Greens leader Adam Bandt

Adam Bandt explodes at journalist who asks him about wages. We're just four days into an election campaign and we've had almost as many “Gotchya” questions, ...

“Elections should be about a contest of ideas. This is what happens,” he said. Specifically what IS the WPI. Politics should be about reaching for the stars and offering a better society and instead, there are these questions that are asked about ‘can you tell us this particular stat’ or ‘can you tell us that particular stat’ and those questions are designed to show that politicians are somehow out of touch and not representative of everyday people.” The iconic one so far is when Anthony Albanese didn’t know the unemployment rate – something we’re still talking about. The moment Mr Bandt was asked one of these gotchya questions was also at the National Press Club.