WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 17 June 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:05.280 From the sky New Center. This is Paul Murray. Life 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:08.799 had a gang? Have you Monday? So much to get 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:13.039 to so much politics, big politics day? Of course. Yes, 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:15.000 in a second I'll get to Albo licking the boots 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:19.040 of the real leaders, those being is mates in China. Yes, 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.520 I will get into how the political class's life got 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.119 even more comfortable today. Probably didn't any about this, but 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.040 I'm going to make some comment on this this evening, 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.200 and then for some reason, I'll tell you what freedom 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:32.160 water means. 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.880 Freedom to old water isn't just about what's inside the bottle. 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:41.760 It's about the message it sends with every set. Hmm. Okay, 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:44.720 But first I want to start on some good news, 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:45.960 and I want to start on some health news. Now, 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.239 generally speaking, I don't start with the medical breakthrough all 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.640 the rest of it, because normally it's some sort of 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:52.800 company that's just trying to go for a free mention 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.640 on the television. But I'll be honest. One of the 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:58.960 things that scares me, one of the things that I 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:00.800 know would scare an awful a lot of people watching, 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.880 is about one day when our body might work but 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.680 our brain won't be perfect, that we'll start to lose 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.080 touch of things. And in Australia, things like Alzheimer's and 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:15.440 dementia are very big, very big, and a lot of 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:17.319 people live with it and we all know what the 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.840 consequences are. I start the show tonight though with some 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.920 good news, but let me try to explain the size 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.960 of issues. Now. I know that there is a specificity 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.880 of difference between dementia and Alzheimer's, But in the question 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.679 of dementia, about four hundred and eighty thousand people in 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.920 Australia currently have been diagnosed with some form of dementia. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.800 About eighty nine thousand people each and every year get 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:44.039 diagnosed with it and sadly about five thousand people and 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.440 the latest numbers we had with twenty twenty one died 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:52.240 with the condition. So today it is with great hope 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.480 that we read headlines that a new drug may will 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.919 be on its way towards Australia which might be able 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.960 to help us in the fight. To those that have it, 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:02.760 to those that are worried about it, to those that 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.160 are scared about it, this is big news now. Apparently 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:11.280 two Alzheimer's drugs aimed at slowing cognitive delay are heralded 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.040 as a step towards prevention and are expected to give 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.720 be given the green light by Australian for Australian patients soon. 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.920 They are the first drugs to get approved internationally for 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.680 treatment for the life limiting illness in more than twenty years. 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.040 Local experts are warning medications are going to be expensive, 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.000 they're going to need monitoring, and may be only available 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.519 to a certain section of people that are living with Alzheimer's. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.359 But still, if it helps anyone, this is what many 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.040 people have been frankly praying for, hoping for for a 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.800 long time. Now, let me explain some of the research 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.480 behind all of this. Again, I'm not going to play 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.200 a doctor on television for you. I'm just repeating what 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.240 I've read in the media today. Because there have been 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.639 clinical trials which have been taking place, and they have 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.640 been taking place principally in the United States, but the 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.760 approval process is starting to speed up here in Australia, 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.680 where this is going to be an inevitability. Now, an 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.760 eighteen month trial involving seventeen hundred and ninety five people 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.720 between the ages of fifty and ninety the first of 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.560 the drugs showed a twenty seven percent reduction in cognitive 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.520 decline compared to those who were not given the drug. 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:23.160 Patients gained six months of cognitive stabilization. Think about how 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.080 important this is for yourself or the family member that 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.440 you're most concerned about. With all of this, now, one 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.880 of these drugs in particular has already been evaluated by 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.440 the organization that decides whether these drugs can be used 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:38.320 in Australia. That's the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration. It's expected 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.160 to be available here later in the year. But here's 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.480 the kick. It'll cost thirty eight thousand dollars a year 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:49.240 per person, unless, of course, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.160 put it on the list where taxpayers reduced that number 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.360 down and frankly, your fellow taxpayer ends up paying the 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.000 best part of the thirty eight thousand dollars for the 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.480 doses per year. Now, it's going to go before that 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:06.240 committee next month and we'll know the month after in 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.600 August whether it has got the sign off. But let 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.040 me be very clear, and the reason I take a 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:11.360 couple of minutes to talk about it at the start 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.480 of the show. The Australian government has the money, does 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.239 it have the will to turn thirty eight thousand dollars 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.960 a year for this medication into something that will become 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.960 close to freely available for anyone who would need it 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.880 here in Australia. Well, you bet you they do. Now. 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:29.560 This government is more than willing to put an awful 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.240 lot of stuff off the budget books, but it deals 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.200 that they want to do for hundreds of billions of 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:40.280 dollars when it comes to things like submarines, or when 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.839 it wants to spend again tens of billions of dollars 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.080 when it comes to renewable energy. Well, the money coming 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.200 into the federal government has never been higher, as you 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.360 can see here a few years ago, four hundred and 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.080 forty seven, then four hundred and eighty one billion, up 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.000 to five hundred and fifty billion, and the last full 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:58.479 financial year, the current one ends in a few days time, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.360 six hundred and eighteen billion dollars. They have the money, 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.000 They have the money, do they have the will, Well, 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:06.760 we'll tell you, we'll follow this process all the way 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.840 through because again it frightens Australians about what may well 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.400 happen if there is a drug that can help you 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.360 hold on for at least another six months or maybe 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.839 even getting the world of prevention. That is huge news, 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.600 way bigger than anything in politics today. But let's get 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.279 to the politics because that's the main meat, and I 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.520 know that's why you watch this each and every night. Well, 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.000 perfect example about albonomics, where the people in charge of 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.440 the country will they get richer while you get poorer, 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.400 yet you still have to pay more tax, Where things 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.880 like in interest rates and inflation will they hollow you 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:40.960 out but they're fine. We know this because there is 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:45.240 currently a per capita recession, meaning for the average Australian 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.800 things are going backwards. They have been going backwards for 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.960 well more than a year now and even the abc 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.480 CS things are starting to feel like they did in 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.880 the early nineteen nineties. Now the numbers aren't exactly the same, 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.760 there's not a million people unemployed, but the circumstances and 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.159 the pressure are as bad as things were way back 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:04.520 when the Australian economy is only sputtering along you wouldn't 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.200 even say there was growth. There is technically growth, where 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.800 in the past three months the Australian economy only grew 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.560 by zero point one percent, So we are right on 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.920 the edge. As soon as it starts to go into 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.560 negative for three months and then another three months. Two quarters. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:21.920 We are in a recession. There has been a per 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.599 capita recession for the best part of more than a year. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.440 So the people in charge of all of this, of course, 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:32.359 the Prime Minister and his merry band of men and 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.800 women as ministers, and what is about to happen for them, 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.120 despite the fact that you are living some of the 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.040 toughest financial conditions of our lives. People under the age 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.320 of thirty have never lived anything like it. Well, as 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.479 you can see there by the headline, guess what they're 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.440 getting Another pay rise Now, this is the third pay 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:54.520 rise since Albanesi became Prime minister, and it feathers the 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.960 nest yet again of the people who do not need 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:01.120 the feathering. Today was made by the of course, the 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.640 completely independent tribunal, the same tribunal that one of their 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.479 ministers was lobbying to give a twenty percent pay rise 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.080 to a high ranking public official. And now we're in 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:12.920 a scenario where the Prime Minister is going to earn 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:17.480 over six hundred thousand dollars. Now, because it's other people's money, 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.400 they will just throw it up against the war. But 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:23.560 think about this. Backbenchers have now got their third pay 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.840 rise since Labour came to power, and now earned two 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.400 hundred and thirty three thousand, a minister four hundred and 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.520 thirty eight thousand dollars, which is more than the Opposition 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.800 leader at four hundred and thirty two one thousand dollars, 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.680 and the Prime Minister now six hundred and seven thousand dollars. 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.440 Leave these up, because I want everyone to times three 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.880 on all of these, and that's how much money a 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:45.520 politician will earn should they be elected to parliament, server 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.080 as a minister, be the Opposition leader, or of course 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:52.440 be the Prime minister. I repeat the third pay rise 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.520 since Labor was elected in May of twenty and twenty two. 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.880 The numbers are extraordinary. Now. Of course, if they want 0:07:59.920 --> 0:08:02.280 to do the politicians could turn around and refuse the 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.960 pay rise. They could do what happened in twenty twenty one, 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.440 which was to have a wage freeze. They could move 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.000 a motion in the Parliament to do so, to say 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:13.680 thanks very much for the advice, but we will not 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.920 take the pay rise. They could do this if they 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.680 wanted to. Oh no, but of course it's a completely 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:24.080 independent body and therefore they couldn't possibly overrule it. I repeat, 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.760 same body twenty twenty one, the Parliament said, no, we 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.000 don't need the pay rise. Will the Prime Minister get 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.079 a question about this tomorrow? Let's all wait and see. