CANBERRA, ACT, May 18 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:

OLY PETERSON, HOST: Joining me in the studios this afternoon is the Prime Minister. Welcome back to Drive.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Great to be back in Perth.

PETERSON: It's been a harder budget sell than you probably anticipated, Anthony Albanese.

PRIME MINISTER: We always thought it would be difficult because when you're putting forward big reform, and this is tax reform that's been called for for a long period of time. Treating income gained from working, which is what most people do, much more equally with income earned from assets, is something that's been called for for a long time in terms of tax reform. That's what we've put for...