: It's Robin and Kip now with Corey Oates, and we have Prime Minister Albanese, Albo, in the studio with us. Good morning, mate.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good to be with you. This is the venue for the turning point in the federal election campaign.
WIGHTMAN: Glad you recognise that.
PRIME MINISTER: That was where momentum shifted when the three Pooches. Three-nil.
WIGHTMAN: Yeah. They all predicted a Labor landslide victory and they were dead right.
PRIME MINISTER: They got it right.
WIGHTMAN: And the poll. I mean, the polls -
PRIME MINISTER: Forget reading these commentators. You know, The Oz and the Courier-Mail. Just ask the pooches.
COREY OATES, HOST: Just get the dogs in.
WIGHTMAN: Well, they're here again. They are here again because we have another prediction we're going to get to very soon, which will be good for Queenslanders, I hope. Because last night - you are a proud Blues supporter - so, congratulations on last night.
PRIME MINISTER: Thank you. It was a good game, but it's only the first of three and the last time - who was telling us - Wayne Pierce was telling us last night that he coached, the last time that New South Wales won three-nil was 25 years ago. Right. So, you know, Queensland will come back. No doubt about that. And Perth will be the next one, of course.
WIGHTMAN: Well, you go to that. Will you go to Perth?
PRIME MINISTER: I think I'm at the G7 meeting of world leaders.
OATES: It's pretty hard. Like they're 50/50.
PRIME MINISTER: That's right - Canada or Perth?
WIGHTMAN: Think about it.
ROBIN BAILEY, HOST: So, how's it been? Are you - you know, I mean, it was a pretty big landslide that not many people predicted.
PRIME MINISTER: The dogs did.
BAILEY: I know, but the rest of us were still - I mean, Peter Dutton lost his seat here. That's extraordinary.
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah, I thought that would happen. I went there on day one, of course, of the election campaign and we had a fantastic candidate who's now the local member, Ali France. She was running for the third time. She'd been campaigning for seven years and I thought it was the most marginal of Queensland seats. And you looked at it on the pendulum and you go, well, we've got five seats in the whole of Queensland. Is there a chance we get a sixth? Well, yeah, there is to, you know, get a more balanced outcome. In the end, we won seven new seats, of course. So, to bring it up to 12, and it was the first one to fall, 1.7 per cent. So, people were saying "so you're just playing with his mind?". And I was like "no, no. I think we're a real show in Dickson".
BAILEY: Did you feel sorry for him?
PRIME MINISTER: Oh, look, absolutely. It's a tough game. You lose your job and on a personal level, you know, I had an okay relationship. I wouldn't say it was a warm relationship. I'm not going to gild the lily, but, you know, we had a respectful relationship and, you know, I sincerely wish him and Kirilly and his family all the very best. It's really hard and to lose your seat.
WIGHTMAN: Well, now that you've garnered Queensland's support, can we get some support back? Because we've got the Olympics coming.
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah.
WIGHTMAN: Can we have billions of dollars, please?
PRIME MINISTER: You've got billions of dollars.
WIGHTMAN: More. We need more. I just wanted to - there was the promise, the federal promise for the two and a half billion for a stadium that was going to be an indoor stadium, which has now been scrapped, but we are still building stadiums with Victoria Park. Are we still good for the two and a half bill?
PRIME MINISTER: You are.
WIGHTMAN: Oh, good. Oh, yeah, good.
PRIME MINISTER: We're going to make sure that we provide appropriate support for Brisbane. I've got to say that it didn't have a B in front when Sydney Olympics was held in 2000. This is a record Commonwealth contribution.
WIGHTMAN: Right.
PRIME MINISTER: I think Brisbane 2032 will be fantastic for this city, but also for the nation. And one of the things that I'm really passionate about - why we're doing the under 16 ban of social media - we need to get kids off their devices, onto the sporting fields. Whatever it is - netball, football, tennis, cricket - whatever. And we need to make sure that one way we do that and can inspire kids is the Brisbane Olympic Games will be really important.
