When Scott Morrison had the poor form to be caught on an overseas holiday, just at the moment that a bushfire crisis flared, the media-left went ballistic. When he failed to wade in for a photo-op that would have stalled rescue efforts for hours, the screeching was deafening.
Then opposition leader Anthony Albanese crowed that, “If I’m Prime Minister, I won’t go missing when the going gets tough – or pose for photos and then disappear when there’s a job to be done”.
So, as large swathes of NSW are inundated yet again, many Australians are asking: “Where’s Albo?”
Well, in his first five weeks as prime minister, he’s been to Japan, Indonesia, Spain, France, and now, the new Epstein Island, Ukraine. In fact, he’s spent more time out of Australia as PM than in it. Although rumour has it that he’ll briefly touch down, en route to Fiji.
And he’s generously handed nearly a billion dollars of Australian taxpayers’ money to foreign grifters.
It’s not as if there are no problems in Australia. No energy crisis, no food crisis, and definitely no flood crisis…
Thousands more Sydney residents have been ordered to evacuate their homes this morning as NSW continues to be battered by heavy rain and flooding across the state […]
Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt said the situation was “very worrying”, and called on those living in the affected area to do what they were told.
“If you’re subject to an evacuation order, please don’t waste a moment,” he told ABC Radio.
“If you’re subject to an evacuation warning, be ready to move quickly.”
This is the fourth time in 18 months that residents along the Hawkesbury River, as well as other parts of southern NSW, are battling flooding.
Senator Watt said this was shaping up to be the worst of them all.
The Australian
So, where’s Albo? Posing for happy snaps in France, selfies in Spain and Serious Face photo-ops in Ukraine.
Just days ago, he generously forked over $890m taxpayer dollars to France, for not buying their crappy subs. He didn’t even get to keep one of the built-in white flags for a souvenir. All this, just to mollify a snotty, arrogant French president. As Paul Keating said, when asked what went through his mind on a visit to an Australian graveyard on the Western Front, he thought of all the Australians who died for France — and how France has repaid us with punishing trade rules, nuclear testing in the Pacific, and terror attacks on our closest ally.
But Albo is far from done with the self-aggrandising photo-ops or his generosity to dodgy foreign leaders, at Australian taxpayers’ expense.
Anthony Albanese has pledged Australian support for the rebuilding of Ukraine after its war with Russia is over, as he unveiled an extra $100m in Australian support for the country after meeting its President, Volodymyr Zelensky, during a two-hour meeting in Kyiv.
The Australian
At the rate politicians and celebrities are scrambling to get to Ukraine, it’s for all the world as if Jeffrey Epstein’s missing client list has ended up in Zelensky’s back pocket.
Still, it’s not as if there are any Australians who could’ve done with that $100m Albo used to buy a photo-op.
But that’s Albo for you: he doesn’t hold a sandbag, mate.
