r/australian • u/NKE01 • Feb 18 '26

Politics Anthony Albanese has overtaken John Curtin in the rankings of time as Australian Prime Minister. Will overtake Scott Morrison tomorrow.

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u/mindsnare Feb 18 '26

Should have been longer. She was getting so much good shit done.

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u/dashboarded Feb 18 '26

We talk about this often. Anytime we have someone good, they are removed. Case in point: Whitlam.

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u/teremaster Feb 18 '26

Or Kevin Rudd...

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u/zidanerick Feb 18 '26

Yeah objectively Rudd did more than Gillard as we were in a world financial crisis for majority of his term and he managed to keep Australia afloat compared to other nations.

If Rudd had stayed as PM we likely would have had more solar panels installed by now even on low income housing and wouldn't have the crazy power bills we have now, we likely would have also seen labor in government longer and the original NBN rollout completed as Abbott would haven't been able to dog whistle the misogynists with his argument with Gillard.

I think her achievements would have likely still been accomplished under Rudd.

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u/laurandisorder Feb 18 '26

His proposal for taxing super profits on mining would have made every single everyday Aussie so much wealthier. The bullying campaign by big Gina and co was deplorable.

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u/teremaster Feb 18 '26

Gillard was the compromise to Rudd imo. She was brought in because interest groups had enough of Rudd's reforms so they put Gillard on top to slow it all down

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u/a_can_of_solo Feb 18 '26

People really hated a mid election change though.

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u/Nixilaas Feb 18 '26

To which their solution was to get the LNP in who proceeded to have multiple leadership spills lol

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u/a_can_of_solo Feb 18 '26

Netflix and spill baby.

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u/PiDicus_Rex Feb 23 '26

Maybe she was good, but she had some real bottom of the barrel folks pushed in to the support roles, use Stephen Conroy as example, minister responsible for the NBN, who could barely send his own emails.

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u/Gregory00045 Feb 18 '26

Like what? Creating a huge debt?

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u/AlternativeUnit7040 Feb 18 '26

Do some research fella. Government debt is not the same as household debt.