The Three Words Anthony Albanese Dares Not Say

Anthony Albanese has a curious allergy to political peanuts - words perfectly safe for grown-ups to handle, but apparently fatal to fragile ideologues

Anthony Albanese, the man elected to lead, has a curious allergy to political peanuts - words perfectly safe for grown-ups to handle, but apparently fatal to fragile ideologues.

The three words our Prime Minister cannot, under any circumstances, utter are: China, Nuclear, and Trump.

Let’s start with China, the land of pandas, cheap manufacturing, oh, and ... totalitarian surveillance.

You’ll never hear Albo say what most Australians already know - that the Chinese Communist Party poses the greatest strategic threat to our national security since the Japanese bombed Darwin.

No, instead of calling out Beijing’s island-building, cyber hacking, and international bullying, the Prime Minister prefers to describe China as a “valued trading partner.”

That’s like describing a loan shark as a “financial mentor.”

Even as Chinese naval vessels play chicken with our defence forces in international waters, Albanese treads softly.

The CCP could park a battleship in Sydney Harbour and Albanese would issue a strongly worded tweet about “regional tensions” - typed on his phone while enjoying a cup of bubble tea with Xi Jinping’s goons.