Anthony Albanese spent Monday laying some groundwork for the federal election; today, the prime minister weighed in on a debate almost as heated as what’s to come on the campaign trail.
Asked about beachgoers allegedly using cabanas to reserve prime real estate on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, Albanese was unequivocal. “Everyone owns the beach,” he said, calling the parked cabanas a “breach” of Australia’s egalitarian society. The moral philosopher Christian Barry said the spirited reaction reflects how Australians view behaviour that suggested an entitlement to “special treatment”.
