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Speaker 1: Greetings and grand salutations. You have caught Jelmy and I
Speaker 1: practicing our curtsies, dear listener, because on this week's episode
Speaker 1: of Two Good Sports, things are.
Speaker 3: Going a little bit differently.
Speaker 2: I'm Georgie Tanny, and I'm happy.
Speaker 4: To tell me and Georgie, you know, usually we do
Speaker 4: good sport bad sport. Now we ask each other about
Speaker 4: our weeks. You tell me about the celebrity you've interviewed.
Speaker 3: The Prime Minister is coming in to talk to us.
Speaker 1: Anthony Albanezi is coming into the studio. He is a
Speaker 1: fan of this podcast, a huge good sport.
Speaker 3: He is a good sport and also the leader of
Speaker 3: the nation.
Speaker 4: So we have so many questions and this has been
Speaker 4: born from the most Two Good Sports way that we
Speaker 4: could possibly ever secure an interview with.
Speaker 3: I don't know the Prime Minister.
Speaker 2: The Prime Minister.
Speaker 4: Yes, I slid into his DM but and it wasn't unsolicited.
Speaker 4: Albow followed me. Okay, I wasn't even following albo at
Speaker 4: the time, and I will apologize.
Speaker 3: For that, but it was.
Speaker 4: It was a lead up to an election, a very
Speaker 4: pointy election that you'll all remember that was as one
Speaker 4: sided as a Grand Final between Richmond and GWS.
Speaker 3: But it's a.
Speaker 1: Tailor as old as time.
Speaker 3: It was about a month before the election.
Speaker 4: He was in full campaign mode and I've looked at
Speaker 4: my Insta feed and it said one follow Albow PM,
Speaker 4: blue tick, blue tick because this wasn't and I've just
Speaker 4: I'd be like, what fan account is this?
Speaker 1: And then Jelmy's like, I think it's the actual Prime Minister.
Speaker 3: I screenshot it and of course sent it to our
Speaker 3: Two Good Sports.
Speaker 4: What's happened? When thoughts anyone thoughts do we do? We think, yes,
Speaker 4: that we could get him on the pod. So I
Speaker 4: went with hey, elbow, smiley fast.
Speaker 3: That's the bit.
Speaker 4: That's the bit that made it so legit, so legit.
Speaker 4: Thanks for the follow, love that you're keeping up with
Speaker 4: all things sports. I want to float something past you
Speaker 4: that I think you'd be perfect for. I co host
Speaker 4: a podcast called Two Good Sports with Georgia Tunney. It's
Speaker 4: all about shaking up trucial sports media, La la la,
Speaker 4: but essentially that's the pitch, and it ends up with
Speaker 4: hope we speak soon, another smiley face.
Speaker 3: You got it because I'm a woman and that's how
Speaker 3: I write an email.
Speaker 2: Any ellipses in there. You got to you gotta take
Speaker 2: big swings, Joel.
Speaker 1: We've got to take big swings, and this was arguably
Speaker 1: the biggest swing.
Speaker 2: On two good sports that we've ever taken.
Speaker 4: Our Prime Minister replies with, let's get this done. The
Speaker 4: emoji with sunglasses, good bye emoji, and I throw my
Speaker 4: phone across the room and at this point I'm going
Speaker 4: suitable response this this could actually I just had a
Speaker 4: fe this is gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is actually gonna happen.
Speaker 5: Lo and behold.
Speaker 4: He then becomes a very very busy man, and there's
Speaker 4: also a media blackout when he's in Melbourne because the
Speaker 4: dear Pope passes away and it just wouldn't have been
Speaker 4: in good taste for him to be doing a sports
Speaker 4: podcast in that time.
Speaker 1: You know, he might look back on that and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I wish I could have been here sooner.
Speaker 4: The election comes and goes Georgie and we think, dah,
Speaker 4: it was all a ploy.
Speaker 3: One of the votes of the two of us see
Speaker 3: the two. That's the way that he's clearly, clearly going
Speaker 3: about this.
Speaker 1: It's a small play from him, but I see, I
Speaker 1: see where he's going.
Speaker 3: He has followed up and he's coming in.
Speaker 2: He's coming in, He's coming in.
Speaker 4: How are your nerves? I'm genuinely I'm a bit nervous.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited because one thing that we all know
Speaker 1: about Albo. Yes he's the PM, but he is also
Speaker 1: the number one ticket holder for the South Sydney Rabbit
Speaker 1: o's he's.
Speaker 2: One of mine.
Speaker 1: He is a league he says rugby league, not rugby league.
Speaker 4: I think that I'm going to be able to claim
Speaker 4: him as AFL.
Speaker 2: We can't be fighting in front of the Prime minister.
Speaker 3: Do you think he could settle the debate?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Good? But again yes, yes.
Speaker 3: Our good sport is the Prime Minister who's up there.
Speaker 1: What they say, politics and sport should not mix. But
Speaker 1: as you're very well aware, dear listeners, we do things
Speaker 1: pretty differently on this podcast.
Speaker 2: As such, we argue that two are inextricable.
Speaker 1: The politics of sport can be more convoluted than explaining
Speaker 1: soccer's off side rule to your friend who doesn't really
Speaker 1: follow the game, but does remember Jonathan Reese Meyer's eyelashes
Speaker 1: in bend it. Like Beckham, the sport of politics can
Speaker 1: be more cutthroat than Queensland coach Billy slader Zax falling
Speaker 1: on Moron's captain daily Cherry Evans this week, But someone
Speaker 1: who knows all too well the wildness of both is
Speaker 1: our guest today. His passion for the nation is second
Speaker 1: only to his passion for the South Sydney Rabbitos, which
Speaker 1: is apt because you could say if the club had
Speaker 1: to be a politician, it would look a lot like
Speaker 1: Anthony Alban Just like the Rabbits. Albow came from humble beginnings,
Speaker 1: raised by a single mum and Housing Commission. The same
Speaker 1: working class heart that beats in South Sydney beats in
Speaker 1: him too. Albow didn't grow up with privilege, but he
Speaker 1: made it to Parliament House in the mid nineties, wearing
Speaker 1: his beliefs on his sleeve like a red and green jersey.
Speaker 1: Perhaps not as flashy as English, but certainly as fierce
Speaker 1: as Latrelle Mitchell, specifically in round ten this year against
Speaker 1: the Broncos, which was impressive, but I took it as
Speaker 1: a rude personal attack from Redfern to the lodge, to
Speaker 1: our studio. Would you please welcome the Prime Minister of Australia,
Speaker 1: Anthony Albernezi to do good sports.
Speaker 5: What an introduction.
Speaker 4: Just stop then, it's been great to have you, thank you,
Speaker 4: thank you so much and that's all we have time
Speaker 4: for today.
Speaker 2: No, in all seriousness, PM, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: joining us.
Speaker 5: Absolute pleasures.
Speaker 2: It's wonderful to have you here.
Speaker 4: We can look at your background in your history and
Speaker 4: understand where South Sydney came from.
Speaker 3: Why the Hawks, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Because there's a relationship between the two things really right.
