The Labor Party is slowly but surely self-destructing the same as the Liberal Party has. And it’s what’s inside the Labor Party that is its biggest threat.

In this article I will look at several examples of the enemies within the Labor Party killing Labor such as Labor’s attacks on the One Nation Party, which often lead to an own goal by Labor, so-called Labor supporters with their own agenda, and their most recent own goal of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese doing an ill-advised grubby interview.

Recent polls show Labor’s decline since the May 2025 federal election, with Labor’s primary vote support down from 34.56% to 25.5%, which puts them second behind One Nation with a primary vote of 26%.

Roy Morgan polling says: “Despite dropping behind on primary vote, the ALP maintains the same narrow edge on a two-party preferred basis against either One Nation (53% cf. 47%) or the L-NP Coalition (53% cf. 47%).” (Click here to read more)

This article is a follow-up to 3 other articles I have published recently on Labor and the rapidly changing political environment. The other 3 articles can be read here, here and here.

While still being ahead on a two-party preferred basis, Labor’s greatest concern is that their primary vote has dropped 9% from 34.56% at the May 2025 federal election to 25.5%, and if it continues to decline, Labor will be in major trouble at the next federal election, which is due by May 2028.

Labor should learn from the Liberal Party’s decline

The Liberal Party / National Party coalition received 31.82% of the primary vote at the 2025 federal election and is now down to 22%, which is a 10% drop in the primary vote, and it will destroy the party if maintained at the 2028 federal election.

Almost all of the voters who have left the Liberal Party / National Party coalition have gone to One Nation.

While the Liberal Party politicians say publicly they need to change to survive, they are doing absolutely nothing to change, as the people with power in the Liberal Party don’t want to give it up.

The voters who have deserted the Coalition have done so because they believe the Coalition has failed them in the past and will do so in the future. Those voters have an issue with the Coalition.

Those same voters haven’t left the Coalition because the One Nation Party all of sudden came up with new policies that appeal to them.

So when the Liberal / National Party Coalition attacks the One Nation Party trying to win back voters, they are achieving nothing because that does not solve the voters’ issues with the failings of the Coalition.

And that is the lesson for the Labor Party. There is no value in attacking the One Nation Party trying to win back voters if the voters left the Labor Party because they are not happy with Labor.

Labor attacks on One Nation backfire

The Labor Party should be promoting all the great work they have done over the last 4 years, but because they have failed to achieve much, they are spending a lot of time attacking Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party, who only have 2 seats in the lower house and 4 seats in the senate.

Attack one

Labor probably would have done well with their ongoing attacks about One Nation’s donations from billionaire Gina Rinehart until Prime Minister Anthony Albanese went to dinner for a $1 million bribe (donation) from Felix Lee.

When the $1 million bribe was exposed, Labor then tried to launder the $1 million into smaller amounts, which was also exposed, which is a major own goal by Albanese and the Labor Party.

So, now anytime Labor attacks One Nation’s donations from billionaire Gina Rinehart, One Nation supporters respond with Labor’s hypocrisy of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese being paid $1 million for a dinner.

Attack two

Recently Pauline Hanson went to the UK and did an interview with Tommy Robinson. It was really a none-issue as most Australians wouldn’t even know who Tommy Robinson is.

The Labor Party and others attacked the interview, saying such things as Tommy Robinson “is a far-right anti-immigration figure in the UK with an extensive criminal record, who has served prison sentences for fraud and assault.” (Click here to read more)

Once again, Labor probably might have gained some benefit attacking Pauline Hanson and her interview with Tommy Robinson, except they made the fatal mistake of rolling out federal MP Tanya Plibersek to do some of the attacking.

In the below video Tanya Plibersek says Pauline Hanson is “palling around with convicted criminals” in relation to Hanson’s Tommy Robinson interview.

One Nation Supporters were very quick to point out on social media that federal MP Tanya Plibersek is married to Michael Coutts-Trotter.

Michael Coutts-Trotter’s Wikipedia page says, “In 1986, he received a nine-year prison sentence as a drug dealer selling heroin to addicts. He served two years and nine months in jail before parole in 1988.” (Click here to read more)

For Tanya Plibersek to belittle Paul Hanson for “palling around with convicted criminals” is hypocrisy at the highest given she is married to a convicted heroin dealer. Another own goal for the Labor Party.

Labor supporters with their own agenda

Former Labor politicians such as former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and former leader Bill Shorten were not popular with voters at the end of their political careers, but they can’t help themselves and still court the media limelight.

It might be helpful for Rudd’s and Shorten’s own pockets and careers outside politics but it is a drag on the current Labor government as every time they are in the media they look like the hangers-on they are which turns voters off.

The Labor Party would do well to ask them to move on from political commentary in the media, but I doubt they will.

Anthony Albanese’s ill-advised grubby interview

The Labor Party is currently using a lot of political capital trying to defend Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s grubby interview on the Bush Deep Podcast on the 3rd of July 2026 with comedian Nikki Osborne.

The fallout from the Bush Deep Podcast will likely continue next week as the Senate has ordered the government to produce its diplomatic communications with Japan regarding Albanese’s comments on the podcast. Once again, another own goal by Albanese and the Labor Party.

With the $1 million bribe dinner, attempted cover-up and the grubby Bush Deep Podcast interview you would have to think at least some federal Labor MPs are starting to question Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s political judgment.

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