Key events
The interview finishes on the story which is in News Corp papers today about Anthony Albanese’s tenant ‘Jim’ being evicted from a property Albanese owns in Sydney.
The tenant has pleaded to stay through the papers.
Albanese says:
From time to time when people’s personal circumstances change and my personal circumstances and their change, you’ve been pretty public.
He’s speaking about his engagement and forth coming marriage.
I’m changing arrangements. The person who’s in the property will says, as in his own words I have been a more than been fair owner of that property.
He has lived there for four years. There was other people there at the time and his personal circumstances have changed. He’s a small business owner, who is I have had him in the property with the rent being about half what is the market rent to keep him in for longer.
But does he have to go?
Well, he’s refused to have discussions with the the the real estate agent, that that’s a matter for him. I wish I wish him well. He has been well looked after for a long period of time. But I am entitled to make decisions in my personal life including selling a property that I own because I wish to move on in my personal life in a different direction. The property was bought when my personal circumstances were different.
Labor senator’s use of ‘from the river to the sea’ was ‘not appropriate’, Albanese says
On Labor senator Fatima Payman saying that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and calling on the prime minister to sanction Israel, Anthony Albanese says he speaks for government policy.
Daniel Hurst has covered off Payman’s statement to SBS here:
In a significant rupture with the Labor party position, Payman called for sanctions and divestment from Israel and declared ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ – a politically charged phrase that Albanese has criticised.
But Payman characterised the call as signifying ‘freedom from the occupation, freedom from the violence and freedom from the inequality’.
Albanese was asked about Payman’s use of “from the river to the sea” and said it was “not appropriate”:
What’s appropriate is a two state solution. A two state solution where both Israelis and Palestinians have the right to live in security in peace and in prosperity.
It is not in the interests of either Israelis or Palestinians to advocate there just be one state that is a forerunner of enormous conflict and grief and we are seeing enormous grief in Gaza.
That is having a significant impact on people who have relatives and friends in Gaza. And and that is a very traumatic occurrence – just as a lot of trauma is being experienced by Jewish Australians due to the rise in antisemitism that we’re seeing here, where people who happen to be Jewish, being held responsible for actions of the Netanyahu government.
I don’t believe that it is appropriate the targeting of people because they happen to be Jewish.
Well is Anthony Albanese happy to hear that Trump was favourable to Aukus (there are concerns within the government that a Trump presidency will put an end to the Aukus agreement)?
I assume that anyone who looks at it, the Aukus arrangements, will say that the arrangements that we have put in place are very sound and are in the interests of all those who support a more secure and peaceful region and world.
‘We use our former prime ministers from time to time’, Albanese says
So is the government using Scott Morrison in a soft diplomacy pincer move with Donald Trump? Did Albanese speak with Morrison?
I have not had a discussion with with Scott Morrison in recent times.
But could Morrison be a useful diplomatic tool in a Trump presidency?
Albanese:
I will leave diplomacy, funnily enough to diplomatic endeavours. I won’t be discussing them on RN. But we use our former prime ministers from time to time – I was very pleased to travel with former prime minister’s Abbott, Howard and Turnbull, for example, to the Abe funeral in Japan and that was appropriate because of the relationships that they had.
How does Albanese feel about Scott Morrison’s meeting with Trump?
Anthony Albanese says he won’t weigh in on Scott Morrison referring to Donald Trump’s criminal charges as a “pile on”.
I leave matters that are before the courts here in Australia. I play it straight back to them. I certainly am not about to intervene in matters that are before courts in the United States.
Is Albanese happy that Morrison raised Aukus with Trump?
Look Scott Morrison is a former prime minister of Australia. I respect the office of prime minister. Scott Morrison, I know was meeting with the US ambassador to the US while he was in Washington, Kevin Rudd and that’s entirely appropriate.
Government could always do more for domestic and family violence, Albanese says
On criticisms that the government has not spent enough on domestic and family violence, Anthony Albanese says:
Patricia, you’ve been around a while and you know that every single group you could claim any group health education. Any group will always say we need to do more. And we recognise we need to do more in this area. This is a national crisis. But we are doing across the board.
He goes through the measures which were announced, which included measures previously announced, but says it remains a priority of his government.
Patricia, we’ve produced a budget that is producing substantial investment in this area. Could we always do more in this area? Of course that’s the case.
Anthony Albanese is speaking to Patricia Karvelas from the Lodge – and you can hear his dog Toto barking in the background.
Could concentration of solar panel and batteries’ supply chains leave Australia vulnerable?
Has the government ignored Treasury advice by moving forward with its build solar panel and batteries in Australia, after Treasury advised given the concentration of the supply chains in those areas, it could leave Australia vulnerable.
Albanese:
What is a good use of money is recognising that there are not just industry policy objectives, that it’s also a national interest test. And when you have more than 90% of the world’s solar panels that will help to power the global economy produced in one country, then that leaves us vulnerable.
… What I’m saying is we need to be more resilient as an economy. We need to recognise that trade disruptions can have an enormous impact. We need to make more things that aren’t necessarily here just for the same reason.
‘Every single senator should back it’: Albanese on Future Made in Australia
Anthony Albanese is speaking to ABC radio RN Breakfast, where he is asked about the Future Made in Australia plan.
More specifically, the tax credits and whether or not Labor will negotiate with the Greens, which they will probably need to do, given the Coalition is leaning towards a big no.
Albanese says:
This is about whether we want to make things here. This is about Australian jobs. This is about whether we will take up the opportunity that we have to seize it, of the changes in the global economy where we are positioned with an enormous advantage. We can have the best green hydrogen industry in the world because we have the space to do it.
So will the government negotiate? (The Greens are looking at the gas strategy as being part of the package and want the government to shift on that, which the government so far as said no way to)
We’ll introduce the bill and we will argue the case and every single senator should back it because if they don’t back it, they’re not backing Australian jobs and they’re not backing Australian industry.
Angus Taylor is ‘a big believer in freedom of speech’ when asked about Gina Rinehart portrait
Angus Taylor is then asked about the complaints the National Gallery of Australia has received from THE Gina from Noosa, better known as Gina Rinehart, over a portrait of her in award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira’s exhibition.
What does Taylor think about artistic freedom?
You know, this is the first time I think I have ever been asked for advice on art. My wife doesn’t ever ask me for advice on art. It’s not my area.
Ok, but what about artistic freedom?
Taylor says he believes in that.
I do. I’m a big believer in freedom of speech and allowing people to have their say and I don’t always agree – I often don’t agree with some of the things people say, but I am a believer in freedom of speech. But when it comes to critiquing art, I’m not the guy to go to.
