{"id":82367,"date":"2026-08-28T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/82367\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:01:50","slug":"anthony-albanese-met-with-raucous-laughter-twice-at-bush-summit-as-he-defends-labors-record-in-regional-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/82367\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Albanese met with raucous laughter twice at Bush Summit as he defends Labor\u2019s record in regional Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Prime Minister has been met with laughter and derision from regional Australians while defending his record in the bush during a summit in Dubbo.<\/p>\n

It was an incredibly tough panel for the Prime Minister who was asked a range of questions about renewable energy projects, farming and foreign land ownership on Thursday.<\/p>\n

News Corp\u2019s Gemma Jones told Mr Albanese about a Dubbo business owner, Robyn Hicks, whose property will be “sandwiched on three sides by a solar farm”.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister was told there were foreign-owned projects being built mostly by foreign workers that operated on work camps, which had led to a downturn in people coming to Dubbo to spend money.<\/p>\n

Asked what message he had for people whose “lives and livelihoods are being upended and don’t understand why”, the Prime Minister said, “I get it”.<\/p>\n

Mr Albanese\u2019s response was met by laughter before he continued his response.<\/p>\n

“We need to do better than that,” Mr Albanese said.<\/p>\n

“You need social license in order to operate, there needs to be much better community consultation and engagement on all of those issues.”<\/p>\n

Jones told the audience that their participation was appreciated, but defended the Prime Minister for attending the summit to address them directly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe appreciate the audience\u2019s involvement too, but when you have the Prime Minister here to talk to you I think it\u2019s best to let him speak,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/p>\n

Later in the discussion, Mr Albanese was asked if it bothered him that farmers saw the Albanese government as \u201cthe enemy\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat worries me is overregulation,\u201d the Prime Minister said.<\/p>\n

A second round of raucous laughter erupted.<\/p>\n

Mr Albanese told the panel that Labor needed to \u201cdo something about it, and we are\u201d through the abolishment of a thousand tariffs, which was creating \u201ca part of bureaucracy\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things at the economic summit that Jim Chalmers convened last year was about how do we get rid of excess regulation,\u201d Mr Albanese said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of that is state, we have three levels of government, that can create a problem as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we were starting Australia again, you wouldn\u2019t have three levels of government.\u201d<\/p>\n

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