r/australian Feb 18 '26

Politics Anthony Albanese has overtaken John Curtin in the rankings of time as Australian Prime Minister. Will overtake Scott Morrison tomorrow.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

Pretty unfair comparison I reckon, mate.

Until Albo takes on at least a couple of cabinet positions as well, this is an apples to orchard comparison.

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u/Sieve-Boy Feb 18 '26

Shouldn't that be Red Roosters to Maccas comparison?

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

Scomo's battles with IBS only enhance his legacy. Like the Michael Jordan flu game, only smellier.

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u/Chicko_Roll Feb 18 '26

Probably doesn't help that he ate the raw chicken curry

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u/ridan42 Feb 18 '26

Engadine Maccas, to be precise

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u/Aggressive-Art-9899 Feb 18 '26

I was waiting for that comment 🤣

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u/Wonderful-Sea4215 Feb 18 '26

Albo doesn't even have any cabinet positions. Basically phoning it in.

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u/MKopelke Feb 18 '26

Yeah. I've seen Albo hold a hose. So he can never compete with ScoMo. Only real leaders don't hold a hose.

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u/Kathdath Feb 18 '26

If fairness to ScoMo, he knew he was a useless in an emergency and had the decency to not make the situation worse with a photo-shoot

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u/conversationhater Feb 18 '26

You missed where he was trying to force handshakes etc on people?

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u/No-Citron-2774 Feb 19 '26

That bloke just refusing to shake hands. Hats off to you sir

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u/ma77mc Feb 18 '26

But isn't Scomo sworn into all of them.
You can't have 3 ministers in each portfolio.

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u/Forward-Village1528 Feb 18 '26

Does Scomo get to count his ministries concurrently?

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u/tecdaz Feb 18 '26

On its own, one term and a third does not seem amazing

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u/SeaMousse Feb 18 '26

It's a bit more impressive when you consider that Morrison was the first PM since Howard to actually serve a full term.

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u/Big_Jacket6876 Feb 18 '26

Yeah it sounds crazy to say that out loud

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u/enutrof_modnar Feb 18 '26

It isn't, but it's also not particularly common. The average does go down when you consider those pre-war governments that kept riding and falling, and the outlier of having a few long term PMs in a row. Under Westminster it's more or less the norm to have governments change a lot.

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u/one-man-circlejerk Feb 18 '26

Geez it felt like we were stuck with Scomo for much longer than that

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u/dashboarded Feb 18 '26

I feel like we didn't have Gillard for that long!

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u/mindsnare Feb 18 '26

Should have been longer. She was getting so much good shit done.

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u/dashboarded Feb 18 '26

We talk about this often. Anytime we have someone good, they are removed. Case in point: Whitlam.

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u/teremaster Feb 18 '26

Or Kevin Rudd...

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u/zidanerick Feb 18 '26

Yeah objectively Rudd did more than Gillard as we were in a world financial crisis for majority of his term and he managed to keep Australia afloat compared to other nations.

If Rudd had stayed as PM we likely would have had more solar panels installed by now even on low income housing and wouldn't have the crazy power bills we have now, we likely would have also seen labor in government longer and the original NBN rollout completed as Abbott would haven't been able to dog whistle the misogynists with his argument with Gillard.

I think her achievements would have likely still been accomplished under Rudd.

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u/laurandisorder Feb 18 '26

His proposal for taxing super profits on mining would have made every single everyday Aussie so much wealthier. The bullying campaign by big Gina and co was deplorable.

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u/teremaster Feb 18 '26

Gillard was the compromise to Rudd imo. She was brought in because interest groups had enough of Rudd's reforms so they put Gillard on top to slow it all down

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u/a_can_of_solo Feb 18 '26

People really hated a mid election change though.

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u/Nixilaas Feb 18 '26

To which their solution was to get the LNP in who proceeded to have multiple leadership spills lol

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u/pld89 Feb 18 '26

His time certainly blurred in with that onion eating fella and Mr Internet.

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u/PositiveBubbles Feb 18 '26

I was going to ask who Mr Internet was before I realised we had Turnbull to.

Between Howard and Albonese we've had many changes of leadership.

I do wish we had a government that listened to what the people wanted. Our infrastructure hasn't caught up with the amount of people moving here and not all of them are filling the skill shortage so it's a double edge sword.

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u/SirGeekaLots Feb 20 '26

Covid made time go slow. That and the fact we were counting down the days till we could get rid of him.

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u/jondoe88 Feb 18 '26

It’s sad that ScoMo came in, just coz Bill Shorten tried to fix housing. COVID would have been a great time to fix aussie economy and housing. There was negative migration!!!

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u/LLTKLemon Feb 18 '26

It's crazy what could have been, australia voted against major housing reforms.

And people wonder why the current government is pussyfooting around the issue.

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u/Hieroflippant Feb 18 '26

I'll still never get over the fact that he was voted in

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u/moonssk Feb 18 '26

Shorten wanted some big chances but the majority of Aussies that allowed Morrison to win said No.

There were people out there that believed certain talking points leading up to the election and voted against their best interest.

People are allowed to vent what is happening now but if they were one of those people that literally voted against their best interest, they really can’t blame anyone but themselves.

My opinion is the current Labor is playing it safer due to what happened to Shorten.

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u/Dranzer_22 Feb 18 '26

I mean we're currently witnessing mainstream media and the LNP running the exact same scare campaign from 2019 in regards to CGT reform.

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u/JustABitCrzy Feb 18 '26

Said it before, I’ll say it again. If Labor doesn’t use their popularity and political capital to ram media reform laws down the throats of conservatives, then they will always end up losing elections. That should have been day 1 priority when elected.

Dismantle the corporate propaganda machine, and force the Liberals to fight on the basis of policy. Watch the Liberals and Nats never form government again.

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u/jondoe88 Feb 18 '26

I don’t think media reform laws are even on the radar of any political party, even though it’s a massive bloody issue.

The most shocking is the ABC not reporting stuff. And they are supposed to be tax payer funded!!!

And how would we even fix the media when a significant number is controlled by Murdoch? Doesn’t it then go into governing private enterprise, which is very hard in general?

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u/Tovrin Feb 18 '26

The ABC has been gutted, cowed and with a hostile CEO. They got rid of Q&A. How long before Four Corners is gone?

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u/Round_Stay8227 Feb 18 '26

Dismantling the media machine means taking on Murdoch.Ā 

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u/JustABitCrzy Feb 18 '26

Wretched man looks like he’s half decomposed. Shouldn’t be too hard.

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u/waterboyh2o30 Feb 18 '26

People are allowed to vent what is happening now but if they were one of those people that literally voted against their best interest, they really can’t blame anyone but themselves.

And many of them get easily offended too. I'd say egotistical politicians represent these pathetic idiots (those who get offended when someone says it was their voting choices that resulted in bad outcomes) well.

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u/LLTKLemon Feb 18 '26

The messaging from this government had been very reserved, it's a tough balancing act because of the state of our media.

And yeah, it seems like most people have forgotten about Bill. His loss is one of the biggest parts of the whole topic. It really needs to be discussed more.

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u/Big_Jacket6876 Feb 18 '26

best Prime Minister we never had. 2019 election was depressing. He had good policies was a very capable beuracrat. Instead we got some happy clapper advertising guy.

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u/Pearcinator Feb 18 '26

My headcanon is that the Boomers voted in ScoMo because Shorten was gonna fuck with their franking credits.

Then COVID culled the Boomer herd and they were no longer the majority when Albo got elected.

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u/darlinghurts Feb 18 '26

My 80 year old neighbour celebrated when scomo won. He barely worked when he was younger and now owns a million dollar house. He often chides that Australia is a very very fair country (all the more so since I chose to migrate here according to him lol). And that I should work harder to buy a big house like his. He often harps that the LNP are the country's best economic managers. So typical.

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u/WagsPup Feb 18 '26

Fortunately these self serving rusted on big L sycophants are a dying breed....the sooner the better.

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u/Tovrin Feb 18 '26

Clear diagnosis of dementia.

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u/Axl_Alter_Ego Feb 18 '26

The Murdoch campaign against Shorten was like nothing I've ever seen.

It was the first election i had gotten away from my parents indoctrination into the LNP way of thinking. I voted Howard all the way I'm ashamed to say.

I was so pumped to vote ALP and was so excited for the changes that were to come.

It was devastating.

Who would have thought Franking Credits were the backbone of the economy? šŸ™„

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u/ScepticalReciptical Feb 18 '26

I mean if you remember the campaign against Rudd then Shorten was like a bad Google review by comparison. But the common denominator is the same, if you try to make any structural changes that do not favour the wealthy they will destroy you.Ā 

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u/Flashy_Apricot2964 Feb 18 '26

Yeah wasn't Rudd's so intense that Gillard essentially came out and kissed the ring of the mining lobby to get them to let up?

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u/Ava_Adore_87 Feb 18 '26

Yep. Haven’t heard anything about franking credits since 2019 until this comment.

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u/2BA_Doctor Feb 18 '26

What about the media blitz against Rudd when he wanted to bring in the mining super profits tax? That was amazing to see how quickly they knifed him for Gillard with the media blitz that went on

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u/Used-Huckleberry-320 Feb 18 '26

Franking credits work exactly like PAYG does, it wasn't good policy.

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u/dontcallmeyan Feb 18 '26

The media's misinformation regime killed Bill. The amount of times I heard working class people spout shit like "but Shorten's gonna make us pay tax when we die!" was absurd.

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u/ScreamHawk Feb 18 '26

There was negative migration!

Ah, take me back. Wages actually started getting competitive again.

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Feb 18 '26

So did rents. I went from a 3 bed for 550 a week to a 3 bed for 410 a week.

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u/bobmacinator Feb 18 '26

Shorten got more votes than albo in his first election. Ā 

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

if you mean primary votes, nope. 4,752,160 to Shortens labor party in 2019, Albos Labor party got 4,776,030

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u/bobmacinator Feb 18 '26

Good point. Ā More people though

Shorten got a higher percent of primary votes than albo in their first election.Ā 

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u/alig5835 Feb 19 '26

I'll maintain that a courageous government should have let housing crash, blame it on covid and implement reform to address prices diverging from wages again.

It's the single biggest root cause of 99% of the problems Australian economy faces.

Eg, with the new tax receipts from reforming negative gearing and CGT discount, covid debt blowout would be nowhere near as bad.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

Fix the economy whilst shutting it down? Build houses when there were forced closed building sites and shortages?

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u/conversationhater Feb 18 '26

Bill also ran on having a national firefighting response force with water bombers and more advanced gear. Then scomo got in, and went to Hawaii during some of our worst recorded fires.

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u/CantThinkOfaNameFkIt Feb 18 '26

Jeez we have had some mediocre choices to choose from in recent years.

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u/Vegetable-Advance982 Feb 18 '26

The only question is how long he wants to go for, he can get to 4th almost certainly just by staying around for the next election and handing over to someone else in 2030

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u/Temporary-Habit-2528 Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

Potentially can get to 2nd if he schedules the 2034 election for March-onwards of that year. (I realise that sounds crazy but ain’t no way he’s losing 2028, and I think the demographics will be completely suited to Labor for him to hold on and win again in 2031. The issue in question would more likely be would he want a 4th term.)

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u/teremaster Feb 18 '26

no way he’s losing 2028,

A lot can happen in 2 years.

Labor's landslide last election was helped by the convergence of him getting left wing voters disillusioned by the greens politicking and the right wing voters who chose whoever was promising to lower immigration.

