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By Deborah Snow<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps 80-year-old Robyn, a resident of Nowra\u2019s Symons House Retirement Village, had some inkling of what was to come.<\/p>\n

Labor leader Anthony Albanese is traversing the communal dining room in her direction, chatting to residents, and sharing the odd joke.<\/p>\n

\u201cWherever I go I\u2019m accompanied by 100 of my closest friends\u201d he quips, as cameras click and boom microphones jostle to catch a few words for the evening\u2019s TV news.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Thursday, April 21, and the man who wants to be prime minister is in the NSW South Coast town of Nowra , hoping to strengthen Labor\u2019s grip on the must-hold seat of Gilmore, under siege from former state transport minister Andrew Constance.<\/p>\n

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Chatting amid the media scrum: Anthony Albanese during a visit to Symons House retirement village in Nowra.Credit:<\/span>Alex Ellinghausen<\/cite><\/p>\n

When Albanese reaches Robyn\u2019s table, trailed by a media scrum, the sprightly octogenarian is waiting with a question. COVID-19 restrictions are relaxing. \u201cIs it safe enough right now?\u201d she asks. Heed the health experts, not the politicians, he reassures her. \u201cI have had my boosters and all of that … I\u2019ve been lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forty minutes later I\u2019m interviewing him in the executive cabin of the air force jet assigned to him for the campaign. He\u2019s sounding a touch hoarse but I don\u2019t give it much thought at the time.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s in a chipper mood. The previous evening\u2019s live TV debate against Scott Morrison, in the \u201cLegends Room\u201d of Brisbane\u2019s Gabba, has gone well.<\/p>\n

Questions from the audience of undecided voters were mostly on the party\u2019s preferred turf and he\u2019s voted the winner by 40 per cent of those who attended, against 35 per cent for Morrison.<\/p>\n

Albanese had fumbled, yet again, on boat turn-backs. But there was no slip-up on the scale of the previous week\u2019s disastrous brain freeze on the unemployment rate. Relief was etched on the faces of his senior advisers as he\u2019d come off the stage.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d been looking forward to the contest, he says. \u201cI have tried to get Scott Morrison to debate for three years, but he has consistently shut down debate in parliament.\u201c<\/p>\n

He\u2019d prepped hard but had also played tennis beforehand to clear his head. \u201cThe great thing about tennis is that when you\u2019re playing you can\u2019t think about anything else.\u201d He gestures towards the cupboard at the back of the cabin. \u201cI\u2019ve got a tennis kit in there\u201d.<\/p>\n

As the plane comes into Sydney he still thinks he\u2019s going to grab a night in his own bed before jetting off to Perth early next morning.<\/p>\n

At 5.53pm, he\u2019s at home on the phone when a text comes in. His PCR test is positive. Whatever momentum his campaign has regained has just come to a jarring halt.<\/p>\n

The Labor leader\u2019s first thought is to ask his 21-year-old son, Nathan, who\u2019s just arrived, to safely decamp.<\/p>\n

His second is to urgently activate the COVID-19 contingency plan his team had hoped they wouldn\u2019t need.<\/p>\n

Despite the initial shock \u201cthere was a sense of calm,\u201d he tells me several days later. \u201cWe had war-gamed this and it all kicked in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cheers and jeers: some queried the wisdom of Albanese, pictured with partner Jodie Haydon, visiting Bluesfest at Byron Bay. He was later diagnosed with COVID-19.Credit:<\/span>Photo: Alex Ellinghausen<\/cite><\/p>\n

He\u2019s not the only one to go down. Two more journalists from his travelling party have succumbed, joining several others who tested positive in the preceding days.<\/p>\n

No one can be sure where this chain of infection started but some query the wisdom of the visit to Byron Bay\u2019s Bluesfest, where Albanese, an unabashed rock and indie music fan, had cut a swathe, unmasked, through rowdy crowds five days earlier.<\/p>\n

He dismisses the suggestion that was an unnecessary gamble.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do you engage with people with a mask on?\u201d he says. \u201cIt was pretty spontaneous. Peter Noble [the event director] was showing us around, then people started chanting and stuff. There\u2019s a lot of mingling in a campaign – that\u2019s what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albanese, 59, still recovering and only out of isolation on Friday,<\/b> will need every ounce of physical strength for the next big event of the campaign \u2013 the party\u2019s official launch in Perth on Sunday. By his side will be Nathan, and his new partner Jodie Haydon. (Albanese split from ex-wife and former NSW deputy premier Carmel Tebbutt in early 2019).<\/p>\n

