Hardly reassuring about the quality of a speech when the most notable thing is a stumble in its delivery. Anthony Albanese’s address to the Business Council of Australia dinner on Tuesday night was putting CEOs to sleep before he chewed on pronunciation.He talked up the co-operation between “industry, unions and the community” in the government’s $2.6 billion bailout of the “Tomago aluminium smelter”. He said tuh-MAR-go, then froze, course-corrected and began referring to it as TOM-a-go.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Albanese chews his words with country’s top CEOs
The prime minister’s limp address at Sydney’s Sofitel Wentworth ballroom headlined the Business Council of Australia’s annual dinner.








