Herzog This, CGT That. Who Gives A Shit. Albo Calls It A Week And Relaxes To Some Radio Birdman

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The Prime Minister has called it a week this afternoon and put his noise cancelling headphones on, sent his staff to the Kingo and thumbed his way to Radio Birdman on Spotify.

With all the noise over Israeli President Isaac Herzog coming Down Under for a look and his Treasurer Jim Chalmers toying with making houses less attractive to investors, Anthony Albanese has blocked it all out with Radios Appear at 95dB.

Short of pointing his private jet north to Lake Macquarie Airport, it's the closest Albanese says he gets to proper relaxation these days.

"Hawkey told me the best way to relax, for him, you know when he was off the piss, was to get in the pool at The Lodge and have a smoke on the grogging step. Which, for those who don't have pools, is the ledge that they often put in where you can sit in the water and have your head above water. Bob would have his cigarette floating in an ashtray and a peg on the end of it so he could pick it up with wet fingers," he said.

"I, uh, don't smoke. Ah, never have, really. I'm also, uh, not really into my piss these days, either. So, ah, getting in the pool at The Lodge is pretty grim at the best of times. So yeah, I've always found that music helps me to relax, so I sent my staff down to the Kingo to cook their own steaks and carry on, I gave them the corporate card so you blokes are paying for it, seriously, they thank the taxpayer for their service. But yeah, this week can piss off. I'm done,"

"Anyway, I'm going back to Birdman now so have a nice weekend and we'll talk next week at our strategy meeting, I think we have it booked for Tuesday. I'd ask Tom but he's down the pub, isn't he? Righto, thanks boys."

More to come.