June 3, 2025 • 10 mins
Lisa and Barra caught up with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as he brings his entire cabinet to Perth. They spoke about the minimum wage increase and what it means for everyday Australians, Barra asked Albo about giving up drinking at the start of the year, they also chatted about his relationship with Donald Trump and how he deals with him and The Prime Minister also gave an insight to his meeting with the new Pope.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, we haven't spoken to the Big Boss since he
was re elected in a landslide. Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi
is with us now.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good morning, good morning, wonderful to be back in person.
I've brought the rain.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Oh yeah, but look you know, I'm I for one,
am enjoying it, although Barra's not because his kitchen flooded
from the earliers of this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh what brings you good?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
What brings you to town this week?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh? Yesterday I brought the entire cabinet here. I had
a terrific meeting with the Premier and we announced further
upgrade of the Quanana Freeway. And I went down to
Freo Or near their Billia and went to the urgent
care clinic there. We're going to open another fifty there.
(00:49):
And it's been a real opportunity to come back and
just say thank you to the people of Western Australia.
We had a very successful election. Of course, we elected
two new members in More and Bullwinkle, and it was
very much a part of our re election. And I
want to make sure that here in WA, which helps
(01:13):
to drive a national economy, that we continue to work
to create jobs and that economic activity here.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Mister Alban easy, or do we call you mister Prime
Minister or Albo? What do you prefer?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Call me?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Whatever you like, I get called Barra. I'm not so
great on the barre thing, but Albo, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
All of those are acceptable.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
It's great to speak to you, I believe as well,
like you launched your campaigns see the last two elections,
didn't you, So you obviously love it over here, and
it's probably going to be a permanent thing. I'd reckon
as long as you keep winning.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I reckon it's a you'd be a brave person who
suggested to me we should ever launch a campaign anywhere else,
given we're too campaigns that have ever been launched here
in the West.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Oh, sorry, I was going to I was just going
to say, I was impressed that you revealed that you
gave up drinking as well during that whole process. So
how's that that of January?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Well, that that went okay. Obviously it was a matter
of I mean, I'm not a big drinker anyway, but
it was just a part of discipline, and I was
getting up early every morning, late night. She did really
long days. It was a thirty seven day campaign, but
It really began on January fifth. I went around the country.
(02:40):
I went up Queensland Coast, through Mount Isaa, through Northern
Territory to Kannanara down to here in Perth, and that
was essentially the first week of January. So I kept
going all the way through and it was just a
part of the discipline on the campaign engaged.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I've got to tip your elbows. Well, it's you know,
you have Cougi and Kuji. It's Cougi here if you're
ever there as well. And Karen yup, don't say Karen yep.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I always have to check a couple of d renunciations.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Our hanger, I'm the I'm the Catholic in the room.
Can I ask the Pope as the pope.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Coust did you have the payas?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Okay, well not yes now, but your mum raised you
with three great faiths. So I heard you say, the
Labor Party, Sydney Rabbits and the Catholic Church. So that
trip to see the pipe that must have been really meaningful.
Was it what you learn from man?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It was awesome. It was such a privilege to represent
Australia at the inaugural mass there in Saint Peter's Square
with other world leaders and it was just quite a
moment in my life. And then I got an audience
with the Holy Father the next day and it was
(04:21):
scheduled for fifteen minutes and it went for forty five
and we had a real opportunity to hit it off
with each other. It was great hit it off.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
He loves tennis? Does he love tennis?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
He does like tennis. That they did get to mention
as well. I tried and played tennis. I actually got
to play in the Sydney Bad's Comp on Saturday. I
missed the early rounds from my team the Mighty Miracle,
but I did get to play on.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Say he has a standing invitation to the Australian Open,
the part he.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Has a standing invitation wherever he wanted to go.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
No, it's not in a couple of years, Prime Minister.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
The minimum wage around the country is going up next
month by three point five percent. What real life impact
does this have on some of Australia's Households's.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Extra dollars in people's pockets, and together with the income
tax cuts that we're done already, but the ones to
come aimed at that first marginal tax rate that kick
in for low income earners. It will make a difference.
We know people have been doing it tough. It's cost
(05:40):
of living pressures there, and we wanted to see a
real wage increase, and real wages have now increased for
the last eighteen months. And what that's doing is making
a real difference to people. And of course those people
spend money as well. They're not in a position to
be able to say so. It helps the economy as well,
(06:02):
so we really welcome it. It will make a practical difference,
not an enormous increase. Three point five percent of the
inflation rate is two point four so that's an increase
of over one percent in people's real wages.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I just I mean, it's sort of that, coupled with
the mortgage relefe just kind of helps with people's you know,
outlook and sort of hope for the future.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
There is one fellow you've got to watch, though, isn't
it that you like Rita Safiotti. When you wake up
in the morning at five am, you see what trump
he's been up to you and go, oh my god,
what's he done today? Is that how it works?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
He's broken up with his bestie.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It is that I do see there's a bit of
tension between mister Mark and President Trump. But look, with
it's just something that we're dealing with. We'll do with
it respectfully. He's been elected. We respect that outcome and
the United States order for the global economy, and it's
(07:02):
not so much directly what will impact on us of
some of these tariffs. That's a slow down in the
global economy that will have an impact, and that's why
we've said it's an active economic self harm tariffs. All
they're doing is increasing prices for American consumers. So it's
a strange economic strategy in twenty twenty five, but it's
(07:26):
one that we're having to deal with.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
The G seven summit is later this month.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
In fact, that's where you will meet with President Trump.
