Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has copped backlash for attending radio shock jock Kyle Sandilands’ lavish Sydney wedding over the weekend.
Mr Albanese defended his decision to attend during two press conferences on Friday and Saturday, praising the broadcaster as a self-made “Australian success story” who lifted himself out of poverty.
"Yes, I was invited to the wedding, yes I was invited in the context of Kyle saying how happy he was with Tegan," he said on Saturday.
"The thing that occurs at a wedding, it's a public expression in front of people, invited guests, of love between two people. That's a good thing.
"I enjoy weddings and I will be going to the wedding.”
Sandilands’ best man was convicted drug smuggler Simon Main, with notorious former nightclub baron John Ibrahim also in the groom’s bridal party.
Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley said there was "nothing wrong" with Mr Albanese attending a friend's wedding but ridiculed the decision in the face of a growing cost of living crisis.
"It is curious the Prime Minister thinks he can take a day off just days before his first real Budget," Ms Ley said in a statement on Friday.
"The test of that budget will be whether Anthony Albanese gives Australians a start date for the $275 reduction in power prices, a start date for the cheaper mortgages Labor promised and a start date for real wage rises - it's hard to see how the Prime Minister can justify being there tomorrow when there are still no answers on those promises.
"Australians will rightly ask whether the Prime Minister should be spinning decks at a million dollar wedding when people can’t afford their rent. It can’t be right that the PM is kicking back tomorrow while aged care residents are being kicked out of their homes because of his government's failures."
People on social media questioned the Prime Minister’s decision to attend the do, with some on Twitter slamming the choice given the guest list.
Activist page Sleeping Giants took the Prime Minister to task over his attendance, highlighting some of Sandilands’ questionable record over the years in a Tweet.
“Sometimes you should just say NO Albo,” it wrote.
Another user accused Mr Albanese of “embracing the celebrity lifestyle more than caring about real issues”.
Cheek Media’s Hannah Ferguson also criticised the Prime Minister’s decision on social media.
“PM is attending wedding of a man who asked a child rape victim about her sexual experiences on air, called monkeypox ‘the big gay disease’ and undertook sensitivity training over comments about the Paralympics. Albo says he’s an ‘Australian success story’,” she wrote.
Premier Chris Minns also showed up to the nuptials, and both he and Mr Albanese avoided the media scurry outside the historic Swift Mansion, where the wedding took place.
Sandilands’ co-host Jackie O, TV presenter Karl Stefanovic and his wife Jasmine, singer Guy Sebastian and wife Jules and NRL player Beau Ryan were also among the 130 guests at the lavish Darling Point wedding.
The pair have been together since late 2019 and became engaged in January 2022 while on a romantic getaway in Far North Queensland.
They have a son, Otto, who was born earlier this year.
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2023-04-30 02:45:18Z
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