Opposition Leader Angus Taylor will deliver his own national address on Thursday night, one day after criticizing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's speech as a waste of time that "could have been a social media post," The Guardian reports.

The irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

Taylor spent Wednesday evening attacking Albanese for delivering a prime ministerial address about the Iran crisis and fuel shortages, saying the PM was grandstanding and that the information could have been shared on social media instead of interrupting regular programming.

Twenty-four hours later, Taylor will be doing exactly the same thing - delivering a televised address to the nation at 7pm on Thursday, broadcast by the ABC, focusing on the war in Iran and the global energy crisis.

You couldn't make this up. Well, you could, but political satirists would reject it as too on-the-nose.

The Liberal leader's address will outline his party's approach to the fuel crisis and criticize the government's response. Taylor is expected to call for faster deployment of fuel reserves, pressure on oil-producing nations, and potentially support for increased domestic production.

The political calculation is obvious. Taylor is trailing in the polls and needs to look prime ministerial. With fuel prices dominating voter concerns ahead of the election, he can't let Albanese have the national stage to himself.

But the execution is clumsy. By attacking Albanese for doing something, then immediately doing the same thing, Taylor hands Labor an easy talking point about hypocrisy and desperation.