The word bludge or bludger is quite an onomatopoeic word and uniquely Australian in origin.
It has a particular resonance probably stemming from the struggling early years of the colony when in a nascent and emerging nation, everyone, men women and children were expected to pull their weight.
One for all and all for one as it were.
Bludgers are despised as they should be and as is often said in various contexts, “It’s unAustralian” even though the word itself is quintessentially Australian.
No one likes a bludger. Think, dole bludger. The words entitled and bludger are flip sides of the same coin.
Increasingly bludger is a word I associate with Anthony Albanese.
Always looking for a free ride and the picture beginning to emerge over AUKUS seems to confirm that view.
It seems quite apparent that Albo and his cronies want all the benefits of the tripartite security pact without the cost, obligations or responsibility and has no problem trashing Australia’s reputation as a worthy and trusted ally built up over the last 100 years or so as he try’s to play our traditional allies and partners in AUKUS off against China.
In a world of major players and global Gullivers, Albo is a Lilliputian. A small and tiny man with an equally mealy mouthed, small and tiny world view.