Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Prime Minister Albanese's phone number getting leaked online

The mobile numbers of Anthony Albanese, Sussan Ley and other prominent Australians were recently released to the public on a free website.

The US-based website sells itself on having the mobile numbers and emails of millions of professionals, and investigations are ongoing into the platform.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says other world leaders reportedly have their contact information on the website, including US President Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Murray Old's OSSI correspondents with.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Us lamas very good afternoon, Heather.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Do you know Elbow's number?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
No, Look, he hasn't given it to me. I've been
on the case, but no. He says it's reserved for
best is like d Trump. So Donald Trump will have it.
I dare say Sicky Istama will have it and suddenly
other world leaders. But he hasn't given it to Old Mozza.
I'm afraid.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Okay, but how did I I get it?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well? AI, here's the thing. It was scraped off the internet,
off the web by an American based organization, apparently taken
from LinkedIn. LinkedIn has denied this. The news wire organization
is reporting this. The owner of the site uses AI
to scrape the web and guess what. Other world leaders
are apparently listed as well, including Donald Trump, Evaluean Macron,

(00:48):
Susan Lee also listed, is reported today. The leak first
was detailed by et Media ety Media. I'm not familiar
with their work, but if it's true, they've done a
pretty good job. They shared a video calling a leaked
number for the Prime Minister. The call goes to voicemail
when and Elbow's voice can be heard saying, ah, you've
rung Anthony Albinisi. Please leave a message so if it's right,

(01:12):
it's fantastic. But I mean, I'm sure he's not that thrilled,
and other world leaders wouldn't be either. I think that
the personal numbers are out there.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Anybody who are we taking issue with? Are we taking
issue with LinkedIn or are we taking issue with the
AI business? Because the AI business should surely have some
guardrails in there where they don't hand over the phone
numbers of people like Anthony Albanezi.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
You've just mentioned AI and guardrails in the same sentence.
That's for boating over here. I mean people are terrified
of it. If you throw it up into talkback radio
as we did on the weekend, people are saying, I
don't want AI. I want to go to the shop
and just get my grocees myself with that AI helping
and all I said, hello. I mean, no one knows
what it is. Everyone's scared stiff of it. And you know,

(01:54):
universities are howling. For example, university is howling because all
the students are churning out the same rub is based
on AI. No one's going to the library anymore.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, well, when was the last time you went to
the library? Muns.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
When I was studying a university, the university, I was
at the library all the time. When it wasn't at
the cafe, are at the bar.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
I can't remember the last time I went to the library.
That's a shocker.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
That makes you.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Embarrassed by that. Susan Lee, how's it going for her?
Not so good?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Not good, not good. But there's an interesting take on this.
I mean, here you go, right, the performance rating of
Susan Lee has crashed, just dives, absolute swan dive from
plus nine to minus five in just one month. It's
so pronounced that her personal rating has just plunged. It's

(02:43):
so pronounced it's almost good news. That two party preferred,
the Coalition and Labor are remained unchanged. Labour's on fifty five,
the Coalition forty five. Now the coalition primary vote, because
over here we've got you know, as you know, you've
got preferential voting. The people who would say yes, they
would get my top vote the Coalition, the Liberal Party
of the National Party, that's sneaked up one point to

(03:05):
twenty eight percent. Now you wouldn't win a raffle with
that never mind an election. Anthony Albertie's got a week
off for got his feet up. He's just getting ready
to meet Donald Trump next week. He's enjoying his holiday.
Susan Lee rated good or very good by thirty three
percent of people. Thirty seven percent say Paul are very poor.
The balance undecided. Conservative opponent's going to be licking their lips.

(03:26):
The people like Andrew Hasty and Angus what's his name,
Angus Taylor over here. But here's the thing, they'll be
absolutely mad, mad to try and get rid of Susan Lee. Now,
I mean, she's probably the only bright light they've got.
You look across the opposition front bench. You've got a
bunch of a bunch of stone faced fellows in blue suits,
all of them hate each other. Just crazy.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
How's it going with the poverty? It doesn't look too good.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Terrible, he figures out from the Australian Council of Social
Service say the number of people living in poverty every
week has increased to one and seven one in six children.
By the way, that's seven hundred and fifty thousand children
over here living in poverty. In total, three point seven
million Australians and that's nearly well, it's just over fourteen
percent of the population. Now. The poverty rate as devised

(04:14):
by ACOS, it's based on some of the United Nations equation.
It's defined as half the median national income and that
works out in around five hundred and forty dollars Australian
a week over here now and it's just it's just
nowhere near enough. I mean, why rents are through the roof,
unemployment ticking up, the rate of welfare support payments according

(04:36):
to the Council of Social Services, just pathetic. The report
found from June twenty one to June twenty three, the
median advertised rent for units up forty percent in Sydney,
thirty five percent in Melbourne, forty one percent in Brisbane.
Wages aren't keeping pace, never mind welfare payments. I mean
at the bottom end, they are struggling and it's getting

(04:58):
harder and harder.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, to rights, sounds like it. Murray, thank you very
much as always, Murray Old Australia correspondent eighteen away from
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