Public Housing
Peter Sully
Anthony Albanese is Australia’s first Prime Minister raised in social housing, growing up with his mother and maternal grandparents in a council house in Sydney. Peter Sully gently pokes fun at Albanese for often referring to this aspect of his childhood. As Australia’s housing crisis grew in 2023, other cartoonists questioned whether the government was doing enough to help Australians who are struggling with housing affordability, despite his background.
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