With Fred Pawle, Spectator Australia, Sky News, Macro Business, Danger Dan and Others
As the joke goes, MAGA is coming to Australia.
Make Albo Go Away.
The Federal Election in Australia is most likely to be held, assuming the AIs are correct, on 17 May 2025.
Others suggest in his headlong money splattering rush to avoid electoral oblivion it might well be mid-March.
In terms of public policy, it is as if the American Democrats have folded up shop and moved to Australia: mass migration, climate change alarmism, identity politics, huge public spending, contempt for their former base, the working class. And funnily enough, the Australian left, embodied by Anthony Albanese, might just be about to be booted from office, just like their American counterparts.
With his standing amongst almost all demographics trending downwards, and likely to be even worse by May, there is a real likelihood he will be a one-term Prime Minister, unusual in the Australian context. One would expect the conservatives to attack the left politically, but in this election cycle the commentary has taken on a peculiarly vitriolic personal tone.
Whether his opponent Peter Dutton will prove any better remains a moot point. As one wit had it, Anthony Albanese is Prime Minister solely because he’s not Scott Morrison. Dutton is likely to be the next Prime Minister solely because he’s not Albanese. Such is the state of Australian politics.
Here’s a sampling of recent commentary.
FRED PAWLE
Love Will Tear Albo Apart. Again.
He knows we want cheap energy, better opportunities for Aborigines, fewer migrants, more houses and less inflation. Instead, he is giving us the most suicidal energy transformation in our history; trapping indigenous people in hellish remote “communities”; increasing migrants from non-English-speaking nations (including ones where terrorism and hatred of the West are the only local industries); making housing unaffordable; and spending money on useless vote-buying programs that only push up the price of groceries.
The Australian people find themselves in an abusive relationship with their Prime Minister.
Anthony Albanese says it is a miracle of Australian egalitarianism that he was able to rise from a humble housing-commission upbringing to the prime ministership.
On the contrary, it would have been a miracle if he hadn’t become Prime Minister.
His single mum raised him to perceive government as nothing other than a source of handouts. He resents the secure families that laid the foundation for Australia’s stability and prosperity, and will do whatever he can to make them a minority. He’s never once had a job in the private sector. And he was granted the leadership of his party not through merit but patience, having spent 23 years waiting for his mediocre rivals to falter or retire.
Could there be a more perfect candidate to lead Australia into the abyss of welfarism and self-loathing to which its bureaucratic class is already steering it?
Politicom
Albanese’s far-Left views are proof he’s a man who has never grown out of student activism; a man steeped in the ideology of socialism, a vocal and abrasive member on the far Left of the ALP’s Left faction. Most of us have experienced buyer remorse.
What we do know is that in preparing for the general election, Albanese had a “makeover”.
No more the scowling somewhat frumpy front bencher. He lost weight; got a fashionable wardrobe of new suits, shirts, ties and never-seen-before casual wear to match his now svelte figure; a bit of dental work and some new glasses and a lot of smiling and hey presto!
As Leo Amery said to Neville Chamberlain in 1940: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
Sky News
Sky News, Australia’s version of Fox News, attacks Albanese on a nightly basis, viciously tearing apart his woke agenda of climate change, diversity, mass immigration and identity politics.
Here’s a small sampling.
MacroBusiness
Leith van Onselen at MacroBusiness has been one of the most consistently insightful economic commentators working in Australia today. And he has been consistently critical of Albanese’s disastrous impacts on the Australian economy.
Albanese has abandoned the “forgotten Australians”
Redbridge Group Director Simon Welsh was interviewed by Sky News this week. In the interview, he argued that the Albanese government had abandoned the “forgotten Australians”.
“I think what we are looking at here is we are headed now for an election that is going to be defined by the Forgotten people—the forgotten Australians”.
Aussie voters abandon Anthony Albanese
The final polls of 2024 has smacked the Albanese government squarely in the face.
The Guardian’s Essential Poll of 1,151 voters found that Albanese’s net approval rating is presently -11, with 50% disapproving of his performance as Prime Minister (up three points since November) and 39% approving (down three).
Albanese waffles as living standards collapse
Australians have experienced the sharpest fall in material living standards on record, with real household disposable incomes falling by around 8% over the two years to Q2 2024.
Danger Dan
No one has been more brutal in their take down of Anthony Albanese than comedian Danger Dan. It’s surprising YouTube hasn’t removed some of his more deliberately offensive posts, but some of it, even Albo’s dwindling set of defenders would have to admit, is damned funny.
Spectator Australia
Into the arms of the radical Left
Banning Australians who are under 16 from social media has one obvious and immediate side-effect: political outrage.
As the only young people in the world about to be denied access to social media, Australian kids will swiftly assign blame. These kids are not stupid and political parties can be assured they will remember who to punish once they reach voting age in a few short years.
While it is tempting for conservatives to stand around and cheer as Anthony Albanese tosses the future of the Labor Party into the fire, it would be wrong to think the Liberal Party will be the beneficiary of this decision.
Anthony Albanese wants to throw more money into the National Broadband Network’s (NBN) black hole. To me, it smells like electoral desperation. All of it paid for with other people’s money: Australian workers, past, present, and emerging.
Labor’s recent blame-shifting on inflation and government spending, proves there is a tangible contempt for what these investments return to the taxpayer. Labor has shown little to no concern for communicating how these public programs benefit the majority paying for them.
They evidently don’t care about the cost of living. Neither do they seem to care about how government spending is debasing the worker’s dollar, causing inflation, and impacting interest rates.
Politicians across the spectrum are now in pre-election mode. Expect the whole shabby exercise to get a damn sight more vitriolic, starting about now.
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