Albanese has costed in his broken promises. Now Labor is paying the price

May 18, 2026 — 2:00am

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Five days on from the federal budget and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Labor are beginning to feel the pain of breaking promises.

It’s a pain Albanese and his team are going to feel for months to come.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ interview on ABC TV’s Insiders program on Sunday morning is just the most recent case in point.

Again and again, host David Speers asked Chalmers whether Labor might introduce a tax on gas exports, something sections of the party room and the broader left of politics keep campaigning for.

Again and again, Chalmers tried to bring the discussion back towards what was actually in the budget.

And then Speers hit him with the killer line.

“This is the problem, isn’t it, that if governments are now changing their position despite ruling things out, it leaves open all of these different........

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