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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.

China

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.

Nuclear

Then there’s the word Nuclear – the Voldemort of Australian energy debates.

The only thing more radioactive than uranium is the political cowardice surrounding it.

Everyone – including Albanese – knows that nuclear energy is the only viable path to net zero without sending us back to cooking kangaroo over open flames.

But Labor is ideologically opposed to nuclear power, and so Albanese stands in front of the media every day mumbling vaguely about “renewables” crossing his fingers that the sun never goes out. Or is he crossing his fingers because he’s telling lies again? It’s hard to know these days.

Meanwhile, we’re bulldozing farmland for solar panels and pretending wind turbines can power AI centres.

Spoiler alert: they can’t.

Trump

Finally, the biggest word Albo dare not speak: Trump.

The name alone causes visible distress among Labor politicians.

Our Prime Minister acts as if the leader of the free world does not exist.

He’ll say “the president,” or “a certain individual,” but try as he might, the T-word never crosses his lips.

This wouldn’t matter if Trump were a novelty act. But he’s not. He’s the President of the United States.

And while other world leaders – including the UK’s Labor leader – have worked hard to build relationships with the man who commands the free world’s biggest military, Albanese is playing peekaboo behind a wind farm.

Three little words. Say them, and you’re leading. Refuse, and you’re just performing.

Albanese seems far more interested in the applause of inner-city elites than the reality of a changing, dangerous world.

If you can’t say “China,” “Nuclear,” or “Trump,” you can’t lead Australia into the future.

You can only lecture it into irrelevance.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.

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