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Sky News host Paul Murray says the left-leaning media now likes to “make things up” to push a narrative on how “hard-hearted the prime minister is”.

Mr Murray said journalists are making up stories to push the idea of the “cancerous government that is the conservative side of politics”.

ABC journalist Andrew Probyn said on Sunday, Australia is witnessing the “slow transformation” of Prime Minister Scott Morrison from “someone who didn’t understand it at all to someone who’s getting some understanding”.

He said the prime minister was “gob smacked” hearing about the existence of the gender pay-gap.

“You would have noticed that two weeks ago, that the prime minister actually started talking about the gender pay gap, but maybe a day or so before that, he had no understanding that that actually happened,” Mr Probyn said.

Mr Murray said this assertion was utterly untrue because on at least 21 occasions the prime minister has talked about the gender pay gap and even how it was the lowest it had ever been in 2020.

“These are the people who get to say ‘thumbs up thumbs down’ on economic management, ‘thumbs up thumbs down’ on what people care about when it comes to climate change,” he said.

“They are playing games.”