I fucking hate his "single mum in public housing" story so much. He's 63 and prime minister, it ceased being relevant decades ago. Having a poor parent is also very different to being poor as an adult, as anyone who has been in both situations knows. Constantly bringing up it up to try to appear empathetic to the poor adults of today just makes him look clueless, especially when he continuously fails to back it up with anything of substance. The only people who think it holds any weight are middle-class Labor diehards who don't have any lived experience of this and therefore believe the childhood sob story makes him some kind of perfect centre-left politician.

[–] minimumchips@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I hear ya. It's insulting. There are a lot of people that don't understand that upwards social mobility is gone now. It's all about family wealth and support now. More people will understand this as time goes on.