Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is on a three-day visit to south-east Queensland and seeking to promote Labor’s federal election chances in the process.
After introducing Rebecca Hack as Labor’s candidate for the Green-held seat of Ryan on Thursday, Albanese was asked if he was worried about the party losing more seats in Queensland.
“No, I’m about us winning seats here in Queensland, including here,” he said.
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“I’ll be at Forde after this, and I’ll be in Dickson, a little electorate not far from here, as well, which has a very slim margin, tomorrow.
“We’ve got good candidates, what we have done is spent the time to make sure that we have the best candidates possible to put forward Labor’s agenda.”
Albanese said Greens supporters should be “pretty disappointed that the Greens have essentially used the power that they have not to promote positive policies, but to undermine the progressive agenda of the Labor government over areas like housing affordability, over making sure we have a realistic plan for renewables going forward, to address climate change as well”.
He also took a swipe at federal Opposition leader Peter Dutton, the LNP Member for Dickson, for promising a nuclear power industry.
“I don’t see people walking through the streets of Brisbane saying, ‘what do we want? A nuclear reactor. When did we want it? Now’.”