Speaker 5: So as a kid growing up, I used to play
Speaker 5: football in the South Sydney comp and then the Eastern
Speaker 5: Suburbs Comp and I'd go to my uncle's who lived
Speaker 5: in Melbourne for a while in the afternoon and watch
Speaker 5: the I think every game began at ten past one,
Speaker 5: the match of the day of the VFL, and you
Speaker 5: couldn't go for the Pies because there was Western Suburbs Magpies,
Speaker 5: Richmond Tigers here in Richmond, Balmont Tiger's, Saint Kilda Saints
Speaker 5: Saint George the Animal Alignment game now were the only
Speaker 5: team that had no connection. Because I'm after all, who
Speaker 5: would pick brown and gold was the Hawks and this
Speaker 5: was as well showing my age here. The seventies was
Speaker 5: an amazing era. So if you're a kid pro the
Speaker 5: Swan's coming to Sydney, South Melbourne moving up and I
Speaker 5: loved watching AFL. I played rugby League, but I love
Speaker 5: watching AFL. My son played AFL for the Newtown Swans.
Speaker 5: I made my AFL debut in the Community Cup reclink
Speaker 5: that takes place here at vic Park handsOn. My advice
Speaker 5: to listeners is, if you're going to make your AFL debut,
Speaker 5: make it before the age of fifty, not after. You
Speaker 5: can see here an extra little joint on my little
Speaker 5: finger from a broken that happened. That happened Hanson Park
Speaker 5: last minute.
Speaker 3: With his body on the line.
Speaker 5: We're leading, but I had one KPI which was not
Speaker 5: to get injured, and of course me being who I am,
Speaker 5: bit competitive. Funnily enough, he's got a mouse kind of
Speaker 5: how you get to be PM, you know, is we
Speaker 5: were up by you know, three or four points, less
Speaker 5: than a goal a minute to go and it's flooded
Speaker 5: as well. It's a bit loose in Sydney, so it's
Speaker 5: twenty a side, but for the last little bit there's
Speaker 5: forty a side on the field like people just runs
Speaker 5: in and so I stupidly through my body on the
Speaker 5: line and make a tackle, my one tackle and came
Speaker 5: out of it with a finger going horizontal rather than
Speaker 5: a vertical.
Speaker 3: From the GI pop it back in yourself, and I
Speaker 3: popped it back in.
Speaker 5: I popped it back in. We won, went to the
Speaker 5: part as you do, and then went to Bowmon Hospitals.
Speaker 1: A classic sale PM of anyone who goes to do
Speaker 1: social sports in their adult life and then they come
Speaker 1: out with Achilles.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, we do talk about social sport and having you
Speaker 4: leading into the Hawks game this weekend, because you're at
Speaker 4: the game on the weekend. You went in the huddle,
Speaker 4: you predicted almost to the yes, the margin that the
Speaker 4: Hawks were going to win by, and so we just
Speaker 4: believe you're an oracle in this.
Speaker 3: Have you got any other predictions? And also we want
Speaker 3: to know.
Speaker 5: Sam Mitchell is very keen on me turning up at
Speaker 5: every game.
Speaker 2: Good luck.
Speaker 5: Every time I have turned up, they've won, whether it
Speaker 5: was at the g or at Marvel or indeed Aurora.
Speaker 5: Are there what's it called now, dann at Lonnie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for a bit wherever it was at Lonnie, But
Speaker 4: do you like the character in the game. So for instance,
Speaker 4: in that game, Jack even got a little bit of
Speaker 4: stick for the fact he showed him the.
Speaker 5: Ball, so you love it, of course, and the fans
Speaker 5: love it. I got a bit of you know, whether
Speaker 5: it's that or or just to upset one half of
Speaker 5: the team here when Latrell from halfway and casually while
Speaker 5: the ball was still rising, turned around and casually just
Speaker 5: walked back like you know, I had to for the
Speaker 5: halfway line.
Speaker 1: Didn't even celebrate. It was the celebration.
Speaker 5: Gi Arrow jumped on him.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 5: It was awesome. And after after the game in the
Speaker 5: in the sheds, I know Latrell pretty well and he
Speaker 5: was congratulating me on the election. It was the week
Speaker 5: after the election. You know, we won by a bit more.
Speaker 5: We didn't need a field goal, I pointed out to
Speaker 5: him at the time. But I mean, he's just so cool.
Speaker 2: He's also the size of a mountain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think maybe one of the biggest people I've
Speaker 1: seen in real.
Speaker 5: Life is very big. When him and Tommy Treborovich were
Speaker 5: the centers for New South Wales like these, yeah, they're giants,
Speaker 5: so is so is Greg English as well, who I
Speaker 5: think who I love dearly and is a great human being.
Speaker 5: And he's doing fantastic things on mental health. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: he goes around and particularly in regional areas of New
Speaker 5: South Wales and Quinston speaks about his mental health battles
Speaker 5: and through the Goanna Foundation, he's doing enormously good things
Speaker 5: in the community.
Speaker 1: Just made me remember remember his try celebration go on.
Speaker 4: I know that to declar here, I grew up in Perth,
Speaker 4: so I'm not an NRL girlie. I essentially get all
Speaker 4: my tutoring from Georgia before I'm about to go and
Speaker 4: have to talk about it. But if we were to
Speaker 4: put to you that you could only watch one code
Speaker 4: for the rest of your life, is it legal?
Speaker 2: There's a correct answer, Albert.
Speaker 5: I was born Arabia league.
Speaker 3: Bam, I just say you'd be a hockball man.
Speaker 2: No, no, you can be both.
Speaker 1: But if they're only going to watch one for the
Speaker 1: rest of your life, it's rugby league.
Speaker 5: But a FL to watch live particularly is so good.
Speaker 5: The first Grand Final I went to was eighty nine
Speaker 5: Hawk's Feed You Long. I was right up literally up
Speaker 5: the back of a stand that doesn't exist anymore, and
Speaker 5: there's a block of Hawks supporters and a block of
Speaker 5: Geelong supporters throwing things at each other across.
Speaker 3: The much has changed, by the way, that's still the.
Speaker 5: Corridor, you know, kick nine in a losing side. It
Speaker 5: was amazing. It was actually easy to get Grand Final
Speaker 5: tickets in Sydney in those days, and it was in
Speaker 5: Melbourne because the way the allocations happened, and there weren't
Speaker 5: as many fans.
Speaker 3: Living in Sydney.
Speaker 4: Finally, come on, you're going to talk sport al, but
Speaker 4: you've got to be.
Speaker 3: About it.
Speaker 1: On just to hark back to the personality business for
Speaker 1: a second, because oh, yes, I agree with you. We
Speaker 1: love personalities in sport. Do you feel the same way
Speaker 1: about personalities in politics?
Speaker 5: No? Not necessarily. You know, do we really need bunter
Speaker 5: rejoiced to stop in parliament?
Speaker 4: But really do you like him to a bit of
Speaker 4: a jack in a bit of a not necessary?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: Anything that I said now would insult two people. So
Speaker 5: I'll raise the bat and let the ball hit the keepers.
Speaker 4: We love a put Well, here's another one that unfortunately
Speaker 4: we're not going to let you.
Speaker 5: I do I break the record, by the way, for
Speaker 5: most number of sporting puns. On third of third of May,
Speaker 5: you're at the MCG, on the ground of the MCG,
Speaker 5: and you know we're kicking with the wind. With time
Speaker 5: on in the fourth quarter, they were kicking out on
Speaker 5: the fall.
Speaker 4: No wonder he wanted to come on to We were
Speaker 4: chosen to be at the MCD.
Speaker 5: We were taking marks. You know, we're kicking goals. We
Speaker 5: needed to keep the momentum.
