BREAKING: A major civil war has erupted inside the Albanese Government, with a leadership spill officially brewing within the Labor Party.
In a stunning and unprecedented move, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has gone into survival mode, publicly pointing the finger directly at his boss, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, as the primary reason Labor’s popularity has completely plummeted.
Make no mistake, the lines have been drawn, the factions are fracturing, and a leadership spill is coming.
Here is exactly how the civil war is playing out:
Jim Chalmers openly name checked Anthony Albanese and other senior ministers, declaring that everyone is responsible for their own “parts of the shop”
Translation?
He is refusing to take the sole fall for Labor’s catastrophic economic failures and tanking poll numbers.
In what is being viewed as direct code for internal warfare, Chalmers’ comments firmly dump the blame for Labor's cascading crises onto his colleagues:
He ripped into Finance Minister Katy Gallagher for the ballooning public service.
Had a dig at Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke for national security and immigration failures.
Blamed Foreign Minister Penny Wong for diplomatic blunders.
And then stunningly, Anthony Albanese for the absolute disaster of the lot.
With yet another interest rate hike tipped for Melbourne Cup Day, Chalmers is desperately trying to shield himself from the impending fallout of a faltering economy and soaring inflation.
And typically, as the domestic front burns, Albanese is preparing to jet off to Antigua and Barbuda, leaving behind an increasingly toxic, agitated cabinet and a deputy chair relationship that is completely fractured.
The defensive posture from Chalmers proves he knows the ship is sinking.
The blame game has begun, trust is entirely gone, and a challenge for the lodge is now inevitable.
According to @VictorianLabor minions, refusing to accept payment from a political party, so that I’m free to criticise them when they gain power, is CORRUPTION,
but @VictorianLabor Government allowing billions of taxpayer dollars to be stolen by friends, leading to sky high taxes that put honest Victorians under immense financial pressure, but still isn’t enough gouging of Victorians to stop essential services being chronically underfunded and state debt going through the roof, is ABSOLUTELY FINE.
@BenCarrollMP Resign already and take the rest of the Labor government with you, you should all be ashamed of yourselves for the damage you have all done to Victoria.
Labor should stop “helping” because everything they do has the opposite effect of what they say it will. Put Labor last and the Greens second last at federal, state and council elections to save Australia.
@goodfoodgal Labor should stop “helping” because everything they do has the opposite effect of what they say it will. Put Labor last and the Greens second last at federal, state and council elections to save Australia.
The target cash rate is up to a 15-year high and unemployment is up too – but the Treasurer says the budget’s looking better than even he expected. Why? Record tax revenue – and a big chunk of it is from all of our superannuation accounts. Economics correspondent Matthew Cranston is here. Listen to the full episode here: https://t.co/ClRdYVAjfH
@AussieVal10@JEChalmers The Labor government should stop “helping” because everything they do has the opposite effect of what they say they want to do.
My ancestors did not die at Gallipoli for this
A foreign-born racist implies Australians have no right to be proud of their culture, the British traditions that underpin this nation, and to want their own children to grow up in a society that we recognise
Do we have a word for those who are so arrogant as to choose to emigrate to a new country then complain and seek to destroy it?