Sky News host Peta Credlin has questioned whether Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has a “pathological problem with telling the truth”.
“Today, we learn from emails obtained under Freedom of Information that the federal government's new $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund had never been open for business in January, as the Prime Minister had repeatedly claimed, under questioning, at the time,” Ms Credlin said.
She said two weeks after his comments that the fund was operational, internal correspondence dated January 24 said that officials were still working on draft investment guidance.
"It was not until January 22, so say the FOI documents, that the NRF's board signed off on the application process.
"No big deal, you might think, because in the glare of the media, it's easy enough to get confused about what's already operational, and what's only about to be.
"But repeated claims that something is up and running when it isn't, and then attacking the Opposition for their follow-up questions, says to me this isn't a mere truth oversight, but a deliberate pattern of behaviour from our nation's top leader."
19 мар 2024
