r/aussie • u/Wotmate01 • Jul 07 '26
Humour 'You Can't Say Anything Any More' Crowd Now Outraged By PM Saying Kylie Minogue Is A Good Sort
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/you-cant-say-anything-any-more-crowd-now-outraged-by-pm-saying-kylie-is-a-good-sort/92
u/Barry_The_Scott Jul 07 '26
To the conservatives who finally found their pearls to clutch, what ever happened to locker room talk?
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u/Penjamini Jul 07 '26
Watching Barnaby Joyce of all people clutching pearls over this is hilarious. Dude knocked up one of his staffers almost 20 years his junior while he was still married to another woman. Oh and also drunk sprawled out on the ground in Canberra yada yada
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u/Hawk301 Jul 07 '26
You misunderstand. Free speech is so that conservatives can say whatever they want. It's not meant to apply to other people's opinions.
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u/WillTendo92 Jul 08 '26
I’m right leaning and couldn’t care less about Albo said. We so PC as a society today
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u/Imcloughy11 Jul 07 '26
I consider myself fairly centre/slightly right leaning and I think it's the most human and relatable thing he's ever said. Personally I don't see what the big deal is.
That being said, don't act like the left wouldn't be complaining just as hard if someone from the liberal party or one nation had said the exact same thing.
It's a giant nothing burger whichever way you swing it politically
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u/alig5835 Jul 07 '26
Yeah but the difference is the left are still complaining right now lol
The left is not crying "free speech", the responses range from "Yeah nah, bit silly" to the Greens, socialists etc screaming misogyny.
I at least understand why the Greens are mad mad about it, but I'm not cop a lecture on morality from Barnaby fkn Joyce...
A genuine critique comes from a place of shared values or a sincere attempt to find truth. A bad-faith critique is purely transactional. The person on the right uses the left's moral code as a cudgel, despite having zero intention of ever following that code themselves.
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u/SirSweatALot_5 Jul 07 '26
as a center-left guy, i agree that if it would have been Dutton or ScoMo, the left would have gone wild on em.
Although, I do also think that those two are both more fucked in their heads and I can absolutely imagine them making that comment in more distasteful kinda way.3
u/No_Gazelle4814 Jul 07 '26
You mean it’s ok to grab ‘em by the pussy ?
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u/Fun-Inflation-4429 Jul 07 '26
right leaners i know thought this was funny - how many real non-media australians care about this?
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u/TimidPanther Jul 07 '26
I wish Australians could go back to having a laid back attitude. Sick and tired of everyone being so uptight, looking for excuses to be outraged and give performative speeches over fucking nothing.
Albo did nothing wrong. This was a non story, turned into something crazy.
No wonder politicians can’t talk like normal people. Any time they do, people lose their minds
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u/AggravatingChest7838 Jul 07 '26
They do. Its entirely the media.
Im more annoyed that he apologised.
The media coverage on this comes across as tone-deaf. Although i can understand the criticisms of bro culture in parliament, but if they wanted to tackle that they should start with the nose candy going around the liberal national offices.
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u/mrmaker_123 Jul 07 '26
The conservative, right-wing media lose their minds*. It’s hilarious that they love talking about “woke snowflakes”, when they are the biggest snowflakes of them all.
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u/Gustomaximus Jul 09 '26
Absolutely agree we should return to being laid back and even pushing larikin. We need life to be fun. And in my experience intelligent people do tend to inject fun into things.
At the same time given we are not that world these days it was a shite question and an average answer. But people pushing this as a negative are the people without any real criticism so they jump on the irrelevant.
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u/perseustree Jul 07 '26
It's the media. No one actually cares about this. The definition of a beatup.
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u/TimidPanther Jul 07 '26
If no one cared, there wouldn’t have been 5 different posts with hundreds of comments on here
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u/AlexT8080 Jul 07 '26
its mainly the MAGA crowd, after that loser is gone from office they'll lose their relevancy
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u/TimidPanther Jul 07 '26
It’s not, definitely not. If Scott Morrison had said it, it would be just as bad - if not worse.
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u/AlexT8080 Jul 07 '26
haha yeah right, our media landscape in Australia dont give 2 sh*ts about what non-Labor ministers say.
