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Labor is COPping out as 2027 economic gloom looms

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) •
November 13, 2026 • 01:09 AM
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Labor faces a savage voter reckoning but is reluctant to change course. The temptation heading into Christmas will be to offer voters more financial Band-Aids and baubles.

Labor is COPping out as 2027 economic gloom looms

Another double-shot latte from the Australian free coffee cart at Antalya, Turkey, please.

It could actually have been worse. Anthony Albanese wouldn’t have chosen to be among the crowds flooding a Turkish resort town for a major international conference on climate change when his government is under such pressure at home. But the prime minister would have been even more uncomfortable presiding over the event in Adelaide instead. Labor had initially fought hard to make Australia the host of COP 31, seeing it as a potential coup in promoting its climate change credentials.

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