LIVE: Election 2025 – Screaming protester unleashes on Albo as she accuses the Prime Minister of ‘ripping off Aboriginal people’

A protester has unleashed on the Prime Minister, accusing him of ‘ripping off indigenous people’.

Local activist Bronwen Smith, who was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with an Indigenous flag the shape of Australia, launched into a wild rant as Mr Albanese visited an urgent care clinic in Batemans’ Bay on Monday morning.

‘He’s been in government for years, ripping off Aboriginal people. We’re over it!’, Ms Smith screamed at the waiting press pack.

She demanded the PM come out and address the small group of protesters who were carrying signs opposing the closure of the emergency department at Batemans Bay Hospital and one that said ‘No AUKUS’.

‘We want our homes fixed, we want the government to intervene clean it up so indigenous people and non-indigenous people have nice clean houses,’ she yelled.

‘Our children are neglected, this is disgusting. Where’s Albanese? Where is he?’

The PM fronted a press conference where he was promoting the extended opening hours for the urgent care clinic.

He also took aim at the Opposition Leader’s frontbench, which he claimed was overcome with ‘chaos’ and the ‘leftovers of the Morrison government’.

‘One of the things that is emerging very clearly is that the other team aren’t so much a team there is chaos on their side,’ Mr Albanese told reporters.

‘They have senior shadow ministers who haven’t been sighted.

‘I don’t know where Andrew Hastie has been – he’s the Shadow Defence Minister. Angus Taylor, not quite sure what he’s doing as the Shadow Treasurer.’

The Opposition Leader has promised a further $375 million to tackle organised crime, illegal drugs and paedophiles, bringing the Coalition’s total commitment to tackling crime to $750 million.

Mr Dutton is expected to launch Operation Safer Communities on Monday, which will see a ‘crack down on crime from the border to the backyard’.

The Coalition’s plans also include a National Drug Enforcement and Organised Crime Strike Team and a new sex offender’s list.

The National Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme, which will come at a cost of $21 million for a year-long pilot, will allow members of the public to request information from police about whether any one who interacts with their children is a convicted sex offender, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Anthony Albanese has repeatedly claimed he was the ‘first leader in the world’ to respond to Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs.

But Daily Mail Australia highlighted how he was in fact the second world leader to respond, after Sweden’s Prime Minister beat him by around 12 minutes.

Senator James Paterson, the Coalition’s campaign spokesperson, said it was a ‘bizarre boast’ for Mr Albanese to make in the first place.

‘It’s even worse now it appears it was wrong,’ Mr Paterson told this publication.

‘Anthony Albanese should come clean: did he deliberately lie to cover up his weakness standing up for Australia or is he just not across the details of an important issue of national interest yet again?’

But now the PM has tried to pour cold water on our story while repeating his claim to have been the first leader to respond.

Mr Albanese was criticising Peter Dutton on Monday morning, claiming he ‘always shoots from the hip’. ‘This is the same person who after the United States administration made its tariff announcement – I was up before 8:30am that morning,’ he told reporters.

‘I was the first world leader to make a statement. I do note that I read somewhere that someone in Sweden tweeted: not quite the same thing, with respect.

‘I made a consistent, coherent statement of Australia’s position at that time calling it an act of economic self-harm, and outlining the measures that Australia has put in place to protect our national interests.’

You can make up your own mind about who was first to respond by reading the below story:

Valdimir Putin’s man in Jakarta has fired a warning to Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton over their opposition to a proposed Russian military base in Indonesia.

The prospect of Russian aircraft operating out of Indonesia’s Biak Island, just 1300km from Darwin, sent shockwaves through the federal election campaign last week.

Mr Albanese accused the Opposition Leader of ‘verballing’ the Indonesian President after Mr Dutton claimed that Indonesian President had confirmed reports that Russia wanted to fly aircraft out of the country.

Mr Dutton was later forced to apologise for the comments but warned that Russia’s ‘closeness’ with Indonesia was ‘concerning’.

But now Moscow’s ambassador in Jakarta, Sergei Tolchenov, has accused both leaders of trying to out-do one another by dialling up the anti-Russian rhetoric ahead of the election.

‘It is clear that the leaders of the two main political parties, replacing each other in power and calling it democracy, are now trying to outdo each other, heating up the situation,’ he wrote in a letter to the Jakarta Post.

‘They stop at nothing, and the time has come to play the so-called “Russian card”.

‘This means to show to overseas mentors who is more anti-Russian and Russophobe.’

But then the Russian diplomat, quoting directly from Trump’s now-infamous altercation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House, issued an ominous warning: ‘You have no cards’.

He is warning that whoever wins on May 3, they should not stand in Russia’s way.

Read more about Moscow’s play for a military base in Indonesia below: