ANDREW HAYES, HOST: In studio, Mr Prime Minister.
 
JODIE ODDY, HOST: Welcome.
 
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Fantastic to be here.
 
ODDY: We felt compelled to get you in and I know you wanted to be a part of this because we had an incident. We had an incident with producer Molly.
 
HAYES: We've had some sleepless nights.
 
ODDY: In her very first week here at Nova 919, you called in and she thought, ‘oh, for goodness sake, who's this?’ And picked up the phone and you said, ‘hello, it's Anthony Albanese here.’ And she said, ‘please hold’, and proceeded to genuinely put you on hold. And then she walked into the studio.
 
PRIME MINISTER: For quite a while. She didn't walk straight in, to be clear.
 
ODDY: No. How long did she put you on hold for?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Oh, it was probably five minutes.
 
HAYES: And is that a first? Is that a first?
 
PRIME MINISTER: No, it has happened once before.
 
ODDY: Right, okay.
 
PRIME MINISTER: But it wasn't as long.
 
ODDY: Okay.
 
PRIME MINISTER: So.
 
ODDY: And she proceeded to walk in here and she said, ‘oh, there's some Fringe performer impersonating the Prime Minister.’
 
HAYES: He's doing his best Anthony Albanese, very best.
 
ODDY. So, we need to make amends to you. I don't think it's our apology to make, do you?
 
HAYES: No, absolutely not. We're not going to talk on behalf of Molly. She's a grown woman.
 
ODDY: No, absolutely not, I think we should bring her in and she can make her own apologies, Prime Minister.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Oh, I get to meet Molly.
 
ODDY: Here we go.
 
HAYES: Here she comes.
 
MOLLY ROSE, PRODUCER: Hello.
 
HAYES: Tail between her legs.
 
ROSE: I know. Do we hug?
 
HAYES: That's nice.
 
ODDY: Okay.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Great to meet you.
 
ROSE: You're a real person after all.
 
PRIME MINISTER: I am. Who knew?
 
ODDY: Okay, Molly, what would you like to say to our esteemed Prime Minister please?
 
ROSE: I apologise. I have not slept since.
 
HAYES: She's looking a little tired.
 
PRIME MINISTER: It was actually a bit of fun, so it's not surprising. Sometimes I have to say to people who I ring, constituents and they'll go, ‘is that really you?’
 
ODDY: Yeah.
 
PRIME MINISTER: And you go, yeah. Unfortunately, I've got a distinctive voice, for better or worse. I ignored all the experts who said ‘you've got to do voice training and sound like Bob Carr’, who had a fantastic voice. But I am who I am.
 
ODDY: Yeah.
 
PRIME MINISTER: I sound like a Catholic kid from Camperdown in Sydney.
 
ODDY: But the other thing is too. Did you not ring on your own number? Did he ring on his own number?
 
ROSE: Yeah. We're texting regularly.
 
HAYES: All right. Yes.
 
ODDY: Texting about the footy, whatever.
 
ROSE: We can’t remember.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah. What goes on tour, all of that.
 
HAYES: I bet you it's not about the football because just take behind the scenes. Mr Prime Minister, yesterday we were talking to Molly about ‘hey, just, we probably need to talk about the Hawks at the moment because they're flying.’ Then Joe's jumped in and said, ‘oh, the Hollywood Hawks.’ And then Molly said, ‘so are they actually called the Hollywood Hawks?’
 
ODDY: No, Molly.
 
HAYES: What's their first name?
 
ODDY: No, they are not.

PRIME MINISTER: They're a happy team at Hawthorn at the moment.
 
ODDY: They're absolutely flying at the moment.
 
PRIME MINISTER: They're absolutely flying. I had dinner with Sam Mitchell before the season.
 
ODDY: What a flex.
 
HAYES: A nice, what a flex for Mitch.
 
PRIME MINISTER: And we, if you want to talk about moments, that was one. We had dinner. Andy Gowers is the chair of the Hawks. And we had, and Ash, who's the CEO. We had dinner in a restaurant in Melbourne. Upstairs, we're in a private room. We came out and there was this couple there who clearly had seen us go in or were waiting for us to take a photo. And they said, ‘oh.’ The woman said, ‘Mr Prime Minister’ really respectfully. It was quite dark by then, but the cop cars were outside in the street and the security, so it was clear something was going on. ‘Could I get a photo?’ And I said, ‘sure, sure, happy to’. And so Sam says, ‘oh, I'll take it.’ Grabs the woman's phone.
 
