors and even ordinary everyday punters and their new-found willingness to call the shots.
Unlike days of yore, annual meetings in the past decade at times have become shooting galleries, with bug-eyed directors perched on what once was considered a pedestal and called to account on everything from pay to performance.
On occasions, there have been humiliating public dressings down. In extreme cases, such as Westpac's child sexual exploitation funding and Rio Tinto's destruction of Juukan Gorge, chairmen and chief executives have been delivered an ultimatum: leave now or be booted out.
Then there were the court actions. Shareholders, unwilling to wait for a tame and timid corporate regulator lacking willpower, 20 years ago decided to take the law into their own hands with class actions, particularly when they believed they had been misled or kept in the dark.
And then along came COVID. Desperate times called for radical action.
The shareholder meetings went underground, or virtual, which were much easier to control. To help cope with the unprecedented shutdown of commerce, the federal government suspended or relaxed regulations, particularly around insolvency and disclosure.
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