Safety in Numbers
Andrew Dyson
2 June 2022
Albanese’s election win did not mean that it would be smooth sailing for the new prime minister. There was still plenty of negotiating to be done with the ‘teal independents’ and the Greens, even after Albanese reached the life raft of majority government.
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