Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defending latest $4.3m home purchase

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is on the defence following his latest property purchase.

The Australian leader recently bought a $4.3 million house on the New South Wales Central Coast - near his soon-to-be-wife's hometown.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says Albanese has copped criticism over this purchase amid an ongoing cost-of-living crisis.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand business.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Murriol's Ozzy correspondents with us. Now, hey, Mars, welcome back mate.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
How are you going?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah? I'm very wealthare Do you know where I was?
I was in Melbourne, just up the road from you.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
That's down the road Leak City. Yeah, nobody down there.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Mate, No cold, isn't it. That's a bit of a hole,
isn't it actually? Compared to Sydney.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Well, I don't like it, but there we go. They
say they've got better coffee.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
I doubt that too, mate, I'll tell you what, No,
they do not. I got home and made myself a
coffee and I was like, that's where it's at, Yar
Melbourne Water.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Ever anyway, so Elbow's house is quite nice.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Isn't it.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
It is? Yeah? And apparently we're told that a four
point three million dollars and they bought it at a
discount that last sold for three hundred and fifty k
more than that, and back at the height of COVID
when people were sea changing, like Billy Oh was bought
then for four point sixty five million, So a nice
little discount for Elbow and his bride to be Jody,

(00:56):
who grew up on the Central Coast, not far from
their new home. It'll be their holiday home. It's pretty flash.
My old man used to talk about My father, Doug
used to talk about Flash Harry, whoever the hell Flash
Harry was. But it looks like Elbow's flash. Elbow four bedrooms,
three bathrooms, spaces for three cars. As you said on

(01:18):
the clip, primo real estate and their Elbow making much
is he has done all his political life to the
fact he was born to a single mum who had
a shipboard romance with an Italian waiter on a cruise,
raised in government housing in Inner Sydney. And yes, it's
not the best look when the vast majority of the
population is struggling like billyo over here. I did look

(01:38):
it up though, by way of comparison, Peter Dutton knowns
at least five investment properties, commercial and residential, up and
down the coast of Queensland, so I'm not sure he's
going to be throwing any any stones at Elbow's glasshouse.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Surprised it's their holiday and their actual home must be
very bloody flash.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well, they living the lodge in Gabra.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Oh yeah, So when they move out of the lodge,
are they going to move into this place permanently? Is
that the idea?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Oh? I wouldn't have thought. So he's the MP for
a seat called Grangler, which is in the gritty inner
city of Sydney, so he's got digs there as well.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Nice all right?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
For some.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Listen, why are the cops all of a sudden interested
in this nineteen ninety arsen I mean that's ages ago.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
That's thirty four years ago, and it's very intriguing. We're
not sure exactly why, but look, it was a very
tragic story. Indeed, back in nineteen ninety a guest house
in Ipswich, it's less than an hour southwest of Brisbane,
an old fashioned wooden Queensland boarding house, was deliberately set
alight and of the twenty eight people who were there
that night, all asleep, five died ages forty one to eighty.

(02:45):
A man was charged with arson and murder a couple
of years after that, but the case was then dropped
two years later, and we're not sure why. Inquiries have
still been going on sporadically. But I'll tell you what
if the state government is offering half a million dollars
for information that might solve this case. They must have
something to go on. Police are saying that back in

(03:07):
the day here that there would have been some local
fear about dobbing someone in. So whether or not someone's
passed away or there's more information that's come to like,
we don't know about this.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Is a real mystery, very interesting stuff. Miss Thank you
very much appreciated. Look after yourself. It's Urry Old's Ossie correspondent.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
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