Akerman: Why public will likely say No to man who failed to bring home Yes

Mad, bad and dangerous – Australia is rapidly becoming a failed nation under the Albanese government, writes Piers Akerman.

Anthony Albanese’s legacy is simple – beyond a scintilla of a doubt he has foisted the worst government on Australia in living memory.

Forget “Silly” Billy McMahon or discredited Gough Whitlam, both of whom deserve all the contempt of those who knew them and experienced their trashing of the country.

But their egotistical antics pale to dim shades of grey, almost off-white, compared with the catastrophic failures of the incumbent.

The most recent polls reflect the loss of confidence in this leftist government as do the constant comparisons with the last real Labor leaders, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating (before he started sliding into irrelevance).

Though his first term isn’t due to end for 12 months, it would seem that Albanese is a one-trick pony and he has failed to bring that trick off.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Picture: PMO

His stunt, the core of his triumphal election night address, was his promise to deliver the Voice to parliament with all its principal clauses intact.

He placed all his political capital on this – and we know how it went 11 months ago.

His inability to read the room and his innate vanity blinded him to the flawed campaign he thought would be the crowning legacy of his first term in office.

Now it is looking increasingly as if the public will say No to the man who not only pledged to bring home Yes but who then had the hide to deny any involvement at all in the disastrously divisive campaign.

Mad, bad and dangerous doesn’t do justice to this farce of an administration.

The Indigenous portfolio has been so wretchedly mismanaged that the number of Aboriginal children in care has reached record numbers.

Domestic violence is at hellish levels, far worse than it has been since pre-settlement times.

Some states have set up Truth and Justice commissions to criticise Western culture and the European occupation. But if there was any truth to be aired, we would be hearing about the brutish existence of pre-settlement Aboriginals.

A Yemen's Houthis rebels’ video shows armed men seizing a cargo ship. The Albanese government couldn’t help allies when the Houthis blocked shipping in the Red Sea.

But it’s not just at home that this government has served its citizens so appallingly.

Its performance away has earned Australia the contempt of its oldest and greatest allies, those who came to our rescue in our hour of need, as well as those who have helped us thwart terrorist attacks here recently.

The Albanese government couldn’t help our allies when the Houthis blocked shipping in the Red Sea.

It has cowed before implicit Chinese threats to our ships and aircraft in international waters and air space.

It has reduced support to Israel, though that nation supplied our intelligence service with critical information.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has stated she wished Australia could have done more to assist the UN with a resolution that threatened Israel’s existence and rewarded the barbaric terrorist activities of Hamas and its Gazan supporters almost 12 months ago.

By trying to isolate Israel, we are losing access to the technologies which enabled the recent targeted strikes against terrorist organisation Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria.

Rather than putting national security foremost, the Albanese government rushed visas to people from Gaza so they could enter Australia without security checks.

Now the government is running a scandalous baseless fear campaign against nuclear energy.

Under Labor, defence force morale has reached rock bottom.

Bill Shorten may have jumped ship too soon. Australia is rapidly becoming a failed nation under the Albanese government.