Piers Akerman: With a legacy of dysfunction and no sense of morality, it’s time to go Albo
Albanese’s legacy is one of extreme dysfunction, lacking economic coherence and any sense of morality. It’s time to go, writes Piers Akerman.
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Anthony Albanese has done more damage to our nation than any prime minister over the last 124 years.
He’s been able assisted in this vandalism by the some of the worst to sit in cabinet in memory: the cocksure Treasurer Jim Chalmers, the smirking Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen, and the morality-deficient Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
The blame for the totality of this government’s disastrous legacy must be shared by every Labor member who has sat silently by, assisted by the dysfunctional Greens and the childish waste-of-space teals.
Multiculturalism is dead, sacrificed for the votes of anti-Semitics voters.
Albanese, Tony Burke, Jason Clare and Wong have pushed an anti-Israel argument, disregarding domestic terrorism.
The torching of a Melbourne synagogue days ago was just the latest terrorist incident on Albanese’s watch.
Albanese let Bowen run his moronic budget-smashing infatuation with unreliable wind and solar energy, to the point where householders and businesses are being crippled with charges that are among the highest in the world.
He has stood by as Chalmers blew up the economy. Increasing the public payroll and taxing productive businesses to pay civil servants is a sure way to cripple a country. The economy is the weakest it’s been in decades.
But the most disgraceful failure of the Albanese government is the ineradicable stain that will forever besmirch Australia’s reputation as a fair, liberal democracy.
His disgusting approval of a UN vote for an unachievable two-state solution which may destroy the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel, tears up Australia’s historic bipartisan policy and weakens our critical alliance with the US.
The backstabbing of our only reliable ally in the Middle East drew plaudits from Hamas.
Asked what the vote meant, Australian Palestine Advocacy Network president Nasser Mashni stated it would “mean a Jewish supremacist state would no longer exist”.
No mention that the Israeli parliament includes women, gays and Muslims, and it is as far from a supremacist state as could be imagined.
A measure of Albanese’s abject hopelessness was the reflection by former colleague Niki Savva, now a reliable conduit of Labor Party talking points, in her Nine Media column on Thursday.
Savva said that should Albanese win “the next election to govern either in majority or minority, he should, after a decent interval, retire so Labor can regenerate”.
The ALP doesn’t need regeneration, it needs forensic cadaver cleaners to sweep through the fetid organisation.
All Australians (except fat-cat union bosses and former ALP ministers appointed to highly paid super fund boards) are hurting.
Maybe those in the Canberra bubble enveloping the national press gallery and the self-entitled members of the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge are dazzled by Labor, but in the real world people are suffering – and have been since Albanese lucked it into the Lodge and Kirribilli House.
Savva wrote: “Albanese succeeded brilliantly, certainly beyond his wildest imaginings and that of his friends, to become leader then prime minister.
“He should count his blessings, then gracefully relinquish the job.”
As she said, that’s the benign view.
“The more drastic, which has been bubbling away inside the wider Labor family, is that he has lost his mojo, his judgment has deserted him and if he can’t summon the discipline to shape up, he should ship out before the election to allow someone else to take on a rampant Peter Dutton,” she wrote.
She then rabbits on about his legacy, which is about on a par with Joe Biden’s.
But what’s done can’t be undone. Albanese’s legacy is one of extreme dysfunction, lacking economic coherence and any sense of morality.
Time to go, Albo, and take your team with you.
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