KIP WIGHTMAN, HOST: It's Robin and Kip now with Corey Oates and we have the Prime Minister Albo in the studio with us. Welcome, mate.
 
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good to be here. Beautiful Brisbane day.
 
WIGHTMAN: Isn't it a perfect day?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Stunning.
 
ROBIN BAILEY, HOST: We've got a cast of a thousand people, which, do these people follow you everywhere?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah, they kind of not just follow me, they're in advance as well, so you're surrounded.
 
BAILEY: Yes, we really are. We won't do anything wrong. Now, normally at this time we do something called Confessions for Cash where people tell us their deepest darkest secrets and we pay them to do it because times are tough at the moment –
 
PRIME MINISTER: Sure –
 
BAILEY: And considering, you being the Government, and you take all of our money anyway.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Oh, come on.
 
WIGHTMAN: Half of our money.
 
PRIME MINISTER: You're getting a tax cut if I get elected on Saturday.
 
BAILEY: I want a confession from you.
 
PRIME MINISTER: See what I did there?
 
BAILEY: I did, and did you see how I just kept going?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Just kept going. Okay, well done.
 
BAILEY: So what is something that no one would know about you? Like something that is a confession that the Australian people should know but don't.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Oh, strewth.
 
WIGHTMAN: So we just had Skye. See, Skye just told us that she got rid of her partner's cat while he was away. She took it to the pound and said it ran away because she didn't like the cat. That's the level of sort of confession we're talking about. Is that jogging your memories?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Well, I've never done that, of course, because I do love my pooch.
 
WIGHTMAN: Oh, yes.
 
PRIME MINISTER: But my pooch, I have, a modern relationship is, I'm divorced and I have, sharing, we share our dog. We have shared custody.
 
BAILEY: Shared custody. Is it Toto?
 
PRIME MINISTER: So my dog Toto at the moment is with my ex, Carmel, and, you know, it’s what happens in modern relationships.
 
WIGHTMAN: You share custody –
 
PRIME MINISTER: We share custody of Toto.
 
WIGHTMAN: What's Toto, a schmoodle?
 
PRIME MINISTER: She's a cavoodle.
 
WIGHTMAN: Cavoodle, there you go yeah okay.
 
BAILEY: Does your son have a say in that because you've got a 25 year old don't you?
 
PRIME MINISTER: 24 and he's, well, I love him dearly and he's good at so many things but like a whole lot of 24-year-old boys he's, you know, a bit vague from time to time. So we wouldn't want to rely upon him to walk the dog or feed the dog. Mind you, when we got the dog it was like ‘right he's old enough to look after Toto.’ I think he picked up the poop once in ten years.
 
COREY OATES, HOST: It's not a fun thing to do. Well, my question, we all know this about you. You're a massive Rabbitohs fan.
 
PRIME MINISTER: I am. Tragically.
 
OATES: We just spoke about when I ruined your heart so many years ago.
 
PRIME MINISTER: We did in a semi-final. It was very rude of you.
 
OATES: My question, can you name four of their current players?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Four? I can name the whole team, their best team.
 
OATES: Who have you got?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Well, Mitchell, Johnson and Munro on the wings, Campbell Graham –
 
OATES: You got me.
 
PRIME MINISTER: And Wighton in the centres.
 
OATES: That's good.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Cody. We've got three options at home.
 
OATES: He's a big fan –
 
PRIME MINISTER: I can name the 1971 grand final team if you like.
 
OATES: I had a backup plan, alright. The assistant coaches. Have you got an assistant coach?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah, Benny Hornby –
 
OATES: The other one?
 
PRIME MINISTER: There's one. Well mate how many do you need?
 
OATES: Just one. I just wanted one.
 
PRIME MINISTER: It's only one.
 
OATES: Just quick fire questions. I just wanted to see. Okay, I've got a question.
 
PRIME MINISTER: No, I'm a true tragic. I was on the board in the 90s and the noughties when we got kicked out of the comp and fought our way back.
 
OATES: Wow.
 
PRIME MINISTER: And so my mum took me to the ‘71 grand final to see us beat St George and I took my son to the 2014 grand final to see us beat Canterbury. So that was pretty good.
 
BAILEY: You are a tragic. Have you got socks or anything?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Oh, I've got the full bit. I've got everything you can possibly imagine. And I was actually with Blake Solly last night, the CEO. We’ve got the Knights on Saturday, it's part of Magic Round at 3 o'clock.
 
OATES: You're going to be here for Magic Round? You're here right now?
 
PRIME MINISTER: I'm doing something else on Saturday.
 
OATES: Oh, that's right.
 
WIGHTMAN: You know that thing?
 
PRIME MINISTER: But people can vote earlier.
 
BAILEY: Why did you put it on the long weekend, Albo?
 
