Albanese Calls for Nuanced Debate on Politics, Laments Short-Term Media Focus

“If you are not with me, you are against me” has become the standard of debate over politics, according to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who says the superficiality of the media is partly to blame. Reflecting on two years in office, Mr. Albanese told the Australian National University’s Democracy Sausage podcast that people seem to feel that, for example, they have to be “pro-government or pro-private sector, pro-renewables, or nothing—and the debate, and need for reform, is far more nuanced than that.” He said many in the government were “somewhat perplexed” that reporting suggested the Future Made in Australia Act came about “last month in a speech I gave in Brisbane.”...