Speaker 1: From the Skying Center. This is Paul Murray live, Hollo,
Speaker 1: my friend. Game on.
Speaker 2: Half of the country thinks we are headed in the
Speaker 2: wrong direction. More than half of the country thinks the
Speaker 2: Prime Minister is not doing a good job. Those were
Speaker 2: the conditions in which Peter Dutton started the election battle.
Speaker 2: It'll be called tomorrow. We'll talk about it tonight, about
Speaker 2: the number of seats, the where, the what and the how,
Speaker 2: But if the five things you need to know about
Speaker 2: what I thought was a pretty impressive speech from a
Speaker 2: man who in just a few weeks time may well
Speaker 2: end up the prime minister of this country, certainly an
Speaker 2: alternative to the current who. As I say, the polls
Speaker 2: say more than half of the country is dissatisfied with
Speaker 2: the five things you need to know about the speech
Speaker 2: and about why I think that it starts the election
Speaker 2: campaign in the best way possible for the opposition. This
Speaker 2: is a conversation about help that is needed now, not
Speaker 2: help in a year fifteen months time. As you know,
Speaker 2: we have remained laser focused and almost obsessed with cost
Speaker 2: of living because of the effects that it has had
Speaker 2: on everyday Australians. I remember the story of a woman
Speaker 2: who was living in a car in Perth. She had
Speaker 2: a job, she has kids. They live in the car.
Speaker 2: The way that they could make sure that they had
Speaker 2: drinking water at the end of each and every day
Speaker 2: was to go and go and buy a bag of
Speaker 2: ice that would then melt throughout the day and that's
Speaker 2: what they would drink. There are too many Australians who
Speaker 2: are suffering and have suffered for a long time, people
Speaker 2: who are largely forgotten by most of the media, but
Speaker 2: thankfully not by Peter Dutton in the very way he
Speaker 2: framed what he plans to do with his Prime ministership.
Speaker 2: But to get there, he tells the story that we
Speaker 2: have told nightly and you have lived every day of
Speaker 2: the past three years.
Speaker 3: Your bills tell the true story of Labour's cost of
Speaker 3: living crisis. And here's the facts of the Albanesi government's
Speaker 3: economic record. Rents are up by at percent, housing is
Speaker 3: up by fourteen percent, groceries up by staggering thirty percent,
Speaker 3: Electricity is up by thirty two percent, and insurance is
Speaker 3: up for many households and businesses by thirty five percent.
Speaker 2: He brought to the National Conversation here's moment to be
Speaker 2: heard uninterrupted for thirty minutes across the airwaves of Australia,
Speaker 2: the stories of those that are ohso forgotten by too many.
Speaker 3: In Perth, a mum in a grocery store in tears
Speaker 3: told me how her her husband and children couldn't keep
Speaker 3: their heads above water with the bills stacking up. In Adelaide,
Speaker 3: I spoke with a food manufacturer whose electricity prices had
Speaker 3: gone up by about three hundred percent. In Victoria, I
Speaker 3: spoke with a supermarketing employee, a woman in her sixties
Speaker 3: who had a machete held against her throat during a robbery.
Speaker 3: In Brisbane, I listened to a young couple in their
Speaker 3: thirties who have moved back in with their parents because
Speaker 3: they simply can't buy a home even though both of
Speaker 3: them are working. Over time, for so many Australians, aspiration
Speaker 3: has turned to anxiety, optimism to pessimism, a national confidence
Speaker 3: to national uncertainty. The truth is Australians can't afford three
Speaker 3: more years of the Albanesi government.
Speaker 2: Too much of our politics is about what's in it
Speaker 2: for me. But as opposed to five dollars in fifteen
Speaker 2: months time, harving of petrol tax in this country again
Speaker 2: something we've spoken about for such a long time, something
Speaker 2: that the Prime Minister has ignored at the height of.
Speaker 1: The difficulties of the past three years.
Speaker 2: Well, Peter Dunton now has turned every single petrol station
Speaker 2: and its price board into a billboard for his case
Speaker 2: for change, because upon his election the fuel tax will
Speaker 2: be halved.
