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The prime minister’s office stands accused of attempting to rewrite history by DELETING a crucial line from the official record of the fiery radio blast with Ben Fordham: ‘Truth manipulation’
- Fordham and Albanese clashed on air Wednesday on Voice
- The prime minister denied that the government had received legal advice from the Solicitor General
- But the official transcript of the show from his office redacted the prime minister’s denial.
Anthony Albanese’s staff removed a key detail in the Prime Minister’s fiery interview with 2GB’s Ben Fordham when they put the transcript online.
Fordham and Albanese clashed over Indigenous Voice in Parliament with the prime minister struggling to explain how Australia will vote in the planned referendum.
When Fordham pressed the prime minister on Wednesday about what legal advice the government had on the controversial proposal, he asked if the attorney general, one of the government’s top lawyers, had been consulted.
Albanese clearly replied ‘no’, going on to say that the government had spoken with a variety of current and former high court judges.
But the Prime Minister’s Office later released a transcript of the morning’s interview and removed the ‘No’ in response to Fordham’s question.
2GB’s Ben Fordham has criticized the Prime Minister’s office for redacting a key detail in the transcript of his explosive interview with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
“Someone in the prime minister’s office manipulated the truth by erasing an important fact that was discovered yesterday,” Fordham said Thursday.
‘That “No” has been removed from the official transcript of the interview released by the Prime Minister’s Office. He went. It is nowhere to be seen.
‘The question I asked is in the transcript. The rest of the answer is in the transcript. But the word “no” does not appear.
Fordham criticized his show’s editing on Thursday, claiming it was rewriting history.
“What happened yesterday in the prime minister’s office with the transcript is unjustifiable,” he said. Especially considering that our conversation largely focused on the importance of words.
Audio of the interview reveals that the prime minister denied receiving legal advice from the attorney general (left), but a transcript on the prime minister’s official website redacted the denial (right).
‘The words you want to include in our Constitution, and whether those words are legally accumulated. They have tried to erase it from history.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton called the interview a “train wreck” and accused the prime minister of being “misleading” for hiding details about Voice ahead of the referendum.
Opponents of Voice fear the referendum could turn into a ‘bait and switch’ with the public giving their assent only to find out later what that means in practice.
But Albanese compared the Voice to the Sydney Harbor Bridge in the combative radio interview.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton called the interview a train wreck and accused the prime minister of being “tough” for hiding details about Voice ahead of the referendum.
He said the referendum was like deciding whether or not to build the Sydney Harbor Bridge, and not about how many lanes to have or what the tolls should be.
But Fordham peppered him for 21 minutes with detailed questions about how Voice would work in practice, to which the prime minister struggled to answer clearly.
“The prime minister doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Dutton criticized. ‘It was a complete train wreck.
No wonder Australians are confused. If Anthony Albanese can’t explain it to you, why would you vote for him?
Daily Mail Australia has contacted the Prime Minister’s Office for comment on the editing of the transcript.
The final report by Professors Marcia Langton and Tom Calma, presented to the former Morrison government in July 2021, outlines what Voice could look like