The party is ahead on two-party preferences, but the polls put Albanese behind Morrison as preferred prime minister and the primary vote for both sides is low, hovering in the mid-30s. Close to a third of voters remain undecided.<\/p>\n

Three women I speak to after the Sky debate, Deborah, a small-businesswoman, Narelle, a nurse and their friend Mariella, tell me they don\u2019t see enough to clearly differentiate between the two leaders. It\u2019s half-time in the race to polling day; having declared on day one that he had a mountain to climb, Albanese is still not within guaranteed reach of the summit.<\/p>\n

Albanese says he\u2019s drawn lessons from Bill Shorten\u2019s shock loss to Morrison in 2019, the victory the prime minister called his miracle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a whole lot of policies but we didn\u2019t have enough of a narrative, enough of a story to tell,\u201d Albanese says. This time, he insists, there is a coherent \u201cstory\u201d.<\/p>\n

Give it to me simply, I say.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about the economy, about national security, more secure work, about social justice, about not leaving people behind or not holding people back,\u201d he says. \u201cWe have significant reforms [in child care and aged care] that will make a positive difference to people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had a book written about me, I\u2019ve had a beer named after me. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m boring.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a plan for the \u201cbig economic transformation that\u2019s happening globally, the shift to clean energy\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a fully costed plan supported by the Business Council, AIG [Australian Industry Group] the National Farmers Federation \u2026 It ties together the threads of cleaner energy leading to lower power prices; that then allows you to have advanced manufacturing and a value-add to the resources that we have and then to skill up Australians for those jobs,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s an agenda for growth, it\u2019s an agenda for the future,<\/strong> taking advantage of the fact we are in the fastest-growing region of the world in human history.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a message that will be easy to sell to believers. But it risks coming across as overly abstract and bland to the disengaged.<\/p>\n

Only three Labor leaders since the Second World War have managed to take the party to majority government from opposition: Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd, each of whom traded on their own particular brand of charisma.<\/p>\n

Each were also forceful communicators and natural front-of-house performers. Albanese has slimmed down, sharpened up his attire and got himself new glasses. This week his new look got a big workout in an interview he did with former Australian of the Year Grace Tame, for InStyle<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n

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Albanese with Tony Burke, Terri Butler and Jim Chalmers at Tritium, a EV battery manufacturer in Murarrie, Queensland.Credit:<\/span>Alex Ellinghausen<\/cite><\/p>\n

But how does he stack up against those three earlier Labor heroes? Does he have the \u201cX\u201d Factor?<\/p>\n

\u201cI am who I am,\u201d he replies. \u201cYou know, people make their own judgments. How many other MPs have – [he catches himself, briefly] – I shouldn\u2019t say this but, you know I\u2019ve had a book written about me, I\u2019ve had a beer named after me. I<\/em> don\u2019t think I\u2019m boring. It\u2019s part of the spin that\u2019s out there from people who don\u2019t want our political interests to be served.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pandemic didn\u2019t help, he adds. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t the same capacity to lift profile had that not occurred. The only way [to do that] was by engaging in negative oppositionist politics and I chose very consciously to put the national interest first rather than short-term political interest. I chose, as well, during my three years as leader, not to respond all the time with new announcements in order to create attention.\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo for example on climate policy, I was asked hundreds of times, \u2018what\u2019s your 2030 target?\u2019 I told people that we would make the decision, and when we would do it [it was announced just before Christmas], and we stuck to that.\u201d <\/p>\n

Albanese\u2019s trusted ally and shadow minister for health Mark Butler says 2022 isn\u2019t the year for a \u201crazzmatazz\u201d election.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t subscribe to the view that the only way to win an election is having a Hawke-style incredibly popular person, or someone like Gough who is promising to come in and change the country wholesale,\u201d Butler says.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack in 2007 [when Rudd swept Labor to power], people were ready for a whole bunch of changes \u2026 Things are different now. It\u2019s not 1972 [when Whitlam came in], it\u2019s not 2007. People have come out of a really tough couple of years\u2026 if people are up for change, they want a safe change, they don\u2019t want someone to tip the table over and say it\u2019s time to remake the social fabric of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albanese\u2019s enforced home detention has put a sharper focus on some of his more telegenic and polished frontbench performers, like campaign spokesman Jason Clare and shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers. Clare was asked at one press conference a week ago if he wasn\u2019t the Labor leader many would be looking for.<\/p>\n