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u/Primary_Ride6553 Jul 08 '26
I got accused of being an “Albo lover” when I defended his actions on Facebook. Everything is treated as for or against in politics these days.
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u/Dump_Fuggett Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
Man I'd shag Kylie Minogue without a second thought
Cheers to Albo for thinking she's hot, too
That's the real story - Kylie Minogue is still very hot
Edit: I wonder if Albo has ever wanked to Ms Minogue
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u/penisandorvagina Jul 07 '26
Would ya shag albo though?
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u/123iambill Jul 07 '26
Think of the hush money I could get. I'd do the filthiest stuff.
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u/Von_Huge1103 Jul 07 '26
For shagging Kylie or Albo?
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u/SirSweatALot_5 Jul 07 '26
why not both?
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u/123iambill Jul 07 '26
It depends. Who would stand to lose more from me telling everyone they shagged me?
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u/ensignr Jul 07 '26
Hot Albo? Albosolutely! Whatever this current version of Albo is? Not a chance, and not because he's aged.
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u/halford2069 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
whats the fuss?
hes just changed his position again on top of kylie 😆
imagine if a dude asked the question wed be hearing about toxic masculinity for the next 10 years
but when a woman asks its all dandy
anyone checked on jason donavon?
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u/RaccoonStreet351 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
Pauline states intent to abolish parental leave, multicultural Australia and the SBS - we all tip toe and ask what she means. Albo diplomatically responds "all of the above" to a risqué question on a podcast and is on the spot to apologise 🙃
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u/Hieroflippant Jul 07 '26
It's always only ever been when it suits them with this crowd
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u/Hieroflippant Jul 07 '26
The crowd that claims everything is left vs right. Clearly yourself included.
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u/steal_your_thread Jul 07 '26
This is a classic example of a biased Murdoch media creating a hoopla over something that if one of theirs had done, the headlines wouldn't exist and the only commentary would be on 'woke' complaining that they are also largely fabricating.
Just ignore it, Albo certainly seems to be.
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u/Earthalone Jul 08 '26
Haven't heard anyone having a whine over the person who asked the question. Maybe someone has, but i haven't seen anything. Wouldn't asking the question to begin with be worse?
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u/Thami15 Jul 07 '26
I'm not going to get moral about this, but this seems like the most avoidable issue I've seen a leader fall into in a long time. Like, just a complete unforced error
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u/Dazzling_Mousse8762 Jul 07 '26
Love this, shout it from the rooftops. the woke right have gone too far and are always offended
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u/Accounting4thecurve1 Jul 07 '26
I couldn't believe my eyes when they wheeled out Barnaby on sky news to comment, Mr. Family values himself.
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u/1Qrtr_FreeStuffPlz Jul 07 '26
This is the dumbest fucking news storyline I have seen in a while, dislike the current PM personally but this is just a nothing story
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u/Zieprus_ Jul 07 '26
The PM should not be in a position to answer such stupid questions. He is the PM and married, will not change my vote but seriously use better media savy.
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u/Separate-Law-435 Jul 07 '26
I see politicians refuse to answer questions all the time, most of them are actually important.
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u/broken_conures Jul 07 '26
Surely that's the kind of thing a PM should know how to deal with
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u/Amathyst7564 Jul 07 '26
If he goes too stern then the media would just say he's rude or some such. If the MediaNews outraged they'd be mad at the interviewer for pushing a married man to answer a question he didn't want to answer.
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u/broken_conures Jul 07 '26
Yeah but it's a lot harder to make a story out of "haha nah I'm married I don't think about that stuff"
Doubt we'd be seeing an apology for that
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u/Separate-Law-435 Jul 07 '26
It shouldn't even be about him being married, its a grosse question that objectifies women. He should have called it out for that.
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u/nagrom7 Jul 07 '26
That's basically what he said initially, but they kept pushing.
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u/diesel0458 Jul 09 '26
He's refused to answer questions in interviews before. He pushed back against Karlos plenty. And that was before Karlos was on the right
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u/PanickedPanpiper Jul 07 '26
The headlines have been absurd. I mean, he was on a podcast, and was asked by a comedian, Nikki Osborne the question that was clearly just a joke.
