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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has slammed the former prime minister for ordering the ABF to publicise it had intercepted a reported asylum seeker boat on election day.
Albanese was on RN Breakfast this morning, and said there was “nothing normal” about the process:
“There was nothing normal about the protocols that were not observed here.
We had a circumstance whereby the prime ministers office contacted my office in the middle of Saturday, and we indicated it would be entirely inappropriate for this event to be politicised. It’s a clear breach of the caretaker conventions.
This was decision made by Scott Morrison in a desperate attempt to run a last minute scare campaign. And the politicisation of it stands in stark contrast to Scott Morrison own comments over many years that there would be no comments on on water matters.
It was extraordinary that this statement was made to enable those text message to be sent to people. People were wondering what was going on when they were receiving that text message.
I think it’s quite a surreal experience to move from campaigning mode into kind of what is essentially a hiatus for two weeks while you wait for the writs to be returned and get your head around what the future might look like.
I must confess I went to my first formal function last night on the Uluru Statement and it was incredibly exciting to be there.
It was the fact that the government hadn’t been listening for the last three years.
The specific issues [they mentioned] were faster action on climate, the introduction of an Integrity Commission, addressing how our economy is geared and addressing the systemic inequality we have in our country – they were fundamentally things people wanted to see action on.
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