Krishani Dhanji
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 9 Aug
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When you look at who is in the Prime Minister's inner circle, there are two women who are some of the most powerful people in the government, and that's Penny Wong and Katie Gallagher.
But both of them are in the Senate, so they're not like a sort of direct kind of threat to Albanese, as it were, for leadership because both of them enjoy being in the Senate and neither has made any indication whatsoever that they would want to move forward.
to the house.
That's the first part.
The other element is just that internally they're sort of seeing as being in the latter half rather than the first half or the former half of their career.
And so they're sort of not really looked at as potentially moving, even though, again, Penny Wong is someone who has a lot of public recognition, a lot of public know-how.
But the reason why
the sort of proximity to Albanese makes such a difference is because, you know, as you say and as we have said previously, like, he runs the Labor Party in a very united way and so people...
look at and listen to what he says sort of very firmly.
And so because he has this power and control over the party, if he was to endorse someone in the event that the party is still doing well and he still holds that unity and he still holds that kind of power and popularity within the party room, you could expect that the person that he endorses or that he supports, again, not that he's talking about this, not that, you know, he's making any kind of
moves to say that he's going to quit in the next kind of two years or, you know, even ahead of the following election, that someone that who he is close to would have a much bigger advantage than someone that he is not close to.
Well, if I could add one more point with Tanya Plibersek, when I was sort of talking about the kind of public versus the private, the way that leadership ballots have worked in the past is that you have a branch, sort of a rank and file member vote, which counts for 50%, and then a caucus vote, which also counts for 50%.
And so a lot of people internally say that Plibersek being so popular with the public, that she would likely have more support
in that kind of rank and file membership, but not as much in the caucus.
When it comes to the other women that we are talking about, people talk about someone like Claire O'Neill.
The challenges for her are that she's a member of the right faction, which already has a minority, but she's also a
Victorian right faction, which is run by Richard Miles, that's controlled by Richard Miles.
And so in the sort of circumstance where if Albanese left today and Mark Butler became the new leader, someone like Claire O'Neill, who's a member of the right and a member of Victoria, might become a deputy leader.
And then suddenly the conversation changes.
And she's, as someone said, a stone's throw away from being the leader.
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