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NATALIE LOCKE, HOST: Hey everybody, guess what. The Prime Minister in the house.

NATHAN MORRIS, HOST: Isn't it amazing?

SHAUN MCMANUS, HOST: Hes not waiting for anybody.

PRIME MINISTER: Hey, everybody.

MORRIS: Hello, Prime Minister.

LOCKE: Fresh from the coronation, Anthony Albanese.

PRIME MINISTER: Great to be here.

MCMANUS: Tiredness out of, between one and ten please sir?

PRIME MINISTER: 9.5, I think. Had a bit of sleep last night, but I have no idea what time it is. It's dark outside, so it must still be night.

MORRIS: I cannot believe you didn't even get to experience the excitement of the Coronation concert.

PRIME MINISTER: Well, there's this little thing called the Budget happening tomorrow.

LOCKE: Yes, which is tomorrow.

MORRIS: People aren't interested in that, are they?

LOCKE: Yeah but thats the Treasurer's job, isn't it?

PRIME MINISTER: So we ducked straight out after the Coronation, straight to the airport. We actually got to the airport quick and were then waiting because there was a bit of a queue.

LOCKE: Yeah well Prince Harry had to get out too.

PRIME MINISTER: There were a few planes at Stansted waiting to take off.

LOCKE: Is that right?

PRIME MINISTER: And so we went by Dubai, had to refuel there for a couple of hours in the middle of the night. So I have no idea what time it is, my body clocks just off the scale.

LOCKE: You don't need to figure it out till you get back to Canberra.

PRIME MINISTER: 7:30 tomorrow night, I have to be in the chamber for Jim Chalmers Budget speech. I know that. If I wasn't there, people might notice.

MORRIS: It's amazing, we were just talking about the fact that you are looking, you're in history, like you're attending history. We're watching it. You're in it. You're in it.

PRIME MINISTER: Well, it's an extraordinary event, of course. The first time in my lifetime. First time in 70 years. And you absolutely had that sense of history. And the British, no one does pageantry and ceremony like the British.

LOCKE: It was like an Anne Hathaway movie.

MCMANUS: And that was slimmed down they said.

MORRIS: I tell you what, we need more fancy hats. Like we don't have enough fancy hats in Australia.

LOCKE: Thats where weve gone wrong obviously.

NATHA: Everyone had like a big furry one and a cone shaped one and a princess one.

LOCKE: We're gonna get more details on the Coronation. We've got to get a song on.

PRIME MINISTER: We have caps and Akubras.

MORRIS: I know, corks on strings.

LOCKE: Alright, were going to find out all the details of the Coronation, coming up next with the Prime Minister.

(Song break)

LOCKE: Nathan, Nat and Shaun and the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, in the house on his way home from the Coronation. You're a republican, right?

PRIME MINISTER: Yeah, absolutely.

LOCKE: How was that, did you feel a bit conflicted sitting there watching the pageantry and the pomp?

PRIME MINISTER: Not at all. I want an Australian as our head of state. But there are, of course, 57 countries in the Commonwealth. Only 15 countries are part of the realm, which means that the King is the King of Australia.

MCMANUS: Its like Game of Thrones.

PRIME MINISTER: And so it's important as Prime Minister that I respect institutions which are there.

LOCKE: Until we change it.

PRIME MINISTER: Exactly, and that you do the right thing. I wasn't there to have a protest, which is what some people seem to think I should have done. I mean, it's ridiculous.

MCMANUS: Albo, that's really interesting to hear because I didn't know there was only 15 left that are ruled by the King. Because my thing was that, and I think we should be a republic, we've got to that point. But I was thinking, if we do that, then we're out of the Commonwealth Games. And that's one thing that we win all the time.

PRIME MINISTER: No, not at all.

LOCKE: Canada.

PRIME MINISTER: No, Canadas one of the realm countries.

LOCKE: Is it?

PRIME MINISTER: Yeah, Canadas in.

LOCKE: Dont they have a President?

PRIME MINISTER: No, they have a Governor-General like us. So, the 15 realm countries, you get a better seat if you're a realm country.

MORRIS: Oh really?

PRIME MINISTER: So there are the realm countries, then the non-realm Commonwealth countries.

MORRIS: And then Harry.

LOCKE: And then Prince Andrew.

PRIME MINISTER: It's the only time where the United States representatives and France and some of the big G7 countries, they're further back from Australia.

MCMANUS: Oh, that's good news.

