Shadow Treasurer, Angas Taylor, has criticised Albanese for "circumnavigating the globe" during the flood crisis, only to be told to pull his head in by Treasurer Chalmers. I don't remember Labor and its supporters pulling their heads in when Morrison was absent during the fires.

Of course, Chalmers says that Albo is 'fixing' all the previous government's stuff ups. I would have thought that the best place to do that would be here, where the stuff ups matter; not globe trotting, when Skype or Zoom could have been used - especially now that Labor has pledged a 43% reduction in emissions, many of which are caused by air travel, or so we are told.

The media says that the PM has been "forced to defend" his overseas trips, saying something about "new politics" and "working together" in the interests of the Australian public.

Together with whom? Not the Australian public, few of whom he would have met overseas.

He said that he was "fulfilling a responsibility" by travelling to Ukraine, making sure "every support was being offered". Australian voters and taxpayers didn’t give him that responsibility, nor did they expect him to give a grovelling apology to France for something his predecessor did. Or, come to think of it, his gushing to a bunch of foreigners that Australia was is now "out of the naughty corner" on climate change. What a an embarrassing suckhole!

As the Opposition has said, while 30,000 people in NSW have been forced to evacuate because of the floods, Albanese seems more interested in strutting the global stage than doing someone for them (Perrottet is a dead loss). But of course the last PM was also dazzled by globalism, and he paid the price. Early days yet, of course, but Albo looks like being the same sort.

All the waffling on about a PM not being in the country during an emergency is nothing short of just silly quabble.

Fixing the previous Govts stuff-ups is just a lucky chance to talk themselves up when there's nothing else to say.
Silly Chalmers wouldn't know if he was Arthur or Martha if he had to manage what Morrisson managed.
Let's just wait a couple of months & see how the new lot manages COVID even with hindsight from ar$ehole to breakfast available to them from their predecessors.
Albo does come across as the only one with some competence in that crew & may need to be somewhat of a benevolent Dictator to manage the incompetence of his gang.
I actually feel a little sorry for Albo not having a better pool of ministers to choose from.

Albo's reaction to being questioned about his travel has been described as a 'dummy spit' this morning. Toys out of the pram next?

While Dutton has gone on holiday so soon after the election, without reminding us that he is there, deputy leader , Sussan Ley, has reminded us that we do actually have an Opposition.

Ley noted Albo's moan that he 'hadn't had a day off' in the two months that he had been PM. What a wuss. He clearly didn’t give much thought about what the job entails.

Such a short time into the new government, and the Opposition leader takes a holiday, and the PM wants a break.

Gawd help us!

Come on ttbn, be fair, Albo has been working 7 days a week since his Covid holiday, what's Constable Clod done in the past two months? Been down at the Golden Dragon, 'shirt fronting' the Chinese cook, he's done nothing!

BTW, whose this Sussan Ley person?