Speaker 2: We've got the bounce.
Speaker 5: I was such good fun.
Speaker 4: I did say in our intro to this elbow that
Speaker 4: it was the most one sided finished since the twenty
Speaker 4: nineteen Grand did a d We.
Speaker 3: Didn't need to get to the last quarter.
Speaker 5: That was a bit sad. It was sad, but there've
Speaker 5: been a few blowouts.
Speaker 4: I've got to say, we just want to have a contest.
Speaker 3: Let's be honest.
Speaker 4: But while while we are talking about AFL again, the
Speaker 4: politics and sport they always mix, and if we are
Speaker 4: going to talk about the stadium in Tazzi, that seems
Speaker 4: to be this real lynchpin that's been a topic of
Speaker 4: much discussion, the fact that Tasmani are going to yet
Speaker 4: another state election.
Speaker 3: We get another to the polls. Again, where do you
Speaker 3: stand on this?
Speaker 4: In the AFL demanding that there needs to be a
Speaker 4: stadium in order to allow that nineteenth license, do you
Speaker 4: think that's fair and where do you stand?
Speaker 5: We support a stadium not just because of of what
Speaker 5: it will do for AFL, but for what it will
Speaker 5: do in Hobart. In twenty and twelve, as the infrastruction Missleigo,
Speaker 5: the government got fifty million dollars to the Tasmanian government
Speaker 5: to do planning for the mcquari Point site. Now, if
Speaker 5: you look at all the waterfronts around Australia, industry was
Speaker 5: always located around water because you chucked all the rubbish
Speaker 5: in the river or the waterway or the harbor. The
Speaker 5: Macquarie Point site is unbelievable. The Derwin is a magnificent river,
Speaker 5: with due respect to the Yarra.
Speaker 1: You know, Oh, don't you worry, Albot. I've had some
Speaker 1: choice words.
Speaker 5: Dear respect. The Derwint is magnificent. Hobart's a great city.
Speaker 5: It stops and then there's basically what's a rubbish dump
Speaker 5: that has been there for decades. Now you need to
Speaker 5: have a proper urban development project at Macquarie Point, you know,
Speaker 5: the driver of urban development projects, so as part of
Speaker 5: a precinct, sporting, hospitality, residential, the full bit. It will
Speaker 5: bring the CBD down to the river and open up
Speaker 5: the city of Hobart. So it's got to be viewed
Speaker 5: from that perspective, not from the narrow one that it's
Speaker 5: just somewhere where footy will be played for home games
Speaker 5: for the Devils.
Speaker 1: And is that how we go about justifying the cost.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, that's how you get some of the costs
Speaker 5: back through private sector development housing. It could be amazing
Speaker 5: if it's got right. Yes, and yes, the state government
Speaker 5: down there for a long period time dilly dallied around.
Speaker 5: I went down there about a year ago. Now it
Speaker 5: is exactly the same as it was in twenty twelve,
Speaker 5: thirteen years later. You literally had to watch where you're
Speaker 5: walking because this just not even not even a dirt
Speaker 5: road properly and it's an unbelievable pristine site. And just
Speaker 5: like Mona for Tasmania was opposed and transformed, it did
Speaker 5: that city. People go there and they go there not
Speaker 5: just for a day, they go there for a period
Speaker 5: of time as well. We when I was Infrastructure Minister
Speaker 5: last time, we funded utahz Or Aurora Stadium. It was
Speaker 5: them which is for to that at Lonnie so that
Speaker 5: the AFL games could be played there. So it's being
Speaker 5: upgraded as well. There's one hundred and thirty million dollars
Speaker 5: for that. We're putting in half the funds to upgrade
Speaker 5: that so that games can be played in the North
Speaker 5: as well as the South. But you know, they need
Speaker 5: to just get on with it. And I think that
Speaker 5: truly know a state that's produced you know, to Hudson
Speaker 5: just to name one, but so many fantastic.
Speaker 3: The rewolves in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, Richardson, and people want Tasmanians also want their
Speaker 5: kids to stay in Tasmania. So you've got to build
Speaker 5: the economy. You've got to and academies change things, and
Speaker 5: it's a it's a great way to do it. So yeah,
Speaker 5: it tastes two. I think it's up to two hundred
Speaker 5: thousand members or something we did.
Speaker 3: Driving around. It's a real thing.
Speaker 4: The fact that they almost have the most members in
Speaker 4: the league and they don't even have somewhere that they
Speaker 4: just bizarre. But it just goes to show the love
Speaker 4: of it all, which is I think why as external.
Speaker 4: Obviously we're not in Tasmania, but you look in and
Speaker 4: see how divisive something has been that we can all
Speaker 4: look at and say a stadium should be something that's
Speaker 4: celebrated in the is something that should be celebrated. But
Speaker 4: you have someone like Eddie Maguire out in the last
Speaker 4: forty eight hours saying that if he was appointed chair
Speaker 4: of the AFL, which we know that he hasn't been,
Speaker 4: the first thing that he would do, and this is
Speaker 4: a direct quote, is get the Prime Minister in a
Speaker 4: headlock and violence against Albo Australia says no, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 4: but he's essentially saying that for the Tasmanian government to
Speaker 4: fund this stadium is unfeasible because of the funds that
Speaker 4: they don't have available to them. That so much funding
Speaker 4: will go to Brisbane because they have an Olympics and
Speaker 4: they need to be building this amazing stadium, that the
Speaker 4: federal government needs.
Speaker 3: To dip into their pockets for this stadium.
Speaker 5: What say you to that we have dipped in our
Speaker 5: share and it's capped. But the Tasmanian government, going back
Speaker 5: to mac Point, we go money. Yeah twenty twelve, nothing
Speaker 5: happened with it. The Tasmanian government are in the position
Speaker 5: to manage the project, to do uplift, to do private
Speaker 5: partnerships with housing, use that money to help fund the
Speaker 5: state him all of that. And so we've made a
Speaker 5: contribution to urban redevelopment there. But we're not an ATM,
Speaker 5: you know, and because if we act like that, what
Speaker 5: you'll get is no proper management of the project. And
Speaker 5: we're not going to ongoing run the Tazzy Devil's football
Speaker 5: team or run state planning and all of those issues,
Speaker 5: which is why our contribution is substantial. At the time
Speaker 5: we made that contribution, it was opposed by the federal
Speaker 5: Liberals and state labor in Tasmania, so it was a
Speaker 5: big call by us. I did that cooperatively with Premier
Speaker 5: Rockcliffe because I supported the urban redevelopment at macpoint and
Speaker 5: we looked at the case that's there. They just need
Speaker 5: to get on with it and get it done.
Speaker 1: What happens, whatever the outcome of this election may be,
Speaker 1: whether it be rock Withefe or not. And if there's
Speaker 1: a phone call to you and it says Albow we
Speaker 1: need more help.
Speaker 5: Our funding is capped, you know you've got to You've
Speaker 5: got to draw the line and bring some responsibility in
Speaker 5: unless you do that. Same as our funding for the
Speaker 5: Olympics in Brisbane, which has changed about four times, what
Speaker 5: they are doing, what we are building, is us saying
Speaker 5: this is our money is on the table. We have
Speaker 5: money for nineteen separate precincts as well as we have
Speaker 5: money for the arena project. If that isn't going ahead,
Speaker 5: which appears that it's not from the new plans, our
Speaker 5: money is still capped for what is happening, and you've
Speaker 5: got to leave a legacy. Part of the idea of
Speaker 5: the stadium in Tazzi is that it will allow major acts,
Speaker 5: yes who come here, to be able to play in
Speaker 5: a stadium. If you had a stadium that had twenty
Speaker 5: three thousand seats in Hobart, ax would go there. It
Speaker 5: would transform the economics of the way that Hobart functions.
