Anthony Albanese snaps after reporter interrupts his response to a major question every Aussie wants answered
Anthony Albanese has snapped at a reporter when challenged about his election promise that energy bills would drop by $275 this year.
When the reporter objected that Mr Albanese was not answering the question put to him, the Prime Minister interrupted him.
“I know, but you get to do the questions and I get to do the answers,” he said at Tuesday’s roadside press conference along the Bruce Highway near the city of Rockhampton in central Queensland.
‘That’s how it works.’
The reporter originally asked whether it was time for Mr Albanese to admit that his 2022 election promise that Australians would get a $275 cut in their energy bills this year would not happen.
Instead of talking about a price drop from 2022, Albanese started listing the measures his government and other Labor states have taken to mitigate the brutal price rises since then.
“One of the things we did was a $300 utility bill relief. The Queensland government under Steven Miles provided another $1000.”
“The coalition was against that,” Mr Albanese said before the reporter intervened and got the short answer.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was not happy when a reporter pressed to answer a question about the energy bill
On Monday, Mr Albanese also expressed his dissatisfaction with the reporter who he said was parroting lines from the LNP
After silencing the reporter, Mr. Albanese continued.
“We delivered that (energy bill relief),” he said.
‘That was disappointing. Energy prices would have been higher if Peter Dutton had been in government.”
Mr Albanese was in Queensland to promote his government’s $7.2 billion commitment to repair a 1,700-kilometre stretch of the Bruce Highway, calling it one of Australia’s deadliest roads.
He showed little patience with another reporter who asked on Monday whether the “build back better” slogan used by the administration regarding the highway was borrowed from U.S. President Joe Biden’s election campaign.
“You have to be careful about just reading out things sent by the LNP,” Mr Albanese replied.
The Albanian government on Monday pledged $7.2 billion to modernize the 1,700-kilometre stretch of highway, which has been called one of Australia’s deadliest roads.
Mr Albanese is embarking on a multi-state pre-election blitz that will also cover Western Australia and the Northern Territory in the coming week, as well as a series of morning shows.