Prime Minister calls Coalition gas modelling a 'distraction from its nuclear proposal'

The Prime Minister is dismissing the Coalition's gas policy modelling, dubbing it a distraction from the party's nuclear power proposals.

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00:00The Prime Minister will later be spruiking an almost $250 million investment

00:07to improve Queensland infrastructure in far north Queensland

00:11where Labor is eyeing off a seat from the Coalition, the seat of Leichhardt.

00:15He's appeared alongside NSW Premier Chris Minns and Labor frontbencher Tania Plibersek.

00:21The Prime Minister is heading into day 12 of the campaign,

00:25buoyed by the results of the first leaders' debate where the audience declared him the victor.

00:30The debate largely played out on well-worn political territory for both leaders.

00:35The Prime Minister stuck to the lines we've heard this campaign.

00:38Inflation is down, wages are up and interest rates are starting to fall.

00:42There were a lot of questions allowing Labor to tread on comfortable ground like healthcare and education

00:48and Labor believes that isn't just good luck, that's a sign their message is cutting through with voters

00:53and that they are anticipating and acting on issues that matter to the public.

00:58But there also was that exchange with a voter who revealed she had to use both her credit card

01:02and her Medicare card when going to the doctor.

01:05One Liberal remarked they couldn't have scripted that any better

01:08given the Prime Minister has been saying when it comes to seeing your GP

01:12all you should need is a Medicare card.

01:14Today at his press conference the Prime Minister was also questioned

01:17about the Coalition's gas reservation policy modelling

01:20which says power bills will come down and asked whether his energy policies would bring down prices.

01:26These people think that the Australian public are like goldfish, that they don't remember.

01:31They went around at the time when they were in government

01:35when 24 out of 28 coal-fired power stations announced their closure.

01:41They said they were going to have a gas-led recovery. Remember that?

01:45With his first leaders debate done and dusted Anthony Albanese has swapped the political market of ideas

01:51for one of Sydney's most famous shopping markets.

01:54all these two types of goods are all the type of goods that just come down and try to get

01:58them outside the brand.

02:00The first Dáil National Open Market is the only camera who says

02:01they want to do what they need to do.

02:05At the same time it makes the є.

02:07The next thing is the business that the store has been looking for

02:10a whole type of goods that they have to be veiled to the store.