Six months married, Albanese tells a whisky podcast he'd shag Kylie Minogue if it goes tits up

Anthony Albanese invited a comedian into The Lodge, poured the whisky and told the country he'd shag, marry and date Kylie Minogue, six months after marrying Jodie Haydon in the same house.

The Prime Minister's sit down with Nikki Osborne's alter ego Bushie, for Nova's new podcast Bush Deep, has him discussing how often he and his wife have sex, naming his celebrity pick and endorsing a Souths win as an aphrodisiac. Independent Fowler MP Dai Le called it "unbecoming of a gentleman", and it landed the same day as a Newspoll putting One Nation ahead of Labor in Queensland.

The show's standard rapid fire question gave him Kylie Minogue, Nicole Kidman and Rhonda Burchmore. "I've just got married. I'm only six months in," the PM offered first.

"Well, if it goes tits up, let's just pretend," Osborne pressed.

"Oh, Kylie. Clearly," Albanese replied. Asked to confirm he'd marry, shag and date the singer, all three: "All of the above. She's terrific."

Shown the personalised beer from his own November wedding, he was asked whether he and Ms Haydon were "still bonking like rabbits". "Well, you know, when we have time," he said. "After the footy. It's always a good aphrodisiac, a Souths win."

One Instagram DM and Nikki Osborne was inside The Lodge

Osborne says she landed the interview with a single direct message. "I DM'd the PM and I said, 'Hey, Albo, can you tell me what it's like to be a world leader?' and he said, 'Well, Bushie, why don't you come to my joint and I'll give you the rundown over some Tim Tams,'" she says in the episode's opening, before declaring her plan for the afternoon: "Let's get him pissed."

The Prime Minister backed his own bar over the bottle she brought.

"I guarantee I've got better scotch," he told her, adding that the commercial networks would be upset she got in because "I don't let people in here".

Along the way he confirmed "a couple of chat groups" with world leaders, described being opposition leader as "a crap job", named "Donald Trump, probably" as the most famous person in his phone, and posed for a selfie Osborne fired off to the US President.

Dai Le on Today: unbecoming of a gentleman

The Fowler MP delivered the sharpest assessment on the Today show.

"In parliament we're not supposed to use certain words," Ms Le said. "I will find that very unbecoming of a gentleman, but maybe the prime minister is trying to appeal to another group, a target audience that don't mind that kind of language being used."

Conservative campaigner Lyle Shelton put it more bluntly on X: "Can he do anymore to demean the office, and himself?"

Osborne is enjoying the coverage. "When your show is the main news story down under," she posted to Instagram as the story ran, asking her followers whether the episode was harmless fun "or maybe not very statesmanlike for the Prime Minister".

It follows the PM detailing anal tearing on the floor of the House

The Lodge performance caps a fortnight of prime ministerial language nobody expected to go national. Speaking in the House in support of tightening the under 16 social media ban, Mr Albanese told parliament that violent online content was driving

"increased presentations in our hospitals of young women who have been choked, strangled", adding: "We see anal tearing growing at an extraordinary, horrific rate," news.com.au reported.

The point about algorithms was a serious one. The phrasing is what travelled. "Albo shouldn't be dropping 'anal tearing' in parliament," one social media user wrote.

The Newspoll that arrived the same day

While the episode was making headlines, The Australian published Newspoll's quarterly state breakdown showing One Nation on 32% in Queensland to Labor's 30%, the two parties level in South Australia, and the Prime Minister's net approval at minus 30 with Queensland voters.

Near the end of the episode Mr Albanese promised to endorse Osborne's own tilt at the top job "when I finish". On the Queensland numbers, that timetable may not be entirely his to set.