JASON HAWKINS, HOST: He joins us now, the PM Anthony Albanese. Good morning Albo.
 
LAUREN PHILLIPS, HOST: Good morning.
 
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: G'day. Good to be with you. Good to be there with the Wiz.
 
NICK WATSON, GUEST HOST: Hey, how're you going?
 
PRIME MINISTER: I'm going very, very well. Not as well as you're going, though. Very good. And you’ve got the week off?
 
WATSON: Yep. Just kicking the legs up this week and yeah, got some few questions for you.
 
CLINT STANAWAY, HOST: Hey, Albo. Just quickly is the Wiz your fave?
 
PRIME MINISTER: I love the Wiz. I think it was fantastic during the final last year with all the fans, with the wizard hats on. It was awesome.
 
HAWKINS: Have you got one? We're gonna have to get you a hat.
 
STANAWAY: We need to get him a hat.
 
PRIME MINISTER: No, I haven't got a hat. I've got the scarf I wear because if you're from Sydney, people go, ‘oh, yeah, jump on the bandwagon.’ My scarf is a VFL scarf.
 
PHILLIPS: Oh, you're an OG Albo. Nah –
 
PRIME MINISTER: I'm old school.
 
PHILLIPS: You are.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Maybe I'm just old.
 
PHILLIPS: Oh, well, that's, well, we could, we'll send you down to the cheer squad one day with the Hawks faithful. I'm sure that's where you’d be most comfortable now.
 
PRIME MINISTER: We're a happy, happy team at the moment.
 
PHILLIPS: We are. Now Nick has some hard hitting questions for you, Albo.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Well away you go.
 
WATSON: You ready?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Yep.
 
WATSON: Donald Trump could soon announce tariffs on Aussie beef and drugs. Should we return serve with our own tariff?
 
PRIME MINISTER: No, because it is an act of economic self-harm to put tariffs on. It increases the cost where the tariffs are put on, so our products can still go to the US. If they put a tariff on, then the costs of the buyers, the person purchasing the goods, is increased.
 
STANAWAY: It's a good question.
 
HAWKINS: A great question.
 
PRIME MINISTER: That’s why it’s a bad policy.
 
PHILLIPS: A great question.
 
PRIME MINISTER: It's a very good question.
 
HAWKINS: Can I ask Wiz do you know what tariffs are?
 
WATSON: I could not tell you one thing he just said. I sort of zoned out halfway through.
 
HAWKINS: You sort of zoned out.
 
PRIME MINISTER: You don't have to, as long as you can mark, tackle and run and kick like you do.
 
PHILLIPS: Yes. Alright. Any other questions Nick?
 
WATSON: Do you think you'll win the election?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Oh yeah, I do. And the Hawks will win the flag.
 
WATSON: Yes. There it is.
 
HAWKINS: Big call. How are you going on the campaign?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Premiership number 14 on the way.
 
WATSON: Yeah. That's it.
 
HAWKINS: How are you going on the campaign trail?
 
PRIME MINISTER: I'm going really well, I'm in Melbourne today, and I've been around just about every state and territory already, and today I'm out there advocating for a pay rise for low paid workers. That's really important. Making a submission in for three million low paid workers, early childhood educators and cleaners and retail workers. Those people on the minimum and award wages. And we will make a submission to the Fair Work Commission that they should provide an economically sustainable wage increase, because we know people on low wages are doing it tough.
 
HAWKINS: Absolutely.
 
PRIME MINISTER: They need to, they need to do better, and we'll support that as we have in the three wage cases since we've come to office.
 
HAWKINS: Mate, I'm watching you out there on the road, and trying to bring these issues up. And I'm thinking, what time are you going to bed at the moment and getting up? Like, when it's campaign mode, you'd be getting very little sleep.
 
PRIME MINISTER: I'm getting to bed as early as I can I've got to say.
 
HAWKINS: What time are we talking?
 
PRIME MINISTER: I try to get to bed by 9:30-10 –
 
HAWKINS: Well, that's late for us.
 
PRIME MINISTER: If possible, and get up pretty early –
 
PHILLIPS: Have you still stopped drinking Albo?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Three, four, five. Yeah, so I'm pretty boring at the moment.
 
PHILLIPS: Did you, have a, because last time we saw you, it was your birthday on the weekend. Did you have a glass from the top shelf at least for your birthday?
 