Have you met him in person before?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
What's he like?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
No, I haven't. I've had three phone conversations with him,
and there've been really good conversations, constructive and of course
he has a particular style of speech. Of course, there
are lots of adjectives that he uses to describe things.
(07:57):
There's never half measures, and.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It was the mossy slang.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I say, that'll try.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
What are the dinners like at those things, you'd.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Have a WhatsApp. You'd have a WhatsApp with him as
well with you for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
The well, one of the things that I find in
talking at forums like that is I engage the same
way that I'd engage at any forum here. Yeah, I
think people appreciate the fact that Australians are pretty down
to earth. We say what we mean, We're respectful, but
(08:37):
we engage pretty directly. Yeah, they do. And I just
you know, I'll go up, say gooday and talk about
what we have in common. Where there are some differences,
we'll try and talk those through and get some solutions
in the national interest.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I think Bara wants to wrap things up.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Godspeed, here we go here if you need me, can
I just be frivolous for one second, because I know
you're a huge music fan and you used to be
a DJ and all that sort of stuff. But you're
also a big fan of my friend Lisa, one of
her bands, the Ramones. Right now, the absolutely now, be honest.
(09:19):
Have you ever wanted to yell out in Parliament? Hey, who,
let's go.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Let's go. You know what? In the twenty twenty two
election campaign, when it was announced by mister Morris and
I stood at the press comments and I finished off
with right out as as the great Ramones would say, Hey, ho,
let's go like campaign director, who's a real wowser. Yeah,
(09:47):
and hopefully he sees this transcript, said mate, you've got
to stop the music reference. They're really obscure. And I said, no,
it is what it is, and to keep doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You know what I say, if you know you know? Yeah, yeah,
all right, Well on that note, that's good.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Enjoy your time here is always should I go.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I wanted to ask you when you were djaying, what
was this song that really filled the dance floor that
you pulled out? But anyway, that'll be another day.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Am I ever going to see your face audience participation?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You are the man that could change that as the
national anthem officially.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
FRA MINSTRABANSI, thanks for chatting to us.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Thanks very much. God
Well, we haven't spoken to the Big Boss since he
was re elected in a landslide. Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi
is with us now.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good morning, good morning, wonderful to be back in person.
I've brought the rain.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Oh yeah, but look you know, I'm I for one,
am enjoying it, although Barra's not because his kitchen flooded
from the earliers of this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh what brings you good?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
What brings you to town this week?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh? Yesterday I brought the entire cabinet here. I had
a terrific meeting with the Premier and we announced further
upgrade of the Quanana Freeway. And I went down to
Freo Or near their Billia and went to the urgent
care clinic there. We're going to open another fifty there.
(00:49):
And it's been a real opportunity to come back and
just say thank you to the people of Western Australia.
We had a very successful election. Of course, we elected
two new members in More and Bullwinkle, and it was
very much a part of our re election. And I
want to make sure that here in WA, which helps
(01:13):
to drive a national economy, that we continue to work
to create jobs and that economic activity here.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Mister Alban easy, or do we call you mister Prime
Minister or Albo? What do you prefer?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Call me?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Whatever you like, I get called Barra. I'm not so
great on the barre thing, but Albo, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
All of those are acceptable.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
It's great to speak to you, I believe as well,
like you launched your campaigns see the last two elections,
didn't you, So you obviously love it over here, and
it's probably going to be a permanent thing. I'd reckon
as long as you keep winning.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I reckon it's a you'd be a brave person who
suggested to me we should ever launch a campaign anywhere else,
given we're too campaigns that have ever been launched here
in the West.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Oh, sorry, I was going to I was just going
to say, I was impressed that you revealed that you
gave up drinking as well during that whole process. So
how's that that of January?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Well, that that went okay. Obviously it was a matter
of I mean, I'm not a big drinker anyway, but
it was just a part of discipline, and I was
getting up early every morning, late night. She did really
long days. It was a thirty seven day campaign, but
It really began on January fifth. I went around the country.
(02:40):
I went up Queensland Coast, through Mount Isaa, through Northern
Territory to Kannanara down to here in Perth, and that
was essentially the first week of January. So I kept
going all the way through and it was just a
part of the discipline on the campaign engaged.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I've got to tip your elbows. Well, it's you know,
you have Cougi and Kuji. It's Cougi here if you're
ever there as well. And Karen yup, don't say Karen yep.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I always have to check a couple of d renunciations.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Our hanger, I'm the I'm the Catholic in the room.
