By Brittany Busch
The prime minister is holding a press conference alongside Tasmanian senator Tammy Tyrrell.
“At 12:30, Tammy Tyrrell will be admitted through the National Executive Committee as a member of the Australian Labor Party and will join the team that is our dynamic Labor Government. She will join the team in Tasmania that’s so strong,” Albanese said.
“Tammy has successfully participated in the Senate and been a good faith negotiator, making a difference for Tasmania as an independent,” he said.
“People across Tasmania know her as a fighter.”
Source: HotPersimessage62
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Labor now has its largest share of the Senate since 2010, with 31 Senators (Should really be 32 though…)
Tammy Tyrrell is an average Aussie who got in thanks to Jacque Lambie – not some cooker or born inside the party from some corporate donor. Ironically, when the average Aussie spends time looking at policy and paying attention to the debate, they chose Labor. There’s a reason for that.
She is a Pocock ally and one of the strongest advocates for a 25% tax on gas exports. Hopefully this is a small step forward in pushing the ALP to take a leap of leadership and announce this at Budget 2027 or sooner.
Albos new nickname should be the collector or something smfh dudes still picking up seats 12 months after the election
Onya Tammy, welcome to the team! With 94 seats and no real Opposition, there’s never been a better time to be on the Labor Party team 💪
A bit interesting as she’ll be up for reelection in 2028, what position would she be on the ticket?
Doesn’t really make that much of a difference as they’ll still need the greens to pass legislation.
See people want to make an Australia to UK comparison but in reality Australia to Canada is a far more accurate comparison. Dominant centre left party occupying the middle ground and the centre right party getting squeezed from both sides and struggling to differentiate from MAGA. A shrewd political operator gaining 2 senators by defection. (Mark Carney has a majority via defections that he didn’t win at the election).
It makes sense, she was never going to survive as an independent senator at the next election. To be honest, I still think she’s sitting in a seat with Hanson’s name on it, but her odds have improved marginally.
Tammy has proven to be a good and practical Senator that works well with others.
Saying that I do wonder (just because of how Tassie works more so then overall polling), if it would’ve been just as benefitial for her to defend her seat as an Indie in a 2 ALP+Tammy scenario as oppposed to 3 ALP.
Well I guess the ALP have gotten their numbers men to crunch the figures and it does make the Senate look better on paper.
Labor quietly winning.
LNP loudly losing.
Hmmm…. The Art of War – Albanese
Have seen a few people assuming her being on team Lambie at her election makes this Labor shifting right, but looking at what she ran on, what she split with Lambie over, and how she has voted since being in parliament and I’d say she is one of Labor’s more actively progressive senators. Will be hard to be heard as an outsider coming in, in a likely unwinnable position in 2028, but if she can add her voice internally to get the numbers on key things like gas reforms and childcare expansions, she could unironically majorly help Labor take the progressive populist policies that’ll beat PHON and the Libs stone dead, despite not necessarily taking her seat back.