Children. Nothing but trouble. Except Deborah O'Neill, 65. Her parents would be very proud. And Albo should be acknowledging the NSW senator's work on uncovering corruption in the big consultancies. For heaven's sake, give the woman a ministry. She deserves it. In the meantime, she just keeps terrifying the consultants with news of changes coming.

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Anyhow, these two kids, the Issa brothers, are in big, big, big trouble. I truly hope their mum and their dad send them to their rooms for a really long time before the police get the chance to send them somewhere else.

Here they are, Paul, 21, and Phillip, 25. They have both been charged over the alleged unauthorised access or modification of restricted data. Here's an even creepier thing: the younger one has also been charged with using a carriage service to publish personal data in a way that is menacing or harassing. What is the matter with you, man?

These two allegedly thought it would be OK to access Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's confidential banking details. This was reportedly while Paul, a graduate of one of the big four consulting firms EY, was a contractor at the Commonwealth Bank.

Don't know what his bro does - but I know this. These boys are alleged idiots and now alleged criminals and I truly hope their parents are ashamed of them. I know their parents are ashamed of them. I know because any parent would be.

Part of me wonders what the hell they thought they were (allegedly) doing. Were they hoping to discover OnlyFans payments from the PM's account? Or money spent at Coles or Woolies? My hope is that the closest they got to discovering any kind of unusual activity was secret donations to We Rate Dogs in the hope of getting the First Dog Toto a better than perfect 20/10. And I'm pretty confident that Albo does Aldi. I mean who wants to pay 50 bucks for 50 dishwasher tablets when you can pay just one-tenth of that. Good. Different. Cheaper.

I'm going to assume that the younger Issa had a good track record before he fell into the pit of ethiclessness. I'm guessing that's what happens when you end up getting a gig at one........

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