Talking Politics

[larabee]

Why wouldn’t he know the answers to these simple questions?

https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/anthony-albanese-stumbles-in-trainwreck-press-conference/news-story/82483b6b5c6d112d06ee1d65ae08a398

most probably does know. Looks like he just had a brain freeze to me. Who cares? Same as trying to catch out Slomo on the price of milk - just meaningless gotcha questions that the opponent will try to gain an inch of mileage out of.

I'd like to know why a senior minister who was stood down from his portfolio is still in cabinet - Slomo doesn't seem to know the answer to that one

 

[MB78]

most probably does know. Looks like he just had a brain freeze to me. Who cares? Same as trying to catch out Slomo on the price of milk - just meaningless gotcha questions that the opponent will try to gain an inch of mileage out of.

I’m not sure how you can come to this conclusion when he got one answer badly wrong and couldn’t even answer the other. You must be easily pleased.

Happy to have Albo as the next PM as Scott Morrison has lost that right. But answers like that and lack of knowledge like that, is embarrassing and shows that he won’t be too credible when speaking creating jobs and cost of living pressures. When the cost of living significantly goes up with interest rate rises is this a concept that Albo will understand and relate to?

 

[BT Tiger]

Gotta admit that Albo looked rather stupid not knowing the answers to those basic questions, although I couldn't have named the figures myself. Scomo was caught out with similar questioning from the same reporter regarding bread and milk prices a few months back. They're not really insightful questions in the first place and are intended to generate cheap headlines and media content for the commercial networks.

But there are many more serious questions that haven't been answered by the PM in recent times related to who knew what regarding the rape at parliament house, missing cctv and office steam cleaned the following day, how Tudge remains a minister despite taxpayers forking out $500k in compensation to his mistress, and how Barnaby J racked up $600k of expenses as drought envoy and we can't read his reports, which were apparently sent via text message. There are plenty more where that came from. But we'll probably be hearing about Albo's gaffe for days, if not weeks to come.

I reckon this is going to be a much tighter election than it was looking like a few months ago.

 

[larabee]

I’m not sure how you can come to this conclusion when he got one answer badly wrong and couldn’t even answer the other. You must be easily pleased.

Happy to have Albo as the next PM as Scott Morrison has lost that right. But answers like that and lack of knowledge like that, is embarrassing and shows that he won’t be too credible when speaking creating jobs and cost of living pressures. When the cost of living significantly goes up with interest rate rises is this a concept that Albo will understand and relate to?

not easily pleased, far from it. Just think it's a non-issue, same as the price of milk question to slomo. why does the journalist ask the question when that information is readily available to anyone? Just to try to get a stumble from the politician so they can run the bit on the news. Tomorrow it'll be forgotten about for some other bull *smile*.

If you think those sort of questions should be front and centre at a press conference during an election campaign, when there are a heap of important real issues to discuss, maybe you're easily pleased.

I want journos to ask questions of politicians that the electorate really want the answer to.

 

[Baloo]

Wasn't a good look. Milk, Bread, Petrol you can accept, but current cash rate and unemployment rate when you're campaigning against people who will claim to be better managers of the economy than you isn't excusable really.

 

[Redford]

Albanese is a spud. Anyone would be better than Dud-mo but there’s no escaping the fact that Albanese lacks cut through.

Like Shorten before him, I reckon he’s on target to lose what would be an unlosable election otherwise but for the fact he’s just got no appeal. Unconvincing, lame, tepid.

 

[Baloo]

Albanese is a spud. Anyone would be better than Dud-mo but there’s no escaping the fact that Albanese lacks cut through.

Like Shorten before him, I reckon he’s on target to lose what would be an unlosable election otherwise but for the fact he’s just got no appeal. Unconvincing, lame, tepid.

Not sure how unlosable these elections are when al the MSM are all doing what they can to keep their bunnies in power.

