CANBERRA, ACT, May 13 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:

HOST:Good morning, Albo.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER:Good morning.

HOST: Morning Albo. A couple of us have just been knocking off a bit of breakfast. Have you been doing the same.

PRIME MINISTER: I have been doing the same. While I was waiting on, we rang in and thanks for having us on the program unannounced. And I just realised, of course, there's a great advantage in the great continent that is ours and the time zones. Because I realised, I've done interview after interview up to 9 o'clock. I was like, it's only 7 o'clock in Perth.

HOST: Yeah, that's right. Who am I going to talk to?

PRIME MINISTER: So I thought I'd ring Nova. The morn...