CANBERRA: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has ditched plans to buy a waterfront mansion north of Sydney and will instead buy a “renovator’s delight” cottage in the NSW capital’s most disadvantaged suburb instead.

The PM is understood to have reacted quickly to mainstream media taunts that his and girlfriend Jodie Haydon’s purchase of a $4.3 million clifftop house at Copacabana was being politically tone deaf to the plights of so many Australians facing a fruitless home ownership search or soaring rentals.

A spokesperson told The Bug: “The PM was particularly stung by a very critical column today by the ABC’s Annabel Crabb who raised a number of solid dot points explaining how the Copacabana purchase could cause serious political damage to him in the leadup to next year’s election.”

The Bug understands that Albanese and Ms Haydon will now spend just on a million dollars for a fibro shack in Sydney’s poorest and lowest socio-economic suburb, Claymore, located in the Campbelltown council area.

“The shack, hemmed in by public housing projects, (pictured above) is chockablock full of asbestos but that doesn’t worry them particularly unless they plan to have children. Come to think of it, the announcement of a pregnancy before next May would be nice,” the spokesperson added.

“It’s a long way from his electorate in inner-Sydney but Mr Albanese thinks it’s crucial that he shows empathy with his fellow Australians who he knows are doing it really tough. You do know that he was raised by a single mum in public housing?”

Mr Albanese and Ms Haydon are understood to be planning to donate the $3 million plus windfall created by the decision to switch house buys to various national charity organisations feeding all those Australians caught in the cost-of-living crisis currently plaguing Australia.

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