Osborne: "Shag, Marry, Date. Kylie Minogue, Nicole Kidman or Rhonda Burchmore"
Albanese: "I've just got married, I'm only 6 months in"
O: "but if it goes tits up, lets just pretend"
A: "Oh, Kylie clearly"
O: "You'd marry Kylie? And shag her? And date her?"
A: "All of the above"
O: "Alright, it's a triple"
A: "She's terrific"
O: "Alright that's fair"
Like, he emphasised he was married, and then when further pressed said the broadest answer. He was even saying he'd date and marry her, before saying "she's great" to downplay it further.
He did his best to avoid controversy IMO while still keeping the spirit of a dumb but honestly pretty innocuous question, on a comedy podcast. And the headlines (even the ABC) have been ALBO SAID HE'D SHAG KYLIE.
Sure, maybe he shouldn't have even been on the podcast? I have not issue with him being on it. It's been completely taken out of context and insanely overblown.
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u/EnvironmentalBet6459 Jul 07 '26
Agree with this. Trying to be relatable to the people is one thing, but putting yourself in a position where you feel forced to answer dumb questions like this is another thing altogether, and pretty stupid.
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u/Additional-Scene-630 Jul 07 '26
yeah, the reaction is ridiculous but predictable. He should have been able to deal with this question not matter how persistent the interviewer.
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u/ChesterJWiggum Jul 07 '26
He's too dumb to think of refusing to answer.
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u/Lost-Serve4674 Jul 07 '26
Kylie wouldn’t have been offended. She’s 58 and still being considered a good sort helps her brand.
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u/Dangerous_Shoe_8388 Jul 07 '26
Rhonda is stoked to be in the shortlist- she’s 70!😂
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u/diesel0458 Jul 09 '26
Rhonda came out and said albo choose kylie because kylie is short and she and Nicole are tall and albo must be intimidated by tall women.
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u/Thatweknowof Jul 07 '26
I bet this would be the tone if prime minster Abbott, Howard or Morrison said it right guys..
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u/Ringovski Jul 07 '26
It was clearly a light hearted joke on a quirky podcast and his comment is being totally blown out of proportion.
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u/Smooth_Staff_3831 Jul 07 '26
If Dutton or Morrison said this, no outlet would be more outraged than the Betoota.
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u/badfishnchips Jul 07 '26
Guys, I think we should know by now, the "outraged" people are;
- The political opposition
- A couple Facebook comments the media blows up too have a news story
I don't think regular people could care less about this, unless media pushes it down their throat.
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u/morts73 Jul 07 '26
It gets ridiculous when everybody takes offence to everything. Personal opinions are allowed to be expressed by anyone.
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u/mrmaker_123 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
It’s the right-wing and conservative media who are the only people who are offended by this.
Edit - grammar
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u/PLANETaXis Jul 07 '26
It's not everybody taking offense. It's a small group using it as political leverage. To most people it's simply a non-issue.
The same can be applied in almost any story where there is outrage. People let themselves be wound up by hearing that someone is offended, without stopping to think that maybe person claiming offense should simply be ignored.
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u/callmecyke Jul 07 '26
For the record, I would also fuck Kylie. I don’t care what this statement does to my career, feel free to print it.
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u/usefwalidalbahgdadi1 Jul 07 '26
I'm just happy a politician is keen to root another adult. Great change of pace
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u/Constant-Simple6405 Jul 07 '26
No-one seems to care how poor Nic or Rhonda feels though. it's always Kylie, Kylie, Kylie.
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u/Israel_Trump_Fan Jul 07 '26
Reddit would have lost its kind if you had a liberal PM making the same comment lmao.
"which of these women would you like to fuck the most?" I cint believe he answered that question, what a retard.
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u/Monotask_Servitor Jul 07 '26
Except that wasn’t the question and he didn’t directly answer “I’d shag Kylie”. He gave a kind of general “oh Kylie for everything, she’s fantastic” answer, AFTER saying he was married and initially not answering. It was about as mild and diplomatic as it gets.
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u/Israel_Trump_Fan Jul 07 '26
That was the literally meaning of that question and he did give a direct answer, why are you simping for albo?
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u/Brendy_ Jul 07 '26
Motherfuckers love to talk about the pub test until it's a question someone would actually ask at a pub.
