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The Prime Minister is in North Queensland today to take a look at the damaged caused by big rain.
Shortly before getting the chequebook out, Anthony Albanese changed into a pair of acid-wash Billabong boardshorts and a Royal Marrickville Golf Club polo shirt and waded out into the floodwaters to get a handle on the situation and build a bit of primary source information.
“Yeah, it looks like it’s fucked,” Albanese said of the Bruce Highway just north of Townsville.
“This will take a bit of money to fix.”
Despite being warned not to enter the water by some locals sympathetic to the Labor Party and even his Queensland counterpart PRemier David Crisafulli, he explained to our reporter and the other mass of reporters currently following the Prime Minister around North Queensland that he has a protection detail for that kind of thing.
“I trust them to make short work of any, uh, crocodiles that come close. I’m only going up to my knees.”
After taking himself on the self-guided tour of outer metro Townsville, the Prime Minister signed a blank cheque for Premier Crisafulli and got changed back into his Tarocash Rosehill “general admission” two-piece banger and made his way to the airport.
More to come.
