Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s awkward run-in with fly

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has appeared to ingest an airborne creature.

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, or so the children’s nursery rhyme goes.

But it was Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese who, during an interview with Sky News chief anchor Kieran Gilbert, appeared to ingest an airborne creature.

Mr Albanese, who was appearing live from Uluru, quickly found himself besieged by a swarm of flies as he delivered one of his final pitches to voters before the much anticipated Voice referendum on Saturday.

An unwanted visitor appeared on the PM’s face. Picture: Supplied.

Moments before disaster: the fly sat on the top corner of the PM’s mouth. Picture: Supplied.

Mere seconds later, the fly had vanished, seemingly into the PM’s mouth. Picture: supplied.

Defying innumerable attempts by the PM to rid himself of these tiny tormentors, the winged intruder made contact before strutting across the first minister’s face to make a stop at Mr Albanese’s lip.

But as Mr Albanese delivered a particularly poignant missive, the fly continued its crusade launching itself off the precipice, and in a cruel twist of fate, appeared to be inadvertently swallowed.

Nevertheless, the Prime Minister, with the grace and poise of a seasoned statesman, continued to execute his case for a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

The state of the fly remains unknown.