Grate unexpectations
Given this morning’s (27 August) release of polling figures showing Albanese at -10% approval and extremely likely to plunge headlong far further, Jack Waterford’s article is totally apposite.
I will be concise.
When we elected the Albanese Government, we did not expect Albanese to be another Gough Whitlam (for whom I voted). Gough had a statesman’s vision.
But we did not expect Albanese to have no breadth nor depth of vision beyond getting elected again.
We did not expect Albanese, and much less Richard Marles, Pat Conroy and Matt Keogh to be defence strategy policy nerds, but we did not expect we would be saddled with complete defence policy pillocks either.
We did not expect Penny Wong to ride like Boudica through existing geopolitical alliances, but we did not expect she would abandon her intellectual quality, rigour and sense of fair play to become nothing more than an echo-chamber for the US and the extreme Zionist Holocaust-industry lickspittle.
We did not expect the Albanese government to scare the horses, but we did not expect it to turn off the light on the hill.
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