Albo’s Training Wheels Just Keep Spinning

As Australia’s economy sinks deeper and deeper into the mire, the Albanese government’s training wheels are spinning and going nowhere. Just digging us in harder. As for Anthony Albanese himself? Mr 32% is coming across as clueless as his Arts grad Treasurer.

As Australia’s infrastructure teeters on the point of collapse under the combined weight of record-high immigration and demented climate policies wrecking our energy supply, what is Albo doing? Slashing infrastructure spending.

Hundreds of infrastructure projects across the country – including new traffic lights and water drains under roads or railways – will be probed by the Albanese government and potentially axed, amid revelations that Australia’s core inflation rate is higher than any G7 country.

The Australian

What infrastructure does Albo apparently prefer? A spanking new football stadium in Hobart, for one.

The announcement of the stadium, it must be said, did not go well for Albo.

Anthony Albanese has clashed with hecklers who tried to hijack his press conference about his plan to funnel millions into a new stadium in Hobart […]

As the press conference continued, the hecklers were emboldened. During a question whether the Prime Minister’s would DJ at shock jock Kyle Sandilands’ wedding on Saturday, things came to a head.

“The big picture is housing,” the woman yelled.

An unimpressed Mr Albanese glared at the protester and responded: “I think you’ve had your say”.

“No, I haven’t, you have had your say at the back of the sewerage works when no-one knows what is going on,” she continued.

The Prime Minister ignored her comments, turning his focus back to the reporter to reveal he wouldn’t be spinning the decks, and then promptly ended the press conference.

News.com.au

This is the same behaviour Albanese put on during the election campaign: when the hard questions started from members of the public, he promptly turned and walked away. It wasn’t a good look for a campaigner, and it’s not going to be a good look if he keeps it up as the going gets tougher as PM.

Albo is also finding that his “cool uncle” shtick is wearing very thin. As Australia sinks deeper into the mire, voters will be looking for more than a middle-aged sad-act trying to act like he’s still cool and down with the kids by playing old records at some sleb’s ultra-exclusive nosh-up.

The infrastructure review, which the Coalition is expected to condemn, came as Finance Minister Katy Gallagher on Sunday pledged to deliver billions of ­dollars in savings through Labor’s second so-called waste audit.

Will that include the last Labor government’s signature policy, the NDIS? Never fully funded from the beginning, and now blowing out to be one of the single biggest financial millstones around Australian taxpayers’ necks?

Opposition Treasury spokesman Angus Taylor said “any responsible and credible treasurer” should set their sights on a surplus, given the strong economy, as analysis from his office of last week’s CPI figures shows Australia’s core inflation (the price change of goods and services minus food and energy) had ­worsened since the June quarter.

Australia’s core inflation is sitting at 6.6 per cent compared with Italy at 6.26 per cent, Britain and France at 6.2 per cent, EU countries at 5.7 per cent, the US at 5.6 per cent, South Korea at 4.81 per cent, Canada at 4.3 per cent and Japan at 3.1 per cent.

In the second quarter of last year, Australia was fourth highest among the same list of countries with a core inflation rate of 4.9 per cent and 3.7 per cent in Q1.

“Labor has been in government for almost a year and during that time, cost-of-living pressures have only worsened,” Mr Taylor said.

Meanwhile, Labor are actually saying stuff like this with a straight face:

“(The Coalition’s) appetite for announcing projects wasn’t matched with a commitment to deliver,” she said.

“Projects were left without adequate funding or resources, projects without real benefits to the public were approved.”

The Australian

Um, hello? NDIS? NBN? “Cash for Clunkers”? Home Insulation Program? “Building the Education Revolution”?

Labor are the last mob who should be pointing the finger with allegations of useless waste.