Labor’s problem with Anthony Albanese’s leadership? The vibe of the thing

Anthony Albanese was involved in a car accident in early January and the Opposition Leader spent the night in hospital. At the time, the seriousness of the accident was not played up.

But he has been taking some time to get over internal injuries and pondering what emergency workers at the scene told him: that if the car that hit the front of his had hit just 30 centimetres either side of where it did, he would almost certainly have been killed.

While his colleagues have spent Christmas despairing about whether Albanese can lead them to victory at the next election, his car accident has been weighing on his mind, not just in terms of his injuries but in the strange quirks of fate that life throws up.

It’s put him in a slightly strange and…