Albanese trips over the truth when it suits. If he’s not careful, it could be contagious

October 28, 2026 — 7:00pm

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When Premier Chris Minns stood up over the weekend and announced the government would reverse ferret on a planned overhaul of train timetables, he sounded like someone who had listened.

The planned changes to the T4, T8 and South Coast lines timetables, he conceded, had been unpopular. Rather than digging in, he was ditching them.

“I’d rather apologise and backflip on a policy like this than implement a change that people don’t want,” he said.

He sounded, in other words, not at all like the prime minister.

Amid all the fear within the NSW Labor government over the potential for One Nation to derail their re-election, the person who looms largest is not Pauline Hanson, or her NSW leader Mike Newman. It’s Anthony Albanese. Over and over, in their internal polling, and when MPs go door-knocking or are out in their electorates, the overwhelming feedback is that voters have it out for federal Labor.

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