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Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:10pm

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12868183/Anthony-Albanese-Western-Austr...

Anthony Albanese is called out over his holiday to a West Australian winery
with Jodie Haydon where he had a glass from a $500 bottle of red amid cost of living crisis

Albanese enjoyed a $500 bottle of wine on holiday
Opposition claims he's 'lost touch with everyday Australians'
READ MORE: Aussies unleash at Albanese over nightmare Christmas

By Ashley Nickel For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 01:31 AEDT, 16 December 2023 | Updated: 01:59 AEDT, 16 December 2023

Anthony Albanese has been called out for drinking a glass of $500 red wine at a West Australian vineyard while many Aussies struggle to enjoy Christmas amid the cost-of-living crisis.

The Prime Minister enjoyed some downtime in the state's southwest this week with his partner Jodie Haydon, visiting two wineries.

He paid a visit to Cullen Wines in Margaret River where he tasted some of the 2017 Cullen Vanya Flower Day Cabernet Sauvignon which retails for $500.

Mr Albanese and Ms Haydon also stopped by the Pierro Vineyards for a tasting at L.A.S. Vino before returning to Melbourne for the memorial service of Labor MP Peta Murphy on Friday.

The PM's travels have since been criticised by WA Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash.

'Every Australian deserves a decent holiday, (but) we can't help but wonder if our Prime Minister has lost touch with the struggles of everyday Australians,' she told The West.

'Many Australians are battling with even the basics this Christmas - let alone tasting expensive bottles of wine.'

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Reply #1 - Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:12pm

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$500 bottles of wine is no problem when other people are paying for it...champagne socialists.

I say:

Albo's mass immigration program -

1 million people since the end of Covid has caused all the battler renters
who voted for him to have massive rent increases -

property prices have skyrocketed too -

he doesn't give a stuff about Australians -
he's a traitor.

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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20488 Gordon Gender:	Re: PM enoys $500 bottle of wine. Reply #2 - Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:15pm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_socialist
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Reply #3 - Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:18pm

Gordon wrote on Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:15pm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_socialist

Champagne socialist

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term references champagne as a symbol of affluence.

Champagne socialist is a political term commonly used in the United Kingdom.[1][2] It is a popular epithet that implies a degree of hypocrisy, and it is closely related to the concept of the liberal elite.[3] The phrase is used to describe self-identified anarchists, communists, socialists and liberals whose luxurious upper class or "preppy" lifestyles, metonymically including consumption of champagne, are ostensibly in conflict with their political beliefs.

Australia and New Zealand

In Australia and New Zealand, the variant "Chardonnay socialist" was used, as Chardonnay was seen as a drink of affluent people.[12][13][14] By the late 1990s, chardonnay had become more readily available and generally consumed[14] in Australia; today it is the most dominant white wine variety produced in the country. As a result, the drink's association with elitism has faded.

Staunch Australian right-wingers also used the term to deride those who supported what they considered "middle-class welfare"—government funding for the arts, free tertiary education, and the ABC.[15]

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 103052 Melbourne Gender:	Re: PM enjoys $500 bottle of wine. Reply #4 - Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:25pm Poor Albo - he's doing it tough for Xmas.
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Jasin Gold Member Online Posts: 47392 Gender:	Re: PM enjoys $500 bottle of wine. Reply #5 - Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:26pm I vote for the Cocktail Party. I know some vote for the Pool Party.
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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 16481 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: PM enjoys $500 bottle of wine. Reply #6 - Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:28pm I returned from WA on Monday after visiting my old man, I brought my youngest son with me. My parents live north of Midland, we drove through the Swan Valley every day we were there. We stopped and did some tasting. Tasted ~$250 a bottle rum. What should be the issue is if the tax payer payed for it.
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Reply #7 - Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:30pm

Setanta wrote on Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:28pm:

I returned from WA on Monday after visiting my old man, I brought my youngest son with me. My parents live north of Midland, we drove through the Swan Valley every day we were there. We stopped and did some tasting. Tasted ~$250 a bottle rum. What should be the issue is if the tax payer payed for it.

OK - are you a Champagne socialist?

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Reply #8 - Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:31pm

Bobby. wrote on Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:30pm:

Setanta wrote on Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:28pm:

I returned from WA on Monday after visiting my old man, I brought my youngest son with me. My parents live north of Midland, we drove through the Swan Valley every day we were there. We stopped and did some tasting. Tasted ~$250 a bottle rum. What should be the issue is if the tax payer payed for it.

OK - are you a Champagne socialist?

I probably don't meet the criteria, whatever it is.

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Reply #9 - Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:46pm

Setanta wrote on Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:31pm:

Bobby. wrote on Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:30pm:

Setanta wrote on Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:28pm:

I returned from WA on Monday after visiting my old man, I brought my youngest son with me. My parents live north of Midland, we drove through the Swan Valley every day we were there. We stopped and did some tasting. Tasted ~$250 a bottle rum. What should be the issue is if the tax payer payed for it.

OK - are you a Champagne socialist?

I probably don't meet the criteria, whatever it is.

Would Jesus have tasted rum from a $250 bottle?

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 103052 Melbourne Gender:	Re: PM enjoys $500 bottle of wine. Reply #10 - Dec 16^th, 2023 at 8:50pm Labor wankers like Monk, Pecca and Smith voted for that hypocritical prick.
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Brian Ross Gold Member Offline Representative of me Posts: 40926	Re: PM enjoys $500 bottle of wine. Reply #11 - Dec 16^th, 2023 at 9:01pm Bobby, Jealousy is such a curse. Tsk, tsk, tsk...
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 103052 Melbourne Gender:	Re: PM enjoys $500 bottle of wine. Reply #12 - Dec 16^th, 2023 at 9:04pm Brian Ross wrote on Dec 16^th, 2023 at 9:01pm: Bobby, Jealousy is such a curse. Tsk, tsk, tsk... You voted for him too - SHAME.
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 74239 Gender:	Re: PM enjoys $500 bottle of wine. Reply #13 - Dec 16^th, 2023 at 9:05pm Goober, you're such an idiot.
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 103052 Melbourne Gender:	Re: PM enjoys $500 bottle of wine. Reply #14 - Dec 16^th, 2023 at 9:06pm John Smith wrote on Dec 16^th, 2023 at 9:05pm: Goober, you're such an idiot. You voted for him.
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