Transcript: Triple M interview
Julia Gillard
posted Tuesday, 20 July 2010
E & O E – PROOF ONLY
Subjects: Federal election.
HOST: The Moving Forward dance. Julia Gillard saw this on the Today Show on Channel 9 this morning, she is excited about it, she is going to call us in the next 10 minutes.
Triple M’s “Moving Forward” song playing.
HOST: Who’s on the line there?
PRIME MINISTER: It’s Julia Gillard ringing to say Forwards Not Back.
HOST: Is that Julia Gillard?
PRIME MINISTER: It is indeed.
HOST: What do you think of the song? We played a little bit of it now. It has absolutely gone wild. Not just in Australia but across the world. You’re a superstar!
PRIME MINISTER: Well thank you very much for all of that effort. I’ll have to work out some dance steps to go with it.
HOST: Absolutely right.
HOST: Oh, we’ve got them for you. Don’t worry about that.
PRIME MINISTER: Now I’m really worried.
HOST: How are you feeling PM? A few weeks to go now, it’s all fired up for the election?
PRIME MINISTER: I’m feeling good and getting around the country talking to people and talking about some big ideas for the future too. So it’s all a good time, an exciting time and a big decision in front of the Australian people.
HOST: Now we’ve got the election out of the way, let’s get back to the dance. I reckon PM Julia Gillard would be a sensational boogyer?
HOST: Show us your boogy woogie.
PRIME MINISTER: I don’t know what on earth has caused you to come to that conclusion. I think the evidence isn’t going to support you.
HOST: Did you used to be one of them girls who was at the club and she would be the one on the dance floors with all of her friends going ballistic?
HOST: I reckon you would be a great dancer.
PRIME MINISTER: Well I don’t actually get out to do those things much these days.
HOST: Yeah, she’s got a little bit on. Did it concern you at all Prime Minister that part of the dance involved moving backwards?
PRIME MINISTER: Well that’s the bit Tony Abbott would do.
HOST: Boom boom.
HOST: Julia I just want to invite, I’ve read in the papers that Laurie Oakes is giving you a bit of a hard time. If anybody wants to know exactly why you’ve decided to take on the top job now, just tell Laurie to get back in his box and that Stuey from the Grill Team, you know, advised me that I wasn’t welcome back on the Grill Team unless I was prepared to be Prime Minister. You need to tell him, because I told you this three or four months ago, you’ve done it, congratulations, now you’re the PM. Shut up Laurie.
PRIME MINISTER: I’m amazed that Laurie Oakes has not got on the roll of the Grill Team. That’s the story that he should be breaking.
HOST: Good on you PM.
HOST: Thanks a lot for your time PM.
HOST: Enjoy the song, we’ll make sure we send it to you so you can get those dance steps down.
PRIME MINISTER: Thank you.
HOST: Seeya.
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