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Like Howard, Albanese knows two heirs apparent are better than one
Labor’s leadership succession plan seems less obvious than it did six months ago.
Phillip CooreyPolitical editorWhen Labor was last in government, it had four immigration ministers in six years.
After the first minister, West Australian senator Chris Evans, under the instruction of Kevin Rudd, abolished John Howard’s Pacific solution, immigration became a job that nobody with even a scintilla of political ambition coveted
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