Speaker 5: Tasmania has so much to offer. It's beautiful, stunning state,
Speaker 5: every bit of it, but it needs economic activity and
Speaker 5: one way you bring economic activity, as Melbourne knows yes,
Speaker 5: is by having events.
Speaker 4: The viability of large scale events is something that we've
Speaker 4: discussed at length in this podcast and a bugbear of
Speaker 4: mine was the comm games.
Speaker 1: That happened, you know, and just this one. She's very mad.
Speaker 4: I love my track and field, I love the comm games.
Speaker 4: I love how I feel when I watch Australians win
Speaker 4: on the big stage. But we're just not talking about
Speaker 4: Australia here. We're talking about the Football World Cup having
Speaker 4: to be hosted her over six different cities because it's
Speaker 4: just not viable for cities to build the infrastructure with
Speaker 4: the cost of living pressures and what taxpayers actually want.
Speaker 4: Are we genuinely in danger of potentially down the track
Speaker 4: something like the Olympics needing to scale back in order
Speaker 4: for cities and countries and governments to see it be viable.
Speaker 5: I don't think so, because they are such important events,
Speaker 5: but you do have to have a bit of common
Speaker 5: sense approach to it as well. There's a bit of
Speaker 5: a debate going on at the moment over the Olympics.
Speaker 5: We'll wait and see where that goes. I've been meeting
Speaker 5: with Andrew Liveris as well as with the Queensland Premier
Speaker 5: Christal Fully about where it goes. For example, you know,
Speaker 5: are we really going to do rowing in Rockhampton on
Speaker 5: the Fitztroy River when there are some pretty good facilities
Speaker 5: at Penis Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean the Fox girls they yeah, yeah, they're not bad.
Speaker 4: At one point they were beating eleven other countries at
Speaker 4: the Games, just their family. So I think if we
Speaker 4: can give them home rapid advantage.
Speaker 5: And yeah, there's a debate over tennis and what's needed
Speaker 5: there in Brisbane as well. Pretty good tennis facilities here,
Speaker 5: I'll get just you know, those things need to be
Speaker 5: worked through. And it might be that, you know, the
Speaker 5: tennis stadium is built in Brisbane, fantastic. You know, we're
Speaker 5: putting some money into the Domain Tennis Center in Hobart
Speaker 5: so that they can continue to host one of the
Speaker 5: lead ins to the Australian Open in January, and so
Speaker 5: one of the women's tournaments has always been held there.
Speaker 5: So I think it's legitimate for there to be proper discussion.
Speaker 5: But it might be that you just can't do everything
Speaker 5: in one spot in the future.
Speaker 1: When it comes to your investment, because you genuinely love sporting,
Speaker 1: so it is something that is at the forefront of
Speaker 1: a lot of your policies.
Speaker 2: You've invested.
Speaker 1: The Albanize governments invested in a lot of women's sport
Speaker 1: and women's initiative, which we thank you for that. Why
Speaker 1: do you have such an affinity with sport? Where did
Speaker 1: the sporting love story begin?
Speaker 5: Just because of who I am? I guess, as you
Speaker 5: said in your intro, there's just me and mum at home.
Speaker 5: I guess one way, if you haven't got a father figure,
Speaker 5: a father around, or brothers or sisters, one of the
Speaker 5: ways that you engage in social activity is team sport.
Speaker 5: So I've always loved watching sport. I love playing sport.
Speaker 5: I still play in the I played for marrackvill in
Speaker 5: the Sydney Badge Tennis comp and played a couple of
Speaker 5: weeks ago.
Speaker 2: What have we learned from social sport? Elbow election?
Speaker 5: Twice since the election we've had two wins Marrickfood. It's
Speaker 5: a low division, but it's great fun and it's a
Speaker 5: way that you engage as well. And for me, for example,
Speaker 5: you know, I live in a fairly strange world with pressure.
Speaker 5: If you're on a tennis court, the Badge coomp is
Speaker 5: four sets doubles three hours. You don't have your phone on,
Speaker 5: you're not looking at it. You simple game, hit the
Speaker 5: ball over the net between the lights and don't let
Speaker 5: bout swice just to be clear out their kids and
Speaker 5: for that time I find I feel healthier and for
Speaker 5: kids growing up as well. We want kids to get
Speaker 5: off their devices onto the netball courts, the tennis courts,
Speaker 5: the footy ovals, swimming pools, whatever, doesn't matter. Team sports
Speaker 5: are particularly good, I think because they teach kids how
Speaker 5: to win, how to lose.
Speaker 4: Yes, no participatient medals for everyone. Sometimes in life.
Speaker 5: You go, I agree. I think it's completely When my
Speaker 5: son played junior a f L, you know, and they
Speaker 5: wouldn't keep score. What nonsense.
Speaker 6: The kid knows because they're going to get out into
Speaker 6: the real world for a job and not get it
Speaker 6: and be like, but we didn't keep scoring, where's my
Speaker 6: gold for trying exactly to lose?
Speaker 5: And you've got to learn how to lose exactly.
Speaker 1: On that though, are you now? I say this with
Speaker 1: love because I describe myself as this. Are you a
Speaker 1: feral fan in that when you're watching your team that
Speaker 1: you love, do you.
Speaker 2: Get vocal or you passionate?
Speaker 1: Are you screaming at the television saying we need to
Speaker 1: win Georgia?
Speaker 3: Do this? George is a dirty Queensland. If that hasn't
Speaker 3: been any clearer.
Speaker 5: Of a shocker, I I go, yeah, I have to
Speaker 5: be a little bit careful these days because there are
Speaker 5: sometimes cameras on you. Yeah, so when South are plying
Speaker 5: like I went nuts when kicked the field goal, and yeah,
Speaker 5: I do all of that, I yell and you know,
Speaker 5: I thought it was terrific when Ginnovan did the ball.
Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, because well, you talk about getting
Speaker 4: kids off their devices. You can't tell me that kids
Speaker 4: aren't doing those little gestures in the backyard pretending to
Speaker 4: be Jack.
Speaker 5: Dar And it's just fun.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're not a fan of the flipping the
Speaker 3: bird thing.
Speaker 4: That there's limits the players feeling like they need to
Speaker 4: do that to the crowd, but like, come on, grow
Speaker 4: up a little bit. But I think if it's good,
Speaker 4: harmless fun and character, that's what we want.
Speaker 5: You spoke about the goanna after the try. It was
Speaker 5: twenty fourteen, eleven years ago. You remember it.
Speaker 1: Albo having another existential crisis all theirn.
Speaker 5: We weren't playing Brisbane either, but you remember it because
Speaker 5: it was one of those moments. Yeah, took the square
Speaker 5: to thirty to six, oh wow.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, when they didn't that much of enough, ye
Speaker 4: I'm outnumbered about numbered absolutely.
Speaker 5: I can tell you you know all of I got
Speaker 5: tested in one of that. I was in Brisbane doing
Speaker 5: an FM radio and they're like, oh, well Souse, you
Speaker 5: know bye, you're a real sort of fan, you know what.
