21/08/2026
The Albanese Record — Australians Have Every Right to Be Angry
Australians are pi**ed off.
Not because Facebook told them to be. Not because everyone suddenly became racist, selfish, stupid, far-right or whatever other convenient label gets thrown around when ordinary people stop politely accepting government bu****it.
They're pi**ed off because they're paying attention.
They're working, paying tax, paying mortgages and rent, watching grocery and electricity bills climb, watching housing become increasingly unobtainable, watching government spending grow — and then being told everything is under control.
Meanwhile Anthony Albanese keeps asking Australians to trust him.
That's becoming a fu***ng hard sell.
“My word is my bond”
Those were Albanese's words.
So let's use his standard.
Stage 3 tax cuts?
Promised not to change them. Changed them.
Negative gearing?
Repeatedly ruled out changing it. Changed it.
Capital gains tax?
Repeatedly ruled out changing it. Changed it.
The $275 reduction in household electricity bills?
Albanese didn't merely say he hoped it would happen.
He said:
«“I don't think, I know. I know because we have done the modelling.”»
It didn't happen.
That isn't somebody on Facebook misunderstanding complicated government policy.
Those are straightforward commitments made by the Prime Minister.
And after Stage 3, Albanese knew perfectly well that Australians were suspicious when he ruled out future tax changes.
So when people kept asking about negative gearing, he didn't say circumstances might change.
He didn't reserve his position.
He effectively told everyone to stop asking because he'd answered the bloody question.
Then Labor changed it.
At that point Australians aren't unreasonable for asking:
What exactly does “no” mean when Anthony Albanese says it?
You can't keep blaming the previous government forever
Labor inherited problems.
Of course it did.
Every government does.
Australia's housing shortage wasn't invented in May 2022.
Neither was poor productivity, government debt, weak resource taxation or expensive infrastructure.
But Albanese has now governed Australia for years.
At some point you stop being the bloke who inherited the problem and become the bloke responsible for what happened next.
Housing got worse.
Productivity remains rotten.
Government got bigger.
Spending remained enormous.
Debt is heading higher again.
Future deficits are baked into the Budget.
And while Australians struggled to find somewhere affordable to live, the migration system produced population growth the housing system obviously couldn't accommodate.
Half a million extra people while Australians can't find a fu***ng house
Net overseas migration went above 500,000 annually at its peak.
That isn't automatically an argument against migrants.
It's an argument against incompetence.
If Australia needs migration, fine.
Then fu***ng plan for it.
Build the houses.
Build the roads.
Build the hospitals.
Build the schools.
Build the electricity generation.
Build the water infrastructure.
Make sure the country can actually absorb the population you're adding.
Instead, Australia dramatically increased population while already suffering a housing shortage.
Then everyone acted surprised when rents exploded and vacancy rates collapsed.
What did they think was going to happen?
You don't need a Treasury model.
You need primary-school arithmetic.
More people + insufficient houses = more competition for houses.
Yet Australians raising that obvious point routinely found themselves dragged into some ridiculous argument about whether discussing migration was racist.
No.
It's fu***ng maths.
And where are Labor's houses?
Labor announced 1.2 million homes over five years.
Huge number.
Great headline.
The government's own independent housing experts subsequently projected roughly 980,000 on their earlier outlook.
About 220,000 short.
Then there's the flagship Housing Australia Future Fund and associated programs targeting 40,000 social and affordable homes.
By May 2026:
1,432 completed.
Not 14,320.
1,432.
The Auditor-General found delivery arrangements only partly effective, governance established late and insufficient transparency around costs and impact.
Australians don't live in announcements.
They can't sleep under a press release.
They need actual fu***ng houses.
The $275 electricity fantasy
This one should be engraved on the front door of Parliament House.
$275 cheaper by 2025.
Albanese knew because they'd done the modelling.
Then electricity didn't become $275 cheaper.
Eventually governments started handing out rebates.
And apparently we're supposed to applaud.
Where did the rebate money come from?
Us.
Government took taxpayer money and used it to reduce taxpayer electricity bills.
That's relief, sure.
But it isn't proof Labor transformed the energy system and delivered the promised structural saving.
When rebates disappeared, underlying prices became painfully obvious again.
So where's the $275?
Still hiding behind the modelling, presumably.
Australians are apparently rich whenever government wants money
Government spending is enormous.
Commonwealth staffing has expanded.
Regulation continues piling up.
Future budgets are back in deficit.
Gross Commonwealth debt is forecast to approach $1.25 trillion by 2029–30.
Debt interest alone costs tens of billions every year.
Yet whenever government discovers another priority, somehow there's money.
Another program?
Money.
Another bureaucracy?
Money.
Another overseas commitment?
Money.
Another cultural initiative?
Money.
Another grant?
Money.
But Australians asking why they're being hammered by the cost of living are told everything needs to be carefully targeted because broad relief could be inflationary.