ODDY: Oh, no.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Takes the photo of me standing in between this husband and wife, or man and woman, partners. And then she was, ‘oh, thank you so much. That was great.’ Sam hands the phone to her. She screams, screams, ‘Sam Mitchell. Sam Mitchell.’ All of a sudden, it put everything in perspective. He is a very good looking man, I gotta say, Sam Mitchell. He is a legend, of course, of the Hawks and great player and now great coach. I was like forgotten that I was there. The PM was nothing compared with the coach of Hawthorn. Like, it really put it in perspective. She was so excited.
 
ODDY: Oh, that's beautiful.
 
HAYES: She might have been doing the same as what Molly's doing. She's feeling, ‘I just saw Sam Mitchell and a bloke who was the dead ringer for the Prime Minister.’
 
ODDY: Prime Minister, are you happy to stick around for a little while and do a bit of co-hosting with us? Is that okay?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Absolutely. All right.
 
ODDY: And because you're here, we have –
 
PRIME MINISTER: And Molly.
 
ODDY: Yes, and Molly. Molly's not going anywhere.
 
HAYES: Tight team now.
 
ODDY: Yeah. All right. Stick around. We do a little –
 
PRIME MINISTER: I'm just glad Molly's still around.
 
ODDY: As are we.
 
PRIME MINISTER: There were a few IR threats that day. I had to flex my Labor Party credentials supporting workers and defend Molly at that point in time.
 
ODDY: Absolutely right. And you have the right to do so. Stick around, please Prime Minister, we'd love to chat with you some more.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Great.
 
HAYES: All right. We're doing a little thing. We might do it next Mr Prime Minister. It's called Songs a song, song, song. We keep getting told that your music knowledge –
 
ODDY: Is really good.
 
HAYES: Is exceptional.
 
PRIME MINISTER: It's pretty good. I reluctantly say that having now, you'll pick something that I don't know.
 
HAYES: We've got something for you next.
 
[Song]
 
PRIME MINISTER: [indistinct] third favourite Jodie.
 
HAYES: Jodie and Hayesy, it’s Nova 919.
 
ODDY: Hoping that went to air. But the Prime Minister just said I'm his third favourite Jodie. Who's the other two? Obviously –
 
PRIME MINISTER: Jodie Haydon.
 
ODDY: Yes, and?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Jodie Belyea, the member for Dunkley.
 
HAYES: Okay, there you go.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Which at, when we're handing out at her by-election. I introduced her to a voter who I handed out to. She went ‘oh, congratulations.’ And I said ‘no, no, she's my second favourite Jodie’.
 
ODDY: Right. Okay.
 
PRIME MINISTER. So, I don't want to upset Dunkley, the people of Dunkley. See, you're my third favourite Jodie.
 
HAYES: That's alright.
 
PRIME MINISTER: That's a podium finish.
 
HAYES: Podium finish is good.
 
ODDY: I'll take. I'll take bronze.
 
HAYES: Take the spot.
 
PRIME MINISTER: It's pretty good.
 
HAYES: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese joins us in studio in Nova 919. I didn't think we were going to say this, but let's play Songs a song, song, song with the PM. All right. Pretty simple concept, I'd say Jodes.
 
ODDY: Yes. Okay. So, we take some Nova hits and some throwbacks and we orchestralise them. And you and I, it will be our job to go head to head. And I'm very competitive in this space, Prime Minister. And you have to guess what the song is by title and artist.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Okay.
 
ODDY: He's not playing. He's very good at it. So, he can sit this one out. So, it's just you and me.
 
HAYES: We might, we might if you, just to get your head around it, Mr PM, we might run through a little example.
 
ODDY: Okay.
 
HAYES: Me versus Jodie.
 
ODDY: Right.
 
HAYES. So, what usually happens, and we'd love to get you involved right now. 13 24 10. ‘cause up for grabs, there's a Wallis Cinema family pass.
 
ODDY: Are we actually going to be playing for people?
 
HAYES: We are playing for people.
 
ODDY: All right.
 
HAYES: 13 24 10. Who wants to play Songs a song, song, song, with either Jodie or the Prime Minister of Australia.
 
ODDY: Yeah. And you get a Wallis Cinema family pass, and also some tax cuts. We'll throw them in as well.
 
HAYES: Sure. Cool.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah, well, if people, my side approaches tax cuts, the other side.
 
ODDY: Yeah.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Are not pro tax cuts.
 
ODDY: Okay.
 
