Today we’re coming to you from the National Press Club in Canberra, where Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has just delivered his annual address to set the agenda for the election, due by 17 May.
If you were expecting a big policy announcement to arrest Labor’s decline in the polls, you will be disappointed.
The two announcements — a $10,000 incentive payment for apprentices and two more states signing up to the schools funding agreement — will not generate much media coverage following today.
But this was deliberate.
The assessment made within the government was that a week after Donald Trump’s inauguration and a day before the Australia Day weekend, now was not the time for a big bang.