PRIME MINISTER: I did have a sneaky glass of wine.
 
PHILLIPS: Good on you.
 
PRIME MINISTER: With my birthday.
 
PHILLIPS: You deserve it.
 
PRIME MINISTER: That's okay. That doesn't count.
 
HAWKINS: You didn't go hardcore like New Year's Eve again?
 
PRIME MINISTER: No, not at all.
 
PHILLIPS: You didn't have a drink after the Hawks won their fourth in a row?
 
PRIME MINISTER: No, I didn't, but I did, I have watched and they've been going so well and I was at the, last year, I was at the game in Canberra with, I'm sorry to raise this, but I was at the game with GWS in Canberra when we're a mile ahead at three quarter time –
 
WATSON: Why are you bringing this up?
 
PRIME MINISTER: GWS. To motivate you so it never happens again.
 
WATSON: It didn't happen again on the weekend.
 
HAWKINS: Right.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Because I was outside the room when Sam Mitchell was having a polite but firm discussion, as one way that you could put it.
 
HAWKINS: Gotcha.
 
WATSON: Yeah. We did.
 
STANAWAY: Hey Wiz, is there something in the policy sphere that you want from your Prime Minister? Is there anything that will win your vote?
 
HAWKINS: He was just saying he hates the –
 
STANAWAY: What issues are important to you?
 
WATSON: Well, I want to ask one more question. When are you coming to the next Hawks game?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Well, the Port game, I'm a show of making it to the Gather Round. I was with Peter Malinauskas yesterday in Adelaide and it's a game versus Port which is his team of course.
 
PHILLIPS: Yes.
 
PRIME MINISTER: And he was like ‘you gotta drop in to Gather Round.’ So I'll see whether that can happen. But the day to day proposition at this stage –
 
PHILLIPS: We're going to Gather Round. We could see if there's a seat on the plane with us.
 
STANAWAY: Oh, yeah.
 
PHILLIPS: You could come and sit next to Jase.
 
HAWKINS: Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
 
STANAWAY: I wouldn't wish that on anyone PM.
 
PRIME MINISTER: I’d be up for that.
 
STANAWAY: Just very quickly, Victoria and Melbourne is going to be a bit of a battleground this election. How have you been received with the Premier as well, out and about on the hustings?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Oh, really positive. Look, we, including for Wiz, he'll get a tax cut under us and every Victorian will. So we want people to earn more. We want wages to go up and we want taxes to go down. The other side have promised, I think rather extraordinarily, to actually introduce legislation to increase, everyone, all 14 million taxpayers’ taxation rates.
 
PHILLIPS: Wow.
 
STANAWAY: Well, can you summarise that for us, Wiz?
 
WATSON: Why'd you ask me?
 
PRIME MINISTER: It's really easy, it’s about wages up, taxes down under us. Under the other side wages down, taxes up.
 
HAWKINS: Do you know who leads the other side? Do you know the Opposition Leader, Wiz?
 
WATSON: No.
 
HAWKINS: Can you take a guess? Any ideas?
 
WATSON: No, don't ask these weird questions again. I don't, I'm not smart enough.
 
PHILLIPS: You are so smart.
 
HAWKINS: He's only just been able to vote.
 
PHILLIPS: It'll be your first –
 
PRIME MINISTER: You only need to know me now, mate.
 
WATSON: Yeah. That's it.
 
PHILLIPS: Thanks, Albo. Have a great time in Melbourne. Where are you today? What part of Melbourne?
 
PRIME MINISTER: I am headed out to the east. I'm headed out to Burwood –
 
PHILLIPS: Oh, Burwood.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Today.
 
PHILLIPS: Nice.
 
PRIME MINISTER: And so, or in the Burwood region, and the east. And then I'm headed off down south.
 
PHILLIPS: Somewhere else.
 
STANAWAY: It's a bit of a secret where he goes, that’s the thing, because he takes the media with him.
 
PHILLIPS: Oh, is it a secret?
 
PRIME MINISTER: Every day is a very busy day.
 
HAWKINS: I was going to say, I hope the Google Maps goes faster than that.
 
PHILLIPS: I thought you didn't know where you were going. I didn't know it was a secret.
 
HAWKINS: Be bloody tomorrow by the time you get there. Hey, Albo. It's always fun, mate. Cheers for calling through this morning.
 
PRIME MINISTER: Thanks, guys.
 
ENDS