The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is framing this year's election as a stark choice for voters which will define the next decade. In his first major speech of the year, Albanese unveiled a new incentive for apprentices and more money for public schools.
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00:00With the polls largely deadlocked, the Prime Minister is sharpening the contrast ahead
00:07of what he's framing as a high-stakes contest.
00:11This is not a time for wrecking, for cutting, for thinking small, aiming low and looking
00:15back.
00:16This is a time for building, for looking after people and looking to the future.
00:21Sticking to core Labor values, Anthony Albanese announced the near completion of a decade-long
00:26deal to finish the so-called Gonski reforms and fully fund public schools.
00:32And in a nod to the housing crisis, a $10,000 bonus for apprentices in the home-building
00:38sector.
00:39They could earn more stacking shelves at the supermarket.
00:41He should have made the announcement two years ago.
00:43We support it in terms of what we've seen.
00:45The opposition leader is comfortable with the contrast, focusing on what he sees as
00:49Labor's policy failures and their consequences.
00:53Easing on polling, suggesting support for keeping Australia Day on January 26 is at
00:58its highest level in years.
01:00I think since the voice, to be honest, not only was $500 million wasted and the Prime
01:05Minister divided the country, but I think with the outcome there are many Australians
01:09who felt that a dark cloud had been lifted from their heads and they were able to speak
01:13out on different issues.
01:15I sometimes think Peter Dutton every year has a fight with an imaginary friend over
01:23something that most Australians are just getting on with Australia Day.
01:26You know, like just chill out.
01:29The Prime Minister sought to draw the sharpest contrast on the question of character.
01:34Anthony Albanese addressed head-on the opposition leader's central criticism of him, that he's
01:39weak.
01:40And he offered his own critique of Peter Dutton, painting him as a divisive leader
01:45who avoids scrutiny at all costs.
01:47What's tough is coming here, fronting up, as I did last year, saying that we have changed
01:53our mind on tax cuts.
01:55It's the toughest thing I've done this term.
01:58But one widely embraced by voters.