Unless Labor rediscovers its roots in transformative reform and rejects the neoliberal militaristic straitjacket, the cries for real change will only grow louder.
Exquisitely and magnificently well said 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌟🌟A “leader “ who just wants to occupy The Lodge for as long as possible
without doing ANYTHING to earn his place there . “Secrecy in Government R Us “is his theme , along with dedicating this nation to being a vassal state of America . Gough Whitlam would be spinning in his grave .
As for “the landslide win” at the 2025 election , his primary vote was embarrassing , he has cut staff for Independent MPs and minor parties , and anything resembling a priority for the Public Interest is a mere charade .
Today , to add insult to injury , I received an email from Labor headquarters allegedly from Albanese , pleading for a $50 donation to their campaign . An email sent to pensioners and thousands of others who suffer from Jobseekers and Centrelink “mutual obligations “ ( 🤮🤮🤮) . This is a PM dedicated to the priorities of his billionaire corporate donors and lobbyists , who is too timid to make use of the necessary policies to advance THIS country and its People lest he might offend them . So there is more chance of hell freezing over , or of the Zionists totally rebuilding Palestine FOR THE
PALESTINIANS than my donating a brass razoo to this embarrassing excuse for a Labor Party. ( The hideous and catastrophic icing on his cake is the AUKUS “deal” to give away multi billions of taxpayer funds to America for the charade
of a submarine that may never eventuate . How could any vassal government be so DUMB in wilfully betraying Australians in this way ??)
There is something else that I haven't heard talked about and that is albo has made sure Tanya and Penny will never be prime minister . I think that is unfortunate.
This appears to have been his planning all along . Plus his factional deals with Marles , and the removal of an excellent Science Minister to the back bench . Is it any wonder that respect for such politicians and their self serving scheming is at an all time low ?
Brutal analysis Joel, and true to the last letter. As Shane above quotes… endless beige! I often ponder whether other true believers are as sick of this political cowardice as I am.
Don't think I have ever been so disappointed in a politician than I have in Albanese & his cohort.
It's not just the lack of any meaningful policy, it's the deliberate secrecy & sidelining of the Independent members. So much for Albanese's hard luck story of his upbringing, he obviously sees himself as as a fully paid up member of the ruling elite & be damned with the people on struggle street. Consoladating his mateship with Murdoch at the start of his governments tenure has been confirmation where his loyalties lie, they are not with us, the general public. The response to the Gaza situation was the cherry on top. Never, ever would I vote for Labor again.
…. and let’s not forget the Federal / State double-act in lurching further towards censorship, reduction in transparency and attacks on the right to protest.
I’m becoming increasingly disappointed by the Albanese Labor Government. And State Labor governments overall. They have become in thrall of neo-liberalism and managerialism. They tinker at the edges but seem fearful of undertaking revolutionary change. They have become increasingly conservative. I guess there better than the various Liberal National Party Coalitions but not by much.
Well written, Joel. Labor (with 100% LibNat complicity) is turning the Commonwealth of Australia into a toilet seat for the Axis of Genocide, so they can better s4it on China and other resistors. Our public service is now mostly privatized companies. 1 foreign company alone runs most of our national government documents -Microsoft. We should be preserving what sovereign power remains in our Nation State, and steering our ship away from the iceberg of WW3, towards human rights and ecological sustainability. Instead, we are investing far too much of our spending and our retirement funds in propping up the US & Israel military and information technology economies, and censor Aussie online dissent (with Genocide-tested zionist info tech). I doubt we could be much more complicit in the Israel Genocide or US imperialism, but I am confident that if we can fail further, the Genocide Troika (Albo, Wong, and Marles), and their uselessly complicit LibNat 'opposition' will work hard to find a way to make us even more servile and reliant on brutal, racist, violent, imperialist, foreign overlords. Absolutely cooked year, 2025!
Exquisitely and magnificently well said 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌟🌟A “leader “ who just wants to occupy The Lodge for as long as possible
without doing ANYTHING to earn his place there . “Secrecy in Government R Us “is his theme , along with dedicating this nation to being a vassal state of America . Gough Whitlam would be spinning in his grave .