Did that faze Albanese?<\/p>\n

\u201cNot at all,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m the leader of a great team and that\u2019s one of our strengths. It\u2019s also one of the government\u2019s weaknesses. Scott Morrison has centralised all authority in his office and the classic example of that is the debacle that is the NSW Liberal preselections.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m leader of a team, I\u2019m confident to enable people on that team to show their wares. We are going to be a good government \u2026 The problem for Morrison is he\u2019s got Barnaby Joyce as deputy, people like [minister] Stuart Robert, it\u2019s diabolical. There is no depth to their team, and there is real depth to ours.\u201d <\/p>\n

He says of Clare, and of Senator Katy Gallagher, who shares the campaign spokesperson\u2019s role, \u201cthey are both fantastic, and totally bloody loyal and like a whole lot of our people, including myself, underestimated\u201d.<\/p>\n

A question mark hangs over the lower than expected campaign role of popular former deputy Tanya Plibersek – who\u2019s not close to Albanese. That led to speculation she\u2019s been \u201cbenched\u201d, forcing a denial from him on the John Laws radio show on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Although he can hardly do otherwise, he acknowledges the problems that dogged the start of his campaign. \u201cThe Liberals won week one,\u201d he concedes. \u201cI think we won week two.\u201d<\/p>\n

In those first days after Morrison fired the starter\u2019s gun, Albanese appeared caught off-guard by the instant step-up in pace and media scrutiny, in a way that summoned memories of Shorten\u2019s ragged first week of campaigning in 2019. There was shock inside the leader\u2019s camp at the faltering start, and a hasty call-out to veterans of campaigns past.<\/p>\n

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Albanese speaks to the press during a visit to the Toll NQX national office in Berrinba. Credit:<\/span>Photo: Alex Ellinghausen<\/cite><\/p>\n

\u201cI think Albanese was too overconfident and thought he could do it without doing the basics,\u201d one party elder tells me gloomily.<\/p>\n

Journalists, comparing notes with their colleagues travelling with Morrison on the other side of the country, were struck by the relatively lackadaisical pace of Albanese\u2019s schedule in the first 10 days, compared with the prime minister\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Morrison had around him the same tight-knit, battle-hardened group he had taken with him on the road in 2019. By contrast, some of those around the Labor leader, for all their enthusiasm, lacked the collective federal campaign experience of their coalition counterparts. (An exception is Albanese\u2019s chief of staff, Tim Gartrell, a former ALP national secretary who ran the Kevin07 campaign).<\/p>\n

Morrison knows how to make a beeline for the best photo op at any event. Albanese hasn\u2019t yet developed that same instinct. \u201cScott Morrison\u2019s pictures are still leading the news,\u201d complains one campaign veteran. \u201cThey [Albanese\u2019s team] are still missing opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the start, there was no party elder at Albanese\u2019s side in the role of campaign whisperer, and coach \u2013 the kind of role that former senator John Faulkner, for instance had played with Kim Beazley, Mark Latham, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard on their campaigns, or that one time Labor treasurer Wayne Swan played with Bill Shorten in 2019.<\/p>\n

So media antennae started quivering when former ALP defence minister, Stephen Smith, arrived at Albanese\u2019s Brisbane hotel at the start of the second week. Whether in part owing to Smith or not, the improvement in the Labor leader\u2019s game was almost immediate.<\/p>\n

He denies this was part of any emergency rescue effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d he says. \u201cStephen was always coming on. He has been a friend of mine for a long period of time; we have a roster, some of that roster has had difficulties because of COVID, simple as that \u2026 We\u2019ve had the national secretary, Kristina Keneally, Mark Butler, Chris Bowen, Tony Burke have all gone down during the campaign … we will have some other people coming on who have been through a lot of campaigns as well. That was worked out months in advance.\u201d<\/p>\n

He is also taking counsel from \u201csome elder states-people\u201d, though he won\u2019t name names.<\/p>\n

Labor\u2019s campaign has been helped by some issues breaking its way. The Solomons-China security deal has left the government vulnerable on national security, while the latest inflation figures will re-ignite the wages debate.<\/p>\n

What will stand Albanese in good stead for the three weeks ahead, according to those who know him well, is his fighting spirit. \u201cEverything that he has got in life he has had to fight for,\u201d says a colleague who has known him since his days as a young firebrand in the party\u2019s youth wing. \u201cThere is nothing that he was ever handed on a bloody platter.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Marked as a rising star of the Labor left: Anthony Albanese as a Young Labor delegate in Hobart in 1986.Credit:<\/span>David James Bartho<\/cite><\/p>\n

