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Away with Albanese
The Sydney Morning Herald photographer James Brickwood travelled with Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese as he visited towns in Queensland ahead of the federal election, due by May.
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Anthony Albanese by the Fitzroy River in Rockhampton: He says it’s a nice confidence booster when people say “Oh, you’re looking great”.Credit:James Brickwood
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Labor leader Anthony Albanese (centre) with Labor Candidate for Dawson Shane Hamilton (left) and senator Murray Watt (second from right) visiting Tassal's prawn farm in Propserpine.Credit:James Brickwood
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Anthony Albanese (second from left) at Tassal's prawn farm in Propserpine: He says his mentor, the late Tom Uren, had given two bits of advice: make sure you learn something in politics every day and make sure you grow as a person.Credit:James Brickwood
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Labor candidate for Dawson Shane Hamilton (left), Labor leader Anthony Albanese (centre) and Queensland senator Murray Watt (second from right) tour Tassal's Prawn farm in Proserpine.Credit:James Brickwood
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Top pick of the prawns: Albanese at Tassal’s prawn farm in Proserpine.Credit:James Brickwood
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Anthony Albanese at Tassal's Prawn farm in Proserpine with Queensland Labor senator Murray Watt and Labor's candidate for Dawson Shane Hamilton.Credit:James Brickwood
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Anthony Albanese attends a local Labor branch meeting at the Northern Beaches Bowls Club in Mackay.Credit:James Brickwood
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Albanese trialed some new material, mainly about the government’s contract tracing app, which gets a laugh, from the Labor branch members at the Northern Beaches Bowling Club in Mackay.Credit:James Brickwood
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Anthony Albanese speaks to locals at a Labor branch meeting at the Northern Beaches Bowls Club, Mackay: “There’s a reason why this is my third visit here, and I’ll be back because Labor can win Dawson and if we win Dawson, we will win government,” he told them.Credit:James Brickwood
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Albanese’s visit to the Northern Beaches Bowls Club in Mackay was slotted in between Monday night bingo and Friday night’s monster meat raffle. Credit:James Brickwood
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Anthony Albanese, with Labor's candidate for Dawson, Shane Hamilton, appeared much more at ease in front of a friendlier audience and launches into a stump speech without any prompting. Credit:James Brickwood
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Albanese was given a rockstar’s welcome at the gathering of 40 or so Labor branch members at the Northern Beaches Bowling Club.Credit:James Brickwood
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In step: Albanese with, from left, Shane Hamilton, Queensland Canegrowers chairman Paul Schembri and Senator Murray Watt at a cane farm in Mackay.Credit:James Brickwood
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Albanese and his Labor colleagues visit a cane farm in Mackay with local canegrower industry representatives.Credit:James Brickwood
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Not a scone in sight: Albanese visits a local CWA Country Women’s Association meeting at a club in Walkerston near Mackay on January 12.Credit:James Brickwood
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Anthony Albanese, Queensland Labor senator Murray Watt and Labor candidate for Dawson Shane Hamilton visit a local Country Women's Association. The reception from voters on the whistlestop tour of Queensland lifted the Labor leader's spirits.Credit:James Brickwood
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No bull and bearing gifts: Albanese at the Gracemere saleyards in Rockhampton where he pledged funds for Beef Week 2024.Credit:James Brickwood
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Anthony Albanese with shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers, spokeswoman for agriculture Julie Collins, Labor candidate for Capricornia Russell Robertson and Labor candidate for Flynn Matt Burnett at Gracemere Saleyards in Rockhampton, pledging funding for 2024 Beef Week.Credit:James Brickwood
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Albanese's dislike for carefully choreographed stunts for photographers and TV crews could deny him the type of momentum-building colour-and-movement a leader and his campaign staff chase during an election.Credit:James Brickwood
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Labor leader Anthony Albanese with Labor Candidate for Dawson Shane Hamilton at the Coral Sea Resort at Airlie Beach. Credit:James Brickwood