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Anthony Albanese made these comments as a number of his backbenchers particularly are getting nervous at the government's prospects for the next election which is due in 2028.

Anthony Albanese was addressing his party room colleagues at a caucus meeting as they do when parliament sits and he was stressing that the government was doing a lot on cost of living and was focused on the important issues political opponents, that means people in the Greens, the Coalition and One Nation, were rushing to the fringes of politics.

So Anthony Albanese is trying to paint this picture of the government being centrist and normal, getting on with the job, while Angus Taylor and the Coalition are off speaking at conservative conferences, and he's also claiming that the Greens are rushing to the fringe of politics as well.

So an upbeat assessment by the Prime Minister, perhaps one that's not entirely backed up by opinion polls, although I will stress that a couple of recent polls have shown a small uptick in Labor's support, and that's despite the most recent interest rate rise.

Well, I can't believe you have cited wharfie time.

That is persona non grata as a term over here in Western Australia.

But it's certainly interesting, right? Because I think, you know, if you're thinking about why Anthony Albanese has framed where the Labor Party is at the way that he did, you could make the case that going back to federal elections, it does seem as though the mainstream, the middle of Australian politics, are where the most votes are.

And he's not wrong that the Coalition and the Greens and One Nation are moving further to the fringes.

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From Gadigal Country, I'm Nick Grimm, and today on The Breakfast Wrap, with the ongoing war in the Middle East causing global oil prices to rocket up and prices at the pump to spin ever higher, today we take a deep dive into the Coalition's plan to deliver some relief to motorists in the form of reduced fuel excise.

First, we'll get the view from the Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions, Dan Tehan.

This is a good, sensible, practical measure which is helping Australians in a cost of living crisis.

In the situation that we're in at the moment, what's the answer?

Well, we need to be providing some relief to make up for the fact that they haven't been exploring, they haven't been giving production licences, they haven't been doing their job in making sure we use our natural resources.

How many were given out under the Coalition government? Sally, this is an important point here.

The Australian people shouldn't suffer as a result of that through higher cost of living.

Now, most would say that still seems a long way above the long-term average.

And, of course, One Nation and the Coalition have their own targets, but we're yet to see the Coalition's total targets.

policy package one nation have outlined there's pretty swinging cuts i mean the the truth is australia is a nation built on migration the european experiment arrived here thanks to migration the economy has been built thanks to migration australia without migration would look absolutely nothing like it does today that's just a fact The issue, though, for the average Australian is the numbers.

How many, how quickly, and where they settle.

Nothing is sort of matching up.

And as I said, the only reason why this is on the agenda now is that people are fed up The Liberal Party and Coalition really should be running with this.

It shouldn't be one nation that is putting this on the agenda, but the very fact that the Labor-Albanese government have been forced to act shows that this is a really important issue to the Australian public because up until a few years ago, the levels of immigration were sustainable.

There was a control over it.