Did Anthony Albanese lose his “mojo” last year?

(This assumes Albanese had any mojo, but we will move on)

Albanese:

No.

Q: So, what are they talking about if they think that you sort of wasn’t quite working
last year?

Albanese:

I don’t know. I’m not part of the press gallery group chat.

Q: You talk to them from time to time. You know who they are.

Albanese:

Look, we have been a determined government. We’ve governed in what have been turbulent economic times. The largest energy crisis since the 1970s. We have seen countries around the world with double digit inflation, some of them with double digit unemployment at the same time. Across the ditch, New Zealand is in recession. What we have managed to do is negotiate our way through those turbulent economic waters, keep our eye on the horizon. We now have inflation falling from six down to 2.4. We have unemployment being low.

We have wages that have grown five quarters in a row. We have interest rates that started to rise before we came to government, now they’ve started to fall.
We’ve provided tax cuts for every Australian taxpayer and cost of living relief whilst getting that downward pressure on inflation.

We have, as well, a really positive agenda going forward. I started to make the agenda for the second term very clear way back in October with our 20 per cent cut to student debt, with our making free TAFE permanent, with our Three Day Guarantee for childcare, with our childcare infrastructure investment, with the tax cuts for every taxpayer that are a top up, so that every Australian will get a tax cut, an average tax cut there of $2,500 that they’re worth. So, we want Australians to earn more,
keep more of what they earn. Peter Dutton wants to cut everything except for people’s
taxes.

They are not ready as an alternative government. That is becoming clearer and clearer and in discussions I’ve had with you, Raf, you’d be aware that I was always of the view that when people focus on what the alternative, what the choice is in this election, going forward with a positive agenda or going backwards to the chaos, the leftovers of the Morrison government, they would choose to vote Labor and that’s what I hope on the 3rd of May