Karen Middleton

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612 appearances 13 recordings 6 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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7am · Albo vs Hannah Ferguson: Can the 28-year old media founder topple the PM? · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

The council house that he lived in with his mother and grew up in is still there and it is still council housing.

But this is in his bones.

This is the place that he grew up.

But over those decades, it's become a lot more gentrified as people with more money have moved in.

And so the demographic now is far more kind of white collar, I suppose you'd say.

Some of the bones of that original electorate are still there in the original demographic.

For example, Leichhardt, Norton Street and areas like that that fall within that electorate have heavy Italian influence.

Slowly over the years, you've seen different waves of migration.

So you've seen migrants from China, migrants from India.

So it's a far more diverse population, I think, than it was when Anthony Albanese first won that seat.

Yes, and there always is when someone is elevated to the Prime Ministership and it can kind of go in both directions.

So I think there's a section of the population in his electorate who would say they're really pleased that he is now the Prime Minister and that can increase your personal support in an electorate.

But then there's a cohort that might say, well, now that he's the Prime Minister, he's not paying as much attention to us in our seat, or he's not doing what we thought he would do, or he's not the same politician demonstrating the same values as he did when he was younger.

And so there can be criticisms as well.

And I think there's a little bit of both.

But if you look at Anthony Albanese's vote in that seat over the last few elections, it was strong when he first won it.

Then through the period of the instability of Labor leadership, the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years, his personal vote dropped, and I think that reflected the general chaos in the Labor Party.

But since he became Prime Minister, and really since he became Opposition Leader...

in 2019, his personal vote, his primary vote has steadily increased.

So you would think that that is partly to do with the fact that he's now the Prime Minister, the leader of the country, and then there's a degree of sort of local pride in that.

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