Speaker 5: And I was like, eh, was it the seventy one
Speaker 5: Grand Final? My my mum took me on the hill
Speaker 5: and they're like, oh, who was in the team? Then
Speaker 5: I named it one to thirteen amazing? That was That
Speaker 5: was it. I'm a nerd for those.
Speaker 4: A female equivalent of you've got a band shirt and
Speaker 4: they say tell me one of your songs. You're the
Speaker 4: prime minister and you wear the scarf and it's like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, we'll tell me who plays.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I will sit down here.
Speaker 5: I got sledged for oh, well have you just adopted
Speaker 5: the Hawks? Because I did the song. Sam Mitchell made
Speaker 5: me do the song. Also we love Sam Mitchell in
Speaker 5: Loney and And so I said to someone who I
Speaker 5: got asked about it because I got sledged by someone
Speaker 5: on I won't name them. I will hold it against him,
Speaker 5: but I won't hold judges. I do absolutely well, that's
Speaker 5: what what sport? If not, that's holding the occasional grudge.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Thurston I will forever love and hate for what
Speaker 1: he did to me in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: Anyway, we don't go.
Speaker 5: How good was that? Sorry? It's a field goal thing.
Speaker 2: Really is?
Speaker 4: It really is our boat one day and so I went,
Speaker 4: it's a VFL scarf carry out.
Speaker 5: It's so old. I've got a few of them, but
Speaker 5: the old one I try to wear to games because
Speaker 5: people it brings that nostalgia back.
Speaker 4: And it's the we love sport because of the joy
Speaker 4: and also for the fact that more often than not
Speaker 4: it's not hurting anyone. So much of life can be
Speaker 4: and especially news and politics. Things can be difficult, and
Speaker 4: there's winners and losers, and of course there's winners and
Speaker 4: losers in sport, but as a whole especial we saw
Speaker 4: with Neil Danaher over the weekend. Yes, you canslutely someone
Speaker 4: who just galvanizes everyone and brings them together.
Speaker 5: Yep, yeah, yeah, no an incredible choice is Australian of
Speaker 5: the Year and just fantastic what he has done taking
Speaker 5: what's you know, personally such a tough situation and turning
Speaker 5: into helping others. I mean, he's a remarkable Australian but
Speaker 5: does bring people together. And it does. When South got
Speaker 5: kicked out of the comp they were moving motions in
Speaker 5: Parliament and all that, and it was about people were like,
Speaker 5: oh well, you can just follow another team, and I
Speaker 5: was like, you don't get it.
Speaker 3: You don't understand.
Speaker 5: It's about your identity. It's about that sense of belonging
Speaker 5: to something. And for so many of South supporters it's
Speaker 5: all they had in their life. People were telling me,
Speaker 5: you know, people coming up we had at that stage
Speaker 5: on the board. We used to have these long meetings,
Speaker 5: We had one employee. We were all putting in our
Speaker 5: own money to keep the show going, the campaign while
Speaker 5: the court cases were on and all of that. And
Speaker 5: you know, for some of them, they just didn't understand.
Speaker 5: It wasn't like oh, well, you know, you just get
Speaker 5: a different brand of chip or something. You know, it
Speaker 5: was for them. And I know a whole lot of
Speaker 5: people who still haven't forgiven the perpetrators of that crime
Speaker 5: for kicking us out of the comp and the fact
Speaker 5: that the Bears people supporting North Sydney. I mean they
Speaker 5: haven't had a win since nineteen twenty two, twenty one
Speaker 5: and twenty two were their last successes, but they've held
Speaker 5: on through generations. People say to me, you know if
Speaker 5: they have usked I as your son supports a Sydney
Speaker 5: and I say, yeah, he had choices, but he chose
Speaker 5: to sleep inside, you know, very clear options.
Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying is exactly how Georgie feels about
Speaker 6: it all because Robert.
Speaker 1: Is a Storm fan. Absolutely not children.
Speaker 5: Mixed marriage, genuinely. I met Jodie through through being in
Speaker 5: Melbourne at an event and I got introduced by someone
Speaker 5: who was a Canterbury Bulldog supporter and they said a
Speaker 5: good person. I was a guest speaker at this dinner
Speaker 5: and they said, only one thing wrong with him. He's
Speaker 5: a South Sydney supporter. And so I stood up and
Speaker 5: I said, you know there's always even in Melbourne, there'll
Speaker 5: be a random one, always one, And Jody yelled out
Speaker 5: up the rabbits, that's how woman.
Speaker 2: Literally, and you thought she is there, she is.
Speaker 5: I went around, my only one around, went around the
Speaker 5: tables and met her there and then ran into her.
Speaker 5: Didn't know she was a Sydney cider fully then and
Speaker 5: went around and then she was another event. She was
Speaker 5: waiting for a super company at the time. A few
Speaker 5: weeks later and she was there again.
Speaker 1: So what I'm hearing is that Greg Engliss is going
Speaker 1: to actually marry you.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Well, I've got to tell you, Jody, I would have
Speaker 5: had no chance if Greg English, none, none, whatsoever.
Speaker 3: It's form that I loved that.
Speaker 4: Not only was she a fan, but she's our sort
Speaker 4: of woman that at a formal function, by the sound
Speaker 4: of it, was like.
Speaker 3: Up the bunny, Yeah you're where is she? Where is she?
Speaker 3: Let me find you? And we went in the fall.
Speaker 3: That sounds like just amazing.
Speaker 4: But you do talk so passionately, and so do we
Speaker 4: about how much sport means to people. And you mentioned
Speaker 4: there that for some people the buddies might be the
Speaker 4: only thing they.
Speaker 5: Have in center community and belonging. And how you remember,
Speaker 5: I mean I took my son in twenty fourteen when
Speaker 5: he would have been thirteen to the Grand Final, and
Speaker 5: when we won, and my mum taking me in seventy one,
Speaker 5: there was that real sense of my mum had passed
Speaker 5: away by then, that real sense of family and all
Speaker 5: of that identity so important.
Speaker 4: Given that there's been a lot of uproar and it's
Speaker 4: been the first time this year that it's happened where
Speaker 4: for free to air AFL it's behind a paywall on Saturday.
Speaker 4: So if your team's playing on Saturday, and that might
Speaker 4: be your one thing that you love and you look
Speaker 4: forward to every weekend unless you've got sometimes twenty five
Speaker 4: dollars a month, which for Australians at the moment with
Speaker 4: cost of living, it's the first thing that goes. It's
Speaker 4: the first thing that feels like an excessive extent.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about that?
Speaker 4: And even on a bigger scale, we've got the soccer
Speaker 4: US who qualified for a World Cup and there wasn't
Speaker 4: the scenes in fed Square because it wasn't really promoted.
Speaker 4: And then you've got the World Test Championship overnight and
Speaker 4: I'm like, do I need what.
Speaker 3: Do I needs happening? Where do I watch it?
Speaker 4: Is that something of national importance that we can fix?
