Electricity, coal, gas and 'true' Labor on show as Albanese throws shield of calm over Fitzgibbon bombshell

Ian Kirkwood
Updated April 14 2021 - 11:21pm, first published November 18 2020 - 9:39am
IT'S LIKE THIS: Tomago Aluminium CEO Matt Howell explains the smelter's power problems to federal Labor opposition leader Anthony Albanese, while Australian Workers Union national secretary, Dan Walton, looks on.
IT'S LIKE THIS: Tomago Aluminium CEO Matt Howell explains the smelter's power problems to federal Labor opposition leader Anthony Albanese, while Australian Workers Union national secretary, Dan Walton, looks on.

FEDERAL Opposition leader Anthony Albanese went to the Kurri Kurri childcare centre that Paterson MP Meryl Swanson attended as a toddler, and toured the Tomago Aluminium smelter yesterday in a Hunter visit to reinforce his party's "working class" credentials, after exiled Hunter MP Joel Fitzgibbon said the party was losing touch with its base.

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Ian Kirkwood

Ian Kirkwood

Journalist

Reporting journalist at the Newcastle Herald since 1987. Editorial writer, general reporter, industrial relations, industry and coal.

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