Labor prime minister Anthony Albanese ran great guns for his party in 2022’s Australian federal election. He campaigned on Covid-19 promising a focal change from the incumbent government’s mismanagement putting the safety of Australians first. Eight months later, with a further 10,000 Australians dead under his watch—the highest national death toll recorded this pandemic—he’d instead declared “Covid-19 exceptionalism” over, let the nation’s vaccine immunity wane and caught Covid-19 twice. It’s no wonder then that a Guardian Essential Poll today, showed his popularity had dropped a massive 5% despite a paucity of effective parliamentary opposition and a Liberal opposition leader running a US MAGA Republican line. For Albanese, there is no clawing this mojo back. That, however, won’t stop him trying and the political Hail…