‘I’ll fess up’: Anthony Albanese tries to make a virtue of not knowing unemployment or cash rate

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The Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, says he accepts responsibility" for a gaffe on the first day of the federal election campaign when he couldn't state the national unemployment figure or the official cash rate.

Albanese was asked on multiple occasions if he knew the figures during a press conference in the marginal seat of Bass in Tasmania at the start of the six-week campaign.