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#Albanesegovernment remains near historic polling low as MPs embrace taxpayer-funded influencer strategy #Labor MPs have continued their transformation into social media influencers as they sing and dance their way to polling lows on salaries of more than $120 per hour. ✍🏽Oscar Godsell Labor has remained stuck at near-historic polling lows as federal MPs continue their transformation into social media influencers with salaries of more than $120 per hour. #The army of MPs making TikTok and Instagram videos at work has raised questions over whether slick social media campaigns are the best use of taxpayers’ money. It comes as the latest News24.com.au Pulse/YouGov poll found Labor at 28% of the primary vote, among the lowest levels ever recorded by the party. The Coalition captured 22% of the primary vote, unchanged from the previous poll, but still behind One Nation on 24%. #Yet while the major parties’ popularity remains stubbornly low, their social media strategies continue to show lawmakers cosplaying as social media influencers. #During the polling period, Labor MPs continued churning out dancing, singing and acting clips as Australians grappled with a cost-of-living crisis. On the same day the RBA held rates at 4.35%, Labor MPs Kara Cook and Alice Jordan-Baird filmed themselves dancing around like the cost-of-living crisis was solved. The pair urged users to like their video so they could convince Labor MP Dan Repacholi to join them, while spruiking the government’s efforts to bring down the cost of essential goods. “A Labor government … helps you keep more of what you earn and brings down the cost of the things you need,” the video caption said. 🤭 The video came just hours after the RBA warned inflation remained “too high” and signalled it was prepared to raise interest rates again. news24.com.au/politics/austr…