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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Daisy Dumas

Albanese riffs on Trump phone call, Keating’s sledging and ‘gotcha’ journalism on Grade Cricketer podcast spin-off

Composite image featuring prime minister Anthony Albanese on The Circus podcast
Anthony Albanese has recently appeared on Abbie Chatfield’s podcast, daily news podcast The Squiz and social media-based news outlet, The Daily Aus. Composite: Instagram

The election campaign has all but begun for Anthony Albanese, who has now used a sports podcast to riff on Donald Trump, clicks and conflict in media, Aukus – and his beloved South Sydney Rabbitohs.

In the inaugural episode of The Circus, a spin-off from the popular The Grade Cricketer podcast, the prime minister said the National Rugby League’s expansion into Papua New Guinea was “the best example of soft diplomacy that Australia has ever engaged in” and that he’d had a wide-ranging discussion with the US president about “Aukus, the future of the world – and Greg Norman and Souths juniors”.

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