HAYES: All right, so here's an example. Okay. You ready, Jode? So, this will be the instrumental version.
 
[Song]
 
ODDY: Go, Hayesy.
 
HAYES: Murder on the Dance Floor, Sophie Ellis Bextor.
 
ODDY: It is, it is, it is.
 
HAYES: There you go.
 
ODDY. So, are you across how it works, Prime Minister?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah, that was, that was hard. I know that song very well, but –
 
HAYES: Sometimes, Mr Prime Minister, it brings out an arrogant side of me. And I thought I'd be able to squash that in your presence, but –
 
PRIME MINISTER: Clearly not.
 
HAYES: Here we are.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Fair enough.
 
ODDY: You wouldn't be accustomed to arrogance working in politics, would you?
 
PRIME MINISTER: No, not at all. Not at all.
 
HAYES: Very foreign.
 
ODDY: Okay.
 
PRIME MINISTER: No one's measuring up the curtains at Kirribilli House at all.
 
ODDY: Okay. Let's go to Paige from Andrews Farm. I'm playing for you, Paige. Good morning.
 
LISTENER: Hello.
 
ODDY: Hi. You've got me, unfortunately. I'm sorry about that. And Celine from Hillcrest, you have the officer of the highest, highest esteemed position in the land. The Prime Minister. Say good morning, Celine.
 
LISTENER: Good morning. You've got this, Mr Prime Minister.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, Celine. Good on you, Celine.
 
ODDY: All right, let's rip into it.
 
HAYES: All right, producer Molly.
 
ROSE: When I took the call –
 
PRIME MINISTER: Can I just make the point that both of them will get a tax cut, regardless of whether I win or not.
 
HAYES: Oh, there you go. There you go.
 
ODDY: Well done.
 
HAYES: Everyone's a winner.
 
ODDY: Okay. Yes, Prime Minister.
 
PRIME MINISTER: See what I did there?
 
ROSE: Yeah, I saw it. When I took a call, I said, Paige, who do you want to go with? And she straight off the bat, ‘Jodie.’
 
PRIME MINISTER: Very wise, probably Paige. See, Jodie has a bit of a head start here because she hears this every day.
 
HAYES: That's true. That's true. Fresh hits and throwbacks, she’s all about them.
 
ODDY: Are you hearing excuses from the Prime Minister right now?
 
PRIME MINISTER: I’m just laying some groundwork there, laying some foundations.
 
HAYES: Mr PM, that you're actually exceptional in this space. You're a big music man.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Well, I did used to DJ.
 
ODDY: What? You're a DJ?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah.
 
ODDY: Okay. Where?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Oh, lots of, I’ve DJ’ed just up the road here in Adelaide once.
 
ODDY: Amazing.
 
PRIME MINISTER: I've, yeah, you can look up some of the set lists on Spotify. Corner Hotel in Richmond was my biggest gig.
 
ODDY: Wow.
 
PRIME MINISTER: That was good fun, as a charity thing.
 
ODDY: Okay, I'm sorry.
 
HAYES: Didn’t you know that Jodes? That was the Prime Minister that was wearing a bucket hat and doing a shoey.
 
PRIME MINISTER: No. Shoeys I just don't get.
 
ODDY: No, I don't understand it either.
 
PRIME MINISTER: I just don't get the sort of pleasure of drinking –
 
ODDY: No, don't come to LIV Golf, then.
 
HAYES: Oh, my gosh.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah no.
 
HAYES: We're not proud of it either, by the way. As a nation, we shouldn't be proud of shoeys on an international scale. We love Daniel Ricciardo, but not shoeys.
 
ODDY: Okay, I'm nervous, can we rip in?
 
HAYES: Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Ready? Ready, Mr PM? Here we go.
 
[Song]
 
HAYES: Name's your buzzer. Name's your buzzer.
 
[Song]
 
ODDY: I don't know.
 
PRIME MINISTER: It’s so hard.
 
ROSE: She's blonde, very popular, currently on tour. Come on.
 
ODDY: Jodie. Dua Lipa.
 
ROSE: No.
 
HAYES: All right, let's resume. Mr Prime Minister, you got a free shot here.
 
ODDY: Okay, there are cameras everywhere Molly, there are cameras.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Sabrina Carpenter.
 
ODDY: Yeah.
 
[Song]
 
HAYES: I see what's going on here.
 
ODDY: You know that I ordinarily would have got that, but I'm just nervous.
 
HAYES: You are a little bit rattled, aren't you?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Check the scoreboard.
 
