Anthony Albanese is copping heat after it was revealed that the Aussie Prime Minister bought a multi-million-dollar home… smack bang in the middle of a cozzie livs crisis.
ICYMI, it was reported earlier this week that Albanese jointly purchased the property — located in Copacabana along NSW’s Central Coast — with his partner Jodie Haydon, for an eye-watering price of $4.3 million. You know, pocket change.
Pictures of the four-bedroom, three-bathroom home were shown on the property’s real estate listing, and it feels like something ripped straight out of Selling Sunset.
According to the listing, the cliff-top home — one of multiple properties owned by the PM — boasts “uninterrupted ocean views from all levels,” as well as a walk-through ensuite, open plan living and dining spaces, and “timber-lined cathedral ceilings”.
In other words, it’s boujee as hell, and that has left a sour taste in some people’s mouths in the lead up to an election in which cost of living and housing affordability are considered key issues. Albanese gets to traipse under whatever a timber-lined ceiling is while the rest of us get dizzy even catching a glimpse of the price of lettuce.
From an optics level, it has the faint whiff of that time ol’ mate ducked out to Hawaii during the 2019 bush fires; a sentiment that has been noted by some of the PM’s critics.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton was among those to question the timing of Albanese’s purchase, saying in reaction to the news that “the homeowners in Australia I’m worried about at the moment are people who can’t afford their mortgages”.
For his part, Greens firebrand housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mathew used Albanese’s property purchase to attack his housing policies, writing in a post on X that Labor “created a housing system where a property investor can buy a $4.3m beachfront home, while millions can’t even find an affordable rental, let alone buy a house of their own”.
Meanwhile, Liberal Senator Jane Hume told Sunrise that while “everybody has a right to a personal life,” the purchase reads as “tone deaf during a housing crisis”.
According to reports, Albanese is also copping backlash not just from those on different sides of the political aisle.
While some Labor politicians have supported the PM’s decision — with MP Mike Freelander saying he “[doesn’t] have a problem with the PM buying a house” — others have reportedly been left “gobsmacked” by their boss’ purchase.
In an article published on Tuesday, Sydney Morning Herald heard from four Labor MPs who reacted negatively to news of Albanese’s new home, though they refused to be named so they could “speak freely,” the article read.
“I can’t think of a greater act of self-sabotage in my life,” one MP said, “I am gobsmacked”. Another MP described the move as “not a good look,” and claimed people within the Labor party knew of Albanese’s plans to buy the house and “tried to stop it”.
“My instinct is this is fucking terrible,” the source added.
Responding to all hullabaloo earlier this week, Albanese acknowledged in a press conference that he “earn[s] a good income” and is aware that he is “much better off as prime minister”.
Regardless of his home purchase, the PM said he still “know[s] what it is like to struggle,” explaining that his mother lived in “one public housing [home]… for all of her 65 years”.
“I know what it is like, which is why I want to help all Australians into a home,” the PM added.
Just after he said that, Albo probably took in some uninterrupted views and chopped up a whole bunch of iceberg lettuce.
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