Speaker 5: It is it's hard to fix, hard to unscramble the
Speaker 5: egg and today's media is really difficult. I was at
Speaker 5: give them a free Atus, the broadcaster of AFL, was
Speaker 5: at Channel seven last night opening their new headquarters and
Speaker 5: one of the things that you know, I identify with
Speaker 5: going up as a kid. The reason why I'm an
Speaker 5: AFL supporter is because it was on TV on a
Speaker 5: Saturday afternoon. No one played AFL I knew, and it
Speaker 5: wasn't on any local oval. There weren't AFL goals up
Speaker 5: and so it is an issue. It's one that my
Speaker 5: government is big supporters of free to air. We have
Speaker 5: done any ciphering rules. It's complex because you do need
Speaker 5: funding for sports and all of that. But one of
Speaker 5: the things that I think you've correctly identified there is
Speaker 5: that some of the offshore owned platforms don't promote things.
Speaker 5: So the cricket, for example, at the moment that's on
Speaker 5: and I was stayed here last night in Melbourne. I
Speaker 5: was looking up the score on the cricket.
Speaker 3: And you're like, Australia all out, where is this? Like
Speaker 3: where Test Champion?
Speaker 5: You can't find them. It's an issue. It's an issue.
Speaker 5: I'm not over promising a solution, but it is. It's
Speaker 5: a challenge.
Speaker 2: You're looking into it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Look, we have done a whole lot of measures.
Speaker 5: If it was just up to the sporting codes, I
Speaker 5: think you would see potentially a bit less. It's one
Speaker 5: of the challenges that we have when dealing with sports
Speaker 5: free to wear, are they issu isshoes? Which are raised?
Speaker 5: Which including what happens on free to air advertising, et cetera.
Speaker 5: Those issues. They are all interlinked and they're not simple.
Speaker 5: I've given Anika Wells the really easy task of being
Speaker 5: the Minister for Communications and Sport.
Speaker 1: It's a portfolio.
Speaker 5: She is really passionate about it. I mean, we have
Speaker 5: the two hundred million dollar funding for women's sport, the
Speaker 5: largest ever funding for infrastructure. How you get all of
Speaker 5: these things done are really important. One of the things
Speaker 5: about take the opportunity to say it here because it's
Speaker 5: pushing against an open door, is sometimes when we fund sport,
Speaker 5: people say, well, you know, but what about health or education.
Speaker 5: Sport helps health and education. It keeps your physical hospital
Speaker 5: bills down in spite of the odd sport injury, when
Speaker 5: there's mental health issues out there on the rise. Sports
Speaker 5: so important not just for people who played, but people
Speaker 5: who watch as well as an impact on them. It
Speaker 5: helps contribute to economic activity by people attending sport, playing sport,
Speaker 5: watching sport in hospitality venues as well. It helps with
Speaker 5: education as well. One of the best things that my
Speaker 5: government will hopefully be remembered for in terms of soft
Speaker 5: diplomacy is the NRL team in P and G because
Speaker 5: in order to play NRL, you're going to go to school,
Speaker 5: You've got to do all of these things are going
Speaker 5: to be linked in to their education and aid programs
Speaker 5: as well. Will it will make an enormous difference in
Speaker 5: P and G to uply living standards and the economy
Speaker 5: and opportunity there as well.
Speaker 1: Well, it seems like we are aligned in quite a
Speaker 1: few things. PM and I know that you get pictures
Speaker 1: a lot, probably every second of every day, so Jellmy
Speaker 1: and I wanted to take advantage of that because you
Speaker 1: talk about sport with such passions, so do we We
Speaker 1: love covering it. We're federal fans like yourself. Can we
Speaker 1: get a mandate from you that two good sports should
Speaker 1: be the national correspondent when it comes to any sporting events?
Speaker 2: So we're talking any.
Speaker 3: I was hoping to lobby for the Olympics, but.
Speaker 1: Olympics, I'll take any Can you see do we need
Speaker 1: to be those people? Surely on the ground of what
Speaker 1: do we need to do.
Speaker 5: To get this? I can't think of anyone better. See
Speaker 5: what I did there?
Speaker 3: Though, give him some type of think and you'll come up,
Speaker 3: come up. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like we're not over promising. I remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see that, I said, but we're going to
Speaker 1: run with that.
Speaker 2: We're going to run with that.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you're seeing the news elbow, but
Speaker 1: I might be looking for work, so I.
Speaker 2: May need I may actually need a CV reference from you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, I need you, I need you, I need
Speaker 1: the PM's backing. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, she was devastated by the project going. I've got
Speaker 5: to say her major news source in terms of watching
Speaker 5: all though since she's been with me she has to
Speaker 5: watch more.
Speaker 3: The consumption might have slid a little bit.
Speaker 4: Georgie, through work, recently met Tom Cruise, who was the Rocks,
Speaker 4: and she flew to Japan.
Speaker 3: Georgia gets to meet all the cool people to Japan
Speaker 3: to meet.
Speaker 2: Trump, as you do.
Speaker 4: If I was Prime Minister, and one of a myriad
Speaker 4: of reasons why I will never be is that I
Speaker 4: would use my position of power to make sure that
Speaker 4: I don't know, if Roger Federer was playing in Australia
Speaker 4: way back when, I would have made it mandate that
Speaker 4: I had to shake his hand. Is there any ministerial
Speaker 4: power that you've used to meet someone in sport where you've.
Speaker 3: Gone, well, I need to be injected somehow into.
Speaker 5: These I would do anything to meet Roger. I, you know,
Speaker 5: have such a I have a man crash on Roger Feder.
Speaker 5: I love the way that he played the sport. If
Speaker 5: I could do one of his backhands, just one now,
Speaker 5: the way that down the line, I would be a
Speaker 5: very happy person.
Speaker 3: He didn't get the chance to meet Roger.
Speaker 1: No, this will we manifest a lot of things on
Speaker 1: this and one of them sitting is yourself. This is
Speaker 1: living proof. But what we can manifest things?
Speaker 2: So who would you? What's the what's you know? You're
Speaker 2: having a dinner party? Who's there in the sporting world?
Speaker 5: Roger?
Speaker 1: Roger obviously ye fed express he listens, he'll be there.
Speaker 5: Well shall I pick Lauren Jackson? Is great fun, she
Speaker 5: is awesome g.
Speaker 1: Of course of course yeah, yeah, they go anna he's got.
Speaker 5: To be there now at the risk, buddy.
Speaker 4: Buddy, Oh okay, so we're going beyond three continue of course,
Speaker 4: more more of a table than three can work out, right, right.
Speaker 5: Sham kerr. I do get to do some things that
Speaker 5: and occasionally they slipped through without people really noticing how
Speaker 5: how much of a personal decision they are. For the
Speaker 5: King's coronation, I had to pick rather than for the
Speaker 5: Queen's Her Majesty's funeral, people went from Australia overseas. I said,
Speaker 5: why don't we save money and pick Australians who are
Speaker 5: based in the UK. Now, this one did save money,
Speaker 5: so completely justified economic rationalism responsibility.
Speaker 7: But I got Sam Kerve to be the flag bearer
Speaker 7: at the King's coronation and that to me was like yeah,
Speaker 7: And I was waiting for the backlash from sort of
Speaker 7: some of the far right sort of people going oh
Speaker 7: my goodness, you picked this, you know, person with characteristics
Speaker 7: that I think are just fantasty.
Speaker 5: That goal that she scored in the semi I think
Speaker 5: it was I will cry.
Speaker 3: That was like speak about goals in a loser.
Speaker 5: That was like wow, you know.
Speaker 3: And also the a cl that never hears Also, I
Speaker 3: loved it.