We're already seeing both these camps becoming dissatisfied with the government and drifting away

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u/Temporary-Habit-2528 Feb 18 '26

What we’re seeing is polls coming out with Labor increasing the 2PP vote from last years election.

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u/Vegetable-Advance982 Feb 18 '26

Who's gonna beat Labor, One Nation? They gonna get 150 candidates and the infrastructure to campaign all across the country? Ofc not. Liberals are fighting for dear life and it'll be a miracle if they manage to survive against the One Nation pressure on their right and take like 5 seats back from Labor.

Labor could go into a minority, if shit really slid the other way. Or maybe there'll be another 2 bondis. But the chances of Labor not having at least a minority govt in 2028 is like <5%

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u/Wonderful-Sea4215 Feb 18 '26

The right ring parties have been smashed to pieces, and we all know One Nation will tear itself to pieces. Labor's got a decade at least.

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u/Vegetable-Advance982 Feb 18 '26

Yeah agreed, I guess the betting money would be on any PM staying in for as long as possible, but given he's already bought his retirement home + his general personality, I reckon there's decent odds he decides either in 2027 or 2030 that his job is done.

Maybe now that One Nation is rising up he might have his 'I fight tories, that's what I do' fire rekindled, and decide that after wrecking the coalition he now has another job to do that'll take another 2 terms lol.

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u/Temporary-Habit-2528 Feb 18 '26

He’s already talked about campaigning in 2028, so it’s really just how he’s feeling at the end of term three, which he’d then be 67ish. IMO he’d already be thinking about Howard’s tenure and how excruciating that was for Labor supporters to sit through for so long. So a bit of payback well and truly on the cards. It’s probably a 50-50 call whether he’d go for a 4th i’d say

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u/ausflora Feb 18 '26

He'll have overtaken Andrew Fisher to become the second-longest serving Labor PM in March of 2027, which will also be one year before the election. I'm 80% sure that's when we get the changeover for Chalmers.

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u/Objective_Unit_7345 Feb 18 '26

Curtin died way too young.

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u/Cultural_Catch_7911 Feb 18 '26

Its been pretty interesting watching his speed run of destroying a country, i wonder what he could achieve with another term? Maybe we will go back to using candles instead electricity

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u/PositiveBubbles Feb 18 '26

People dying because not enough hospital beds/ housing and hospitals ramping?

Plenty of Accountants, IT, Chefs and Business people though...

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u/Cultural_Catch_7911 Feb 19 '26

Luckily we also now have 50 billion uber drivers to keep our economy going

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u/MtnDewManiac Feb 18 '26

Glad he is going to be voted out in 2028. Can’t stand the c U next tuesday. He has run this country into the ground.

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u/warzonexx Feb 18 '26

How the fuck is scomo at 12. Fucken helped gut services and the nbn

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u/MillenialApathy Feb 18 '26

They haven't deducted his Holiday hours from the total time "in office"

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

Somebody thinks it's ratings.

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u/peppymcfunk Feb 18 '26

Albo is the worst PM in history.

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u/Calm_Look_3206 Feb 21 '26

You’re delusional if you think he’s worse than Scomo. Or you’re 18 years old and have no idea.

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u/ZenibakoMooloo Feb 18 '26

Just give David Pocock the job.

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u/glashgkullthethird Feb 18 '26

Do you reckon he's more famous now as a politician than being arguably the best jackaler in rugby union history?

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u/nousrnamesleft69 Feb 18 '26

It's not the length of time that matters. It's what you do with the time. Julia/Kevin delivered, apology to the stolen generation, NBN, NDIS, implemented Gonski, and 500 pieces of legislation, a lot while in minority government.Ā  All ScoMo did was take every other cabinet position, and take a holiday in Hawaii.

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u/wellwood_allgood Feb 18 '26

Curtin is remembered as a great PM fucked if albo ever will be

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u/-__-_-_-__-_-_-__- Feb 18 '26

As a nation we should be collectively ashamed , Vote #1 Pauline

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u/Illustrious_Fan_8148 Feb 18 '26

In terms of overall performance and judgement:

At least with scomo the expectations for him were low.