WIGHTMAN: On Magic Round. Honestly.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Voting's on now. And they can vote at Suncorp.
 
OATES: Can they?
 
WIGHTMAN: That's why he's done it.
 
OATES: Okay, that's smart.
 
WIGHTMAN: Half the country's going to be there.
 
OATES: I’ve got a political question for you, and it’s not too political because it’s me, but the Cannon Hill butcher shop, it’s just about 10kms from here, it's a great place and it's a brother and sister team and they started off with about nine staff and now they've expanded. Now they've got like a little cafe and they've got a place you can get your burgers cooked and everything. They've got something like 120 staff. They're doing great. They've hired 120 Australians. And because they went over 100, they're now paying this thing called payroll tax, which just sounds insane to me, that it disincentivises you to hire more Australians.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Talk to David Crisafulli. It's a state tax.
 
WIGHTMAN: Is it a state tax?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Yep. There you go.
 
WIGHTMAN: Good to know. He’s got the answers to everything.
 
OATES: Honestly, is it the dumbest tax you've ever heard?
 
PRIME MINISTER: State tax.
 
WIGHTMAN: Why would they do it?
 
PRIME MINISTER: It's a tax on jobs.
 
WIGHTMAN: It's stupid.
 
PRIME MINISTER: And indeed, when the GST was introduced, the states said, ‘oh, we'll get rid of it.’ Guess what? They didn't.
 
WIGHTMAN: Tax is silly, isn't it?
 
BAILEY: Oh, you've impressed Kip, which is a hard thing to do.
 
WIGHTMAN: I am impressed with that. I did not know that. There you go.
 
BAILEY: Can you please stay with us because you may have noticed that we do have dogs in the studio.
 
PRIME MINISTER: You do have some beautiful dogs here.
 
BAILEY: And we've decided –
 
OATES: Very well trained dogs.
 
PRIME MINISTER: They are, they're awesome.
 
BAILEY: We're going to give these dogs the opportunity to pick who is going to win the federal election this coming Saturday. So will you stay and watch?
 
WIGHTMAN: I'm nervous. There are three of them.
 
PRIME MINISTER: I will stay and watch.
 
BAILEY: There will be a definitive answer.
 
PRIME MINISTER: One of them you've locked out of the studio.
 
WIGHTMAN: Yes, she'll be right. She's coming in a second. We'll do it right after this.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Poor little thing. She’s not looking happy out there.
 
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WIGHTMAN: It's Robin and Kip now with Corey Oates and Kiss 97.3. Everything working in the studio there, Todd? If you can give us a thumbs up. No?
 
TODD FISHER, PRODUCER: It just looks like it's a little quiet. I need a ticket here.
 
WIGHTMAN: Okay. You got us cranked up to a thousand because we have the Prime Minister in the studio with us. Okay. We've moved over because we've got the Prime Minister actually outside the studio with us with a cast of thousands. Cameras all set up, we've got our dogs here because we're about to do what we know as the People's Puppy Political Prime Minister Poll Prediction Pandemonium.
 
OATES: There's an intro. You've just nailed that.
 
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VOICEOVER: People's Puppy Political Prime Minister Poll Prediction Pandemonium.
 
PETER DUTTON, OPPOSITION LEADER: The race is on as to whether people think our country can afford three more years of Anthony Albanese.
 
PRIME MINISTER: We are the only Government in the last 20 years that have produced consecutive budget surpluses.
 
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OATES: Well, we know it's a tight race, Albo. We know that it's anyone's game on Saturday. How are you feeling?
 
PRIME MINISTER: I'm feeling nervous about the pooches here.
 
OATES: Yeah.
 
PRIME MINISTER: I'm pretty confident about the little one.
 
WIGHTMAN: What's wrong with the big fella?
 
PRIME MINISTER: The big ones I reckon might have a fight for the food.
 
OATES: No, we're keeping him in there, Snapper. He’s on his own, the big boy.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Oh okay.
 
OATES: But I’m worried he’s actually going to eat the plate.
 
PRIME MINISTER: He looks hungry. Why aren’t you feeding him?
 
WIGHTMAN: Now, if you're not watching this, which most people will be just listening to this on the radio right now, we have two bowls. One is red with the Labor tag. The other is blue with the Liberal tag. We're about to put treats down on both bowls and see one at a time which dog or if the dogs choose Liberal or Labor. Suki is anxious because I've got denti-sticks here, which I'm just placing down now.
 
BAILEY: Albo you’re looking quite nervous.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Well you can't put Suki on that side.
 
WIGHTMAN: She's got to start from the middle or even from here. If you want to bring her here.
 
OATES: Oh she's ready.
 
WIGHTMAN: Suki okay sit.
 
PRIME MINISTER: We're in the middle. Come on.
 
