Anthony Albanese quizzed on 'vanilla' and 'Liberal lite' labels by teen journos

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has been questioned on being a "Liberal lite" and allegedly running away from press conferences in an interview with the teen journalists at 6 News.The interview, which aired on YouTube on Tuesday night, but was filmed during the tail-end of Mr Albanese's COVID-19 isolation, saw 14-year-old Leonardo Puglisi and 13-year-old Roman Mackinnon probe the Labor leader just weeks out from the federal election.

"You said at the start of the campaign you are not Scott Morrison and you don't run away from press conferences, yet days later you ran out of a press conference, just eight minutes later," Channel 6's federal political reporter Roman Mackinnon began."Not at all," Mr Albanese replied. "I never said I'd answer every question forever."

“It was an opportunity for us to talk about our plan for aged care, our plan to strengthen Medicare and that was what the emphasis was on.Roman said some people had labelled the Opposition leader "bland, unknown and even vanilla."Leo Puglisi of 6 News Australia speaks to Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Leo asked the Labor leader if he could understand why he had been labelled by some as "Liberal lite", noting Labor's support of offshore processing, boat turn-backs, and decision to keep JobSeeker at its current rate. "Now when it comes to payments. Be very clear, this is just a beat up essentially, by the media. What I've said is that each and every budget, each and every budget, all of our payment systems should be subject to review. That's what we do, not a one off," Mr Albanese said."We know that people would like some increase in JobSeeker, and so would I, but we have to be clear about it. We can't just promise things and then not do it after the election.

When Leo enquired about a Crikey article listing Mr Morrison's "lies and falsehoods", the prime minister criticised the media outlet.

Leonardo was impressive on abc news radio today.

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