Speaker 3: A coalition government will have the fuel excise for twelve
Speaker 3: months and then we'll review it and we'll make sure
Speaker 3: that that comes in on the first day that our
Speaker 3: Parliament sits. For a household with one car filling up
Speaker 3: once a week, that's a savings of about fourteen dollars
Speaker 3: a week, or around seven hundred dollars over the year.
Speaker 3: For a household with two cars filling up once a week,
Speaker 3: that is a savings of twenty eight dollars a week
Speaker 3: or around fifteen hundred dollars over twelve months.
Speaker 2: And this will not make the front pages. It will
Speaker 2: be barely mentioned anywhere but here. But as you know,
Speaker 2: part of the litany of failures of this government, the
Speaker 2: promise to make things better is the three point seven
Speaker 2: million Australian households. There's multiple people in those households, so
Speaker 2: it's more than that number don't know where their food's
Speaker 2: going to come from. Each and every week, they run
Speaker 2: out of food by a Thursday night. They're worried about
Speaker 2: what they're going to give their kids for lunch, if anything, tomorrow.
Speaker 2: The federal government spends hundreds of billions of dollars at
Speaker 2: a time when charities are serving people around the block
Speaker 2: when it comes to food. Finally, a leader who recognizes
Speaker 2: that the help that is needed now is to give
Speaker 2: extra money to the charities who are doing that help now, to.
Speaker 3: Scale up assistance and provide immediate relief. We will commit
Speaker 3: fifty million dollars for food charities like food banks, second
Speaker 3: by Ite and oz Harvest to expand their services and
Speaker 3: to include school breakfast programs.
Speaker 2: The five things you need to know about the Dutton
Speaker 2: speech delivered with passion and force tonight. A man who
Speaker 2: wants to take the country back in the right direction.
Speaker 2: Immediate help upon his election. The second a real plan
Speaker 2: for the future, not just bribes to get through an election.
Speaker 2: One of the key things that was announced today and
Speaker 2: will be repeated all the way through the election is
Speaker 2: it's one thing to make a vague promise, It's another
Speaker 2: thing to hold up a piece of paper that you
Speaker 2: will pass through the Parliament and make the law of
Speaker 2: the land.
Speaker 3: Tonight, I commit a coalition government to the following. We
Speaker 3: will introduce four critical pieces of legislation on the first
Speaker 3: sitting day in the next Parliament. One the Energy Price
Speaker 3: Reduction Bill, to the Lower Immigration and More Homes for
Speaker 3: Australian's Bill, the Keep Australian Safe Bill, and the Guaranteed
Speaker 3: Funding for Health, Education and Essential Services Bill. Part of
Speaker 3: all of these plans is to make sure that more
Speaker 3: gas is going to be put into the system, and
Speaker 3: the gas that is produced by the system currently will
Speaker 3: now start to be put aside a national reservation of gas,
Speaker 3: meaning that we will not be affected by what happens
Speaker 3: around the world. We will be able to set our
Speaker 3: own price on the technology that will get us through
Speaker 3: the next decades. This plan will prioritize domestic gas supply,
Speaker 3: address shortfalls and reduce energy for Australians. This is all
Speaker 3: about ensuring Australian gas is for Australians. We will immediately
Speaker 3: introduce an East Coast gas reservation. This will secure an
Speaker 3: additional ten to twenty percent of these coast demand gas
Speaker 3: which would otherwise be exported for use in other markets
Speaker 3: by consumers in those countries.
Speaker 2: And despite what it will be said, Australians are very
Speaker 2: accepting and we don't care from where you come as
Speaker 2: long as you recognize the laws of this land as
Speaker 2: opposed to the grievances of previous lands. But the reality
Speaker 2: is that with more than a million people that have
Speaker 2: come in under this government, that's an extra million people
Speaker 2: who have caused further delays in you being able to
Speaker 2: find our rental property, more people competing when it comes
Speaker 2: to an auction, more difficulties when it comes to ambulance
Speaker 2: ramping or immigration will be cut by twenty five percent.
Speaker 3: We will cut the permanent migration by twenty five percent.
Speaker 3: We will ban foreign investors in temporary residents from purchasing
Speaker 3: existing Australian homes.
