What did I miss? Australia’s political week in fast-forward

Angus Taylor openly referred to Albo’s government policies as socialist. It’s about time.

Recent interviews suggest Paul Kelly isn’t a fan of One Nation. The veteran editor-at-large at The Australian reckoned ‘Pauline Hanson is not fit to be Prime Minister of Australia’. Our editor-in-chief begged to differ.

Meanwhile, One Nation will ban The Guardian from attending party events after the masthead allegedly admitted it used photographs that deliberately made Pauline Hanson look more sinister. The only thing sinister about Pauline is that she is putting the wind up the establishment that doesn’t give a toss about ordinary Australians.

While we’re on the topic of not being fit to be Prime Minister of Australia, Angus Taylor openly referred to Albo’s government policies as socialist. It’s about time somebody in high office stated the bleeding obvious. It seems the battle lines have been drawn.

It’s a good thing too because those ‘other people’ who have the money that socialists use are now mere mythical creatures. Unless of course you read the comments from all the leftie bots that ride on Albo’s gravy train.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, What did I miss? Australia’s political week in fast-forward.

What did you miss this week? Oh ... only the beginning of the end of the Labor Party. 😉

Paul Kelly dismissed Pauline Hanson's fitness for position of Prime Minister, but what about Anthony Albanese? How is he doing? Would Chris Bowen do any better? Jim Chalmers? Penny Wong? It… pic.twitter.com/FG6hzAJBuh

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) June 6, 2026

Albanese’s regional Australia is being subsidised by $5 coffees

This week, I became a barista. It's more like Mugatu's bloated foamy latte fart than art, but it's a start! 

You don’t have to tell me that most politicians and policymakers are out of touch with small businesses in regional Australia.

I know it for a fact.

This week, Labor’s policies created a Catch-22 for the people who hold regional communities together. For me, this time it’s personal.

Small business cafés in the regions are being forced to choose between two bad options. They can absorb the rising costs of running a business and keep providing the social glue that governments never fund. Or they can pass those costs on to customers who are already stretched, watch their trade collapse, and lose the very community role that makes the business viable in the first place.

Either way, the social fabric frays and the business is weakened. That is the bind Labor’s cost-of-living settings have created for regional Australia.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Albanese’s regional Australia is being subsidised by $5 coffees.

Small business cafés in the regions are being forced to choose between two bad options. ☕️

They can absorb the rising costs of running a business and keep providing the social glue that governments never fund.

Or they can pass those costs on to customers who are already… pic.twitter.com/723klJUOyU

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) June 5, 2026

What did I miss? Australia’s political week in fast-forward

My editor: Where is the interview? All you filed with me were photos of yourself in an infinity pool.

From Port Havannah, Vanuatu: What have you missed? If you’ve had a gutful of trending politics like me, probably all of it. Every day brings another story about how the Albanese government is driving the cost of living through the roof. Labor has become the proverbial ‘passion fingers’.

Exhausted by press releases and nauseated watching Labor’s pitiful social media campaign (designed to bombard taxpayers with so much Budget propaganda that they eventually fall in love it), we went off to Port Havannah in Vanuatu for a week. It is the first time I have had an actual holiday in nearly 40 years of adult life. I turned my phone off and drank Piña Coladas like they were going out of fashion (if that’s possible).

There’s no point saving money while Labor is in power. I figured they’ll take it off me somehow. So off we went.

The trouble is, we ran straight into a microcosm of Labor’s bullshit in Vanuatu.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, What did I miss? Australia’s political week in fast-forward.

We are all recent survivors of a record-breaking week of political lunacy.

Bureaucrats have lost touch with reality.
Chalmers has lost touch with arithmetic.
Albanese has lost touch with social media dignity.
And One Nation has lost touch of its flag count.

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— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) June 1, 2026