Anthony Albanese is emerging as the most dangerous prime minister we’ve had

Anthony Albanese is shaping up as the most untrustworthy and dangerous prime minister we’ve ever had — worse even than Whitlam.

Anthony Albanese has been prime minister for less than a year but already seems the most untrustworthy, manic and dangerous we’ve ever had.

Worse even than Whitlam. Nice bloke, but blind to facts and out of his depth.

His backflip on superannuation and then his Treasurer’s refusal to rule out even taxing the family home confirms his clueless team is making things up as they go along, and making a pig’s breakfast of it.

I said untrustworthy.

Before the election Albanese swore he actually had a plan: “a very clear plan for a better future”.

It was a lie. Nowhere in this supposed plan was even a hint of some of the radical things Albanese has since dreamed up.

Nowhere did he say he’d cut tax subsidies for people with super funds worth more than $3m. In fact, he ruled out any changes.

Nowhere did he say he’d let unions rope in smaller companies in an industrial brawl with a big one.

Nowhere did he say he’d hit gas and coal companies with price caps and potential export bans.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is worse even than Whitlam — nice bloke but out of his depth. Picture: Martin Ollman

What’s more, key promises in that “plan” were also lies. Remember Albanese’s laughable claim that he would cut the cost of mortgages and cut electricity bills by $275?

I said he was manic.

Maybe we could forgive Albanese’s surprises if it seemed he was ditching ideology to react to real-world problems.

But he does the opposite. His government instead tramples over the facts in its manic crusades.

Most Australians are freaking about the cost of living – sky-high inflation, rising interest rates – but this Prime Minister obsesses instead over his planned Voice, a kind of Aboriginal-only parliament, written into our Constitution.

He’s now even managed to convince our top seven sports codes to hector us about it. Yet this Voice is totally irrelevant – and a menace.

Albanese can’t even explain what this Voice of selected activists would do that isn’t already being done by our 11 federal politicians who are Aboriginal, or the more than 30 land councils or the Coalition of Peaks and its 70 community-controlled Aboriginal organisations that already advise governments.

Nor can he explain how this Voice would make a difference in huge problems in many Aboriginal communities with alcohol, violence, joblessness and under-parented children wagging school or roaming streets at night.

Just take the chaos caused by Albanese’s ideological decision to scrap the cashless debit card that stopped vulnerable people from blowing their welfare on booze. Land councils, the Coalition of Peaks and many other Aboriginal organisations were also against that card, so it’s a fair guess the Voice – likewise drawn from the Aboriginal aristocracy – would have been, too. So then what?

I said Albanese was dangerous.

Look for a start how his Voice would damage our democracy. It would let a few unelected Aboriginal activists – backed by the High Court – stop governments from acting without their advice.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers showed himself to be clueless this week. Picture: Mick Tsikas)

Or look how the government keeps spending big, while inflation makes us all poorer.

But most of all, check its other disastrous crusade – global warming.

This government is drunk on a fantasy that we face a climate catastrophe, and little Australia can stop it by slashing its emissions.

Obsessed by these twin delusions, it’s helping to shut more coal-fired power stations, even when we’re already short of electricity and when China, the world’s biggest emitter, is opening more.

Even basic problems of engineering and finance get ignored.

When the head of Snowy Hydro correctly warned Energy Minister Chris Bowen it was impossible to fuel the new Kurri Kurri gas plant with hydrogen, Bowen’s supposed miracle green fuel, he was forced out.

When Sun Cable, Australia’s biggest solar power scheme, was put into administration, Bowen still claimed to be “very upbeat and excited” about its future.

When the still unfinished Snowy 2.0 scheme – a kind of giant battery that uses wind and solar to pump water uphill to create hydropower – turned out to cost 10 times more, with one of its giant tunnel borers hopelessly stuck underground, Bowen this week still insisted it was a project we needed.

The price of this insanity is huge. This government is killing investment in the coal and gas we desperately need, while power prices explode.

This is frightening. This government seems totally unfussed by facts. Totally indifferent to whether its grand schemes actually work. Totally without a script or a plan.

Australia, we have a problem. Worse than Whitlam. Watch and weep.