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All the things people are saying he needs to be bold and aggressive on, Labor has done so in the past and it's lost them election.
The fact is we're all too immersed in the American social media ecosystem and so we expect bold action to solve American problems that would only be vote-winners in a non-compulsory voting system where elections are fought on turnout (usually as a centrist vs. nutjobs race). Albanese knows the Australian political system well, that being that nobody really cares about politics here and if Labor wants to win they need to stay out of the press because it's run by private school kids who hate him (at best).
After all this time I'm still undecided on Rudd but I'm sympathetic to this argument. He's cautious to a fault but moves where he can and does make real progress, not always where it's most needed but where it's achievable.