Albanese talks about the \u201cinner strength\u201d his mother Maryanne\u2019s \u201cabsolute unconditional love\u201d planted in him.<\/p>\n

He and Maryanne, a single parent afflicted with debilitating rheumatoid arthritis, were a tight team as he grew up in council housing in the inner-city suburb of Camperdown in the 1960s and 70s.<\/p>\n

He has called her his \u201csoulmate\u201d. They got by largely on her sole parent and invalid pension, and a raft of part-time jobs he took during his teenage years.<\/p>\n

He became the first person in his family to finish high school (at St Mary\u2019s Catholic Cathedral College in inner Sydney) and went on to Sydney University to study economics. But his studies often took second place to a passionate involvement in student politics, which saw him marked out early as a rising star of the Labor left.<\/p>\n

Not all his acolytes from those years remember them fondly. One told me he later came to see the feting of Albanese in his Young Labor heyday as \u201clike something out of a North Korean personality cult \u2026 it was all about Anthony and differences of opinion were stamped on\u201d.<\/p>\n

Albanese\u2019s fighting instincts were further honed by the blood sport that was politics inside the Labor Party\u2019s NSW branch in the 1980s and early \u201990s.<\/p>\n

At the precocious age of 26, Albanese outfoxed opponents to get himself elected to one of two assistant party secretary\u2019s posts, a position which embroiled him in constant conflict with the party\u2019s then all-powerful right-wing machine. He was also at times battling a rival faction within the party\u2019s left.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a hostile environment, day in and day out,\u201d recalls one Labor veteran.<\/p>\n

Another says it bequeathed Albanese a \u201cfixer\u2019s\u201d approach to politics and to policy, which he needs to continue outgrowing. \u201cThe challenge will be staying clear in his own head about the big picture.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1996, on his 33rd birthday, Albanese was elected to the federal parliament, having by then managed to turn his local electorate of Grayndler from a bastion of the party\u2019s right into a stronghold for the left.<\/p>\n

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Anthony Albanese is greeted by his predecessor Bill Shorten at a campaign stop in Melbourne.Credit:<\/span>Alex Ellinghausen<\/cite><\/p>\n

His first taste of the frontbench came six years later, in 2001, and by 2007 he was a cabinet minister under Rudd. By 2008, he\u2019d been entrusted with the critical job of leader of the house, responsible for day-to-day management of government business in the parliament and he played a vital role in wrangling independents to maintain support for Julia Gillard\u2019s minority Labor government, and ensuring the passage of legislation.<\/p>\n

He backed Rudd to retake the prime ministership in 2013, and served briefly as deputy prime minister before Tony Abbott reclaimed government for the coalition later that year.<\/p>\n

He insists he never got into parliament with the aim of becoming leader. \u201cI\u2019m not someone who you will find a school yearbook, saying I\u2019m going to be PM one day,\u201d he tells me.<\/p>\n

But in 2013, after Labor\u2019s crushing defeat, he put his hand up as the party conducted its first-ever ballot for a new leader among both grassroots members and the parliamentary caucus.<\/p>\n

He won 60 per cent of the membership vote but narrowly lost to the right\u2019s Shorten who edged him out with the majority of caucus votes, including some who\u2019d defected to Shorten from the left. Butler, who managed Albanese\u2019s campaign, would later tell Albanese\u2019s biographer Karen Middleton, \u201can act of treachery did him in\u201d.<\/p>\n

The next six years would see periodic flaring of tensions between the Shorten and Albanese camps<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe I\u2019m a better leader now than I would have been if elected in 2013,\u201d Albanese says. \u201cI have made sure we have proper shadow ministry processes. I have tried to lead in opposition like I would lead in government. There is more unity and solidarity in Labor\u2019s team across the board than I\u2019ve seen in my time in politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

This glosses over the recent internal turmoil which broke out after the untimely death of Shorten friend and ally, Senator Kimberley Kitching, said to have felt ostracised by Labor\u2019s senate leadership team of Penny Wong and [then senator] Kenneally, who are close to Albanese.<\/p>\n

But when I put it to him that the furore surrounding the death of Kitching revealed a flash of tribal tensions still simmering beneath the surface, he flatly disagrees.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo it didn\u2019t, no it didn\u2019t,\u201d he says, putting the trouble down to \u201csome differences within the Victorian right-wing faction of the Labor party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of himself and Shorten, he says \u201cwe are fine. I spoke to him before the debate and got his advice about what happened last time, and I spoke to him after as well. He\u2019s an important part of the team\u201d.<\/p>\n