 

[TigerForce]

Albanese is a spud. Anyone would be better than Dud-mo but there’s no escaping the fact that Albanese lacks cut through.

Like Shorten before him, I reckon he’s on target to lose what would be an unlosable election otherwise but for the fact he’s just got no appeal. Unconvincing, lame, tepid.

Agree. Terrible feeling SloMo's gonna win. ALP have had too many puppets as wannabee PMs recently.

 

[Redford]

Not sure who unlosable these elections are when al the MSM are all doing what they can to keep their bunnies in power.

He's shown near zero ability to capitalise on what's been a horrondous, error riddled, corrupt and negligent period of government - the likes of which I've never seen before.

You don't need MSM on its own to project, and on that front, he's got little to no skills what so ever. Zero cut through with the electorate. None. Just like Shorten - a fact that was well recognised by senior ALP leaders at the last election, particularly by Marles and Chalmers who said they'd tried to do a lot of work on the personality, drive and projection front with Shorten but acknowledged it was still a considerable factor in the election result. Doesn't seem they've learnt anything.

Albanese has little to no charisma that can capture the imagination of the generally uninvested voter - of which there are many if not most. Without going over the top, needs to be more assertive and on the front foot.

Who actually IS Anthony Albanese ? Does anybody know ?

 

[MD Jazz]

DS if he doesn’t know the cash rate, and is not even close to knowing the unemployment rate how can he claim to be living in the real world?

I would expect every politician in Australia to know those answers. It has nothing to do with the media.

Albo will be our next PM. Excuse me for expecting him to have his finger on the pulse.

Can't agree. I don't subscribe that he should know these things off the top of his head. I mean seriously, who knows the *smile* cash rate? And why?

And the unemployment rate, to how many decimal places?

A bit like not knowing the price of a loaf of bread or litre of milk, if these are the important issues we are *smile*.

 

[larabee]

Hooray to the Australian media.
Day 1 of the election campaign and all they're talking about is how Albo couldn't say what the cash rate or unemployment rate was, and giving air time for any Liberal scumbag to pile on.

We don't know anything more about Labor's Aged Care Plan, nor their Climate policy, nor how they'll manage the economy post Covid. I'm sure questions on these topics were asked and answered, but they won't be replayed.

There has been no questions put to Slomo such as "Why has no one been held responsible for Robodebt?", or "Who paid for Christians' legal fees?", or "Why is a minister who was stood down still in the cabinet?" or many, many others.

What a *smile* waste.

How good are jernos?

 

[tigerman]

I think Albo is a fairly decent sort of a bloke, a much better human being than ScoMo.
He is not as good a liar as Morrison, Morrison has no equal in the lying stakes.
Albo not knowing the unemployment rate and cash rate certainly isn't a good look. Those questions have been asked before, he should have been briefed, or made it his business to know. Or perhaps as someone said, perhaps he did know, but was rattled by the question.

Jim Chalmers is much smoother at talking and getting his point across.

 

[tigerman]

Hooray to the Australian media.
Day 1 of the election campaign and all they're talking about is how Albo couldn't say what the cash rate or unemployment rate was, and giving air time for any Liberal scumbag to pile on.

We don't know anything more about Labor's Aged Care Plan, nor their Climate policy, nor how they'll manage the economy post Covid. I'm sure questions on these topics were asked and answered, but they won't be replayed.

There has been no questions put to Slomo such as "Why has no one been held responsible for Robodebt?", or "Who paid for Christians' legal fees?", or "Why is a minister who was stood down still in the cabinet?" or many, many others.

What a *smile* waste.

How good are jernos?

Who was the journo?

Is Tom Morris covering politics now?

 

[MD Jazz]

Hooray to the Australian media.
Day 1 of the election campaign and all they're talking about is how Albo couldn't say what the cash rate or unemployment rate was, and giving air time for any Liberal scumbag to pile on.