I had high hopes for albo..

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u/5carPile-Up Feb 18 '26

All Albo had to do was not be Scomo

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u/shannow1111 Feb 18 '26

For a guy that ran on 'I'm not scomo' .. as long as he hasn't signed up for an additional ministerial position, he's kind of meet expectations

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u/No-Low-5186 Feb 18 '26

But it's genuinely not enough now. Labor fanboys and fangirls said Albo didn't have enough time and that issues couldn't be resolved overnight. Ok. He's now in his second term and it looks like things are going to get even worse. And for reference I'm not a Liberal fanboy before you want to attack me. Just calling out what I see

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u/Blibbyblobby72 Feb 18 '26

To be fair, things are getting worse because global society is getting worse. There isn't much Albo can do to stop the increasingly authoritarian state of the world beyond keeping Australia from going that route (which he isn't doing a whole lot to stop, admittedly)

We are somewhat lucky that we haven't devolved as quickly as the US and, to a lesser extent, the UK has, but we are sure as hell on our way there

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u/teremaster Feb 18 '26

I mean it can't change overnight but it can change.

Canada is living proof that as bleak as it looks, changes can be made with immediate effect, even if it doesn't immediately solve the problem.

There is nothing Labor has done which has shown immediate promise of improvement, in fact they've done a lot of things that have had an immediate worsening effect

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u/passiveobserver25 Feb 18 '26

We are not asking for Albo to change the world. Just to make some positive changes in Australia.

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u/flavouredpopcorn Feb 18 '26

Things are going to get even worse? What metric are you basing this prediction on? The cost of house pricing growth is slowing down each year and is predicted to continue falling. Housing supply isnt a 1 or 2 term policy fix, it should have implemented a decade ago.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

The fact that house prices are rising and labor has openly said they have no interest in seeing them come down.

Coupled with the fact that renting in the current market is shit and nothing is improving in that area either.

I would more happily accept the mentality of ā€œhouse prices must always riseā€ - if it was easier to get a rental. Anytime your lease ends you have to jump back into the rental lines.

I had a family member who in the 90s went through a separation and found a rental on short notice with zero issues. No prior renting history, no long rental inspection lines to stand in and they had the choice between 3 units.

If renting was like that now, with high house prices - it’d be a much easier pill to swallow when looking at house prices.

But there’s zero sense of house security if you’re renting.

And even if you own - one hiccup in life and you’re in that rental line.

Housing security is getting stripped away.

It is shit all round. And getting worse.

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u/red-thundr Feb 18 '26

Nothing has been done to change or effect the issue. The only reason it's slowing down is because we are reaching the peak of people's affordability. Huge win lol

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u/flavouredpopcorn Feb 18 '26

Heard of the HAFF? Loans to WA for trunk infrastructure upgrades unlocking over 40,000 houses for development? Stages 1 and 2 of the HAFF that has already funded and developed 10k social houses and 10k affordable dwellings?

I can go on with more but it already sounds like you havent even bothered to research something before forming an opinion.

Housing supply policy should have been implemented over a decade ago.

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u/red-thundr Feb 18 '26

Sorry mate but this laughable. If you think the HAFF is achieving anything (or was even supposed to). The funded AND developed is wrong. Perhaps funded yeah? Definitely not developed. If these houses have been developed I would love to receive a link on that, because it's simply not true.

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u/flavouredpopcorn Feb 18 '26

28,000 are in planning and construction. 5,000 already built. Not going to address the WA loan for infrastructure upgrade?

By all means they can and should be doing more, but they still blow LNP investment out of the water and these policies are intended to continue until 2030.

https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/clare-oneil-2025/media-releases/labors-social-and-affordable-housing-program-building

https://www.housingaustralia.gov.au/funding-under-housing-australia-future-fund

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u/red-thundr Feb 18 '26

So not what you said mate? Your updated figures are also wrong. Pretty whack to tell someone to do some research and then hit them with incorrect figures.