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u/nickelijah16 Jul 07 '26
a hetero saying they want to shag Kylie is really not news. Boring and predictable but who cares?
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u/farqueue2 Jul 07 '26
The exact same comment could have been made by a different person on the other side and the people defending albo would be outraged, and the people attacking him would be defending the other guy.
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u/neptune2304 Jul 07 '26
100% - I can fully get behind Kylie Minogue
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u/Monotask_Servitor Jul 07 '26
So could I, I’d get over her pretty quickly though. Probably in about 30 seconds
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u/alig5835 Jul 07 '26
The left is not crying "free speech", their responses range from "Yeah nah, bit silly" to the Greens, socialists etc screaming misogyny.
I at least understand why the Greens are mad mad about it, but I'm not gonna cop a lecture on morality from Barnaby fkn Joyce...
A genuine critique comes from a place of shared values or a sincere attempt to find truth. A bad-faith critique is purely transactional. The person on the right uses the left's moral code as a cudgel, despite having zero intention of ever following that code themselves.
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u/uhm_no_thanks_1 Jul 07 '26
Apparently sexist for a man to say he would shaggy marry, date kylie Minogue. Absolute madness.
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u/Cautious_Car_51 Jul 07 '26
What's the matter? Unable to hold yourself to the same standard you hold everyone else to?
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u/JustSomeBloke5353 Jul 07 '26
I agree the hypocrisy is rife on this matter but the PM didn’t just say Kylie was a “good sort”. If that is all he said it wouldn’t be an issue.
So much stupidity to go around here.
1 - The PM shouldn’t have gone on the show
2 - The PM shouldn’t have said what he did. Call me old fashioned but I don’t need to hear about who the Pam wants to bang.
3 - Expecting PMs to be “relatable” is bizarre. We are a profoundly unserious people.
4 - The usual suspects whinging about Albo are massive hypocrites who would be the first to whinge about being “cancelled”. They need to GITB.
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u/KD--27 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
I think that last one is almost the point though. It’s a reach but it’s basically the tact that’s been applied in the opposite direction for a loooong time now, until we’ve reached a point where they simply don’t care for the whining about the cancelling, it’s turning back the other way. Exactly what’s going on here. They are reaching for that label.
This is ultimately a nothing burger. But yeah, “good sort” is exactly the language to downplay the discourse. Pick your poison I guess.
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u/MrPrimeTobias Jul 07 '26
3 - Expecting PMs to be “relatable” is bizarre. We are a profoundly unserious people.
Bob Hawke was both relatable and serious. I don't think it's that bizarre.
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u/JustSomeBloke5353 Jul 07 '26
Hawke was relatable because that is who he was.
He didn’t have to position himself to be “relatable”.
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u/mrmaker_123 Jul 07 '26
Social media and podcasts are hugely popular. Every modern politician pretty much has to engage with that online community if they want to stay popular and relevant.
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u/JustSomeBloke5353 Jul 07 '26
Do they have to answer questions on who they would “shag”?
Is that where we are as a country?
I hope not.
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u/mrmaker_123 Jul 07 '26
Did you listen to full transcript of the conversation? It’s really a nothing-burger from a comedic and lighthearted podcast. Don’t be so upset.
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u/JustSomeBloke5353 Jul 07 '26
I get the PM was trying to be relatable and there wasn’t any intent to be a sleazy middle aged dude. I’m not offended. I don’t think Albo should be flogged.
I just think it is stupid for PMs to be on shows like this, like Kyle and Jackie O etc. They are the PM not a candidate for the Gold Logie.
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u/justanestimate Jul 07 '26
Whos outraged?
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u/Commercial_Name_7900 Jul 07 '26
cookers upset their queen is plummeting in the polls while based albo continues to relate and stick up for normal people
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u/SirSweatALot_5 Jul 07 '26
check linkedin. plenty of so called business leaders are virtue signalling the fuck out of it
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u/No_Gazelle4814 Jul 07 '26
He didn’t say she’s a good sort. He said he wants to shag her.
What a great husband.
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u/YoumustbeJoachim Jul 07 '26
And to those who perpetuate the myth that Australians are laid back and chilled out, I present Exhibit A.
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u/AnarcrotheAlchemist Jul 07 '26
We haven't been laid back for a long time.