PRIME MINISTER: Antigua's first, we're always second of the realm countries.

LOCKE: Oh, so its alphabetical.

PRIME MINISTER: Its always Antigua, Australia, Bahamas. So, I've got to know the Prime Ministers of Antigua and Bahamas very well.

LOCKE: They bit of fun?

PRIME MINISTER: They are. They are actually.

LOCKE: Talk about cricket?

PRIME MINISTER: Exactly. Well, particularly Antigua.

MORRIS: We need to know, the one question that everyone was asking about the Coronation, and this actually is from the Queen's funeral as well is, the toilet situation there? My dad was flipping out watching it, going, what if you have to go to the toilet? Because you're there for hours and it doesn't look like it's a situation where you can get up from your seat and go to a porta-loo. So, what's the deal?

PRIME MINISTER: The deal is, don't drink water in the morning, literally.

MORRIS: Really? So, do they say if you need to go to the toilet you cannot?

PRIME MINISTER: No, I think in an emergency you could, but it would be pretty disruptive.

MORRIS: Embarrassing.

PRIME MINISTER: And you're conscious of the cameras. So, literally, the night before we had.

LOCKE: You start the drying out process?

PRIME MINISTER: We had a gathering of all of the Australian representatives, and of course, we had three Victoria Cross winners, including the wonderful Keith Payne, who's just an absolute legend. And we had Sam Kerr.

MCMANUS: What a champion.

PRIME MINISTER: Great West Australian, chosen by me to be the flag bearer. And she just looked fantastic and she's so awesome. And so we had Sam, and we had Nick Cave, and we had Adam Hills, and we had a nurse from the NHS, and we had people from the arts, Yvonne Kenny. And we had an amazing group.

LOCKE: The AstraZeneca developer.

PRIME MINISTER: And we told, we got told, everyone, make sure in the morning, you don't drink a whole lot of water.

LOCKE: Adam Hills said in an interview that he did a dummy run the day before, of just having a little bit of coffee in the morning to get himself up and about and then not drinking for the rest of the day to see how long he could hold on for, so that he knew that he was prepared.

PRIME MINISTER: Training, you need training for an event like this.

MORRIS: And then a bowl of sawdust for breakfast.

MCMANUS: When youre at the Coronation, because we all watched a fair bit of it on TV, but it gets to the point, right, where we're seeing it and like, okay, where's the sport, not for everyone.

LOCKE: Well, the Dockers were playing Shaun, so what were you going to do?

MCMANUS: But, you know, did you get bored there?

PRIME MINISTER: No, not at all.

MORRIS: Oh, come on.

PRIME MINISTER: Nup, not at all.

LOCKE: How far before it started, did you have to be in, sit you in your spot?

PRIME MINISTER: Well, not too long before, and some were there many hours beforehand.

MORRIS: Not the important realmers, though.

PRIME MINISTER: The realm, exactly, exactly. So, when you're from the realm, you get in just before just before other royals, and then the actual Royal Family. So, Princess Mary was just sitting just across, the same aisle as we were, and so you get to see all the royals moving in and then the Royal Family coming in, and then it's on. And there is something about the acoustics in a cathedral, or in this case an abbey, that is just magnificent. And the singing and the music was beautiful.

MORRIS: But was there, there was a bit too much of it. There was twenty-one of those choir songs. Twenty-one, fifteens probably enough, tens enough.

PRIME MINISTER: Hang on, it went for two hours, the last one went for more than double that.

MCMANUS: Whoah, okay.

MORRIS: And the worst thing is, like Katy Perry was there. It's like, can you just not stand up and do a bit of I Kissed A Girl?

LOCKE: Alright, we've got more with the Prime Minister coming up next.

(Break)

LOCKE: Nathan, Nat and Shaun, were just unpacking the Coronation with the Prime Minister, who's joined us here in the studio. Anthony Albanese, it's always a pleasure to have you in town.

PRIME MINISTER: Its good to be here. And I'm sorry I've disappointed you, mate, by you not being the flagbearer.

MORRIS: It was very upsetting for me.

LOCKE: But we've seen your upper arms Nathan, I dont think you couldve.

PRIME MINISTER: It was Sam Kerr or you, you made the final two on the list.

MORRIS: Yeah I know, but like, I understand that Sam Kerr has done some things, but like Shaun, come on.

PRIME MINISTER: She's pretty handy. We beat England two-nil.

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