Kiwibuild? Hold My Lite Beer! Says Albo

New Zealand may have packed off their Socialist Barbie to some globalist sinecure or other, but her dire legacy continues to play out on both sides of the Tasman. But, wait, you say — Saint Jacinda was the patron saint of Kiwiland, what does she have to do with Australian politics?

Far too much, as we over on this side of the ditch are learning. Mostly thanks to our own socialist PM’s infatuation with his ideological idiot twin.

As has been exposed, for instance, the scandal of the Albanese government bending over backwards to keep foreign-born criminals in Australia is a consequence of Ardern’s non-stop whinging over the Morrison shipping Kiwi-citizen crims back where they came from.

Like all his tiresome ilk, too, there’s not a socialist policy that’s already failed that Albo isn’t eager to repeat. In this case, the Ardern disaster that was Kiwibuild. Little Albo wasn’t going to be outdone: if Jacinda was going to promise — and fail miserably — to build 100, 000 houses, well, he promised to build a million.

And actually build even less than Jacinda ever did.

The agency tasked with delivering Anthony Albanese’s $10bn affordable housing fund for low-income families paid more than $24m to external consultants and $6m in annual executive salaries last year, despite not having yet delivered a single completed house under the scheme.

This is all sounding ominously familiar. Remember the early excuses that, hey, this was just the consultation phase, we’ll get building soon, promise!

Well, Albo better pull his finger out.

With Labor under pressure to deliver on its election pledge to build 40,000 social and affordable houses within five years, documents reveal that Housing Australia paid out more than $16m for legal, IT and “advisory” contracts last year.

This was on top of more than $7m in the six months prior spent by Housing Australia which also pays its CEO a salary almost equal that of the Prime Minister at $560,000 a year.

As for building anything…

The exposure of the agency’s extravagant salaries and consultancy fees follows revelations that it will struggle to complete any new social or affordable houses in Labor’s first term in office due to the lack of accredited builders eligible to work on government funded projects.

Maybe they ought to ask all the yoga instructors Albo plans on importing, to pick up a hammer.

As is always the way with these socialist quangos, the paper-pushers are making sure to keep their little troughs well and truly filled.

The documents reveal that 19 staff are employed by the agency on salaries of more than $300,000 a year including five whose remuneration is above $400,000 a year.

The top paid executive, CEO Nathan Dal Bon is paid a total package of $557,000 a year. Mr Albanese’s total package is $587,000 a year.

It’s an open question who does less to earn their taxpayer-funded river of gold.

And there’s plenty more where that came from.

Housing Australia administers Labor’s $10bn Housing Australia Future Fund.

That’s a whole lotta slops in the trough.

[A government spokesperson said,] “Applications are currently being assessed by Housing Australia and the government looks forward to announcing projects later this year.

“If the Liberals had their way, there would not be one home delivered by the fund.”

The Australian

Who needs the Liberals? Labor are perfectly capable of not building a single home, all on their own.