Albanese and his team’s end-of-year report card full of failures, appeasement and few principles
Anthony Albanese is no more than a deluded student politician – good on backroom deals with factional party bosses, but out of his depth on the national and international stage, writes Piers Akerman.
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Nearing year’s end and the cumulative failures of the Albanese government are almost too many to mention.
Anthony Albanese has shown himself to be no more than a deluded student politician – good on backroom deals with factional party bosses, but totally out of his depth on the national and international stage.
His big pledge of a $275 power bill cut will forever remain unfulfilled.
His teary election-night promise of bringing the nation together through an incoherent, two-legged referendum question ended in a wipe-out. In any political race, a 40-60 loss would be considered a landslide, but nearly two months on, Albanese hasn’t had the decency to give an address to the nation about his failure.
The Voice referendum is a great metaphor for his disastrous leadership. Based on emotion, the first part called for constitutional recognition of those who identify as Aboriginals, but the sting was in the second part, the establishment of a new bureaucracy of unelected individuals with access to hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money beyond what is already fruitlessly spent on Aboriginal Australians.
The people saw through this scam, no matter the degree of concern they felt about the dysfunction of remote Aboriginal communities, the endemic violence and the ensuing over-representation of jailed Aboriginals.
A massive fail for the keynote election victory promise.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has ramped up his threat to reduce emissions to net zero by installing inefficient wind and solar factories across fertile farm land and running thousands of kilometres of transmission lines at a cost of more than $1 trillion.
No plan for back-up base-load power and the ban on nuclear energy remains.
The AUKUS nuclear submarine agreement struck by the previous Coalition government is all but sunk. Our navy doesn’t have the personnel to crew its current fleet, let alone subs we may be able to cadge from the US should that country’s own over pressed subs manufacturing facilities ever reach their output targets.
On overseas affairs, Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong have conducted masterclasses in appeasement.
Albanese’s crawling performance when he sought attention from Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the APEC conference took suck-holing to a whole new level.
Attempting to hitch his floundering government to the myth that Labor icon Gough Whitlam was a leader of great initiative, Albanese’s visit to Beijing merely saw the supreme leader fractionally ease the sanctions he imposed on Australia’s economy.
The mixed messages from Albanese and his party over the barbaric attack by Islamist Hamas terrorists on October 7 have shown he lacks the ability to lead with principle.
Since Palestinian terrorists brutally murdered an estimated 1200 people in Israel, many of whom were attending a peace festival, and kidnapped more than 200, Albanese has gone out of his way to appease the mad mullahs who have preached support for this outrage.
There is absolute truth – not your truth or my truth, or the TikTok truth that inspires immature schoolchildren and their Marxist manipulators – and the truth is babies were beheaded, parents were tortured and killed in front of their children, and young women were raped and murdered by people claiming to follow the Koran.
One Melbourne school protester said she was inspired by Hamas propaganda videos, but perhaps she didn’t see the clip of a terrorist clumsily attempting to hack off the head of a Thai migrant worker with a blunt garden hoe.
Think of it. I am. I’ve to take leave now, but I’ll be back in January. Try to have a happy Christmas without thinking too much about the soaring cost of living under Labor.
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