2 days Ago By Anton Nilsson
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has been pictured pouring himself beers and posing in a hard hat and hi-vis vest, while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been holding babies and having lunch with a suburban family. In other words, the federal election campaign has well and truly begun. Crikey takes a look at the places the campaigns have visited so far.
Friday Albanese’s first stop was Dutton’s electorate of Dickson, a cheeky move that underscored the combative nature of Labor’s campaign. Albanese flew to Brisbane from Canberra on Friday afternoon, with the press pack being bussed to the outer northern suburbs for an event with Labor’s candidate Ali France. “This is Queensland’s most marginal seat and a margin with a one in front of it.
We intend to run a very serious campaign,” Albanese said, according to Guardian Australia. Dutton was in Brisbane as well, delivering his speech responding to Albanese’s election announcement from there. Saturday Both Albanese and Dutton began their Saturdays in Brisbane.
Albanese’s events included a presser at an urgent care clinic, and Dutton poured himself a beer at the XXXX Brewery. Both men were also heckled at those events, according to Nine News . The Greens, hoping to defend their hard-won seats of Griffith, Brisbane and Ryan, were in Brisbane on Saturday too.
Albanese went to Bundaberg next, while Dutton went to Dickson for afternoon tea. Later, Dutton went to a Chinese restaurant at Moreton, where he was heckled by a protester, again . Albanese next went to Merimbula in the NSW electorate of Eden Monaro, before travelling to Bega for a local infrastructure announcement.
Sunday Albanese began the morning in Canberra with an appearance on the ABC’s Insiders program. Afterwards, he went to the nearby suburb of Downer for a kitchen-table chat with a local family about supermarket prices. Dutton, who woke up in Brisbane, flew to Sydney.
In what may have been the first hi-vis and hardhat picture opportunity of the campaign, Dutton visited the Austral bricks factory. The factory is located in Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s seat of McMahon in the city’s west. Next stop for Dutton was an Assyrian New Year’s festival in Fairfield in the electorate of Fowler.
The formerly Labor-held seat was won by independent Dai Le at the last election, and Dutton praised Le during his visit to the electorate. After that, it was off to the Al-Madinah Masjid mosque in the western Sydney electorate of Macarthur. Monday Albanese is expected to attend several events in Western Australia on Monday, including an announcement of funding for a hospital upgrade in the seat of Hasluck.
Greens leader Adam Bandt will campaign in the Labor-held electorate of Wills in Melbourne. Have something to say about this article? Write to us at [email protected].
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