Australians are starting to feel the economic pain, but they are not taking it out on Albanese
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Anthony Albanese heads towards Christmas with inflation, interest rates and power prices all high. But, comfortingly for Labor, his own popularity is up there too.
The objective circumstances in which the government finds itself sit somewhere between challenging and confronting. Politically, however, it could hardly be in a better...