"The prime minister has borrowed from a sharp-tongued predecessor to launch his first attack on the new opposition leader, Angus Taylor, asking: Can a souffle rise once? Albanese played on an infamous insult from former prime minister Paul Keating, who asked whether a souffle rises twice when Liberal Andrew Peacock mounted a challenge to regain the party leadership in 1989. Angus Taylor presents us with a new question: can a souffle rise once?"
"It was the prime minister's first public comment on Taylor's toppling of Sussan Ley in a long-anticipated Liberal leadership spill. Taylor's 34-votes-to-17 win on Friday brought down the Liberals' first female leader just nine months after she took the top job. Albanese said Taylor and his new deputy, Senator Jane Hume, had both damaged their party with their various opposition to tax cuts, cost-of-living relief and renewable energy."
"It is extraordinary that they have had eight months of plotting in order to deliver the two people to the leadership positions who, more than anyone else on their entire show, were responsible for alienating the Liberals from the Australian voters, he said. But that is what they have done. Every single challenge that is before us, they have failed on."
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese invoked Paul Keating's famous souffle insult to question Angus Taylor's leadership prospects. The comment followed Taylor's 34-17 victory over Sussan Ley in a Liberal leadership spill that removed the party's first female leader nine months after her appointment. Albanese accused Taylor and deputy Senator Jane Hume of damaging the Liberal Party through opposition to tax cuts, cost-of-living relief and renewable energy. The federal government launched online ads criticizing Taylor's record as a minister and shadow treasurer. Labor ministers described Taylor as lacking credibility on economic challenges and offered no clear solutions.
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