Speaker 4: The way that you justified different things that I don't
Speaker 4: know parliament level is the same way that I try
Speaker 4: to get things done at Technically.
Speaker 3: I didn't lie. I was the most viable.
Speaker 5: Choice, but there was a shame curve as the flag
Speaker 5: bearer and Nick Cave.
Speaker 3: It's no one read the teeling, but we should have.
Speaker 1: The diagram is Albow's face. I see.
Speaker 4: I mean, yes, we were going to ask you some
Speaker 4: of this, all that questions. But I feel like now
Speaker 4: that we know that Sam curves up there.
Speaker 2: We had we had, we had Mary Fowler, Sam Kerr.
Speaker 5: Mary's great. But seriously, that that goal is the soccer
Speaker 5: for me is below Regula and AFL. But that goal
Speaker 5: is the best goal I have ever seen?
Speaker 3: Did you see it in real time?
Speaker 4: To be prime minister, I'll just take that part of.
Speaker 5: Penny Penny Wong and a wells will be hi with people.
Speaker 5: There were people falling over yeah, into the rose in front.
Speaker 5: It was just chaos because it was just such a
Speaker 5: people didn't expect her to take the shot. No, he
Speaker 5: expected one more touch and it was just bang, was perfect, perfect,
Speaker 5: So good warning Ponting. Oh look Warne. I loved the
Speaker 5: way that he played, and I you know, I went
Speaker 5: to his last test at the SCG. As you do.
Speaker 5: People tend to finish their careers at the SCG. You know, McGraw,
Speaker 5: warn Gilly, all of them, Steve wore so yeah. But
Speaker 5: but punter right. I love the fact that punters from
Speaker 5: Melbray outside.
Speaker 3: Of line, they'll tell you they they'll shut.
Speaker 5: Your working class community. And so I met Warnie, but
Speaker 5: I know Ricky met him quite a few times. So
Speaker 5: I'll pick Ponting.
Speaker 1: Well Cleary John's and by that I mean Nathan and Andrew.
Speaker 5: Nathan and Andrew. What about Maddie.
Speaker 2: No, we've gone. We've got we have to make tough
Speaker 2: decisions here, so it has to be.
Speaker 3: We'd also have you for another four hours. We realized
Speaker 3: that we.
Speaker 2: Are run Joey or Nathan Cleary.
Speaker 1: Joey, Oh yeah, I see that quick one, because.
Speaker 3: He's not an immortal yet and will he be?
Speaker 5: Cleary will be absolutely four Grand Finals and he dominated, Yeah,
Speaker 5: unlike when he single handedly basically turned a gamer out.
Speaker 3: They were gone, don't Georgie still can't talk about it.
Speaker 1: I almost named Jeremy's unborn baby Ezra.
Speaker 3: She did?
Speaker 5: They were gone?
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 4: I genuinely text Georgie and said, well in good news.
Speaker 4: No team in history is ever lost from here, And
Speaker 4: I think you can point the exact moment Nathan clearly
Speaker 4: decided to put his hello a challenge to kick.
Speaker 2: Look, but if he tried to block it out.
Speaker 4: If then you wanted to advertise the game to someone
Speaker 4: who was that it was normal.
Speaker 5: The best individual performance ever.
Speaker 1: In a Grand and been a part of Jewish, the
Speaker 1: best Grand finals we've ever seen. And they happened to
Speaker 1: lose both of them, but we were there.
Speaker 5: You've won a lot. We went forty three years between
Speaker 5: seventy one and twenty fourteen. You coming up to twenty
Speaker 5: get over it.
Speaker 3: Get over it, broncos other.
Speaker 1: Personal attacks to magic, get over it.
Speaker 3: Very quickly.
Speaker 5: We gave you Adam Reynolds.
Speaker 3: And he's broken and we thank you.
Speaker 1: We thank you for that.
Speaker 4: You gave him Adam Rentles thinking what he's got like
Speaker 4: one season left coming up.
Speaker 1: To he's still goes Benjamin behighest point scorer in the
Speaker 1: league ever.
Speaker 2: I think at the moment we gave.
Speaker 3: You Adam, actually Warranton gave him away.
Speaker 1: Why it's actually true.
Speaker 2: It's true, and we accept him with open arms.
Speaker 3: We love the very last.
Speaker 5: It's been a good mentor.
Speaker 1: He has, he really really has, he really has.
Speaker 5: He'll be the new Gibney and he gets to play
Speaker 5: half the time.
Speaker 1: What we need is for him to just rebuilt as
Speaker 1: a terminator just all completely bionic and then he'll play
Speaker 1: for nine years.
Speaker 5: I was so pissed off that we let going to
Speaker 5: say I knew you would be he love that, I said,
Speaker 5: I love it him and a J. When when a
Speaker 5: J was going to go, I drew the line. Really,
Speaker 5: I drew the.
Speaker 4: Line, PM, just quietly. When you draw the line doesn't
Speaker 4: mean more than say when we draw the line, because
Speaker 4: when you call the club and go enough is enough.
Speaker 5: I am now loving very hard for South Sydney to
Speaker 5: play at Alliance. It is a joke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 5: How many clubs play at the MCG, you know and
Speaker 5: Marvel basically all the Melbourne teams all just the latest. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean, for goodness, fully taxpayer funded, fully taxpayer funded
Speaker 5: by New South Wales taxpayers. They let the Waratahs play there,
Speaker 5: they let Sydney f C play there because you know
Speaker 5: they're not sous but sous. It's in our home areas
Speaker 5: More Park where I played under sixes and under sevens
Speaker 5: for Saint Joseph's camping down with a little bunny on
Speaker 5: my jumper even though it was a black and white jumper.
Speaker 3: Wait, so who needs to approve this now?
Speaker 5: Just the stake I have. Let me tell you, let
Speaker 5: me tell you this will be a source of ongoing
Speaker 5: and Steve Camper. We opened the new terminal at the
Speaker 5: Western Sydney Airport yesterday. I said to your mate, how's alliance?
Speaker 1: That's right?
Speaker 5: Fix it I have. Oh it's really hard, he said,
Speaker 5: For goodness sake, what's hard about. You've got a facility.
Speaker 5: I mean it cause fantastic. If there's eighty thousand people there, Yeah,
Speaker 5: if there's fifteen thousand people there is for.
Speaker 4: Soulas you're great on television, you're not good in person.
Speaker 1: Such a good stadium, Such a good stadium. We've got
Speaker 1: two more things if you be so generous with your time.
Speaker 3: Okay, Kathy or Thorpey, this is our last he saw that.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, and that's like choosing between the nation's goodness.
Speaker 3: I know this is the hard hitting. We warmed you up.
Speaker 3: We warmed you up.
Speaker 1: We knew the Prime ministership was going to come with challenges.
Speaker 1: It's got hard questions.
Speaker 5: It's got to be Kathy, Yeah, it has to be
Speaker 5: just because of that moment and what it means.
Speaker 3: Remember where you were.
Speaker 5: I was outside the stadium watching it on a big screen.
Speaker 2: Amazing in your defense.
Speaker 5: And you could hear the roar as she turned around
Speaker 5: into the strait. You could just hear it. And afterwards
Speaker 5: you just hear the cheer, which was inside and outside
Speaker 5: like a lot of people work around the stadium at
Speaker 5: the time, there were big screens and stuff.