ODDY: Oh, okay. This guy. All right.
 
HAYES: You think you're competitive?
 
ODDY: Yeah.
 
HAYES: This man runs a country.
 
PRIME MINISTER: I'll give you the picture. I still play in the Sydney Badge tennis comp. I play a low grade, and people will go, ‘you're very competitive.’ I’ll go, ‘I’m the Prime Minister.’ No one kind of just gives it to you.
 
HAYES: Got some real John McEnroe vibes as well. Okay, here we go. Second song, ready to go. Here we go. Jodes, you need this, you need this to stay in touch.
 
[Song]
 
PRIME MINISTER: Oh, I know this.
 
HAYES: Name is your buzzer.
 
ODDY: Jodie. Bruno Mars, Marry You.
 
[Song]
 
HAYES: Nice work, Jodes. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we have a tiebreaker. This is intense.
 
ODDY: I don't, I don't know what to do here.
 
PRIME MINISTER: You got to do a 90s song for the old bloke here.
 
HAYES: There's no guarantee it'll be a Midnight Oil classic or something.
 
ODDY: I've actually seen some of the big burly security guards outside. I'm scared to know what's going to happen to me if I beat the Prime Minister in the competition. I'm very nervous at this point.
 
HAYES: You're gonna have to knuckle down in the Nova studios for quite a while. All right, here we go. This is for the win.
 
PRIME MINISTER: And there’s not a lot of space here, I might point out.
 
HAYES: Here we go.
 
[Song]
 
PRIME MINISTER: Oh, that’s.
 
HAYES: Do you know Jode?
 
ODDY: Yeah, I do.
 
HAYES: Oh, do you?
 
PRIME MINISTER: You do?
 
ODDY: Should I beat him or not? Jodie.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Oh, that was very close to the original.
 
ODDY: Yes. Is it A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton?
 
HAYES: It is.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Well done.
 
HAYES: The disrespect. The disrespect Jodie, look at you. Oh, she's fist pumping. Oh, she's carrying on. She's on the table. Oh, my God.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Well done.
 
ODDY: Thank you. Well played.
 
HAYES: You didn't have to get in the PM's face and shake your fists.
 
PRIME MINISTER: She might have slipped to the fourth favourite Jodie.
 
ODDY: What about my husband and I get a call from the ATO this afternoon. ‘Just having a look into our finances.’ Okay.
 
HAYES: Hey, Celine, congratulations. How about that, Prime Minister represent?
 
LISTENER: He did very well. All the best at the election.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Thank you so much. Tax cut coming to you.
 
LISTENER: Thank you.
 
HAYES: Congratulations, Paige.
 
LISTENER: Thanks, guys. Have a really good day.
 
ODDY: Thank you, Paige. Thanks for your support.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Congratulations, Paige. You get cinema tickets and a tax cut.
 
LISTENER: Sorry, I'm lucky today.
 
HAYES: Oh, Mr Prime Minister, will you stick around just for a few minutes?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Sure.
 
HAYES: Because we need to talk about a special reason why you're in Adelaide today.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Absolutely.
 
ODDY: Putting on our news hats here you have a very, very significant announcement.
 
PRIME MINISTER: We do. We have a cracker.
 
HAYES: Very good. All right.
 
PRIME MINISTER: After a song.
 
ODDY: What is it?
 
HAYES: It's coming up very, very soon.
 
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HAYES: Yeah. Tell you what Jodes, it's not every day that you hang out on a Tuesday just before eight o’clock with the Prime Minister of Australia.
 
ODDY: And can I tell you what's just happened? He very graciously just had a photo with my daughter and I said to him ‘she's trying to get out of school today because she's got a science test’ and he just said, ‘do you want a note?’ And he's now preparing to write a note to her science teacher to say Payton should be excused from science test.
 
HAYES: Which I can guarantee the science teacher will say, ‘well, there's no way that this is real, this is fake.’
 
ODDY: That's the way we roll around here, Prime Minister.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Indeed.
 
ODDY: Now you've got a fairly significant –
 
PRIME MINISTER: They need to let it go really, don't they, Molly?
 
ROSE: Right, just let it slide.
 
ODDY: You two have mended bridges.
 
HAYES: Couple of old mates over there.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Yeah.
 
ODDY: When you put the Prime Minister on hold for five minutes. If you're just joining us this morning, now you've got a significant announcement today.
 