Speaker 1: For a period of two years.
Speaker 3: We will set stricter caps on foreign students to relieve
Speaker 3: stress on rental markets. And we will invest five billion
Speaker 3: dollars in essential infrastructure to get stalled housing projects up
Speaker 3: and going, and it's going to create five hundred thousand
Speaker 3: new homes. Will allow for first home buyers to access
Speaker 3: up to fifty thousand dollars of their super for home
Speaker 3: deposit because it's better to get into home sooner.
Speaker 2: Number three in the five things that you need to
Speaker 2: know about the speech, and I employ you to go
Speaker 2: and watch it all in full at skynews dot com
Speaker 2: dot au. He has raised the stakes of the election. Remember,
Speaker 2: more than half of the country says we're headed in
Speaker 2: the wrong direction. More than half of the country is
Speaker 2: dissatisfied with the Prime minister's leadership.
Speaker 1: Here he was putting.
Speaker 2: It on the table about how important your vote is
Speaker 2: in just a few weeks time. Now, every election is important,
Speaker 2: but this election does matter more than others in recent history.
Speaker 2: It is a sliding doors moment for our nation. A
Speaker 2: return to Albaneza government in any form won't just be
Speaker 2: another three bleak years. More economic mistakes will take a
Speaker 2: lot longer to recover from. Setbacks will be set in stone,
Speaker 2: and our prosperity will be damaged.
Speaker 3: For decades to come. But you have the power to
Speaker 3: change the path our country is on. You have the
Speaker 3: ability to reverse decline, and you have the opportunity to
Speaker 3: get our country back on track.
Speaker 2: As part of that, he also Front and Senate. Now,
Speaker 2: remember this election in terms of the six PM News
Speaker 2: is decided by the people who cover it. We have
Speaker 2: shown you how they will spin the ball and give
Speaker 2: the benefit of the doubt to the existing government for
Speaker 2: a whole collection of reasons, but most notably because they
Speaker 2: like that side being in power. It's time in a
Speaker 2: speech like this, with hundreds of thousands of people watching
Speaker 2: live and many more than will watch it online in
Speaker 2: the coming days, to batter away the BS to take
Speaker 2: on what will inevitably be Labour's campaign of lies.
Speaker 3: For three years, Labor pedaled the lie that they inherited
Speaker 3: a trillion dollars of debt. Yet in the budget papers
Speaker 3: that we saw on Tuesday night they confirm that the
Speaker 3: Labor Party will burden Australia with the trillion dollars of
Speaker 3: debt as of next year. Tuesday's budget was one for
Speaker 3: the next five weeks, not one for the next five years.
Speaker 2: And if anyone between now an election day wants to
Speaker 2: tell you that the alternative Prime Minister his alternative team
Speaker 2: will do anything but help healthcare in this country, show
Speaker 2: them this.
Speaker 3: When a government doesn't have any achievements to speak about,
Speaker 3: which is the reality for this government, it resorts to
Speaker 3: smears and scare campaigns there's no greater sign of the
Speaker 3: Albernezy Gubert's desperation that it's Many Scare campaign, Labour's third
Speaker 3: attempt in less than a decade where there's the biggest
Speaker 3: strain on services. We will guarantee cheaper medicines and lower
Speaker 3: the pharmaceutical benefit scheme co payment to twenty five dollars,
Speaker 3: and will invest five hundred million dollars into women's health.
Speaker 3: And we'll double the subsidized middle health sessions from ten
Speaker 3: to twenty and make this arrangement and make this arrangement permanent.
Speaker 2: That's really important because we know the kids aren't all right.
Speaker 2: We know that there are plenty of people struggling no
Speaker 2: matter where you live, from the biggest of cities to
Speaker 2: the most remote parts of this beautiful country. That is
Speaker 2: a really big announcement. Nine and a half billion dollars
Speaker 2: when it comes to dealing with health, particular focuses on
Speaker 2: mental health, particular focus in that on youth mental health.
