{"id":273721,"date":"2025-11-09T18:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273721\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:04:13","slug":"joe-rogan-experience-russell-crowe-sticks-up-for-anthony-albanese-after-podcaster-asks-about-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273721\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan Experience: Russell Crowe sticks up for Anthony Albanese after podcaster asks about Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian actor Russell Crowe has stuck up for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese<\/a> after being asked by podcaster Joe Rogan: \u201cWhat is wrong with Australia?\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Oscar-winning actor was talking with Rogan on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience when the podcaster asked the former Rabbitohs owner to explain what the issues are with our country.<\/p>\n

But Crowe quickly hit back, saying he thought Australians were \u201clucky at the moment\u201d and that political \u201csmokescreens\u201d were distracting from the real work being done by Albanese.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have a Prime Minister who\u2019s very much motivated by trying to help everybody,\u201d Crowe said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich should be the job of a politician<\/a>, right? To improve the lives of the people they represent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crowe said Albanese had \u201cinherited a conga line of stupidity\u201d but that he was trying to fix things.<\/p>\n

Crowe added some members of the media and people in politics were trying to distract from recent achievements the prime minister had accomplished internationally including his recent positive meeting with US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\"RussellRussell Crowe has come to the defence of Anthony Albanese while speaking with podcaster Joe Rogan. Credit: AAP\"HollywoodHollywood star comes to defence of Australia\u2019s prime minister. Credit: AAP<\/p>\n

\u201c(He) gets off the plane wearing a Joy Division shirt, big band from his youth, and he\u2019s just a relaxed character. He\u2019s been wearing a suit and tie for weeks on the road,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe member of the opposition wanted to point out, and did so in parliament, that Joy Division is a Nazi term \u2026 and it\u2019s like \u2018okay, what\u2019s the point of that?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Crowe was referring to Opposition Leader Sussan Ley\u2019s attack on Albanese for \u201cdisplaying the wrong values\u201d by wearing a shirt depicting the album cover of Unknown Pleasures by punk band Joy Division.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know it\u2019s a band name, right?\u201d Crowe continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust because you like the Rolling Stones doesn\u2019t mean that you want rocks to be falling on people. What are you f***ing talking about?<\/p>\n

\u201cPicking up some pointless piece of minutiae and lighting it on fire to cover up the reality that the Prime Minister worked his ass off on behalf of the country and successfully achieved a bunch of things.<\/p>\n

\u201c(He) should be patted on the back, not pushed down the stairs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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