Boos All Around

Senator Jacqui Lambie should be booed for booing tennis fans who booed the PM at the Australian Open.

Senator Jacqui Lambie should be booed for booing tennis fans who booed the PM at the Australian Open.

The senator for bogans blasted the Rod Laver Arena crow for loudly jeering Anthony Albanese when he was introduced on Sunday night.

She told Channel Nine …

“We’ve got a heap of rich people over there watching the tennis finals and they’ve had a bit of their tax taken off them to pay it forward, to give to those who are less fortunate. For God’s sake, I don’t have a problem with that.

“They just don’t like him. They want the Liberals in … I’m not sure it’s any better. The grass isn’t any greener on the other side to be honest with you at this point.”

Lambie makes four mistakes.

First, she assumes the people booing were rich.

Second, she assume the people booing were primarily upset about Albanese’s deceit over he Stage Three Tax Cuts.

Third, she assumes the people booing all vote Liberal.

Fourth, and most concerning, she assumes that it is okay to break promises to people better off than you.

Let’s take those mistakes one at a time …