Speaker 2: The fourth he's backing in small business. Now, small business
Speaker 2: employs so many people. All business is a way that
Speaker 2: people are able to fend for themselves. Much of the
Speaker 2: project of the modern labor left, which is now the
Speaker 2: modern labor party is to create a triangle of dependence.
Speaker 2: The triangle of dependence where you're reliant on the state
Speaker 2: for the handout, your reliant on the state because you
Speaker 2: work for it, or if you're in business, the biggest
Speaker 2: client is the state.
Speaker 1: Therefore you never rock the boat.
Speaker 2: This is how labor has stayed in power, and Victoria
Speaker 2: for the best part of thirty years has had a
Speaker 2: similar hold until recently in places like Queensland. But if
Speaker 2: you decide to start your own business, no matter what
Speaker 2: happens to be, you know the only way to get
Speaker 2: a pay rise is to get up earlier and go
Speaker 2: to bed later. And your taxation is something that should
Speaker 2: be as minimized as possible. So the incident asset right
Speaker 2: off that this government has completely removed will be back
Speaker 2: in a big way, meaning that if you are running
Speaker 2: anything from a hairdressers to a local lawn care business,
Speaker 2: you'll be able to buy things for your business and
Speaker 2: write it off against tax. Reviving growth, mister Speaker also
Speaker 2: means having the back of small business, including tax relief.
Speaker 2: We've got tax relief coming for small business. We will
Speaker 2: increase the instant asset right off from one thousand dollars
Speaker 2: under this government to thirty thousand dollars, and we're going
Speaker 2: to make that arrangement ongoing. We will provide a deduction
Speaker 2: of up to twenty thousand dollars per year for small
Speaker 2: businesses for business related meal expenses, which is also a
Speaker 2: much needed shot in the arm for struggling cafes, restaurants
Speaker 2: and pubs. It will allow a local real estate agency
Speaker 2: or a builder to take staff to a local cafe
Speaker 2: to celebrate a big sales event or simply to say
Speaker 2: thank you to their hardworking employees. It creates jobs and
Speaker 2: it supports the struggling hospitality sector. I want small businesses
Speaker 2: to be taking risks, calculated risks, not shutting up shop.
Speaker 2: And for so many Australians, it's not about how much money.
Speaker 2: It's not about what's in it. For me, it's not
Speaker 2: about the bribes, the giveaways or the distractions. Which brings
Speaker 2: me to the fifth thing to know about Peter Dutton's speech,
Speaker 2: and that is that he defended values and he has
Speaker 2: set a.
Speaker 1: Path to pride for our future generations.
Speaker 3: We will nurture pride and unity in our country. We
Speaker 3: will provide support to the Australian Defense Force to keep
Speaker 3: us safe today and into generations ahead, at a time when.
Speaker 1: We most need it.
Speaker 3: That starts, of course, by making sure that we don't
Speaker 3: fail young Australians, and I think this is an incredibly
Speaker 3: important point. A coalition government will restore a curriculum that
Speaker 3: teaches the core fundamentals in our classrooms, a curriculum that
Speaker 3: cultivates critical thinking, responsible citizenship and common sense.
Speaker 2: These are the focuses of a Dutton government. That education matters,
Speaker 2: That pride in your nation matters. That making sure that
Speaker 2: a country that is focused on its future matters, and
Speaker 2: that comes from the top. This Prime Minister has a
Speaker 2: disapproval rating above fifty percent. More people are unimpressed with
Speaker 2: his leadership than impressed with his leadership. Something Peter Dutton
Speaker 2: promises to change.
Speaker 3: I will be a strong leader with a steady hand.
Speaker 3: I will make the tough decisions, not shirk them. I
Speaker 3: will put the national interest first. I will lead with conviction,
Speaker 3: not walk both sides of the street.
Speaker 2: And his closing pitch, which will be heard in many
Speaker 2: ways over many days between now and when you get
Speaker 2: the chance to vote for or against the current government.
Speaker 2: This is the closing argument of a man who is
Speaker 2: ready to lead.
Speaker 3: Australians are worse off under the Albansia government and Australians
Speaker 3: cannot afford three more years of this bad labor government.
