‘Silly stuff’: Anthony Albanese tries to deny what Australians have ‘seen and heard’

I know political lies are so common, the term is almost a tautology, but there are degrees of political lying.We all know that to successfully lead a nation, there must be an element of trust between the leaders and the population.There has to be some connection between words and actions.And I want to demonstrate why Anthony Albanese has a real problem.We know he is weak on the economy, on security, on calling out Islamist extremism.He is always weak.

But surely most of the country now also realises they can't rely on his word.I mean, it was bad enough all those years ago when, as a minister, he pilfered lines from Hollywood.

In Australia, we have serious challenges to solve and we need serious people to solve them.Unfortunately, Tony Abbott is not the least bit interested in fixing anything.

We have serious problems to solve and we need serious people to solve them.And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it.

He's only interested in two things, making Australians afraid of it and telling them who's to blame for it.

He is interested in two things and two things only, making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame for it.

How does a bloke become Prime Minister after that embarrassment?Albo actually admitted that plagiarism.He laughed laughed it off as a mistake and things only got worse of course.Remember he said this stuff to get elected as Prime Minister.

Reducing power prices by $275.Falling by $275 per household.$275 a year.

Yeah well power prices have only gone up and up.and up instead of going down $275.they've gone up nearly four times that amount.But Albanese didn't admit his lie or broken promise.He disowned the promise.

It's Reputex's modelling.It's Reputex's modelling.It's Reputex's modelling from that time.It's Reputex's modelling based upon the circumstances at that time.

Since then, the hits have kept coming.Albanese turned up at a rally for women against domestic violence, and he was called out for lying live on stage.

To be clear, we did ask to speak, myself and Katie, and we're told that that wasn't possible, and that's fine.I respect the organiser's right to do that.That's a full -out lie.

That's a full -out lie.

Despite Albanese's protestations, the organiser dug in.

Our Prime Minister just flat out lied on a national scale in front of the whole country.

Awkward stuff, isn't it?Then there's lots of silly stuff where Albanese has dared to deny what all of us have plainly seen and heard with our own eyes and ears.Like when he fell off a stage.

Photos with everyone, okay?

I stepped back one step.I didn't fall off the stage.Just one leg went down, but I was sweet.

Or when he called Grace Tame difficult.

Grace Tame.Difficult.She has had a difficult life and that was what I was referring to.

Albanese seems to have a problem with reality.He can't handle the truth.He pretends it away and makes up stories about his life.reality, like when he turned up at Lakemba Mosque earlier this year.

Well hecklers have booed the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke during an Eid celebration in Sydney's southwest.

pretty nasty stuff.But not in Albo's world.

I've seen some of those reports and they're just simply not accurate.There were 30 ,000 people plus at Lakemba this morning.Overwhelmingly.The reception was incredibly positive.I walked through the crowd to the mosque and not a single person heckled.There were a couple of hecklers inside.

They were dealt with.

These tall stories are more than just amusing for us all.We're talking about dangerous delusion on major national issues.In the wake of the country's worst ever terror attack at a Jewish festival on Bondi Beach last December, the Prime Minister repeatedly rejected growing calls for a Royal Commission.

The Richardson Review will do that and will feed into the New South Wales royal commission.There was no royal commission called by the Howard government after Port Arthur.There was no royal commission called by the Abbott government after the Lindt siege.And as the minister has just said, the issue there is thatroyal commissions can be good at deciding facts.What the Richardson Review will do is decide facts.

Where royal commissions are not as good is to consider things that are not agreed, where people have differences of views.

But even into January, the PM kept rejecting them.

Well, we've made our position clear and I just went through the four stages, the four elements that we're doing.

Then on January the 8th, when Albanese finally caved in and called a royal commission, he pretended he'd been working on it all along.

We've also been working through these recommendations and the terms of reference weren't done this morning.They were done over a long period of time, including with proper consultation with the community to make sure that we got it right.

So you've been working on the terms of reference for this Federal Reward Commission, just to clarify, for some weeks now.Why not make that clear to people earlier in the process?

Well, for some time.Well, Michael, in today's 24 hour media cycle, you can either allow it to run you or you can be an orderly, considered government.

Just extraordinary, isn't it?Does he really take us all for fools?Then there were his promises to get elected and then get re -elected about not restricting negative gearing or capital gains taxes.discounts.The Liberal Party has mashed a few of these together.

I want you to say tonight, categorically, negative gearing is off the table.

Yeah, it's off the table.Will you guarantee that you won't touch negative gearing in capital gains tax concessions?

Well, we have no plans to touch or change negative gearing.

So do you rule out changes to negative gearing if elected, yes or no?

I told people we wouldn't make changes.The proof's in the pudding, Andrew.If we were going to make changes, then why haven't we?So people can see what we've done.

Right now, is negative gearing, are you going to touch it or not?Is it changing?

We have no plans to change negative gearing, Sarah.

Pretty clear, isn't it?And then there was this beauty from last year's election campaign with The Daily Telegraph's James Doherty.Can you just be really clear?

Can you rule out any changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax settings?Yes!How hard is it?

For the 50th time?

So straightforward.And now, with rampant speculation about negative gearing and capital gains tax changes in next week's budget, speculation the government has pointedly not denied, Doherty fronted Albanese again today.

13 months ago, you ruled out changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax for what you said was the 50th time.Does that mean that you lied 50 times to voters?And can you at least be honest with us?to the Australian people that you're going back on a promise that you made, considering that even now you're saying, well, you're not confirming that these changes will be in the Budget?

Well, the Budget will be on Tuesday and you'll have every opportunity.You'll have every opportunity.Your publication has done things like before and made those comments and I've seen themsimilar things.You know, people will have the opportunity to examine the budget going forward.With all of it there, I can confirm that I maintain the position that the key to housing policy is supply.

So the key to housing policy is supply.Does that sound the same as ruling out changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax?just a bizarre diversion.A bit like this sidestep that I showed you on Monday.

It comes about integrity, doesn't it?I mean, why would people believe a promise given on an election campaign?

What you'll see in the budget is a range of measures that are consistent with the values that we took to the election.

Oh, that's right.The values.Albo didn't take promises to the election.He took promises.Values.Silly us.

He makes promises before the election and changes them to values after the election.And what kind of values are they?Your values?My values?Australian values?National values?

No such luck.

It will be a responsible budget that will be consistent with Labor values.Full of Labor values.Consistent with Labor values.Consistent with Labor values.

Yeah, well, some of us value the truth, Prime Minister, but that does not.The truth does not seem to be a value that you hold dear, and it certainly doesn't seem to be a Labor value.