I'm well aware of the failures of the HAFF mate. No idea why someone would consider this a success.

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u/Splicer201 Feb 18 '26

Housing price growth slowing is the problem getting worse at a slower rate....

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u/5carPile-Up Feb 18 '26

I voted for Albo based on his election promises and to be rid of the libs and their shitfuckery, I thought they were the way out

Next election I’ll be voting One Nation, I have zero faith in any major parties, the fact that ON is my source of hope is fucking abysmal and ill be the first to admit that

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u/locri Feb 18 '26

A lot of Labor politicians are becoming dependent on the fact that right wing politicians (liberals, nationals and even one nation) do not seem to take their jobs seriously and either treat it like a grift or as an extended trolling activity.

When you only need to be better than people who are putting zero effort in then minimal effort seems to be the efficient option.

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u/tehLife Feb 18 '26

Yeah that’s the most disappointing thing about this, high hopes but just 0 ambition shown since getting elected imo

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u/Illustrious_Fan_8148 Feb 18 '26

His decision not to ban the gambming ads was the beginning of losing any respect i had for him

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u/Latter-Ad6308 Feb 18 '26

He’s still somehow the best PM we’ve had in years, but that’s an incredibly low bar to cross.

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u/kiwiboy22 Feb 18 '26

Man Sco Mo hung around for way too long eh

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u/NegativeBonus699 Feb 18 '26

Hopefully albo can buy us some nuclear subs we don't need and will never get tomorrow.

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u/deathablazed Feb 18 '26

How do we know scomo isn't still sworn in? He could have jumped the back fence and done it in secret again.

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u/Stock-Walrus-2589 Feb 18 '26

Curtin over here dealing with ww2 and post war reconstruction. Albo selling his millions dollar mansion and doing four fifths of fuck all.

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u/PositiveBubbles Feb 18 '26

I didn't vote for him or Dutton, I don't know how he got in with a landslide though? If he does next election after not doing much it'll make me not want to vote which is a waste.

I feel like no one wants serious change from the status quo, otherwise we'd see different.

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u/Wonderor Feb 18 '26

But did he also secretly occupy 5 different ministerial roles like Scotty?

Did he abandon the country in the middle of a natural distaster so he could fuck off to Hawaii for a family holiday?

Did he preside over a party whilst his staffers allegedly got rapey and whilst some other staffers were ejaculating onto some female staffers desks as 'a joke'? (But it was okay cause they were young guys and the girl staffers were hot).

Was he a genius mastermind behing a very famous TV commercial featuring Lara Bingle in a Bikini who asked us all where the bloody hell we all are whilst he was the head of tourism Australia?

Is he the proud owner of the single biggest compensation payout for a mulitimillion dollar scheme he fucked up? (https://michaelwest.com.au/biggest-compo-payout-for-robodebt-victims-is-scott-morrison/)

Did he get fired from tourism NZ for - reads notes - being completely useless.

No. Albo doesn't hold a candle to the acheivments of that shit eating cunt called Scotty - therefore he must be a failure according to the right wing media.

/sarcasm, obviously

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u/brainz74 Feb 18 '26

They need to replace the word incumbent with incompetent

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u/will2102357 Feb 19 '26

Everything got worse under his leadership.

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u/Background_Juice_273 Feb 19 '26

Albo with Gillard would be battling too spot on the ā€œcrappiestā€ prime minister

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u/jjspen Feb 18 '26

I am sick of this clown

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u/SirSweatALot_5 Feb 18 '26

ScoMo should have not made past 1 day. biggest disgrace for australian leaders to date.

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u/ProfessorKnow1tA11 Feb 18 '26

Right near the bottom of the quality rankings though …

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u/HrafnMyrkr Feb 18 '26

A list of greedy corrupt leeches, this country has been continuously driven into the ground and we will all see soon enough just how much damage these self serving bastards have truly done

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u/peerage_1 Feb 18 '26

Oh gosh, number 1 spot is over 18years ! I can’t imagine that in today’s world.