Speaker 3: I say to Australians tonight, at this election, you can
Speaker 3: make the right choice, a better choice for you, a
Speaker 3: better choice for your family, and a better choice for
Speaker 3: your country. Together, let's build a stronger, safer and better
Speaker 3: Australia and let's together get our country back on track.
Speaker 2: So game on the best place to be here each
Speaker 2: and every night and all day with us at Sky News.
Speaker 1: You know that elections bring out the best in.
Speaker 2: Us and we will have every moment of it covered,
Speaker 2: from the campaign buses, to the promises, to the media tricks,
Speaker 2: to the lies, and to the entire opportunity to put
Speaker 2: the country in the right direction. We'll be into all
Speaker 2: of that tomorrow. The Governor General will be called upon
Speaker 2: by the Prime Minister. Expectation is that happens during all
Speaker 2: of the breakfast TV shows, so as many eyes are
Speaker 2: on it as possible to try to change the subject
Speaker 2: from the speech that's just happened tonight, but also to
Speaker 2: end our long national nightmare. For goodness sake, when it
Speaker 2: is this to start. The most likely election date is
Speaker 2: going to be May the third, and again that will
Speaker 2: be announced by the Prime Minister in the next little
Speaker 2: wild that will be thirty seven days from now. Thirty
Speaker 2: seven days of this prime minister, will he make history
Speaker 2: as the first prime minister to be re elected since
Speaker 2: two thousand and four, or will be the first prime
Speaker 2: minister to get the boot in a first term by
Speaker 2: the Australian people not his party room, in over one
Speaker 2: hundred years. You need seventy six seats to form a
Speaker 2: majority in the Parliament, and the current numbers are the
Speaker 2: Labor Party has seventy seven seats, the Liberal National Party
Speaker 2: fifty three, Greens four and Independence fifteen. There's eighteen seats
Speaker 2: that need to change hands for a change of majority rule.
Speaker 2: But most expectations here.
Speaker 1: Are that the.
Speaker 2: Belief here, I should say, is that we're headed towards
Speaker 2: a minority government, and whether that is going to be
Speaker 2: minority Liberal or Labor government, of course, we will all
Speaker 2: find out together. So here's the two things that you
Speaker 2: need to know about the next little while, which is
Speaker 2: that Labor is it going to be able to lose
Speaker 2: two and still have a majority. This is different than
Speaker 2: previous elections because first term governments in recent years, like
Speaker 2: the Liberal government in twenty sixteen, they had a massive backbench.
Speaker 2: The Labor government in twenty ten had a massive backbench.
Speaker 2: He has just two the Libs, I said, sorry, eighteen before,
Speaker 2: it's twenty one seats to win a majority. The current
Speaker 2: projections are neither are going to get there and it's
Speaker 2: going to be a minority government. So let's run around
Speaker 2: the poles. Let's run around the bookies. Let's set the
Speaker 2: market and then have a chat with a dear friend
Speaker 2: about where we go from here. All right, the bookies,
Speaker 2: well they are leaning Labour's way right now. This has
Speaker 2: only changed in the past week or so, but all
Speaker 2: of them are suggesting a relatively tight race, but one
Speaker 2: currently they say Labor is going to win in terms
Speaker 2: of the polls, or they move from the Liberal Party
Speaker 2: at fifty one forty nine in news poll and the
Speaker 2: fresh Water Pole to fifty to fifty in the Yugov
Speaker 2: Pole to Labour being fifty in the red Bridge Pole
Speaker 2: and Morgan way out in front in terms of where
Speaker 2: they think the Labour Party is going to be. If
Speaker 2: that's the case, they will increase the number of seats
Speaker 2: they have in the Parliament. Now, Labour's primary vote is
Speaker 2: down according to all of the polls based off the
Speaker 2: previous election, and remember that was one of the worst
Speaker 2: performances Labour had had in one hundred years. Red Bridge
Speaker 2: says that their vote is down by one point News poll,
Speaker 2: by two points, three points for Ugov Essential, and many more.
Speaker 1: In the Resolve poll.
Speaker 2: Although that pole is more than a month old and
Speaker 2: the expectation is like all the others, that gets a
Speaker 2: little tighter in the next of a while. For Peter
Speaker 2: Dutton and the Opposition. Thirty six percent was what the
Speaker 2: coalition got when it was removed from office three years ago.
