He calls Anthony Albanese weak but is Peter Dutton too aggro for The Lodge? [Video]

“Screaming and interrupting, and rude, and insulting, intimidating and bullying.” Such were the descriptors used by former Labor WA Premier Mark McGowan to describe the Canberra press pack following the now-Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during the 2022 election campaign.

McGowan was speaking about his experiences of the joint press conferences he had with Albanese during that six-week campaign.

The WA premier said he was “shocked and appalled” by some Canberra-based members of the press pack, who, the Guardian reported, “attracted ongoing criticism from Labor supporters and veteran journalists for interjections and combative questioning”.

“The sort of thing in a workplace, you’d get sacked for,” McGowan said. “They need to reflect on their behaviour. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

The same could be said about …