Speaker 4: I still can't the pressure, the goosebumps. And then she
Speaker 4: addressed the matildas it was before the world come and
Speaker 4: she spoke to them about feeling that pressure.
Speaker 3: And it's amazing about the joy I have.
Speaker 5: In my elected office in Marrick for a photo signed
Speaker 5: by Kathy at that moment.
Speaker 3: She's at my dinner party.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think she's.
Speaker 2: Actually spiritual, Like do you know what I mean? She
Speaker 2: just has an aura.
Speaker 5: They're friends, you can have both.
Speaker 1: He knows good, good good to go back to know
Speaker 1: now PM A lot is always made of Prime Minister's
Speaker 1: sporting ability, and for good reason. And I gotta say,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know we've got John Howard with that bowl.
Speaker 5: Well, come on now, Thank goodness, it's fantastic, because anything
Speaker 5: I ever do there will always be something worse.
Speaker 2: Kevin ru playing hamble, No, he can play hamble?
Speaker 3: Could he he can?
Speaker 5: He's okay?
Speaker 3: From John Howard, we'll get back there.
Speaker 2: Scott Morrison tackling defense the children.
Speaker 5: You know, that was a moment in the election campaign
Speaker 5: that made my path to the lodge that much smooth.
Speaker 2: As a bulldozed in front of you.
Speaker 5: What's incredible was that he had said, describe himself as
Speaker 5: a bulldozer.
Speaker 3: Oh no, and then he bulldozed a child.
Speaker 5: Just it's a child. Let them win. I mean, for
Speaker 5: goodness sake.
Speaker 3: We kissed the ba and we let the children win.
Speaker 5: As well. Telling about this conservative right when conservatives just
Speaker 5: you know, for goodness, oh wow.
Speaker 1: But does that honestly, does that just it does take
Speaker 1: some of the pressure off because you would be in
Speaker 1: so many photo ops with like an assortment of sporting takes.
Speaker 5: It totally off. Well. During the election campaign, my team,
Speaker 5: some of whom may have sporting capacity that I'm not
Speaker 5: aware of, none of whom have shown any capacity to
Speaker 5: have as much a nerdy interest. Let me put it
Speaker 5: that way politely. Given they will listen to this podcast,
Speaker 5: they constantly have this oh my goodness moments. So we
Speaker 5: have a charity cricket game at Kiribilly, the Prime Minister's
Speaker 5: eleven and so Brettley running in, knocked him, knocked him
Speaker 5: to cheek. It was yeah, it was with the tennis.
Speaker 5: I was with the tennis ball and and and it wasn't.
Speaker 3: He wasn't he It was Bollywood Bradley.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he is a friend of mine. But they
Speaker 5: do get horrified whenever I agreed to do stuff because
Speaker 5: you know that one time you because John Howard. Well
Speaker 5: there was but that was a moment that was heroic
Speaker 5: throwing myself in for a tackle.
Speaker 1: But they get worried because John Howard.
Speaker 5: They get worried because all of these things. So during
Speaker 5: the election campaign, literally would have been thirteen days out.
Speaker 5: The second last Sunday I did the Footy Show and
Speaker 5: so Andrew John's and Freddie Fittler. We're doing the Past
Speaker 5: the Ball competition. Yes, I saw the now five in
Speaker 5: row five row.
Speaker 2: You really didn't.
Speaker 5: I was a half back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so did you say, Joey, please, I know what
Speaker 1: I'm doing.
Speaker 5: Got But they were like, oh my god, you can
Speaker 5: just see the look of my press sect of horror.
Speaker 4: Because we can do so much work that can be
Speaker 4: undone in sixty seconds.
Speaker 5: Of not getting one in. We've done an interview that
Speaker 5: was really good and we talked about my love for
Speaker 5: South and they'd shown photos with me with a little
Speaker 5: They've done all of that and the rally and everything else,
Speaker 5: and it's all about to go to Custard in the
Speaker 5: past all competition. So yeah, but you do worry because
Speaker 5: the one you get wrong, of course, is the one
Speaker 5: that they will show it on TV over and over again.
Speaker 5: But John Howard got more than one. That was it
Speaker 5: is it is risky to do sporty things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can totally.
Speaker 5: I had. I was in Bendigo when it was a
Speaker 5: minister playing. We're announcing a tennis funding and they brought
Speaker 5: up this junior player, a young woman or girl, she
Speaker 5: was thirteen or something, and my team said you can't win,
Speaker 5: and I go, oh, it's okay, you know, I'm especially
Speaker 5: she slaughtered me. She was so good, she was so good.
Speaker 3: Turns out it was ash party.
Speaker 5: She was tiny, she was tiny. The power that she
Speaker 5: got in her stroke for phenomenal. It was so good.
Speaker 4: Well, you've taken on two women in this podcast and
Speaker 4: you've still won.
Speaker 3: You've smashed us.
Speaker 4: Because we've absolutely loved having you on and we just
Speaker 4: appreciate the fact you would come in and visit us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how fun. Fact is that the PM is
Speaker 1: a fan of this show.
Speaker 5: And good fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, genuinely listen to us and you've made it onto
Speaker 1: the pod.
Speaker 2: So thank you so much for you being you DM me.
Speaker 3: I did, Albo, you followed me first, I albow.
Speaker 4: I really want to put on the record that that's
Speaker 4: not usually my formal level of communications, not with the PM,
Speaker 4: with anyone.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 3: It was just I saw an opportunity and I went
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 2: What was it, Albo? Was it the d M? And
Speaker 2: initially or was it her smiley face in the first line?
Speaker 5: I got no, no, the d M, and I said
Speaker 5: to my team, I want to do this. This is great.
Speaker 5: And the fact that they I drove my team mad,
Speaker 5: the fact that I saw it, and that I do
Speaker 5: I do do many of my own social media. Austin
Speaker 5: sitting in the corner there pretending to smile but deeply
Speaker 5: hurt by my crying. If you see Toto, my dog
Speaker 5: in any total, that's me, you know.
Speaker 3: The cool.
Speaker 2: Indonesia They loved it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, They're all They're all made occasionally. So I
Speaker 5: was going there. I went, I want to do this one.
Speaker 5: This is a fun one.
Speaker 4: You have blown my mind that you saw the d M,
Speaker 4: because I just thought someone on his team has seen.
Speaker 5: We don't really mind look at it all, Albow Albert.
Speaker 5: I don't normally either. I've got to say I don't
Speaker 5: look at the comments.
Speaker 3: Is the lead up to an election? Yeah, lots of.
Speaker 5: Time on planes and things you're actually looking through?
Speaker 2: What would you come on again?
Speaker 5: Of course?
Speaker 1: Great friend of the show, Anthony Albanez it right right
Speaker 1: after I do Offside, I was yay, let's okay. This
Speaker 1: is how we manifest things, Elbow.
Speaker 2: Only we knew someone on.
Speaker 5: Off Side you will exactly.
Speaker 3: You can categorically confirm that we will get you every
Speaker 3: week forever.
Speaker 4: If you'd like to come on, that is not a problem,
Speaker 4: not a problem at all.
Speaker 3: We would love to have you.
Speaker 2: Oh, this has been so wonderful.
Speaker 1: We like to finish our episodes, as you would know
Speaker 1: PM by saying, be a good sport?
Speaker 2: Would you?
Speaker 1: Would you do the honors this week until next week?
Speaker 5: Be a good sport? Yes,