Interesting how fiscal responsibility always seems to arrive just before the money reaches the taxpayer who earned it.
$14 million a day overseas
Australia's 2026–27 official foreign-aid budget is approximately:
$5.209 billion.
That's roughly:
$14.3 million every fu***ng day.
Some of that expenditure absolutely serves Australia's interests.
Pacific stability matters.
Countering Chinese influence matters.
Disaster relief matters.
Helping neighbours after cyclones and earthquakes is something a wealthy country should do.
But the entire $5.2 billion isn't disaster relief.
Australian taxpayers finance overseas governance programs, infrastructure, education, climate programs, NGOs, international organisations and economic-development programs.
Government calls it statecraft.
Fine.
Then show Australians the return.
Every program.
Every dollar.
Every outcome.
Because people struggling to pay $700 a week in rent are entitled to ask why their government can always locate another hundred million dollars overseas while lecturing them about budget constraints at home.
We're sitting on extraordinary wealth and somehow Australians aren't seeing it
Australia exports hundreds of billions of dollars worth of resources.
LNG alone is worth tens of billions annually.
These aren't resources magically created by multinational corporations.
They're Australian resources.
Government itself recognises that mineral and petroleum resources are owned on behalf of the community.
Once they're extracted and exported, they're gone.
Yet Australia's Petroleum Resource Rent Tax has recently produced only around $1–1.5 billion annually.
Yes, resource companies also pay company tax and state royalties.
No, they're not getting everything for free.
But compare the enormous value leaving the country with the sovereign resource rent Australians receive and ask a basic question:
Are we getting a fair fu***ng price for our own stuff?
Labor made modest PRRT changes expected to collect another $2.4 billion over several years.
Meanwhile LNG exports alone can be worth tens of billions in a single year.
Australians then get to enjoy the privilege of paying high domestic energy prices for resources extracted from underneath their own country.
Norway looked at finite petroleum wealth and thought:
This belongs to our people. Let's turn it into permanent national wealth.
Australia seems to have looked at ours and thought:
F**k it, she'll be right.
Government grows while productivity goes backwards
The Productivity Commission reported labour productivity falling 0.6% in the March 2026 quarter and growing just 0.3% over the year.
Meanwhile regulation and compliance burdens continue consuming business time.
Government gets larger.
Australians fill out more forms.
Businesses employ people to satisfy regulators.
Government employs people to administer the regulations.
Everyone attends another meeting.
Then somebody holds a productivity summit to investigate why nobody is producing anything.
Magnificent.
Even government can't consistently meet its own performance measures
The Auditor-General examined 504 reported performance results across 21 major Commonwealth entities for 2024–25.
Only 62% were achieved.
Imagine an ordinary Australian business telling its customers:
“We achieved 62% of what we said we'd do. We'd now like more money.”
You'd be laughed out of the room.
Government?
New budget next year.
Hundreds of millions on the Voice
The Commonwealth provided a $364.6 million referendum-delivery package, partly funded by provisions inherited from the previous government.
Albanese made the Voice central to his government.
He presented it as something capable of bringing Australia together.
Australia voted.
No nationally.
No in every state.
Australians were entitled to vote either way.
But Albanese badly misread the country.
And when a government spends hundreds of millions running a referendum while Australians are getting belted by housing and living costs, people are perfectly entitled to question its priorities.
Now government wants to manage Australian culture too
Protecting Australians from religious hatred is simple.
A Muslim Australian attacked because they're Muslim deserves protection.
A Jewish Australian attacked because they're Jewish deserves protection.
A Christian attacked because they're Christian deserves protection.
Same citizen.
Same law.
Same protection.
But Albanese's government is moving considerably further.
It appointed a Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia.
That process produced 54 recommendations extending across government and institutions.
We're now talking about education.
Public servants.
Parliamentarians.
Police.
Legal professionals.
Media.
Arts.
Research.
Sport.
Community organisations.
Representation.
Government-funded cultural programs.
And attempts to measure “Islamophobia”.
That raises a question Australians should be absolutely unapologetic about asking:
Where does protecting Muslim Australians end and protecting Islam from criticism begin?
Because they're completely different things.
A Muslim Australian has rights.
Islam doesn't.
Islam is an idea.
Christianity is an idea.
Judaism is an idea.
Communism is an idea.
The Labor Party is an idea.
Ideas can be criticised.
They can be ridiculed.
They can be rejected.
Nobody migrating to Australia has a right to demand Australia reorganise itself so their beliefs never encounter offence.
Australia is multicultural.
It is not culturally empty.
People arriving here should be welcomed.
But integration works both ways.
Australia shouldn't endlessly modify itself around every incoming community while being terrified to ask newcomers to accept Australian liberal-democratic norms.
Secular law.
Democracy.
Equality between men and women.
Freedom of religion.
Freedom from religion.
Freedom to leave a religion.
Freedom to criticise religion.
Tolerance of gay Australians.
Rejection of political and religious violence.
Those aren't negotiable.