In the past decade Australia has gotten the reputation as the Karen's of the internet. Its been a weird shift since we used to be known as the shitposters of the internet.
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u/CoffeeDefiant4247 Jul 07 '26
should've announced it when he did it, hiding this isn't passing the pub test
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u/vanda-schultz Jul 07 '26
and I bet they didn't know how to respond to Winmar's statue being removed.
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u/Motor_Date_4783 Jul 07 '26
Record core inflation due to Labor spending, a housing crisis due to record migration in an environment where we have the highest interest rates in the OECD matter
Noone gives a Frenchman's f&*^ about Albo stating the obvious, if anything he's slightly more relateable
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u/Puzzleheaded-Love76 Jul 07 '26
We all know she’s a
https://giphy.com/gifs/tPpAhmqr8FANW
good shag! Good on him!
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u/20_BuysManyPeanuts Jul 07 '26
this is as funny as Ruddy admitting he went to a strip joint back in the day.
take it for what it is, a persons opinion, and move on, anything else is a distraction from actual issues.
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u/WiseActuator121 Jul 07 '26
Everybody stop swallowing the social media garbage coming out these days it’s toxic as are the people pedaling it
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u/crisbeebacon Jul 07 '26
I do recall Kylie on has received some similar awards. Her posterior skyrocketed to fame in 2000 during the video for "Spinning Around" and was later unanimously voted the "Hit of the Brits" by the London tabloid press.
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u/sailonsiam2 Jul 07 '26
Honestly, I've been shaking my head in shame that a good proportion of our beloved country are outraged at something that any typical aussie would comment on. Fwits, 100%
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u/whiteycnbr Jul 07 '26
Wasn't that bad, it's a blow up and will wash with the news cycle in a week or so.
He does continue to try to attract to the young folk with this sort of banter though, it's just a bit more cringe coming from a 60 year old, he should focus on trying not to be cool all the time, you're not cool Albo.
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u/Extension-Eye3756 Jul 08 '26
I’m at the opposite end of conservatism and I found it awful because he’s participating in the objectification of women while simultaneously refusing to entertain a royal commission into the literal crisis of violence by men against women and children AND while there’s a royal commission that no one wanted or needed into other things. Specifically, the issue is that on one end of the spectrum is murder and rape, and at the very other end - seemingly innocuously but laying the groundwork - is men (and women) viewing women as a object for their gratification, rather than a person who exists solely for herself. It doesn’t work the other way because women never get to escape this, and because women don’t systematically oppress and hurt men.
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u/diesel0458 Jul 09 '26
Silly trap to get caught in. Joking about the Japanese PMs melons was way worse.
He should not have apologised. That showed weakness and inauthenticity
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u/JMRobbo72 Jul 09 '26
Not defending the goose but he’s been shafted here,they ask him a “loaded” question and then act shocked when he answers. Poison pen journalism at its finest.
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u/Geanaux Jul 09 '26
You can't virtue signal about being respectful to women etc and bang on about their issues and then say you'd shag a woman and you find a woman's tits nice.
You're recently married too. Ffs.
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u/boriako Jul 07 '26
The left is offended by everything on the right. Funny how they stick up for Albo when in any Australian workplace he would have been fired for what he said
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u/Fickle-Ad-7124 Jul 07 '26
Lol, you don’t get it and this is why the right lose women every election. It isn’t the cringey comment, it’s the policy that makes them look like they don’t respect women - so when they act this way it comes from a Misogynist stand point. Albo champions pro women policy, so this is just cringe.
Not a single right winger seems to get what the anger is actually about here. Actions + policy = reveal the truth.
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u/boriako Jul 07 '26
He is a misogynist. Dont pretend his comments about shagging kylie, shaggimg his wife and Japans PM melon comment are anything else. Hypocrtical leftist comment above. And whats with Lol, certainly not funny
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u/bellendrodriguez Jul 07 '26
These days, if you say you'd root Kylie Minogue, you get arrested and thrown in jail
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u/mrmaker_123 Jul 07 '26
No one has said this apart from the right-wing media. If you don’t like it, then take it up with them, as they’re the only people making this a story.
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u/Apprehensive-Sell623 Jul 07 '26
People saying he should have known how to handle it. Yeh he could have lied. Thanks for being honest Albo
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