We’ve heard an awful lot on the past few days about lies, about Labor’s lies, and about the Prime Minister and his Treasurer lying to the electorate. So, imagine my surprise when, for the first time that I can remember, Anthony Albanese told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth when he said, and I quote:
‘I’m proud that I wasn’t born to rule.’
I’ll repeat that, because it sounds a little odd, but during Parliament on Wednesday, the day after the Budget, to loud cheers from his colleagues, Mr Albanese said: ‘I’m proud that I wasn’t born to rule.’
Fair enough. Being born to rule, according to my Roget’s Thesaurus, means being ‘meant to govern’ and being ‘meant for leadership’. ‘Destined for leadership’ even….
And to the Prime Minister I say, that much is certainly true. For most of your parliamentary career, stretching back decades, there has been zero, and I mean zero, indication that you were ever meant to lead this nation. You were never, in anyone’s wildest imagination, ‘born to rule’.
Indeed, you only appear to have one serious talent or qualification, by your own admission: ‘I like fighting Tories… That’s what I do.’
But fighting Tories and snidely dismissing over half the country is not a qualification for leading a nation. Being born to rule means you have a gift, a skill, and a natural talent that inspires people to follow you.
Not this…
‘I have devoted my life to advancing the cause of Labor…’
Yes, you have devoted yourself to advancing the cause of Labor even when that means, as we saw this week, lying to the people of Australia who elected you. No, Prime Minister, you were not born to rule.
Indeed, if your behaviour in your younger years is any indication, you certainly never were meant to govern, certainly not this nation, maybe some Middle Eastern hellhole, but not here, not with a pedigree like this:
Remember this exchange on Sky News Australia with host Peter Stefanovic?
When ‘No’ actually means ‘Yes’. ??? pic.twitter.com/G5tKY8WCde
— katy ? (@KatyKray73) May 13, 2026
And then we have this awkward compilation…
This brutal clip torches Albanese’s broken promises. ?? pic.twitter.com/JtD5Mq38cl
— Osher Feldman (@OsherFeldman) May 13, 2026
Brutal stuff. Almost.
As accurate and as devastating as this meme. Let’s not forget, Albanese after falling off a stage repeatedly, insisted he had not fallen off a stage. Perhaps he had merely ‘changed his position’.
@RitaPanahi @rowandean @macsween_prue @gabriellaapower https://t.co/y5VvzACEDh
— PROFESSOR RODGERS SPEAKS FOR THE HARD WORKING AUST (@HelpRodger) May 14, 2026
The Prime Minister’s word, clearly, is worthless.
We have a liar in the Lodge. A prevaricator in Parliament. A dissembler in Deakin. A fibber in Fyshwick. A miscreant in Manuka. His word is his bond, he claims. Is that satire?
As Rebecca Weisser writes in this week’s Spectator Australia, when it comes to Mr Albanese, ‘his word is his junk bond’. And that certainly sums it up. No Australian can believe a single commitment or promise from this government ever again, a government that is high as a kite on its own arrogance, its own left-wing ideology, and on its own power.
As Fleetwood Mac put it, in what they should re-release as an Ode to Albo, ‘Tell me lies, tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.’
The federal government has ultimate power over our money. Over your money. Over my money.
‘No taxation without representation!’ was the war cry of the American Revolution in 1776, but it is an idea as old as representative government itself. Indeed, it goes all the way back to the Magna Carta signed at Runnymede on June 15, 1215, which states ‘no scutage – meaning a knight’s fee or a King’s tax – is to be levied in our kingdom, save by the common counsel of our kingdom’. The Magna Carta also laid the basic principle of property rights, especially individual property rights, that is now a critical component of modern Western democracies.
This week this government broke its solemn compact with the Australian people. It has trampled over both private property and taxation promises made to the people of this realm, this Commonwealth of Australia, at the last election, not once, but over 50 times. It is one thing for politicians to be slippery, or to obfuscate, or to make mistakes, or to shift the goal posts, or to change their minds due to a change in circumstances. But lying to our faces about our money and lying to our faces about our private property rights is completely unacceptable.