Speaker 2: Their vote is up by at least three points in
Speaker 2: the News pole, the Freshwater Pole and the Resolve Pole.
Speaker 2: It's up by just a point in the red Bridge
Speaker 2: and Ugov pole. And because Essential includes people who don't
Speaker 2: know or undecided, they have got their vote at one
Speaker 2: point less the Greens, what do they mean? Of course,
Speaker 2: you add a Green vot to the Labor vote, so
Speaker 2: you get more garbage like that. The Green's got twelve
Speaker 2: percent of the last election. According to the Freshwater Pole
Speaker 2: they are going to increase their vote, Ugov says the
Speaker 2: same news poll. Resolve, Redbridge and Essential say they have
Speaker 2: exactly the same performance that they did four years ago,
Speaker 2: which produced four members in the Lower House. I think
Speaker 2: the wildcard of the election is One Nation, because they
Speaker 2: got five percent of the last federal election. According to
Speaker 2: the Resolve poll. However, they're up four points now. You
Speaker 2: won't see this in other places because they don't like
Speaker 2: to interview people from one Nation, but One Nation is
Speaker 2: up by four points, by three points, and by two points.
Speaker 2: Depending on the polls that you have a look at,
Speaker 2: you'll hear a lot about the other vote or the
Speaker 2: independent vote. Now it's hard to pull these apart from
Speaker 2: what is the independent vote, what is the minor party vote?
Speaker 2: What is the lamby vote? But the reality here is
Speaker 2: that that vote was fourteen percent at the last election.
Speaker 2: It is down in all of the polls that are
Speaker 2: currently being put together. Another thing to remember going into
Speaker 2: any federal election, Australia is a very big and very
Speaker 2: different country. The politics of the South of Tasmania is
Speaker 2: different than regional Queensland. What people care about in suburban
Speaker 2: Perth may be different than what happens in Western Sydney.
Speaker 2: The people of the Northern Territory South Australia may have
Speaker 2: a different view than Victoria or New South Wales, but
Speaker 2: I think we can all agree with the Act.
Speaker 1: We'll end up voting Labor or Green. As for two
Speaker 1: party preferred.
Speaker 2: There has been some switches and the biggest switch is
Speaker 2: going to be in Victoria. The Liberal Party's vote is up.
Speaker 2: In New South Wales, the Labor Parti's vote is down
Speaker 2: five points. That's a whole bunch of seats. The majority
Speaker 2: of seats, if they are to change, would come out
Speaker 2: of Victoria. Watch this space about whether Jacinta Allen makes
Speaker 2: it through the campaign as the Victorian premier. In Queensland,
Speaker 2: the Liberal Party advantage has been sliced by one point
Speaker 2: but still remains fifty three to forty seven. Western Australia
Speaker 2: very strong for Labour. The Leaps thought they could win
Speaker 2: four seats, they'll probably get one. In South Australia, the
Speaker 2: Labor Party is down one point but still remains in
Speaker 2: front at fifty three forty seven. So finally, one thing
Speaker 2: that many people don't talk about when it comes to
Speaker 2: elections is we talk about the number of seats that
Speaker 2: an opposition needs an opposition needs. Instead, I want to
Speaker 2: talk about not just what an opposition needs, but also
Speaker 2: what the opposition is defending, because in some ways they
Speaker 2: have to outrun a teal while trying to catch the
Speaker 2: Labor Party. Now a lot of numbers, but still think
Speaker 2: about what I just showed you their state by state,
Speaker 2: and it tells you the story. They are attacking in
Speaker 2: twenty five seats, this being the Liberal National Party they
Speaker 2: are defending in fifteen. The ones they are attacking in
Speaker 2: New South Wales is eight, seven in Victoria, three in Queensland,
Speaker 2: three in Western Australia, two in the Northern Territory more
Speaker 2: likely one South Australia one and Tasmania one. They are
Speaker 2: defending either against the Labor Party or more likely independent
Speaker 2: in some of these seats, four in New South Wales,
Speaker 2: three in Victoria, four in Queensland, two in Western Australia,
Speaker 2: and one each in South Australia and Tasmania. Game on, Baby,
Speaker 2: Game on, my dear friend, my colleague, And thankfully she
Speaker 2: stayed up late enough for us. And it was an
Speaker 2: exciting day in Laura Jay's household, because a beautiful daughter
Speaker 2: Sophie got to meet Jua Liper at.
