CANBERRA, ACT, May 14 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:

HAMISH MACDONALD, HOST: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese is here to talk to you this morning. PM, good morning.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Good morning, Hamish. Good to be with you.

MACDONALD: At this point, I think everyone in the nation has heard your lines in response to the broken promise on negative gearing and CGT. Two words that clearly you and the Treasurer don't want to say. But are there other pre-election pledges that you might change your mind on?

PRIME MINISTER: Well, there's one that we have, another one is halving the fuel excise, which was an issue you might recall during the last campaign, Peter Dutton set himself up ...