That's Australia.
Extraordinary ASIO powers? Make them permanent.
Labor proposed removing the sunset clause from ASIO's extraordinary compulsory-questioning regime while expanding its scope.
These powers can compel people who aren't themselves accused of committing a crime to provide intelligence.
There are warrants and safeguards.
This wasn't unlimited secret-police detention, despite some hysterical social-media versions.
But Labor genuinely proposed making extraordinary powers permanent.
After criticism, it retreated from that part.
Good.
That's democracy working.
But remember who initially asked for the permanent power.
Pass the tax law first. Fix the widow problem later.
Labor's 2026 negative-gearing/CGT reforms created a genuine problem involving grandfathering where ownership changed because of events including death or divorce.
Hence the term “widow tax.”
Government subsequently acknowledged the problem and moved to fix it.
No, Labor didn't deliberately invent a tax specifically targeting widows.
The reality is embarrassing enough:
They passed major tax reform and then discovered they needed more legislation to repair an obvious consequence.
This is government by software update.
Install now.
Patch later.
Hope nobody loses money before Version 2.1.
Guns: when government fails, regulate the people who didn't
After Bondi, NSW Labor imposed substantial new fi***rm restrictions and a buyback potentially affecting around 274,000 registered fi***rms.
Albanese's Commonwealth supports the wider buyback financially.
The NSW restrictions belong primarily to Chris Minns, not Albanese.
But there's something deeply irritating about the policy reflex.
When government systems fail, the quickest response is often another restriction on people already obeying them.
Licensed fi***rm owners are easy to find.
Their fi***rms are registered.
They followed the rules.
So naturally they're the easiest people to regulate harder.
Meanwhile legitimate questions remain about the licensing and intelligence failures that allowed the original danger to exist.
Government needs to demonstrate that its response fixes that failure, not merely that it can confiscate property from compliant citizens efficiently.
Royal commissions are wonderful when they're investigating the other bloke
Robodebt?
Royal Commission.
Absolutely.
It exposed appalling government conduct.
But when scrutiny could involve Labor governments, suddenly royal commissions become expensive, slow and unnecessary.
Labor chose a weaker COVID inquiry rather than a royal commission.
After Bondi, Albanese initially resisted a Commonwealth Royal Commission before eventually reversing under pressure.
Maybe every stated reason was completely sincere.
Maybe.
But Australians aren't idiots.
They can see the political incentive.
A royal commission investigating your opponent is accountability.
One capable of compelling your own government to produce documents is apparently an administrative burden.
The problem is bigger than any single policy
You can debate Stage 3.
You can debate migration.
You can debate foreign aid.
You can debate negative gearing.
You can debate multiculturalism.
You can debate gun laws.
You can debate the Voice.
That's democracy.
But eventually the individual arguments combine into a bigger picture.
A government that promises one thing and does another.
A government that increased population dramatically while housing couldn't keep up.
A government that announces enormous housing targets while actual construction struggles.
A government that promised cheaper electricity and didn't deliver it.
A government spending billions overseas while Australians struggle at home.
A government sitting on extraordinary natural-resource wealth without extracting anything resembling the return Australians should reasonably expect.
A government growing in size while national productivity barely moves.
A government increasingly interested in managing culture, language, representation and social attitudes.
A government prepared to propose making extraordinary state powers permanent.
A government happy to impose another restriction when an existing government system fails.
And a Prime Minister who repeatedly asks Australians to believe his latest categorical assurance despite having demonstrated that categorical assurances can apparently expire immediately after an election.
Australians aren't stupid
This might be the most important part.
People know Australia is wealthy.
They can see the gas ships leaving.
They know how much tax comes out of their pay.
They know what their rates cost.
They know what electricity costs.
They know what groceries cost.
They know what rent costs.
They know their kids can't afford houses.
They know how long it takes to see a doctor.
They know roads and infrastructure aren't magically improving in proportion to population.
They know government keeps getting bigger.
And they can see billions being announced for things they were never asked whether they wanted.
Then they're told the economy is strong.
They're told migration is necessary.
They're told the energy transition will make things cheaper.
They're told housing programs are working.
They're told government spending is responsible.
They're told another tax change is fair.
They're told another government program is necessary.
They're told another restriction is for their protection.
Eventually people stop listening to what government says and start judging what it does.
That's where Anthony Albanese has a problem.
Because he gave Australians the perfect test himself:
“My word is my bond.”
Good.
Then let's hold him to it.
Not by abusing him.
Not by inventing conspiracies.
Not by blaming migrants, Muslims, public servants or anyone else for decisions made in Canberra.
Not with fake Facebook statistics.
With his government's own budgets.
His own promises.
His own legislation.
ABS numbers.
Treasury figures.
Auditor-General reports.
Parliamentary records.
And actual outcomes.
Because once you strip away the slogans, there's already enough factual material to be angry about.
Australians don't need another excuse.
They need a government that remembers who it fu***ng works for.