Speaker 1: A cafe today.
Speaker 2: Laura Jays love you to see a rock star. So
Speaker 2: let's go through this in chapter and verse. Thank you
Speaker 2: for being patient, but let's deal with the speech. What
Speaker 2: did you think of what Peter Dutton said and my
Speaker 2: interpretation that he was matching the right track wrong track conversation?
Speaker 1: What did you think?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the tone of Peter Dutton is something
Speaker 4: that shouldn't be overlooked. His authenticity and really he's willing
Speaker 4: this to run a presidential campaign. Here he sees and
Speaker 4: I think he's right at the best chance of winning
Speaker 4: this election, winning the seats he needs to to get
Speaker 4: into power pitting himself. I mean, we've seen a lot
Speaker 4: of Jim Chalmers over the last week as well because
Speaker 4: of the budget being handed down. I think Jim is
Speaker 4: a much better media performer than Anthony Albenzi, but we've
Speaker 4: kind of not seen a lot of Anthony Aberesi this week.
Speaker 4: But once you get into an election campaign tomorrow, it
Speaker 4: is head to head. We know we have a parliamentary system,
Speaker 4: but that presidential style I think really will benefit Peter Dutton.
Speaker 4: He's called himself a conviction politician. I think that's absolutely
Speaker 4: right against what alber Eazi has been perceived as from
Speaker 4: labor voters that he's weak. What is the point of him?
Speaker 4: Does he look hungry enough to win this next election?
Speaker 4: So look Peter utt describing as a sliding doors moment.
Speaker 4: You know, are you better off than you were three
Speaker 4: years ago? The answer is no to that. So painting
Speaker 4: this is a hugely consequential election, I think cleverly without
Speaker 4: really targeting the teals either. This really wedges the tials
Speaker 4: for many reasons. But we can get into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's get to you know what inevitably is
Speaker 2: going to be the comparison, which is five dollars and
Speaker 2: fifteen months or harving of petrol tax from day one?
Speaker 1: Which one do you think?
Speaker 4: Lands I think it's crazy brave to oppose that tax cut,
Speaker 4: to be honest, because once you start explaining and getting
Speaker 4: into detail, you start losing the argument. That's just how
Speaker 4: politics works. It's not fair. But when you get into
Speaker 4: a campaign and people are running busy lives and they
Speaker 4: only hear snapshots here, and they're not like us who
Speaker 4: are consuming the news every day, Paul, I think it's
Speaker 4: really hard when you start equivocating and explaining, and that
Speaker 4: headline of you know, I think it's really clever this
Speaker 4: week what the government did, wedging the coalition passing this,
Speaker 4: daring them to repeal it. I mean, for a start,
Speaker 4: look at the Senate. I mean, he's going to inherit
Speaker 4: the Senate even if he does win, how is he
Speaker 4: going to repeal it in the first place? So he
Speaker 4: inherits it, but he doesn't get any of the credit.
Speaker 4: Labor goes into this campaign saying where are the Party
Speaker 4: of Lower Income Taxes? So I spoke to Angus Taylor
Speaker 4: about this state. It's really hard to get your head
Speaker 4: around that. Yes, what is potent is that doesn't start
Speaker 4: for fifteen months and it's a couple of coffee a week.
Speaker 4: It's nothing. It's pitdling. But again when you get into
Speaker 4: the detail, you start losing the argument. Dyley was really
Speaker 4: interesting today as well. She's been calling for a fuel
Speaker 4: tax excise cut for quite some time and this brings
Speaker 4: in pensioners. So the positives of the fuel tax excise
Speaker 4: cut is it those out sub suburban seats, particularly in
Speaker 4: Sydney and Melbourne, Brisbane, in every state, to be honest,
Speaker 4: and that's where it's going to hit. And that's where
Speaker 4: this election is won and lost. As you know.