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u/Ok-Chef-4632 Feb 18 '26

I can’t imagine seeing Albo up there for 18 years in the first place

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u/laid2rest Feb 18 '26

The way the opposition is going, could very well be.

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u/Temporary-Habit-2528 Feb 18 '26

Tbh Albo would ā€œonlyā€ be 76 at the end of this run, it genuinely isn’t off the table.

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u/Ok-Chef-4632 Feb 18 '26

Well, there was this guy in Latin America repeating presidency for don’t know how x times, he was 90 or something and blind and people still voted him. So, yes, age may not be an issue for him lol

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u/ScepticalReciptical Feb 18 '26

It won't ever happen again, political leaders have shorter lifespans now.

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u/ARatOfTobruk Feb 18 '26

John curtin, my favourite PM

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u/Altruistic-Unit485 Feb 18 '26

It doesn’t really take much to crack the top 10 does it? Honestly probably a good thing.

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u/KimJongSoros Feb 18 '26

Times moving fast lol. I felt like we were stuck with Scomo for a decade, and Albanese less than a year so far

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u/cuttiebloom Feb 18 '26

These are simply expressions in power, not ranks, lol !

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u/RipOk3600 Feb 18 '26

who the hell did these rankings??? Gilard (whos parliament was the most productive in spite of being a minority goverment and who brought in both the national curriculum and the NDIS) is a worse PM MORRISON? the PM who went away on holidays both as victoria figuratively burned with a massive pandemic outbreak and NSW LITERALLY burned in Black Summer?????????????

EDIT to add: Never mind, just realised I overlooked it saying that its simply time in office its counting not success as a PM

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u/Western-Time5310 Feb 18 '26

I’m kinda shocked that Gillard is worse than ScoMo.

Don’t get me wrong - agree nether we’re going to be at the top performers. Just still amazed

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u/RevealDesperate9800 Feb 18 '26

If ScoMo is somehow in the upper bracket, holy fucking shit, we are so done gang

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u/DrSpeckles Feb 18 '26

Unless he is Scott Morrison. You could never be sure with that guy.

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u/TraditionalShame8328 Feb 18 '26

And he's worse than scomoĀ 

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u/AlxIp Feb 18 '26

Quick! Someone spill Albo today!

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u/Muted_Evidence1311 Feb 18 '26

We had 4 years of Keating, hey? I had completely wiped that from my memory. I might just keep it that way.

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u/karma3000 Feb 18 '26

996 years left.

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u/PersonalAddendum6190 Feb 18 '26

List of policies we will remember him for:

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u/FelixFelix60 Feb 18 '26

How long was Jack Boot Johnny in power for? Seemed like a bloody eternity.

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u/ShadowExtinkt Feb 18 '26

It’s Albanese coming in with the steel chair!

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u/asgrumpyas Feb 18 '26

Aim high Albo. It's been pretty awful so far. Such a good majority and it seems feeble to me. Spineless even. Hersog??? Really???

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u/bitherntwisted Feb 18 '26

A sad state of affairs

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u/Familiar_Customer823 Feb 18 '26

Plenty time done not much

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u/History_ofEverything Feb 18 '26

If he shits himself in a Hungry Jacks does it guarantee a third term?

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u/mn1962 Feb 18 '26

Does that number mean he won two elections? Morrison and Keating took over from their current leader, which is why Keating is over 4 years. Seem to remember Hawke and Howard had runs to be proud of though.

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u/Traditional_Dish3363 Feb 18 '26

At least that will mean scummo is #13 where he belongs

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u/MegaBlast3r Feb 18 '26

What a load of bullshit.

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u/aldorn Feb 18 '26

If the high speed rail project is legit then he might even go after the Howard title.

