Aaaannnd... he's off again!!

New Zealand this time.

What came out of first day talks between Anthony Albanese and NZ PM Chris Hipkins?

Does this guy spend more than one day in Australia before he's jetting off again (at taxpayers' expense, of course)?

Perhaps while he's there he could do something useful for a change and get some advice from Chris Hipkins about how to deal with the ongoing Covid pandemic when (if?) he returns to Australia.

COVID-19 (novel coronavirus)

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Wearing a face mask

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How to self-isolate

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Financial support

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Long COVID

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Look at that... all the things we used to discuss and do here in Australia before our spineless pollies decided to pretend the pandemic is over and Covid is to be treated  "just like any other respiratory illness" (which it isn't, never has been and probably never will be).

Oh, Airbus Albo is still rated as a big fat ZERO on my scorecard.

Grappler Truth Teller wrote on Jul 28^th, 2023 at 10:23pm:


Yes indeed.

But I'm sure it won't be long before he's off again... he has to keep working on that photo album so he can sit, browse through it and reminisce after he hopefully gets the boot at the next Federal election.

Or sooner if we're lucky enough... I see here that he may be thinking about calling an early election.

Anthony Albanese raising the prospects of a double-dissolution election over housing

Bring it on I say.

In the meantime I'm sure we'll be seeing more of this:

Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Aug 5^th, 2023 at 2:23pm:


Weekend customers at the BP service station in Double Bay were showing no apparent signs of pain, despite paying $2.53 for a litre of premium unleaded petrol.

Some 40km to the west, however, in the badlands beyond the M5 tunnel, the fuel queue at Costco in Casula stretched out of the forecourt and back to the roundabout. A 15-minute wait seemed a small price to pay for a saving of 60 cents a litre.

The length of the Costco bowser queue tells us more about the real-world economy than we could learn from listening to ABC Radio National for a fortnight.

When customers finish loading their tanks and then drag out a couple of jerry cans from the boot, it’s a fair bet the cost of living weighs more heavily on their minds than, say, an Indigenous voice to parliament.
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Seasonally adjusted consumer confidence appears stuck at its lowest level since 2010, when the RBA first collated the figures using the Westpac-Melbourne Institute survey.

Kevin Rudd and Chris Bowen
Kevin Rudd and Chris Bowen
In the first seven months of 2020, in the early, uncertain days of the Covid pandemic, consumer confidence averaged 89. In the first seven months of 2023, it has averaged 81. In other words, the sharp, V-shaped downturn during Covid has been followed three years later with a precipitous downward slope that signals a profound downturn from which there is no escape as long as this economically jejune government remains in power.

Albanese better start gathering his excuses for breaking his cost-of-living election promises. A $275 cut in the annual household power bill looks like a bad joke. Ditto the promise that wages would keep pace with inflation.

The chance that Albanese may preside over the first single-term government since the Second World War may be less remote after the potential punishment of losing the voice referendum. He will be diminished in the eyes of those who care about these things and distant from those who don’t. For them, this pointless excursion into race politics will further prove that today’s card-carrying members of the Labor Party have little in common with card-carrying members of Costco.

Nick Cater is senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre.


This is a government of aging student politicians from the 80s. Rich, sheltered, naive/stupid.

Carl D wrote on Aug 19^th, 2023 at 11:30am:



After a decade of the libs turning the world against us, it was always going to take a lot of work to get everyone on side.

Honest poll for a change...

Albo is certainly weak sauce
A little bit insipid
Bob Hawke light

He certainly an improvement on the smug intellectual elites such as Kevin Rudd
Bill shorten Penny Wong and Tanya pebblecrete

The main problem facing Australia is energy security
And I'm afraid albo has no answer for that

The only person who seems to understand energy security is president xi
Who has locked up the vast majority of the Worlds rare earth minerals
And is also happy to burn as much Australian coal as we send him
To keep his country rich and prosperous


It would be nice to 1-day get a prime minister who cares more about the citizenry then sucking up to the woke intellectual green washed morons setting the agenda