OATES: So, does that mean I can have some of that two and a half bill for me? Corey's Little League.
WIGHTMAN: Have you heard this? Corey's putting together a special game.
PRIME MINISTER: Fantastic.
OATES: Yeah. 11 and 12 year olds. I just want to bring the fun back in the sport. I feel like it's too much pressure and it's - there's just way too much. Like what parents put on their kids now at that age is wrong. I feel like kids aren't playing the game because they want to. I feel like they're forced into it. But I just want to teach kids, it's simple, it's a fun game and I just want to bring the joy back into it. And I'm doing that in a couple weeks.
PRIME MINISTER: Good on you. That sounds pretty good.
OATES: Just half of it will do. That's all.
WIGHTMAN: Half a billion. That's all we need.
PRIME MINISTER: Just a lazy half a billion. That's a lot of Little League.
WIGHTMAN: We would like to have, like a trophy, though, for someone who tries hard, gives it a red hot go on the day. So, like a Prime Minister's pick. So, could we get some type of medal together?
PRIME MINISTER: We can do something like that.
WIGHTMAN: All right, excellent. Did you play growing up? Were you playing as a kid?
PRIME MINISTER: I played. I played from under sixes. I played for St. Joseph's Camperdown. We played in a black jersey with a single white V with, of course, a red bunny on it because it was part of the South Sydney Juniors, all had the bunny. So, I played for them. I played for -
BAILEY: Were you any good?
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah, I was okay. I could never have made it.
OATES: What'd you love about it?
PRIME MINISTER: I was - oh, mate, I just loved the team and the training was just as good and the fun. I make this point about how sport makes you grow. I had - in years five and six, I went to St. Mary's Cathedral School. And you had under 12s. I was a bit younger, so I played under 12s for two years. I played a year up and the second year where I was in year six, I wasn't the best player in the team, but the Brother Simpson, I remember him well, made me captain of the team. And what that meant was that every Monday morning I had to stand up in front of the school and report on how we went on Saturday. And that was my first public speaking. And being captain of a rugby league team - he obviously saw some leadership potential - and here I am.
OATES: There you go.
BAILEY: We could say to the kids on the north side and south side teams - you learn, one day you could become the Prime Minister.
PRIME MINISTER: But it's about how you grow as well.
OATES: Yeah.
PRIME MINISTER: The great thing about team sport is that the team that has the best player doesn't win. It's the best team. And you learn all of that, you know, and you learn as well the thing about fun -
OATES: Yeah.
PRIME MINISTER: It used to annoy me when my boy played AFL and played soccer and cricket and various sports. There's nothing worse than the parent on the sideline yelling at their kid if they, you know, miss a goal or something goes wrong. Like, it is fun, you know.
OATES: Yeah.
BAILEY: That's good that you're going to do the Prime Minister's Pick in Corey's Little League.
WIGHTMAN: Perfect. We'll send you videos. But we also need to work out - speaking of fun - we've got to find out, how's Queensland going to go in game two State of Origin? Our dogs are here. The Prime Minister's here. The big - we've got the intro ready. It sounds like this: Robin, Kip and Corey's people's puppy Prime Minister poll prediction pandemonium. As good as it gets for predicting game two state of origin. We'll come back with it right after this.
(Break in Broadcast.)
WIGHTMAN: If you've just joined us, we have the Prime Minister in the studio with us. In fact, we're outside the studio because we're doing another round of predictions with our puppies. Now, this is what happened last time we did this. We got our dogs - Corey's dogs and my dogs - to help sort of predict what was going to happen with the oncoming election. We had bowls of food. One was in a Liberal bowl, one was in a Labor bowl. And we had the dogs have a crack at who was going to win. This is what happened:
WRIGHTMAN: Okay…Oh, she's gone Labor. Okay. We're gonna find out which one…Marlon goes for it - he's gone Labor as well. He's gone Labor as well.
