18 minutes and 14 seconds. That is how long the Prime Minister sat in front of Sarah Ferguson on 7.30 and worked his way round to the word "error". This week he watches it back in the bath, four times over, dragging the little bar to the bit where he thinks he sounded like Bob Hawke. Somewhere in there the country went over $1 trillion in debt, dipped back under on the Friday, and he decided that technically it never happened. A man surrounded by numbers that will not add up, quietly concluding that somebody has swapped the country while he was sitting in it. And someone else is claiming to be the 'gayest' party in Australia!
The Albo Diaries - a weekly satirical column and podcast, written as the private diary of Anthony Albanese, PM (For Now).
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