Can I ask the Pope as the pope.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Coust did you have the payas?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Okay, well not yes now, but your mum raised you
with three great faiths. So I heard you say, the
Labor Party, Sydney Rabbits and the Catholic Church. So that
trip to see the pipe that must have been really meaningful.
Was it what you learn from man?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It was awesome. It was such a privilege to represent
Australia at the inaugural mass there in Saint Peter's Square
with other world leaders and it was just quite a
moment in my life. And then I got an audience
with the Holy Father the next day and it was
(04:21):
scheduled for fifteen minutes and it went for forty five
and we had a real opportunity to hit it off
with each other. It was great hit it off.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
He loves tennis? Does he love tennis?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
He does like tennis. That they did get to mention
as well. I tried and played tennis. I actually got
to play in the Sydney Bad's Comp on Saturday. I
missed the early rounds from my team the Mighty Miracle,
but I did get to play on.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Say he has a standing invitation to the Australian Open,
the part he.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Has a standing invitation wherever he wanted to go.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
No, it's not in a couple of years, Prime Minister.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
The minimum wage around the country is going up next
month by three point five percent. What real life impact
does this have on some of Australia's Households's.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Extra dollars in people's pockets, and together with the income
tax cuts that we're done already, but the ones to
come aimed at that first marginal tax rate that kick
in for low income earners. It will make a difference.
We know people have been doing it tough. It's cost
(05:40):
of living pressures there, and we wanted to see a
real wage increase, and real wages have now increased for
the last eighteen months. And what that's doing is making
a real difference to people. And of course those people
spend money as well. They're not in a position to
be able to say so. It helps the economy as well,
(06:02):
so we really welcome it. It will make a practical difference,
not an enormous increase. Three point five percent of the
inflation rate is two point four so that's an increase
of over one percent in people's real wages.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I just I mean, it's sort of that, coupled with
the mortgage relefe just kind of helps with people's you know,
outlook and sort of hope for the future.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
There is one fellow you've got to watch, though, isn't
it that you like Rita Safiotti. When you wake up
in the morning at five am, you see what trump
he's been up to you and go, oh my god,
what's he done today? Is that how it works?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
He's broken up with his bestie.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It is that I do see there's a bit of
tension between mister Mark and President Trump. But look, with
it's just something that we're dealing with. We'll do with
it respectfully. He's been elected. We respect that outcome and
the United States order for the global economy, and it's
(07:02):
not so much directly what will impact on us of
some of these tariffs. That's a slow down in the
global economy that will have an impact, and that's why
we've said it's an active economic self harm tariffs. All
they're doing is increasing prices for American consumers. So it's
a strange economic strategy in twenty twenty five, but it's
(07:26):
one that we're having to deal with.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
The G seven summit is later this month.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
In fact, that's where you will meet with President Trump.
Have you met him in person before?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
What's he like?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
No, I haven't. I've had three phone conversations with him,
and there've been really good conversations, constructive and of course
he has a particular style of speech. Of course, there
are lots of adjectives that he uses to describe things.
(07:57):
There's never half measures, and.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It was the mossy slang.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I say, that'll try.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
What are the dinners like at those things, you'd.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Have a WhatsApp. You'd have a WhatsApp with him as
well with you for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
The well, one of the things that I find in
talking at forums like that is I engage the same
way that I'd engage at any forum here. Yeah, I
think people appreciate the fact that Australians are pretty down
to earth. We say what we mean, We're respectful, but
(08:37):
we engage pretty directly. Yeah, they do. And I just
you know, I'll go up, say gooday and talk about
what we have in common. Where there are some differences,
we'll try and talk those through and get some solutions
in the national interest.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I think Bara wants to wrap things up.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Godspeed, here we go here if you need me, can
I just be frivolous for one second, because I know
you're a huge music fan and you used to be
a DJ and all that sort of stuff. But you're
also a big fan of my friend Lisa, one of
her bands, the Ramones. Right now, the absolutely now, be honest.
(09:19):
Have you ever wanted to yell out in Parliament? Hey, who,
let's go.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Let's go. You know what? In the twenty twenty two
election campaign, when it was announced by mister Morris and
I stood at the press comments and I finished off
with right out as as the great Ramones would say, Hey, ho,
let's go like campaign director, who's a real wowser. Yeah,
(09:47):
and hopefully he sees this transcript, said mate, you've got
to stop the music reference. They're really obscure. And I said, no,
it is what it is, and to keep doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You know what I say, if you know you know? Yeah, yeah,
all right, Well on that note, that's good.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Enjoy your time here is always should I go.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I wanted to ask you when you were djaying, what
was this song that really filled the dance floor that
you pulled out? But anyway, that'll be another day.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Am I ever going to see your face audience participation?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You are the man that could change that as the
national anthem officially.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
FRA MINSTRABANSI, thanks for chatting to us.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Thanks very much. God
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