Dave Hughes reveals his wife is trying to convince him to stay out of politics after he spoke out against Albanese government: 'She doesn't like it'

Dave Hughes has admitted that his wife is not impressed with his recent interest in political commentary. 

The comedian, 55, has made a series of increasingly harsh comments about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Australian government in recent weeks. 

But his wife of 20 years, Holly, has been discouraging the media personality from speaking out. 

'She doesn't like it, she says that I shouldn't be political,' Hughes told The Fox's Fifi, Fev & Nick radio show on Tuesday. 

Despite her concerns, Hughes said that he has seen the positive impact of his comments after being approached by everyday Aussies who appreciate his speaking up. 

'I'm walking down the street, and people are coming out of shops; they're stopping their ute in the middle of the road and running at me. [I'm thinking] I'm gonna get bashed, and they just want to hug me,' he said.

'I just want our standard of living [to rise], as a country is going down a lot, and I believe it's because the government takes too much money off hard-working people and misuses that money because they don't respect the money, because they didn't earn the money.'

He continued: 'Leave as much money in the hands of the people who earn it, so they respect it, and then everyone's standard of living will rise.

'But when a government just takes all this money and just burns it, we all get poorer because inflation goes through the roof.'

Hughes and his wife have been married since 2006 and share three children: Rafferty, 16, Sadie, 14, and Tess, 12. 

It comes after Hughes doubled down on his anger at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over the growing Australian housing crisis.

Hughes lashed out at the Labor government over changes to negative gearing and the 50 per cent capital gains tax on Wednesday, and continued to share his anger in an interview on the Today show earlier this month. 

'Guys, they lied to Australia and you cannot do that,' Hughes said. 

'This has cost the whole country so much money already, the housing market has tanked, they've cost every Australian who owns a home probably 15 per cent of their housing value, you can't lie about that Jim and Albo, you can't do that.'

Hughes called the Albanese government an 'absolute disgrace' and said their decision will cause the economy to suffer. 

'The people in charge of our country are idiots, they treat our money like they found it in a sack by the river and they've got to spend it before someone finds out,' he said.

'The Federal Government is $1 trillion in debt, I get on planes and I walk past them, and they're all in business class because they couldn't care less about being $1 trillion in debt... it's not their money... what do they care?'

Hughes slammed the government as spending money 'like drunken sailors'.

'It actually affects everyone because hardworking people have to earn that money and you take half off them and blow it on absolute rubbish, it's annoying,' Hughes said.

'We are sick of them stealing our money and especially for first homebuyers. 

'I heard Albo on the radio yesterday and he said they don't have to be citizens to take advantage of the first homebuyers scheme, because some countries don't allow dual citizenship, so basically there are over 50,000 people bidding against Australians at auctions, who don't want to give up citizenship of their home country and he has given them our money to buy houses in Australia.

'I am happy for you to stay here, or if you want to go home you can go home, but you are not getting our money to buy houses here… that's insane.' 

Hughes earlier accused Albanese of benefiting from generous property tax breaks before his government moved to abolish those concessions.

'Albo got even luckier than I thought he did,' Hughes said in a social media video.

Hughes claimed that Albanese used negative gearing and the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount to build wealth through a string of investment properties, before selling them and then backing changes to the tax concessions.

In the May Budget, the Albanese Government moved to restrict negative gearing to new build properties and scrap the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount - the same tax concessions Hughes claims Albanese personally benefited from before the changes were introduced.