A source who knows both men well believes \u201cthey are both professional enough to make it work\u201d.<\/p>\n

I quiz Albanese about his recent declaration that Labor\u2019s \u201chistoric mission\u201d was to lift more people into the middle class. Wouldn\u2019t his younger <\/strong>self have scoffed at such a tame expression of aspiration?<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t say that was our only <\/em>mission,\u201d he replies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I became Labor leader, I said that we\u2019ve got to be interested in wealth creation as well as its distribution. [In 2019] it appeared as though we were anti-aspirational, and one of the things that\u2019s happened is that there are <\/em>more middle-class people because of what Labor has achieved, more people going to uni because of Whitlam, more people set themselves up as small business people, because of Hawke and Keating. That\u2019s a positive thing, lifting people up, that aspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n

How does he feel about having to tell Australians surviving on JobSeeker that Labor can\u2019t commit to reviewing their level of benefits if it wins office?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I have said is that each and every budget, Labor governments should look to see what they can do for people who need more assistance \u2026 You are best to examine [some] things like payment systems when you are in government and you have the resources of the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Craig Emerson, a former adviser to Bob Hawke, one-time cabinet minister, and co-author of the party\u2019s review of its 2019 election failure, says Albanese\u2019s firm grip on mainstream values is \u201cvery important\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has legitimised aspiration. He understands and strongly supports the desire of people to improve their own standing and the standing of their families. But at the same time he is not going to stand idly by and see the disadvantaged being ignored; so his fundamental value is everyone should have the same opportunity in life. To me that\u2019s far more important than some sort of mercurial charisma.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike Morrison, who told me several months ago that he didn\u2019t think about legacies because they were \u201cvain\u201d, Albanese says, \u201cI want a legacy. I\u2019m in politics to do legacies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Out of isolation: Albanese enjoying the sun in Marrickville on Friday.Credit:<\/span>Steven Siewert<\/cite><\/p>\n

So, what would his look like?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big legacy,\u201d he answers, \u201cis the transformation of the economy to a clean energy economy that has things made here, that takes up the opportunity that\u2019s there of Australia becoming a renewable energy superpower that is fit for purpose for the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a noble aim, which won\u2019t completely satisfy those who fear the planet is on a path to climate catastrophe, nor, on the other side, fend off the relentless sabotage by the fossil fuel lobby. But at least this time around, Albanese can take comfort from the fact that his opponent is also internally wedged on climate policy.<\/p>\n

He would be less than human if he wasn\u2019t feeling the weight of the party\u2019s hopes and expectations on his shoulders. Should he win, his first task could be plunging into the choppy waters of international diplomacy with a meeting of the Quad partners (Japan, US, India and Australia) pencilled in for May 24. Also top of his to-do list is preparing legislation for Labor\u2019s proposed National Reconstruction Fund and the new body, Jobs and Skills Australia. He plans a short parliamentary sittings in June, and an early meeting with state and territory leaders to \u201cmove forward in a more co-operative way across a range of issues\u201d.<\/p>\n

He won\u2019t discuss the existential crisis that will surely descend on Labor if he loses.<\/p>\n

It will have swung wildly from Shorten\u2019s grand redistributive offering in 2019 to the small target strategy of 2022. If both have failed, it is hard to see what rises next from the ashes. He is not even considering that, he says. \u201cMy focus is on us winning the election, and being a good government.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have a final question for him. What\u2019s the one thing that no one knows about Anthony Albanese? \u201cI am frustratingly neat,\u201d he shoots back. That\u2019s it? \u201cI\u2019m very domesticated.\u201d (I also winkle out of him that he likes the occasional opera and a sprinkling of classical music as well as his love of rock).<\/em><\/p>\n

If obsessive neatness equates to organisational skills, that\u2019s a handy trait if he gets his hands on the keys to the Lodge on May 21.<\/p>\n

His old friend former NSW Labor leader Luke Foley has a longer list of what he would expect Albanese to bring to the prime ministership.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn authenticity – somebody who has had experience of tough economic circumstances and has never forgotten where he comes from. Somebody who has evolved, and matured over the decades. And I think somebody who has it in him to be a prime minister for the Australian people as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cut through the noise of the federal election campaign with news, views and expert analysis from Jacqueline Maley. <\/strong><\/em><\/i><\/b>Sign up to our Australia Votes 2022 newsletter here.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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