PRIME MINISTER: He's my favourite.
BAILEY: We've got one more dog.
WIGHTMAN: You want to try Snapper? All right, let's go for a clean sweep.
WIGHTMAN: I mean, did that just give you the confidence to go on with it? Albo?
PRIME MINISTER: That was a turning point in the campaign. There's no question about that.
WIGHTMAN: It was unbelievable.
PRIME MINISTER. I must have told 50 people during the campaign before the end. No, it's fine. It's all sweet. Nervous candidates? No, no, we had this scientific survey and 100 per cent of the pooches at KIIS in Brisbane predicted Labor.
WIGHTMAN: They did. And well, after last night's efforts in State of Origin, which I know you were very excited about, it's hurt us - we've been sad all day. But we're looking at -
PRIME MINISTER: You're wearing black.
WIGHTMAN: I know.
BAILEY: They both are.
WIGHTMAN: Yeah, I'm in mourning. And so we're looking on to game two now in Perth. So, we're going to have the same type of setup. We've got two bowls. They've got some mince in each of the bowls. One is a blue, one is a maroon bowl, and we're going to find out who is going to win game two. So, Sukiyaki, my Jack Russell cross pug.
BAILEY: Are you two going to be okay with this result? I just have to be very clear because the Prime Minister is a Blues supporter and you two are Queenslanders and these are your dogs.
PRIME MINISTER: And these are very excited dogs. Here they go.
WIGHTMAN: Okay, we ready to release Suki?
BAILEY: Okay, so. Yes. On your marks, get set - go.
PRIME MINISTER: Straight in.
WIGHTMAN: Maroons. Oh, what a wonderful dog. And she is smashing that mince. It's like she's never been fed. Look at her.
OATES: Get rid of her.
WIGHTMAN: Okay, come here Suki.
BAILEY: Okay, so that's one to Queensland for game two.
PRIME MINISTER: Tell you what, if this is - if this is three-nil, then I'll ring Latrell and just tell him to just stick to Souths.
WIGHTMAN: Don't even show up.
BAILEY: Okay, so now it's up to your big boy.
WIGHTMAN: He's drooling.
BAILEY: What sort of dog is he?
OATES: He's a Kelpie-Lab.
BAILEY: He's a Kelpie-Lab. Very motivated by food, but very, very obedient. Corey is holding him.
OATES: Keep your head that way.
PRIME MINISTER: It's hard to stop a Lab going for food, well done, Corey.
WIGHTMAN: Okay, ready?
PRIME MINISTER: Come on.
OATES: Okay, go.
WIGHTMAN: Come on.
OATES: No, he's really thinking.
BAILEY: Okay, you wouldn't have seen, but he was literally going towards the Blues.
WIGHTMAN: That was like a Hollywood moment he was looking at -
PRIME MINISTER: Unbelievable.
OATES: He was like, oh, no - adoption, or he's going to love me for the rest of my life.
PRIME MINISTER: What I'm impressed by is the discipline of a part Lab not going straight for the food. That's good parenting, Corey.
BAILEY: But we needed a decider.
WIGHTMAN: Do we? No, we don't - it's a clean sweep. Let's not risk anything messing this.
BAILEY: Yes, okay, sorry.
WIGHTMAN: Marlon - you nearly had to put Marlon up for adoption.
PRIME MINISTER: Marlon's going to try and eat the bowl now.
BAILEY: How do you feel about that, Prime Minister?
PRIME MINISTER: I'm very nervous, given the last outcome -
WIGHTMAN: Oh, no. Oh, Suki has disgraced herself in front of the Prime Minister.
PRIME MINISTER: Suki has disgraced herself!
OATES: Wow.
BAILEY: Okay.
OATES: It's always your dog.
PRIME MINISTER: Suki's pissed all over New South Wales.
