Anthony Albanese is confronted with list of five of his major ‘lies’ in riveting exchange on live TV

Anthony Albanese was confronted about his ‘bulls**t’ by a hard-charging reporter during a tense exchange at the National Press Club.  

Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell took the Prime Minister to task over the ‘fair amount of BS in this campaign’ after his address in Canberra on Wednesday. 

‘Before the last election, you said power bills would reduce – they didn’t. You said you wouldn’t alter the tax cuts – you did,’ Clennell said.

‘You said you wouldn’t change super – you’re trying. You said we’d have cheaper mortgages – we don’t.

‘You said on election night you’d commit to the Uluru Statement in full – you haven’t.

‘You said when you’d messed up, you’d admit fault – you haven’t.’

The sledge continued with references to Labor’s attempts to run a ‘Mediscare’ campaign against Peter Dutton which claims the Opposition Leader will cut Medicare. 

‘Why do you have to exaggerate in this campaign? Why can’t you win this election by telling the truth?’, Clennell asked.

While Mr Albanese did not address the broken promise on power bills – to reduce them by $275 – or the mortgages, super or the Uluru Statement from the Heart, he was strongest on his decision to break his promise on the stage three tax cuts

But the Prime Minister hit back, insisting that the reason the Opposition Leader ‘tried to abolish bulk-billing and introduce a GP tax every time people visited the doctor was he wanted it to be sustainable’. 

‘He belled the cat. That’s still his view,’ Mr Albanese said.

He accused Mr Dutton of ‘ripping’ $50billion out of hospitals when he was health Minister in the Abbott government – a claim the Opposition Leader has branded a ‘mistruth’.

In 2014, the Coalition government projected healthcare spending to reduce by $50billion over ten years. 

While Mr Albanese did not address the broken promise on power bills – to reduce them by $275 – or the mortgages, super or the Uluru Statement from the Heart, he was strongest on his decision to break his promise on the stage three tax cuts.

‘What I did on income taxes was to come here, front up, say, “I have changed our position”,’ he said. 

‘Why? Because there are cost-of-living pressures on people, and it wasn’t sustainable to, on 1 July last year, to say that you and I get $9,000 and the people who’ve served this meal, the people who’ve cooked it out the back, the people who’ll clean up after us in this room when we leave, get a big duck egg. 

‘That is not the Labor way. I fronted up. 

‘I had the argument. I won the argument. And they voted for it.’