We don't know anything more about Labor's Aged Care Plan, nor their Climate policy, nor how they'll manage the economy post Covid. I'm sure questions on these topics were asked and answered, but they won't be replayed.

There has been no questions put to Slomo such as "Why has no one been held responsible for Robodebt?", or "Who paid for Christians' legal fees?", or "Why is a minister who was stood down still in the cabinet?" or many, many others.

What a *smile* waste.

How good are jernos?

Yeh, nailing the big issues. The unemployment rate is essentially a biullshit figure anyway. And the cash rate isn't equivalent to your mortgage rate. Your mortgage rate depends on all sorts of factors - which bank, what period, how much you are borrowing, is it fixed or variable, how your credit rating is......

 

[DavidSSS]

Yep, it is BS.

On the topic of Albo, it has been hard to cut through during the pandemic but Albo is not great at getting his point across. The big difference between Albo and Shorten is that Albo is a bit unknown (even though he has been a cabinet minister) and therefore lacks recognition. Shorten, in contrast, was actively disliked. Shorten looked and acted like someone who just thought he deserved the top job because it was his turn, I don't think Albo gives off the same vibe. I knew Shorten at uni, and while he would have been a better PM than ScoMo (wow, big hurdle there) I was never enthusiastic about Shorten as PM, much as I did like a fair number of his policies.

DS

 

[eZyT]

Albanese is a spud. Anyone would be better than Dud-mo but there’s no escaping the fact that Albanese lacks cut through.

Like Shorten before him, I reckon he’s on target to lose what would be an unlosable election otherwise but for the fact he’s just got no appeal. Unconvincing, lame, tepid.

you mustn't have watched his budget reply and follow up interview on 730.

he used it as a great, old Labor, policy launch

based on looking after poor, sick, disabled and old.

It was flawless and inspiring.

Leigh Sales tried to pin him down with a stupid, enforced-balance-no-matter-how-stupid question

'can you guarantee everyone will get a pay rise under Labor?'

Albonese scoffed and replied 'No, you and I earn enough Leigh. People who need it will get more pay'

he's promised 25% for aged care workers.

He is performing beyond adequately - Murdoch just edits clips of him looking unconvincing and lame.

I think he will make the 2nd best PM since Keating.

 

[TigerForce]

I think he will make the 2nd best PM since Keating.

Wow. Big hope eZy.

 

[eZyT]

Wow. Big hope eZy.

Other than Gillard,

its not a real strong field

Howard, Rudd, Abbott, Turnbull, Morrison.

Sideshow Bob could be a better PM than that bunch of cynical psycho rich self-interested god bothering *smile*.

However, I do believe Albonese has the makings of a very good PM.

I expect him to take a very novel approach to the job; Leading

 

[artball]

the media were waiting for Albo to slip and he does it on the first day of the 'official' campaign.
that's a bummer because the nasty types will run with it.
he did however back it up well with "I'm human" which is about the best thing he could've said.
and the cash rate is 0.06. Did anyone know that ?
and remember Fried Burger was out 60 Billion...
and the govt have paid someone $500,000 of taxpayers money to be quiet over the Tudge sex scandal..

 

[Redford]

you mustn't have watched his budget reply and follow up interview on 730.

he used it as a great, old Labor, policy launch

based on looking after poor, sick, disabled and old.

It was flawless and inspiring.

Leigh Sales tried to pin him down with a stupid, enforced-balance-no-matter-how-stupid question

'can you guarantee everyone will get a pay rise under Labor?'

Albonese scoffed and replied 'No, you and I earn enough Leigh. People who need it will get more pay'

he's promised 25% for aged care workers.

He is performing beyond adequately - Murdoch just edits clips of him looking unconvincing and lame.

I think he will make the 2nd best PM since Keating.

Yeah all of that is really nice …but the fact is that despite the abysmal performance of the worst PM this country has ever had, and the nationwide contempt for him, Albanese STILL trails Dud-mo in the preferred PM stakes.

That is damning.