Asked about reports that a Trump advisor had been advising parts of the Coalition, Albanese says:

I’ve been focused on Australia, of course. I’m concerned about some of the positions that have been put during the election campaign here. That people, commentators have said, resembles things that have been done, such as mass sackings of public servants, you know. We have a serious election campaign to run here. I’ve not been interested in fighting culture wars. I’m been interested in fighting for Australians, that’s what I’m interested in. The campaign of the Liberal Party has become more and more right-wing under Peter Dutton. That’s just the truth of the matter. Peter Dutton has had different positions, sought to raise culture war issues, and he under the Liberal Party has lost people like Christopher Pyne, people like Paul Fletcher and Simon Birmingham, they’re going at this election, will the last moderate in the Liberal Party turn the lights off? Will the last moderate turn the lights off? That’s what is happening. In the time I have been in Parliament, there were people like Petro Giorgio, people that were moderates in the Liberal Party, under Peter Dutton, he’s a deeply conservative man, there have been increased right-wing elements. We saw in Roger’s election, some of the elements in the Liberal Party, who are candidates at this election, I mean, their candidate for Fowler has said extraordinary things.