PRIME MINISTER: We have a cracker. $300 million for a state-of-the-art health service for South Australia. We're doing it in partnership with Flinders Uni. So, it's $150 million from the Commonwealth, $150 million from Flinders Uni. It will be able to see up to 10,000 patients a period which will be great. But importantly as well, what it will be able to do is to have 1,300 work ready graduates each year. So 490 nurses, 250 social workers, 101 paramedics, 60 physios, more than 50 midwives. So by doing it with the university and with the hospital, what we're doing is really adding in the two things, providing people with immediate health care when they need it, but importantly as well, training the health professionals that we need. So, it's going to be awesome. It will begin next year, construction, the funding was in the Budget last week and it's a really exciting announcement and I'll be there with the Premier this morning.
 
HAYES: That’s fantastic.
 
ODDY: Health is a fairly significant issue here in South Australia. Obviously we won an election, the state election the Labor Government won based on health. Have you identified this as a critical area of need?
 
PRIME MINISTER: We have. What we need is more health professionals, one, and we need more facilities for people to be able to get that care. This facility will be able to treat 100 patients at any time. And so it will just add to the investment that we're making as well as the Urgent Care Clinics that we're opening up. They've been really successful. That midpoint in between, you don't want to go to your GP because it's more serious, you've broken your arm or something like that. You don't want to clog up an emergency department because obviously life-threatening circumstances jump the queue. But you can go to an Urgent Care Clinic, get the care you need with just your Medicare card. So, that's made an enormous difference. 1.3 million Australians have been through them. And in addition to that, we're tripling the bulk billing incentive for Medicare so that more people can see a GP for free. It's all being led by Mark Butler. Another great South Australian.
 
ODDY: Yes, he is indeed. Is this going to fix, help fix ramping here in South Australia?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Of course it will. You need to, you can't fix things overnight. There'd been a decade of neglect. We've put additional funding into public hospitals. There's $1.7 billion of additional money to the states and territories in the coming year. So, we're addressing hospital funding, we're addressing taking pressure off emergency departments and we're addressing GPs and GP shortages. Training more, and this is about training more health professionals across the board.
 
ODDY: We look forward to you launching this today. Anything you want to add in the political space here Andrew Hayes?
 
HAYES: Go the Hawks.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Go the Hawks.
 
HAYES: What's it said before, like? I'm going to be honest with you Prime Minister –
 
PRIME MINISTER: It's a very brave statement given that it is the Hawks and Port coming up in a couple of weeks.
 
ODDY: Gather Round. We'd love to get you to Gather Round, actually, Prime Minister. We'd love to have you here.
 
PRIME MINISTER: We'll see how we go. It's a big, South Australia is just going gangbusters hosting big events. Gather Round. The LIV Golf. All the activities, the Fringe Festival and everything else that's held here. WOMAdelaide.
 
ODDY: Yeah.
 
PRIME MINISTER: It's a great city for people to live in, but it's also a great city to visit, which is why I always love it when I'm here.
 
ODDY: He’s done a very good job, Mali, hasn’t he?
 
HAYES: We love having you.
 
PRIME MINISTER: He, Mali is fantastic.
 
ODDY: You catching up with him?
 
PRIME MINISTER: I sure am, yeah. And we'll be catching up with Claire Clutterham, our fantastic candidate as well, in Sturt, later this morning.
 
ODDY: I think it'll get loose when you and Mali get together. Just be honest.
 
HAYES: Just to be a fly on the wall.
 
ODDY: Yeah.
 
PRIME MINISTER: There's a little Italian restaurant near here that we, that we, that we go to. I must say, our mutual mate Don Farrell is completely obsessed by this place. I reckon he might have shares in it somehow. We always end up there. It's a great place to come and visit.
 
HAYES: I think I know the place you're talking about, but what I've learned is you don't drop addresses and times in situations like this.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Absolutely you don't. Because then other people might turn up.
 
HAYES: Exactly.
 
ODDY: Prime Minister, thank you so very much. You've been so gracious with your time actually this morning. And we really appreciate you coming into Nova, into our temporary studio and for forgiving Molly for all of her sins. That was so nice that you guys have worked things out.
 
HAYES: And finally, before we let you go, Mr Prime Minister, we know you're a former DJ.
 
ODDY: Oh, yes.
 
HAYES: Can you please do us the honour of taking us into this next song on Nova 919? What have we got here?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Here is Gracie Abrams, one of my son's favourites, with That’s So True.
 
HAYES: There we go, thank you, Mr PM. It’s Nova 919 Jodie and Hayesy good morning.

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