WIGHTMAN: Okay sit. Okay, you ready?
 
PRIME MINISTER: She's cool.
 
WIGHTMAN: You ready? Okay, this is the first part. We're going to find out what Suki could go for. Okay. Oh, she's gone on Labor.
 
PRIME MINISTER: I knew it. Good on you, Suki.
 
WIGHTMAN: You knew it.
 
OATES: I reckon she looked blue. She looked that blue.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah, had a look at it. Thought, nah, it's rubbish. I'm not having a bar of that.
 
WIGHTMAN: Yeah, okay. I mean, that's definitive. Okay, so now it's time –
 
PRIME MINISTER: Suki, you'll get a tax cut too, 20 per cent off your HECS debt, has she got a HECS debt?
 
WIGHTMAN: No she's not educated
 
OATES: Well you can take the other one.
 
WIGHTMAN: All right okay, so let's move that away so clearing the plates now. Corey’s about to lay down his treats. We're going to find out if his big boy Marlon. Now, is he part Roddy? He's a huge dog.
 
OATES: Sit, Marlon.
 
WIGHTMAN: Okay, we're going to find out which one Marlon goes for. And Snapper is here in case we need a third option. We do have Snapper available to do a tiebreaker. Let's find out.
 
PRIME MINISTER: You've got to get back. Get her in the middle.
 
BAILEY: Bring her back.
 
OATES: Come here.
 
WIGHTMAN: Okay.
 
OATES: Here. Come here.
 
WIGHTMAN: All right, Corey's about to give his dog the go and we'll find out.
 
OATES: Ready? Go.
 
WIGHTMAN: He's gone Labor as well. He's gone Labor as well.
 
PRIME MINISTER: He's my favourite.
 
BAILEY: You're looking a little nervous though.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Oh, I was.
 
BAILEY: Because you have to take this as the decision.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Absolutely. We can just - see I had a busy itinerary today, but now after this I'll just go back to the hotel, chill out.
 
BAILEY: Do you want to see if it's across the board? We've got one more dog.
 
WIGHTMAN: Do you want to try Snapper? All right, let's go for a clean sweep. We might as well.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Let's be clear. I'd be happy with two to one.
 
WIGHTMAN: I know. Maybe you should cut your losses. So we can take what's looking pretty good.
 
PRIME MINISTER: 100 per cent of pooches prefer Labor.
 
WIGHTMAN: Okay, so Snapper is coming out just to see if it’s a clean sweep.
 
BAILEY: Okay, so now we're moving one dog out and one dog in.
 
WIGHTMAN: Okay, hold on. Okay, so Snapper, the reason that we didn't use Snapper earlier is because Snapper's a bit manic.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Snapper's very –
 
BAILEY: Okay, so we're now resetting.
 
PRIME MINISTER: They've been pretty well trained, Corey. You've done well.
 
BAILEY: If you just joined us, we've got two plates, one with Labor, one with Liberal. The dogs are deciding. Corey is now just putting more treats in.
 
WIGHTMAN: What type of dog –
 
OATES: Snapper, go.
 
WIGHTMAN: Snapper. He's just got a clean sweep.
 
PRIME MINISTER: 150 seats to zero. If you translate it through, that's the way it goes.
 
OATES: You know, if you look at that in Origin terms, that's Queensland three-nil.
 
WIGHTMAN: Oh, that's right. It's red versus blue.
 
PRIME MINISTER: If I win on Saturday, I'll be relaxed about the State of Origin.
 
WIGHTMAN: Fair enough.
 
PRIME MINISTER: I actually did a podcast at the Caxton the other day.
 
WIGHTMAN: Oh, in the couches upstairs?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Awesome. It was good fun. Really good guys.
 
OATES: Yeah, they're funny guys.
 
PRIME MINISTER: It was good. But I've been to the Caxton on Origin night wearing a Blues jumper, the full bit.
 
OATES: You wouldn't do that.
 
PRIME MINISTER: No, people are great. No, people are great.
 
OATES: Really?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah people are great really –
 
BAILEY: You're the Prime Minister, they better be.
 
PRIME MINISTER: No but they want you to, the great thing about Queenslanders is that they understand their footy and when we were kicked out of the comp, Souths, let me tell you the support we got from Queenslanders to come back in because they understood about identity and who you are.
 
OATES: And we also, it was also always good to have a team we could flog.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Oh.
 
WIGHTMAN: You just had to do that, didn't you?
 
PRIME MINISTER: We gave you Adam Reynolds. Just say thank you and move on.
 
BAILEY: Can we stop talking about football?
 
WIGHTMAN: Well, thank you very much for coming in, Prime Minister Albo. Thank you, mate. Things are looking good on the puppy poll.
 
BAILEY: Thank you so much.
 
OATES: Thanks for coming in, mate.