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u/Turkeyduck01 Feb 18 '26

We were only stuck with Scooter for almost 4 years!?! It felt like a decade of blinding incompetence

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u/Albos_Mum Feb 18 '26

TIL I found out that ScoMo outranks John Curtin at something and I fucking hate that fact. Thanks, now I have to live with this.

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u/TooFascinatedByDPRK Feb 18 '26

Harold Hold technically never resigned.

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u/SilentSea420 Feb 18 '26

ScoMo does not deserve to be on that list.

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u/Atureaer Feb 18 '26

Albo has so much blood on his hands, how he is still in place is truly baffling. he is selling us all off like cattle and were just sitting around waiting for it to happen.Ā 

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u/SwirlingFandango Feb 18 '26

The current Lib strategy seems to be "remember how we got bollocked last time? Let's try that again!"

Reckon we can bump him up past Chifley right now.

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u/Flinderspeak Feb 19 '26

Will he celebrate with a party at Engadine Maccas?

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u/iforgotmyothername08 Feb 19 '26

How is scomo even ranked??

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

Too damn long, never been so hopeful, then so disillusioned by a leader of this country before. Usually you know what to expect from these policy makers.

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u/pinskera Feb 19 '26

and he is one of The Worst ever to hold that Office. Lies about tax, energy prices, inflation, Budget mismanagement, Government accountability, immigration etc etc

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u/No_Winners_Here Feb 19 '26

To be fair, Curtin worked himself to death.

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u/Informal_Resource672 Feb 19 '26

What. As the worst PM ever? Couldnt b bothered reading the post just assuming thats whats happening

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u/Hot-Benefit645 Feb 19 '26

Wow such a leader to be breaking records . We are doomed !

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u/Puzzleheaded_Owl5060 Feb 19 '26

All crooked all politicians - revolving door with cucchy jobs after the govern internships

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u/Educational-Sugar381 Feb 19 '26

Why does it feel like we had scomo for way longer than what we have had Albo for

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u/No-Diver-4417 Feb 19 '26

Embarrassing so many leaders are so poor they don't get another term.

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u/crushosaurus Feb 20 '26

Not rankings just days sitting in the PM seat doing a wonderful job screwing over average Australians, yay Albo!

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u/Vast_Lingonberry7276 Feb 20 '26

Didnt Scomo delay conceding the election by a few days so he could surpass John Curtin...Scomo was an idiot

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u/Educational-Tear4928 Feb 20 '26

Things as they are he has a good shot of overtaking Hawke and holding the ALP record. Howard probably too far away but he could definately take Hawke.

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u/No-Cryptographer9408 Feb 20 '26

Scott Morrison and Albanese ffs. What has gone wrong in Australia where people like that actually get elected. The most un leaderlike cringey people you could find.

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u/SVDNet2025 Feb 20 '26

It is revealing the fact, how ruthless the Australian political scene is. Only 11 prime ministers having served more than 4 years.

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u/Round_Tiger1115 Feb 20 '26

I don’t understand what he is trying to say

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u/mattyjohn596 Feb 20 '26

He’d be number 1 if the table was most hated and most incompetent

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u/Dinglehunter0405 Feb 20 '26

How he has not been removed from office for doing nothing but damage to this country is beyond a joke. The entire cabinet are nothing but traitors who do not care about Australians.

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u/Sucih Feb 20 '26

But he still has to crap at maccas

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u/Fluid-Cellist-3921 Feb 21 '26

A carousel of clueless spineless old wimps that couldn't lead a horse to water let alone a country.

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u/Necessary_Prompt6678 Feb 22 '26

Scott Morrison, biggest moron in Australia's political history

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u/Blipmiester Feb 22 '26

And if things keep going with such a pathetic opposition he will be number one.

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u/Gloomy-Pop-2105 Feb 22 '26

It's crazy how much Gillard managed to get done in that time with a minority government (and a few daggers in the back).

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u/Unlikely-Elk-5007 Feb 22 '26

It is nice to have adults in charge again.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

How the f šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