The favourites, the exiles and the heirs: The brutal court politics of King Albo's looming cabinet reshuffle... and the ministers bracing for execution: PETER VAN ONSELEN

详细摘要

As Albanese weighs a reshuffle, PVO draws on decades of Labor contacts to reveal who is rising, who is vulnerable and who is already positioning for the next phase of their political careers

Published: 11:27 GMT, 7 November 2026 | Updated: 11:39 GMT, 7 November 2026

At the Tudor court, governing England and staying close to the monarch were overlapping occupations. Courtiers competed for access, whispered against rivals and watched for the smallest change in royal favour. A place beside the king could make a career. Being excluded from his company could finish one.

Welcome to the increasingly chaotic court of King Albo. Mind your bow, watch your back.

Following a week of our PM chasing after a real king at the Commonwealth heads of government get-together in the Caribbean, it's only fitting that we use a courtly metaphor to analyse the Australian political situation.

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