Letter

In response to Australia needs to diplomatically disengage from our 'dangerous ally'

Albanese is Billy Hughes and Joe Lyons, not John Curtin

Anthony Albanese styles himself as a recycled Curtin, and even as a recycled Whitlam. He is neither. He is more a combination of Billy Hughes and Joe Lyons, prime ministers who used the labour movement as vehicles, but whose ultimate ambitions to secure a place within the conservative Tory establishment, framed by loyalty to British imperial interests, “to King and Empire”, overrode all other considerations.

Since 2022, Albanese has made loud and clear his loyalty to the British monarchy, his support for NATO extending its role into the Indo-Pacific, his extraordinary support for AUKUS, his determination to transfer massive amounts of Australian resources to the Biden-Trump war machine as it conducts genocide, and his determination to accelerate the transformation of Australia into a Qatar-style US military base.

There is nothing in the record of the Albanese Government which suggests it will not regard a meeting with Trump as “a great date”.

— Peter Henning from Melbourne