After this week, in my opinion, this Labor government has no moral legitimacy whatsoever. Albanese. Chalmers. The lot of them… They are liars and they have been caught out lying.
Yes, of course, it is acceptable to change your mind if circumstances change. But nothing of any relevance or substance has changed regarding the circumstances of young people and housing affordability in the last 12 months. It has only been exacerbated by ongoing high levels of immigration, which the government refuses to fix. If Labor really wanted to help kids buy homes, how about they stop, today, right now, importing thousands of people from around the world?
How about sending Tony Burke down to the airport tonight with a sign saying, sorry, no more room, we’re full?
How about saying to all those Gazans, sorry, the war in Gaza is over, no more room, we’re full?
How about we say to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Somalia to Sri Lanka, sorry, maybe some other time, but at the moment we’re chockers?
The truth is the government is spending like a drunken sailor on everything, from rorting NDIS suppliers to the billionaire renewables grifters who are decimating the countryside and driving up our electricity bills.
Worse, as Robert Gottliebsen revealed in The Australian, and I quote: ‘The 2026 Budget shocked the nation with its $1 trillion debt forecasts. But it also concealed a second trillion dollars of government liability. The missing trillion in the budget is Australia’s greatest government financial concealment scandal…’ Which, as Gottliebsen explains, is the insane cost, much of it driven by the unions, Snowy 2.0, and all the ongoing renewables contracts.
The bottom line is…
The government has lost control of our money and so has decided it is way easier to just raise taxes. In essence, Labor is lying to cover its own recklessness and poor management and then thieving from property investors to cover its own economic and ideological stupidity.
Yes, Labor lied, but outrageously the Speaker of the House, a certain Mr Dick, did not allow the Coalition to accuse Labor of lying…
Speaker of the House, Milton Dick, is in a twist over the use of the word "Liar." Who would have thought???
6 minutes of chaos. What a joke.?#auspol pic.twitter.com/VKzG0xQSmB
— Timjbo ?? (@TimjboAU) May 14, 2026
You may not be ‘comfortable’ with that term, Mr Dick, but we, the Australian people, are not ‘comfortable’ with a government that makes very specific promises and then brazenly breaks them. I will lend you my Thesaurus Mr Dick – what Labor did is lie.
And it gets worse. According to the Australian:
‘At least 20 out of 23 members in the Labor Cabinet have declared they own more than two properties and will still be able to offset rental losses against their six-figure parliamentary incomes…’
Albanese, of course, has his infamous Copacabana beach house among other property investments. The article goes on.
‘Nearly 75 per cent of Albanese’s ministry of 41 MPs and Senators own more than one property, increasing the likelihood that they negatively gear their investments. Tony Burke owns the most properties in the Labor ministry with six properties under his belt, according to the latest Register of Interests, where parliamentarians are required to declare their real estate, shareholdings, and assets.’
Albanese’s own property portfolio is said to be being negatively geared while he lives rent-free at the Lodge and on the shores of Sydney Harbour at Kirribilli.
This is a government replete with grifters, liars, and hypocrites. Some rort their privileges as they mock the hard working men and women of this nation, in particular, they mock and sneer at the aspirations, dreams, and successes of the entire post-war generation, including of course all the traditional Hawke Labor blue collar migrants and non-migrants alike, who slaved away worked their hands to the bone to buy their own property, invest in it, build up their nest eggs for their children and their children’s children.
The mask has well and truly slipped, and we now know this is a government of hard left socialists who have never escaped the mental confines of their hard left undergraduate and union backgrounds. They are fighting the class wars of the past. They don’t only hate Tories, they hate all the conservative values of aspiration, opportunity and individual success and enterprise.
As of now, only the most gullible and naive of Australians would believe that this government will not be introducing death taxes and taxing the family home in line with basic modern left-wing ideology.
So, allow me to agree with the one truth you told in Parliament this week, Prime Minister. You were not born to rule. You were born to be a hard-core left-wing socialist, and that’s what you are.
