{"id":953112,"date":"2026-11-05T04:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T04:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/953112\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T04:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T04:52:11","slug":"thank-you-very-much-the-four-minute-jess-wilson-press-conference-that-left-journalists-fuming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/953112\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Thank you very much’: The four-minute Jess Wilson press conference that left journalists fuming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victorian Opposition Leader Jess Wilson has frustrated journalists after cutting short a four-minute-and-thirty-nine-second press conference.<\/p>\n

Ms Wilson convened journalists for a photo opportunity and press conference at 10.15am on Thursday.<\/p>\n

After taking her first question more than 50 minutes later, at 11.05am, Ms Wilson walked off after less than five minutes and just a few questions.<\/p>\n

The press conference was held after Labor released a document claiming Coalition policies had been underfunded by more than $6 billion.<\/p>\n

Ms Wilson was repeatedly asked about whether she had costed all of her policies, but declined to say if or when she would release costed policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will be not lectured by the Labor government on costings where they have racked up $200 billion worth of debt,\u201d Ms Wilson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw the Victorian economic and financial update released on a Friday afternoon last week and it was missing key metrics, including the cash deficit.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we need to see the pre-election budget update. Our costings are dependent on that being released and that’s on the Labor government.<\/p>\n

“Thank you very much.”<\/p>\n

Ms Wilson then abruptly walked away, leaving frustrated journalists without answers to their questions.<\/p>\n

The incident comes ahead of the News24 and Herald Sun People\u2019s Forum to be held on Tuesday, November 17 at 7.30pm AEDT.<\/p>\n

Victorian Premier Ben Carroll, Opposition Leader Jess Wilson, Victorian Greens Leader Ellen Sandell and Victorian One Nation Leader Warren Pickering will all attend.<\/p>\n

The 90-minute forum will provide independently selected undecided voters with the opportunity to put questions directly to the four leaders.<\/p>\n

Ms Wilson has been leading Mr Carroll as preferred premier, with the Coalition opening a 10-point lead over Labor ahead of the November state election.<\/p>\n

The latest Newspoll, conducted by Pyxis Polling & Insights for The Australian<\/a>, puts the Coalition ahead 55-45 on a two-party-preferred basis, up from 52-48 in July.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Labor\u2019s primary vote has fallen four points to 24 per cent, while the Coalition has risen three points to 33 per cent. \u00a0<\/p>\n

One Nation has edged up to 20 per cent and the Greens to 14 per cent.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victorian Opposition Leader Jess Wilson has frustrated journalists after cutting short a four-minute-and-thirty-nine-second press conference. Ms Wilson convened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[520777,412313,520770,520747,520750,135679,28340,84046,241634,520752,520762,520758,520748,391438,520771,520745,520760,520744,520776,436834,376919,34481,36974,283981,21849,32092,520753,520751,137114,13110,520774,394576,520766,4271,43,520754,520740,127355,311604,25356,167541,1788,33844,13307,520746,520769,520764,415151,395831,44,399346,350165,486090,60504,483922,520757,520778,520749,59906,520756,378645,520759,177343,520767,161703,520741,520773,520768,11789,377724,381224,520761,364771,520763,520742,441008,380430,520775,404598,520755,520772,412281,9357,41,39,42,40,28333,129112,520765,520743,92645,441039,500578,399061,500626,64459,57056],"class_list":["post-953112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-s-forum","tag-s-primary-vote","tag-200-billion","tag-10-15am","tag-11-05am","tag-135679","tag-28340","tag-84046","tag-241634","tag-52-48","tag-55-45","tag-7-30pm-aedt","tag-a-10-point-lead","tag-a-document","tag-a-five-minute-press-conference","tag-a-four-minute-press-conference","tag-a-four-minute-and-thirty-nine-second-press-conference","tag-a-friday-afternoon","tag-a-photo-opportunity-and-press-conference","tag-a-two-party-preferred-basis","tag-an-hour","tag-answers","tag-australian-politics","tag-ben-carroll","tag-carroll","tag-cent","tag-coalition-policies","tag-costed-policies","tag-costings","tag-debt","tag-ellen-sandell","tag-four-points","tag-frustrated-journalists","tag-greens","tag-headlines","tag-her-policies","tag-herald-sun-people","tag-jess-wilson","tag-journalists","tag-july","tag-key-metrics","tag-labor","tag-labor-government","tag-last-week","tag-less-than-five-minutes","tag-more-than-6-billion","tag-more-than-50-minutes","tag-mr-carroll","tag-ms-wilson","tag-news","tag-news24","tag-newspoll","tag-november-17","tag-one-nation","tag-opposition-leader-jess-wilson","tag-our-costings","tag-preferred-premier","tag-pyxis-polling-insights","tag-questions","tag-selected-undecided-voters","tag-snapp-politics-generic","tag-the-90-minute-forum","tag-the-australian","tag-the-cash-deficit","tag-the-coalition","tag-the-five-minute-jess-wilson-press-conference","tag-the-four-leaders","tag-the-four-minute-jess-wilson-press-conference","tag-the-greens","tag-the-incident","tag-the-labor-government","tag-the-latest-newspoll","tag-the-media","tag-the-media-wait","tag-the-news24","tag-the-november-state-election","tag-the-opportunity","tag-the-pre-election-budget-update","tag-the-press-conference","tag-the-victorian-economic-and-financial-update","tag-their-questions","tag-three-points","tag-thursday","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tuesday","tag-vicpol","tag-victorian-greens-leader-ellen-sandell","tag-victorian-liberal-leader","tag-victorian-liberal-party","tag-victorian-one-nation-leader-warren-pickering","tag-victorian-opposition-leader-jess-wilson","tag-victorian-politics","tag-victorian-premier-ben-carroll","tag-warren-pickering","tag-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}