PM rains on Liberal chief’s parade at Crows game
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese created a few awkward moments at Adelaide Oval on Friday night in a surprise appearance to watch the Crows go down to the Bulldogs. A few seats along in the stands was Crows chair and national Liberal Party president John Olsen.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made a surprise appearance at the Adelaide Oval last night to watch the Adelaide Crows narrowly lose to the Western Bulldogs by six points, sitting near federal Labor Trade Minister Don Farrell and former federal Adelaide MP Kate Ellis.
A few seats down was Crows Adelaide Football Club chair John Olsen, a former Liberal Premier and the Liberal Party’s 19th Federal President, elected at a meeting of the Party’s Federal Executive in August 2020.
The PM was in good spirits as footy fans flocked for selfies over the night, with the crowd regularly on its feet in a nail-biting loss to the Bulldogs in superb Adelaide weather.
Earlier in the day, Albanese was at Whyalla Steelworks with federal Industry Minister Tim Ayres to remind South Australians of the joint state and federal election package bailing out the embattled business that was forced into receivership – and the five companies now bidding to take over operations.
This morning, the PM was at East Torrens Primary School in Hectorville with Premier Peter Malinauskas – in prime Hartley territory where former Liberal Leader Vincent Tarzia is fighting to hold his seat.
The Premier earlier voting at Woodville Gardens Primary School.
“I’m going to make one simple observation at this point, and that is how lucky we should all feel to be able to live in a healthy, vibrant liberal democracy,” Malinauskas said.
His top priority for a second term was “making sure that the state’s economy continues to head in the right direction”.
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Meanwhile, Liberal Leader Ashton Hurn cast her vote at Angaston Town Hall in her seat of Schubert in the Barossa, where her “family have lived for six generations and where I’m raising my seventh”.
“I’ve loved every single moment of getting out and speaking to South Australians from all corners of the state about a whole range of issues, and one thing that’s really shown is that South Australians just want a government who is focused on getting those bread and butter issues right for them,” Hurn said.
“I’ll keep fighting right up until 6 pm and so will my team because that’s what South Australians expect.”
Asked whether she felt confident she would still be leader of the Liberal party after the election, she said: “I’m not going anywhere”.
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