As for “the landslide win” at the 2025 election , his primary vote was embarrassing , he has cut staff for Independent MPs and minor parties , and anything resembling a priority for the Public Interest is a mere charade .
Today , to add insult to injury , I received an email from Labor headquarters allegedly from Albanese , pleading for a $50 donation to their campaign . An email sent to pensioners and thousands of others who suffer from Jobseekers and Centrelink “mutual obligations “ ( 🤮🤮🤮) . This is a PM dedicated to the priorities of his billionaire corporate donors and lobbyists , who is too timid to make use of the necessary policies to advance THIS country and its People lest he might offend them . So there is more chance of hell freezing over , or of the Zionists totally rebuilding Palestine FOR THE
PALESTINIANS than my donating a brass razoo to this embarrassing excuse for a Labor Party. ( The hideous and catastrophic icing on his cake is the AUKUS “deal” to give away multi billions of taxpayer funds to America for the charade
of a submarine that may never eventuate . How could any vassal government be so DUMB in wilfully betraying Australians in this way ??)
There is something else that I haven't heard talked about and that is albo has made sure Tanya and Penny will never be prime minister . I think that is unfortunate.
This appears to have been his planning all along . Plus his factional deals with Marles , and the removal of an excellent Science Minister to the back bench . Is it any wonder that respect for such politicians and their self serving scheming is at an all time low ?
Brutal analysis Joel, and true to the last letter. As Shane above quotes… endless beige! I often ponder whether other true believers are as sick of this political cowardice as I am.
“Self saucing vassaldom”
Ouch!
Don't think I have ever been so disappointed in a politician than I have in Albanese & his cohort.
It's not just the lack of any meaningful policy, it's the deliberate secrecy & sidelining of the Independent members. So much for Albanese's hard luck story of his upbringing, he obviously sees himself as as a fully paid up member of the ruling elite & be damned with the people on struggle street. Consoladating his mateship with Murdoch at the start of his governments tenure has been confirmation where his loyalties lie, they are not with us, the general public. The response to the Gaza situation was the cherry on top. Never, ever would I vote for Labor again.
…. and let’s not forget the Federal / State double-act in lurching further towards censorship, reduction in transparency and attacks on the right to protest.
What does Labor stand for? An obsequious status quo. A pre-emptive surrender. Endless beige.
I’m becoming increasingly disappointed by the Albanese Labor Government. And State Labor governments overall. They have become in thrall of neo-liberalism and managerialism. They tinker at the edges but seem fearful of undertaking revolutionary change. They have become increasingly conservative. I guess there better than the various Liberal National Party Coalitions but not by much.
Superb analysis, Joel - definitely needed to read this. A very sharp portrait of Albanese, The Hollow Man ™️
This is a brutal article Joel. It feels like we are seeing the trauma of the Whitlam coup playing out before our eyes.
Urk. Too enraged/disconsolate/tangled to say anything coherent. Yet. Savage and undeniable. Thanks for your scalpel.
Well written, Joel. Labor (with 100% LibNat complicity) is turning the Commonwealth of Australia into a toilet seat for the Axis of Genocide, so they can better s4it on China and other resistors. Our public service is now mostly privatized companies. 1 foreign company alone runs most of our national government documents -Microsoft. We should be preserving what sovereign power remains in our Nation State, and steering our ship away from the iceberg of WW3, towards human rights and ecological sustainability. Instead, we are investing far too much of our spending and our retirement funds in propping up the US & Israel military and information technology economies, and censor Aussie online dissent (with Genocide-tested zionist info tech). I doubt we could be much more complicit in the Israel Genocide or US imperialism, but I am confident that if we can fail further, the Genocide Troika (Albo, Wong, and Marles), and their uselessly complicit LibNat 'opposition' will work hard to find a way to make us even more servile and reliant on brutal, racist, violent, imperialist, foreign overlords. Absolutely cooked year, 2025!
Investing $1 trillion in Trump's USA (I refuse to call it 'America' because it's not)? Big, BIG mistake.
A fitting end of year assessment of Australia’s worst Labour PM