We just couldn’t bring ourselves to watch another press conference before 8am, so here are some questions from Anthony Albanese’s Brisbane presser this morning:

Q: Multiple Intergenerational Reports have warned about the growing fiscal gap. Given the implications on future generations of workers, why isn’t structural budget reform on your agenda?

Albanese doesn’t answer the question:

What we’ve done is to produce two budget surpluses and I find it rather strange that people have questioned Josh Frydenberg’s budget speech of 2022 in March, just before the election was called, where he outlined what their plan was, which was a $78 billion deficit. We turned that into a surplus. We turned the next year’s deficit into a surplus, into a surplus. And we’ve halved, and we’ve halved this year’s deficit.