Save the date
Some Labor sources are preparing for a 12 April election, as the window narrows for Anthony Albanese to avoid another budget.
Until Anthony Albanese jumps in the prime ministerial limousine for the five-minute drive to Government House, he and his colleagues will face the same question.
When will the federal election be held?
Unveiling his bid to save the Whyalla steelworks in South Australia on Thursday, Albanese intervened before a journalist could even get the question out.
“It's so boring. It's so boring … I've been asked it for a year,” the exasperated prime minister said.
The same morning, his Treasurer Jim Chalmers was on talkback radio batting away the same questions — including a text-in from “Anthony” asking whether he’d kept Saturday 12 April free in his diary.
