What about the timing from this man. He's done it again.
HOST: I'm not coming in until they play Rihanna he said, and play Rihanna we did.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Exactly.
HOST: You did this last time. It's a rockstar entry.
PRIME MINISTER: What a cracking song.
HOST: Yeah, it's a good song, isn't it?
HOST: Have you, were you hanging out in the foyer there waiting for that song to finish? You've just got the most impeccable timing.
PRIME MINISTER: Mate, that's how I get this job, mate. You gotta get your timing right.
HOST: Can't be late.
HOST: Musically, I've forgotten where you are musically. You're a musical man, I know that.
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah, I DJ'd for a while there. A bit of fun.
HOST: Were you 90s rock at all? Because I -
PRIME MINISTER: A lot, yeah.
HOST: I went to a gig before Origin last night. Don't even mention it, right. I don't want you getting all NSW centric, all right. The Origin, forget that. But I went and saw at the XXXX Brewery, Eskimo Joe.
PRIME MINISTER: WA Band -
HOST: And they were, they played for an hour.
PRIME MINISTER: A lot of good bands that come out of WA. The Triffids -
HOST: I was gonna say Jebediah.
PRIME MINISTER: Jebediah -
HOST: Maybe.
HOST: What about Bob Evans? Or is that Jebediah?
HOST: Yeah that is Jebediah. They had a lot come out around that time. Anyway, how are you?
PRIME MINISTER: I'm really well.
HOST: Good to see you. Good to see you. You were at the game last night, obviously.
PRIME MINISTER: I was, sorry about that. But it was a good game. Two to go, mate.
HOST: Yeah, I know, I know. Head to Perth now.
PRIME MINISTER: Two to go.
HOST: We don't have the best record in Perth either, so we need to turn some things around. Did you visit the sheds afterwards?
PRIME MINISTER: I did, and Latrell has put up a post. He had his kids in the shed. And of course know Latrell is a South Sydney tragic. So, he's reduced me to the random Souths guy -
HOST: Oh really?
PRIME MINISTER: He's put up on his Insta, which shows he's got a good sense of humour, Latrell.
HOST: I would love that when there'd be a post or a news story going random Souths guy at the next G20 Summit and it's the Australian Prime Minister. Like, that would be incredible. Wearing a jersey -
HOST: Smith's Crisps in the front.
PRIME MINISTER: I'll wear my jersey.
HOST: You know, instead of wearing one of those shirts, wear the Souths jersey.
PRIME MINISTER: Absolutely. No well, I've only made, funnily enough been a bit busy this year. I've only made one Souths game which was, hate to really rub it in, but it was the Broncos game.
HOST: Jeez, you're doubling down on us.
PRIME MINISTER: Latrell kicked that amazing field goal -
HOST: We remember.
HOST: We know. He did everything. He did everything in that game -
HOST: We played him back -
PRIME MINISTER: The two tackles was just unbelievable.
HOST: That crushed us. That was a, could be an integral -
PRIME MINISTER: Tackled Payne Haas.
HOST: Oh my God.
PRIME MINISTER: A rampaging Payne Haas.
HOST: Nuts. Nuts.
PRIME MINISTER: It was very good.
HOST: Anyway, I guess we should congratulate you, we haven't seen you since you were in before the election, weren't you?
PRIME MINISTER: I certainly was right in the, I think it was the last week I would have been -
HOST: Nah it was, you were doing the last minute hustle.
PRIME MINISTER: I was, you know, just trying to try to get everything in there.
HOST: And it went well?
PRIME MINISTER: It went, it was acceptable to say the least. No, it was good. And it just means that for the first time in more than 20 years, we haven't had a change of Prime Minister with an election. So I think that's good for continuity.
HOST: Yeah, is that right?
PRIME MINISTER: They'd been, the last seven elections had produced seven different Prime Ministers. And so it's great as well that we've now got an additional seven Queenslanders in our team. And a fun fact that Anika Wells came up with yesterday is that there are more women whose first name begin with A in our House of Reps team from the Labor Party than there are women on the other side, the Liberals and the Nationals combined, they've got nine.
HOST: Really?
PRIME MINISTER: That's a bit of a flex from Anika, isn't it?
HOST: Really? That's unbelievable. Do you reckon though, that like, you know, just as an outsider, I don't have anything to do with politics, but just the fickle nature of it. Like in my golf group after the election we were talking about Peter Dutton going, wow, you know, ostensibly he woke up that day and he, well, he could have gone to bed that night as the Prime Minister. He could have, depending on how the nation voted. And then the way that it all went, he was left without a job. And that fickle nature of, do you think that stops some people going into a life of politics?
PRIME MINISTER: Of course it does. It's a tough game. And I feel for Peter. He and I had an okay relationship, a professional relationship, if you like. We'd talk quite a bit and it's really tough for him and his family as well. And you know, they were facing, you know, who knows what. They were either moving to Sydney, in his case he was gonna go there and, you know, be Prime Minister and now I'm not sure what he will do. But I'm sure he'll be successful in other arenas as well. He's got skills -
HOST: So, what are the qualities that people need to sort of go into politics? Like if you, you know, you're a young person, you're thinking about doing it, because I'm not sure that there are a lot of people that are young and go, okay, that they consider it to be an option. What are the qualities you reckon that make a great politician?