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.199 If you can't talk about it because it's the international 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.120 affairs of licking the boots of China, well then could 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.360 somebody ask the day after that, does he deserve his 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.520 third pay rise since he became the prime minister? Does 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.959 every backbencher deserve their third pay rise since labor became 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:53.720 the government? Does every useless senator deserve a pay rise? No, 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:58.240 of course they don't. While yes, cost of living affects everyone, 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.480 including people on big wages with big morel good jees, 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.720 what a message to say. The same government that turns 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.199 around and says we've done our best because we've given 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.840 you thirty something bucks back a week in tax cards 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:11.840 are going to get a pay rise that will be 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:13.520 way more than thirty bucks a week. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:15.520 Now. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.360 Of course, it's up to the Prime Minister to come 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.280 out tonight and say thanks very much for the advice, 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.640 but we don't need it. But of course there'll be tumbleweeds. 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.760 Nothing will happen. Why because of course this Prime Minister, 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.679 well he knows if everyone else is paid well around him, 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.920 then they'll never move on him, no matter what the 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.680 polls say. Now, of course, while all of this is 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.080 happening at the front end of the plane, let me 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:42.199 tell you about today. News from today that a fifth 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.440 of all small businesses in Australia are out of cash. 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.319 They are right on the edge of exploding and disappearing. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.240 This is on top of nine million Australians who have 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.480 less than one thousand dollars in the bank, most of 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.080 them less than two hundred and fifty dollars in the bank. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.840 And we learned today that high inflation will be around 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:04.320 not full months, but four years. All of that, of course, 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.679 feeds into the Reserve Bank, who meet yet again this 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.240 week to decide whether to put up interest rates, to 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.120 put down interest rates, but most likely to keep them 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:19.200 at a generational high level. Now this means the tens 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.520 of thousands of dollars that people paying off their houses 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.600 have had to find to pay off their homes since 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.600 this government came to power, and twelve interest rate rises 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:32.600 have happened on their watch. That they will celebrate because 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.720 nothing gets worse if they keep the rates where they are. 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.000 But the reality is, as I've spoken about before, the 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.880 python is squeezing. There is only so long so many 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.960 people can live under the same squeeze. You will have 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.280 noticed it like I have, about the number of for 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.120 sale signs that are popping up, the number of people 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:55.640 who aren't able to keep up with their mortgages. Now, 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.520 this does put into play quite a few seats in 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.280 the mortgage belt, which the Labour part assumes are safe 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.240 and will always vote their way. It's up to Peter 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.000 Dutton and the Liberal Party to offer a solution or 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.240 cost of living, not just to find what the problem is. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.240 But yet again we see that the reality for the 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:17.200 people who rule us is that they get three pay 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.280 rises in a couple of years, while you probably haven't 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.720 got any and if you did, maybe best case scenario 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.280 five percent. And because of inflation over the past few years, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.480 it's really real wages back at the twenty eleven in 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:33.920 twenty and twelve levels as you just saw. The A 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:35.840 and Z Bank suggests there will be no cut to 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.280 interest rates this month or for the rest of this year, 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:43.600 probably into next year, which is why the opinion polls 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.439 are shocking to labour. People who think that the Australian 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.319 public is so stupid, throw them a couple of crumbs 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.800 while their loaf gets bigger. But Australian says, you know, 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.960 have had enough and are now starting to push back. Now, 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.640 apart from anything else, one of the things that I 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:00.880 think was very important to highlight out of this number 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.520 that shows Dutton as the preferred prime minister by one point, 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.480 about the people who actually put the poll together. They say, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.120 of those that have given them comments while giving their 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.199 answers about who they'd vote for if there was an election. 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.640 Right now, some of the comments we collect are becoming 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:18.359 quite angry. We are also beginning to see more specific 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.800 focus on the cost of housing and rents, as well 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.920 as growing unease with job security. Now, who are the 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:29.000 people who could actually do something about that? The great 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.360 passengers of the Australian economy, the ones who say, trusts us. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.760 Everything's okay. Sure, growth is okay for us at zero 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.520 point one percent, but you have to live in a 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.839 per capita recession. They take more tax from you than 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.880 ever before as an overall slice of the economy, but 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.839 they rejig parts of it so it becomes two little 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.160 too late tax cuts so they can say they're doing 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.480 something about it. The Poles will only get worse while 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:58.040 they maintain this current smug attitude. And every single person 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:01.160 you can see in your screen, including that bloke, gets 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:06.760 their third pay rise in this term of parliament, their 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:13.720 third outrageous. Now about those polls, As I was saying, 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.240 they continue to shock the political classes, but they don't 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.000 shock you and I. We've been on the front lines 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:19.600 of this and speaking about it for as long as 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.240 we have been seeing what's been coming. You know the 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.280 headline right now thirty six thirty five in terms of 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.920 who is the preferred prime minister nationally, big chunk of 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:30.960 people having no idea which way they're going to go. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.080 But have a look at this. Labour's got a Queensland problem. 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.160 It is a massive, mega, huge Queensland problem. Now they've 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.560 got less than half a dozen seats in Queensland, but 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.240 I reckon a couple of those, particularly places like Lily, 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.120 might be under real threat and they might lose some 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.440 to the Greens because their vote is apparently up. But 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.080 look at what's happening there. Forty eight percent of people 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:54.160 saying the preferred prime minister is Peter Dutton Albow. The 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.160 only place you can get a high five is from 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.400 the Labor government, which is currently about to get flushed 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:03.160 down the toot and hopefully h in a few months time. Meantime, 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.839 another opinion pole, same organization, this time over in the 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.480 Financial Review. It shows pretty obviously in a whole raft 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.160 of numbers, and let's look at the bottom right hand 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.839 corner of these numbers. More than anything else, two Party 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:17.320 preferred fifty to fifty, exactly the same number as the 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.000 News poll has had out there. So we're now starting 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.720 to see a trend. You're starting to see a trend. 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.360 Now overall they're preferred Prime Minister Albow in front, but 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.160 only by two points. Now remember I was somebody sitting 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.760 here thinking, oh, preferred Prime Minister Scott Morrison was fine. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.800 So the twenty twenty two election, who knows what's going 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.760 to happen, Albow a year out was running third to 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.920 don't Know. Well, Duarton is well and truly in front 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.680 of don't Know and he's starting to breathe down the 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.480 neck in how many poles in a row now around 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.520 Anthony abernezi As for their overall vote, the Labor if 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.880 the Liberal Party consider it forty nationally, then they're going 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:52.760 to win an awful lot of seats. I don't know 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:54.600 what's going to happen with the Teal seats. The Teal 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.960 seats are the statistical block between an opposition getting close 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.520 and an opposition get close to government. But on all 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.880 of these numbers, the Labor Party will go into minority, 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.840 which means the tale will wag the dog for three 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.840 years and we will be in a very tough place 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.520 for the next little while. It doesn't matter how left 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.520 wing all of those MPs are and how that all 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.200 thing off a certain type of song sheheet. You know, 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.520 the government's not in charge, that are in charge when 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.720 you've got to go and double check with somebody else 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.960 before you can even pass one piece of legislation in 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.080 the Low House, let alone the Greens, Pocock and the 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.000 rest in the Upper House. And also on the issues, 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:31.600 you're going to have a look here at how things 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:35.680 have changed since the last election, where the Labor Party, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.480 which was leading in many of these areas, is now 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:43.760 only preferred by voters when it comes to welfare, family 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.440 and community, health care, education and training, the environment and 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:56.800 climate change, and strikes, unemployment, roads, housing, accommodation, standard of living, 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.840 government spending, managing the economy, defense, national security, crime and order, 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:04.920 immigration and asylum, all of those currently being led by 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:09.120 the opposition. The pole shocks will continue no matter how 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.960 arrogant the Prime Minister is, and no matter how deaf, 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.280 dumb and blind the people around him are and saying 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:19.200 good job boss. More of the same pleas which brings 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.640 us to today, and the red carpet was rolled out 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.440 for China to essentially continue to march over the top 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:31.080 of us. Of course, this is a wonderful refreshing of 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:35.720 the relationship because Australia doesn't call China out anymore, even 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.360 when they endanger members of the Australian Defense Force. We 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:42.000 don't say anything. We pretend that what's said at Beefweek 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.040 is a way of responding. Yet, as we showed you 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.720 and sent it estimates, nobody made a phone call to 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.600 China about it, a little bit like that scared person 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:54.080 who secretly hopes that they get voicemail or technically rings 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.080 an old number and says, well, I tried to contact 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.760 them now. Of course, all of this politically apparently works 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.200 for Anthony Aberdeasi because the one point four million people 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.960 of Chinese descent in Australia well and truly turned against 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.359 the Liberal Party last time after voting for them in 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:12.439 twenty nineteen, sixteen, thirteen, ten and in two thousand and seven. 