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Australia’s new leader overcame crash, party coup rumblings
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SYDNEY, 22 May 2022, (TON): Anthony Albanese, Australia’s newly elected prime minister, was rushed to hospital last year after a four-wheel-drive slammed into his car.
He told a local radio station “I thought that was it.”
At the time, his Labour Party trailed behind the conservative government in opinion polls, struggling to cut through during the pandemic.
But the near-death experience changed his life, Albanese told media.
In its wake, the opposition leader, 59, recovered on all fronts: overcoming serious injury, shrugging off rumblings of a party leadership coup and shedding 18 kilograms an image revamp that raised some eyebrows.
His suits went from baggy to tailored, his bookish wire-framed glasses switched for “Mad Men“-style black full-rims.
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