Has there ever been a more pathetic hollowman to disgrace the office of Prime Minister of Australia than Anthony Albanese? Even Scott Morrison occasionally stood for something. Albanese doesn’t seem to stand for anything.
Worse, he seems to think that that’s perfectly ok.
Albanese has not taken command of even one ministry – namely his own. To be sure, plenty of policies have been pursued by the Albanese government. But which among them are Albanese’s?
Every leader is beholden to others, from factional comrades to other party members, donors to other loud vested interests. But since becoming Prime Minister, Albanese has shown he is entirely beholden to others. He can’t hide it, and he doesn’t appear troubled by it either.
Despite his youthful Marxism and endless prattling about his Housing Commission upbringing, Albanese clearly couldn’t wait to scarf up all the trappings of wealth, from free business class upgrades to a multi-million-dollar clifftop mansion. The ex-tenant of his Sydney rental soon found that “Albo” is perfectly happy to play the bastard landlord when it suits him.
As PM, Albanese has proven to nothing more than a creature of Labor’s factions, content to wander wherever the factional bosses whip him.
It started with the voice. The proposal to change the federal Constitution was never Albanese’s policy. And it showed. The Prime Minister was out of his depth throughout the long debate. He was not across the politics on either the Yes or No side, and he appeared unconcerned about his poor grasp of the monumental nature of the constitutional change too.
For all that it was never his policy, and he clearly neither knew nor much cared about what it contained, Albanese made it his first announcement, post-election. Well, that and buggering off on the first of his endless overseas jaunts.
This first test of Albanese’s leadership was a harbinger of what was to come. He continues to look comfortable being beholden to others, at times resembling a lower-level bureaucrat whose most difficult day at work is deciding what to wear on casual Friday – while others do the serious work.
Then there’s his appointment of Kevin Rudd to the US embassy. A less diplomatic person than Rudd you’d struggle to think of. And if Albo thought he was ridding himself of a gadfly by handing the disgruntled ex-PM a plum job, he clearly didn’t reckon on a Trump comeback and Rudd’s idiotic social media commentary coming back to haunt him.
But Albanese’s most disgraceful lack of backbone has been in dealing with October 7 and the shameful and alarming rise of anti-Semitism. Labor’s left factions are stridently anti-Israel and Albanese’s most senior ministers represent seats dominated by Muslims. In fact, Labor desperately needs the Muslim votes of Western Sydney to even hope to stay in power.
NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns showed leadership by condemning the wicked trail of anti-Semitic damage and destruction. “It is unacceptable, un-Australian and it will not be tolerated,” he said.
Albanese reached for weaker words, describing it as “disturbing” and “deeply troubling”. He could have been commenting on the state of the Rabbitohs after their penultimate placing on the 2024 NRL ladder […]
There was more weakness from Albanese when the ICC last week issued arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant. Democrat President Joe Biden denounced it as outrageous moral relativism by the ICC to lump Israel and Hamas together. “We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security,” Biden said.
The Prime Minister of Australia was mute […]
Albanese remained silent because he is beholden to the Penny Wong wing of the Labor Party that has long shown a withering disregard for Israel’s war of self-defence against terrorists who invaded Israel and murdered over a thousand innocent people on October 7, 2023.
And so it goes.
Corruption and violent corruption in unions. Corruption in union-run superannuation funds. Albanese says and does nothing, because superannuation funds are a river of gold to unions and the unions are a river of gold to Labor.
So, by law, workers are forced to hand over 10 per cent of their earnings to super funds, and the leader of the so called ‘party of the worker’ does nothing while workers’ money is misused.
The only policy that has the mark of an Albanese conviction is housing. Labor says its Help to Buy plan would help 40,000 first-home buyers and its Build to Rent plan would encourage tens of thousands of new rental homes. Let’s see.
Who is anyone trying to kid? It’s going to be an even bigger farce than KiwiBuild.
And so we are led to ruin and embarrassment by a hollowman: shape without form, shade without colour, paralysed force and gesture without motion.