PRIME MINISTER: Well, the first thing I'd say is it's an honourable profession and I think people overwhelmingly go into it, whatever political party or no political party, for all the right reasons because they want to make a difference to the country and to firstly to their local community as well. So they got to go into it for the right reasons. There's a cost of going into it. You expose yourself publicly to, particularly with social media -
HOST: Yeah.
PRIME MINISTER: You know, don't read the comments out there folks, it can be really brutal and you've got to be resilient. But I think you've got to be motivated by wanting to make a difference. Unless you really are motivated by that, then it certainly isn't worth it. So you can make a difference to people's lives. I'm constantly lifted up when I meet someone who says, you know, thank you for changing the single parents pension, that's made a difference to me and my family. Or you know, meeting people who've gone into housing here in this great city, affordable housing have made a difference and if we hadn't have made that investment, it's really lifted them up. Or last week, I tell you what, meeting people on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales -
HOST: That was hectic.
PRIME MINISTER: I was there last Friday and then again on Monday, those people are doing it so tough and being able to make a small difference in really tough times, you know, providing income support for those people, meeting with the councils about how we get the infrastructure rebuilt again. That can be, you know, such a positive thing. And you know, Australians, I do think we're the best country on the planet. We can be even stronger. Our values are ones that I support. People look after each other. And at really tough times, I saw that here in South East Queensland as well, you know, just a couple of months ago. When times are tough, people look after each other. They help their neighbours, they help their communities and that's a great thing.
HOST: This pales an insignificance in a lot of ways, but you know, as you know, I'm Olympics, myself and Chris do the podcast which you're a big fan of toward the Games. Any closer with the arena thing? I know you guys the $2.5 billion. I know you've been hamstrung by other factors. But any closer in knowing where that your money will go with the Olympics?
PRIME MINISTER: We're getting there. I met with David Crisafulli yesterday and Jared. I also had a meeting with Andrew Liveris -
HOST: Jared's a lot, isn't he? He's very stripy, isn't he? He's out there, our Deputy Premier. Oh, wait till you meet him. They play this good cop, bad cop thing. Have you noticed that? Yeah, it's hilarious.
PRIME MINISTER: He is a bit, he wasn't very happy.
HOST: No, he's never happy.
PRIME MINISTER: He wasn't happy last night, let me tell you.
HOST: Did he have a go at you?
HOST: You tell him I'm your good cop if he has a go at you. I've got you covered.
HOST: Yeah, did you have a chat with them about all that business? What do they want? They want public sector to build the arena?
PRIME MINISTER: What we're going to do, there's a range of things need to be done. Obviously, there's Victoria Park.
HOST: Yes.
PRIME MINISTER: There's the Arena or a facility -
HOST: Yep.
PRIME MINISTER: There's a bit of private sector interest there. There's 19 other facilities that we're funding. There's housing as well. What we'll do is, we're sitting down, we've got the paperwork we've just got. So we want to make sure there's value for money - that's the first thing. Second thing is that we want to make sure that there's a legacy so that people look back and go, 'Gee, that 2032 Olympics, wasn't that a fun time to be in Brisbane?' But isn't it good that we're going to a concert tonight to see Rhianna -
HOST: In the city.
PRIME MINISTER: And it's nice and close and it's, you know, we can have a beer beforehand.
HOST: So, you're confident it'll all happen, but you're just working it out is what you're saying?
PRIME MINISTER: It will happen.
HOST: Okay. That's all I need to know.
PRIME MINISTER: And the main thing is that people will get more and more excited as it gets closer.
HOST: Unreal.
PRIME MINISTER: And that happened -
HOST: And embrace it.
PRIME MINISTER: I have friends in Sydney who, you know, rented out their place in the lead up to the Sydney Olympics or were cynical about it and they regret it. Everyone I know who went to the Sydney Olympics, you know, one of the best things I did at the Sydney Olympics was you could get a ticket for, I think it was $15 for weightlifting. Now, I wouldn't have thought weightlifting was uplifting in every sense. But let me tell you the great thing about it is, I've only been once in my life, of course, but at the Olympics we had the best day. Was sitting there, me and a whole bunch of mates having a few beers, and the good thing is everyone in the audience wants everyone to be successful.
HOST: Yeah, right.
PRIME MINISTER: They want them to be able to lift the weight. So, people go 'yay'. You know, it's just such a great experience. Now you wouldn't, I gotta say, it wasn't on my bucket list.
HOST: No, on any given Saturday, not rocking down to the local YMCA -
PRIME MINISTER: I gotta go see some weightlifting.
HOST: I was the same.
PRIME MINISTER: But it was fantastic.
