Krishani Dhanji
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118 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 9 Aug
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He will go to the next election and then after that it's sort of a we'll see once he's in his third term whether he wants to say and try and run for a fourth or whether he hands over.
But people always, I think in almost every country or every party or every state, you're always thinking about who's next and so you have, sometimes you have succession plans and at the moment, so of the names that I spoke about before, when you look at public polls,
People sort of talk most about Jim Chalmers because he's very recognisable, he's the treasurer and you sort of often see a trend that goes from, you know, becoming a treasurer to becoming the next leader.
We saw it with Scott Morrison, we saw it with Paul Keating and then a name like Mark Butler has been coming forward a lot more recently and he's the person that's kind of talked about internally.
The reason for that is because he is, other than the Prime Minister, who's of the left faction, and now the left faction does actually have a majority in the caucus, which is really important for determining, you know, which side votes on the next leader.
Mark Butler's the sort of second most senior person.
He's very, very close to the Prime Minister.
They're good friends.
They're allies.
They've been together for a really long time.
He's quite popular within the caucus.
And so even though he doesn't necessarily have the same recognition as someone like Jim Chalmers does, who is from the right faction and from Queensland, he's very popular internally.
And the left faction is very coordinated and very united, which means that they're more likely to vote as a bloc.
Someone like Tanya Plibersek, though, who is also from the left faction, is not close to the Prime Minister.
A lot of the reason for that is because she became Bill Shorten, who was a member of the right faction, his deputy back in 2013.
And so that kind of really fractured their relationship because he would have thought should have supported him for the leadership instead and also sort of frustrated some of the other members of the left faction that were there at the time.
So that relationship doesn't help and sort of means that while she has incredible PR, incredible street appeal, people know her.
One Labor MP remarked to me, like, when you walk down the street with her, everyone wants a photo.
She might have that public appeal, but she doesn't have caucus support.
So.
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