Welcome to Albanese's dog-eat-dog lawless world

March 4, 2026

Jack Waterford rightly criticises the Prime Minister for denying their rights as citizens to the Australian women and children in Syrian detention camps. Albanese said they had made their beds so had to lie in them, so he’d obviously given the matter ‘some’ thought.

But given he won the dubious honour of being the first world leader to voice support for the illegal US attack on Iran, you have to wonder if he gave it any thought at all.

Australian and international laws might be flawed but they do serve as boundaries to behaviour beyond which people and nations can be called to account. Ignore those laws too often and those boundaries disappear. We then enter the realm of do what you like, survival of the fittest.

Albanese will go down in history, as Waterford suggests. Although quite different to them, he will rank with our worst ever Prime Ministers, Howard, Abbott and Morrison. When courage is called for he is spineless; instead of vision we have blindness; the kindness he extols gives way to harsh and spiteful treatment; when international law is broken he offers praise and support. Albanese is a moral pygmy.

God help us!