HOST: I was there when Michael Diamond won, I think it was our first gold medal of those Games at the shooting. And I'm not a shooting guy at all, but you get -
PRIME MINISTER: You get into it -
HOST: You can't help but buy into the theatre and yeah, it was great that there was an Aussie there. But for that moment in time you can just truly appreciate that this is like, these are world class people. Such good performing on the highest stage.
PRIME MINISTER: And with people from all around the world. And this will make Brisbane, it's already a great global city. But it will take it to the next level.
HOST: Yeah, and you know, the quicker we get all this stuff we just spoke about -
PRIME MINISTER: Exactly.
HOST: The quicker the kids can get excited about it.
PRIME MINISTER: And that's the other thing, I'm really passionate about getting kids off their devices, onto the sporting fields. Doesn't matter what it is - Netball, football -
HOST: Healthy active lifestyle.
PRIME MINISTER: Whatever. Tennis. That will really help, it'll inspire the next generation.
HOST: Speaking of all things sport, you and I are combatants in the Courier Mail tipping competition in the Rugby League.
PRIME MINISTER: Oh mate, how bad did I go last week?
HOST: Well, I mean -
PRIME MINISTER: I mean fair dinkum -
HOST: I can show you the leaderboard, so you've got Ray Hadley, he's leading it up here -
HOST: He's got nothing else to do. That's all he does, Ray Hadley. Rugby league.
HOST: He's not running a country, mate.
PRIME MINISTER: He's retired.
HOST: There's you, Prime Minister, on 47.
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah, but have a look at what I got last week.
HOST: You got, you got a duck egg. You got zero. You got zero. But that's me, mate. I've just got off the bottom of the ladder.
PRIME MINISTER: I'm ahead of you, thank goodness.
HOST: I've got one.
PRIME MINISTER: You got one. Who'd you tip?
HOST: Who did you tip?
HOST: I took -
HOST: Desperation sake.
HOST: I took Canberra over the Warriors.
PRIME MINISTER: Oh, mate, I thought about Canberra, but it was in New Zealand.
HOST: Yes. And any sane person could not have possibly picked that.
HOST: But I'm coming for you. I'm coming for you. There's only four difference between you and me now, so there you go.
PRIME MINISTER: Well mate, do us a favour, just stay down there, will you? I don't want to -
HOST: Yeah, you don't want that. You don't want to end up dead last on that. That's what we're -
PRIME MINISTER: I won the race that mattered.
HOST: Yeah, yeah, that's it.
PRIME MINISTER: Which is why I'm still here.
HOST: Emphatically too, so congratulations.
HOST: Remember, you actually, just before you, you'll probably forget this. The phone was handed to me the night before the election by someone, one of our friends, you were congratulating us on the ratings - number one in Brisbane. And I think I said to you, I've done my job, now you do yours. I think you hung up on me for a minute. That actually happened.
PRIME MINISTER: I told you we were going to get there.
HOST: Yeah, you did. You did.
PRIME MINISTER: I spoke to your mate just yesterday, in fact.
HOST: Yes.
PRIME MINISTER: And said, I told you. They kept saying we're just playing around with Dickson. And I was, I kept saying, no, I reckon we're going to win.
HOST: You did, you tipped it.
PRIME MINISTER: We're going to win.
HOST: Yeah well, congratulations, Prime Minister.
PRIME MINISTER: Thank you very much.
HOST: Thanks for popping in. You're always welcome.
PRIME MINISTER: Congrats on the ratings.
HOST: I know Perth Nova is your favourite radio show in the world, but I'd like to be top two -
HOST: Perth Nova. He loves Perth. He loves Shaun and the guys. He does. He just does.
HOST: I don't know, work in progress.
PRIME MINISTER: Nat, Nathan and Shaun -
HOST: They are good people. I know them well.
PRIME MINISTER: They came to Canberra, to The Lodge.
HOST: We'll come if we're invited.
PRIME MINISTER: Consider you invited. But you've got to broadcast from Canberra -
HOST: We can do that -
PRIME MINISTER: Can you do that the next morning?
HOST: We're looking to get out of Brisbane all the time to do our show.
PRIME MINISTER: You know, the Perth scam, though?
HOST: What?
PRIME MINISTER: Of course because if they fly across, but they get to then broadcast later because of the time -
HOST: Because of the time difference.
PRIME MINISTER: Yes, the time difference they got to sleep in, so they have an incentive to do it.
HOST: Yeah. Although we've just worked out the Today show. They're broadcasting from Dubai this week and we're like, oh, we want to take the show to Dubai. That'd be unreal. But we just worked out that they're actually on air from midnight until like 3 o'clock in the morning.
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah, you don't want to do that.
HOST: That's unsustainable for me.
HOST: We just put a red line through that.
HOST: Can you imagine?
PRIME MINISTER: No, that's not on. Although I've gotta say, at times I don't know what time it is of the day or what have you when you're doing a lot of -
HOST: I don't think Karl Stefanovic does either, between you and me. Thank you, Prime Minister.
PRIME MINISTER: Thank you, team.
HOST: Thank you, mate.