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.760 So most likely all of this garbage somewhat helps politically, 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:21.480 but only in a certain pocket of Australia. But again, 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.600 as you have heard, the media only one message tonight, 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.879 which was everything is awesome. With the flick of a 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:33.560 penanda firm handshake, Australia and China renewed and revitalized their relationship. 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:39.000 Prime Minister declaring Australia's relationship with China is renewed and revitalized. 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.600 Both leaders are celebrating the high level visit as a 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.640 sign that Australia and China's ties have now recovered. This 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.400 is an abusive relationship where as long as we don't 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.640 push back, we're told everything will be okay, you will 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:56.480 be financially all right. Yet they continue the intimidation of 0:17:56.520 --> 0:18:00.960 our defense force, they continue the infiltration of our education 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:05.520 and our political system. But as long as you don't 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.520 push back, then the handsome boy will get the cuddles 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.600 that he wants. Thankfully, tonight there were some people that 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.879 were braver than many, if not most people in the 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.560 Australian Parliament, or many or most people in the Australian media, 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.679 because they were the ones who went to Cambridge today 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.520 and tried to speak on the behalf of a million 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:26.479 people who live in concentration camps working as slave labor. 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.440 That's the reality for the weigest population. Of course, you've 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:34.040 seen the intimidation that happened with my colleague Chang Lai, 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.680 who had been held in a Chinese prison for three years, 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:41.080 trumped up bes chargers. But the Chinese diplomats in our 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:45.480 country start to get in the way, pushing Paul and 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.240 try to intimidate her world under the members of the 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:52.240 Australian press who started to push back. But more importantly, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.879 you'll see the lady in white, the Australian embassy officials 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.359 the Department of Foreign Affairs saying no, no, come on 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.199 out of the way, out of the way. But of 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.359 course when the Prime is was asked about it, just 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:05.080 like when the boat of illegal arrivals were there in 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.760 Western Australia, Oh he doesn't know. Apparently he's found didn't 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.280 work today. Apparently one of the what eleven people who 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.080 have to talk to the Prime Minister about his media. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.280 None of them were able to pass on to the 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.920 big boy. Of course, he will have plenty to say. 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.480 That will be only after the Chinese leadership has gone. 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.280 Today was a pantomime, a pantomime of pretending that we 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.840 have a partnership where we are well and truly the 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.560 weaker partner, and to be the weaker partner in our 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:36.399 own parliament I find disgraceful James Patterson, who remember had 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.480 been banned from traveling to China for his ability to 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.440 speak out against China, while he is using every bit 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.040 of his opportunity as the Home Affairs Minister to tell 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.639 the truth about this abusive relationship. 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:50.480 Well, I think we always have to be robust in 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.840 advocating our national interests. We should do that in a 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:55.800 respectful and a measured way. We should be strategic about it. 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.280 But we shouldn't be afraid to do it, because actually, 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:02.080 what authoritarian regimes want from democracies, almost more than anything else, 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:04.399 is our silence. They want our complicity. They want us 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:06.960 to stop criticizing them and calling out that behavior. And 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:09.879 it is important, because we had our liberal democracy that 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.520 we are consistent with that, and we speak out. We're appropriate, 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:14.640 We shouldn't be cowed into silence. 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.439 And we are. But don't forget what does this government 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:19.000 have in common with the Chinese government that want a 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:22.800 sense of the Internet. Oh, it starts with misinformation, But 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:27.040 of course who declares the information to be misinformation? The government, 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.200 the same government that's got it so wrong so many times. 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:34.000 But more importantly said that you fell for misinformation when 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:35.600 it came to a yes no vote about what would 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:39.840 happen with the constitution. These people are playing for keeps 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:42.880 and they will find any and every way to make 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:47.720 sure that any opposition to them is marginalized at the least, 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.320 but snuffed out at the very worst. Make no mistake, 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.560 that is the plan. That is the play. By watching 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.119 this program each and every night, by supporting this channel 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:58.960