Speaker 2: Now again I talk about this the attacking and defending
Speaker 2: situation because again, you know, your best case scenario is
Speaker 2: you get as close to government or you win government.
Speaker 2: Worst case scenario is that you start to go backwards.
Speaker 2: Now again, I'm not going to sit here and go
Speaker 2: each and every seat, but again, attacking in twenty five,
Speaker 2: defending in fifteen. Victoria a place that looks like it's
Speaker 2: going to be I mean again, I'm not sure the
Speaker 2: polls are hundred percent when it comes to Victoria. However,
Speaker 2: I know how pissed off people are about the Labor
Speaker 2: brand in Victoria, not pretending in any way, shape or
Speaker 2: form whether they're going to leap into the arms of
Speaker 2: inevitably Peter Dutton with all the scare campaigns, the Yuga
Speaker 2: booger that they're going to run in the next little while.
Speaker 2: This idea about how you have to attack and defend. Now,
Speaker 2: obviously when it comes to the Labor Party, they've had
Speaker 2: to do this on some level. When it comes to
Speaker 2: the Greens, but obviously, as we've seen with those existing teals,
Speaker 2: there's going to be a couple that are going to
Speaker 2: come back. But then there's new fronts like places like
Speaker 2: Bradfield on the far north shore of Sydney.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there are, but this is a really different campaign
Speaker 4: and I think the Teals are all at sea at
Speaker 4: the moment. I mean, last campaign, Paul, they're campaigning on
Speaker 4: integrity and climate change. I mean it was pretty telling
Speaker 4: that Jim Chalmers did not mention climate change, emissions, renewable
Speaker 4: energy once in his budget speech this week. The Teals,
Speaker 4: I think I was trying to find where they're they
Speaker 4: can get their hooks in at this election, because there's
Speaker 4: not going to be in climate change, he says firmly.
Speaker 4: Cost of living. I mean, Allegra Spender is the only
Speaker 4: one that talks about tax reform. But if you're the
Speaker 4: only one doing it and you're speaking from the sidelines,
Speaker 4: I don't know how effective that is. When it comes
Speaker 4: to the gas reservation policy and you talk about Victoria,
Speaker 4: all the poles are so bad. And what it's been
Speaker 4: put to me is finally Victorians are catching up. They
Speaker 4: are traumatized by Daniel Andrews and now finally after two years,
Speaker 4: they've realized they're out of that Stockholm syndrome and they
Speaker 4: cannot stand him. He's no longer in power anymore. But
Speaker 4: that does have a flow through effect, particularly when it
Speaker 4: comes to all these metrics and cost of living. House
Speaker 4: prices are down, their electricity bills are through the roof,
Speaker 4: and you know they've got a moratorium on any gas
Speaker 4: coming out of coming out of the ground in Victoria.
Speaker 4: I mean it is for saying people to think that
Speaker 4: we have to ship around gas from wa new terminal
Speaker 4: ports in Victoria is just crazy. So on this gas
Speaker 4: reservation policy, the details, look, it is so complex, the
Speaker 4: system is such a mess, but all the experts agree
Speaker 4: if you're going to keep prices with a little bit
Speaker 4: of a lid on it, you have to do something
Speaker 4: big on gas. I am surprised the government has just
Speaker 4: left that feel wide open for Peter Dutton. And this
Speaker 4: is going to be something that runs again. When you
Speaker 4: get to the detail, you start losing the argument. But
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter because what's Labour going to say. They'n
Speaker 4: I've going to criticize Peter Dutton for trying to get
Speaker 4: more gas in the system because they know that is
Speaker 4: the only solution.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, as desperate as some of the lefties in the
Speaker 2: press gallery word today to try to sort of find
Speaker 2: this to be the issue. I think you are you
Speaker 2: are right about where this goes in the next little while.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about the political nerd in you,
Speaker 2: who's done plenty of elections. What's the little details? Where
Speaker 2: do your spidy senses go to try to work out
Speaker 2: what's going on?
Speaker 4: Well, look, I've been tracking the focus groups with a
Speaker 4: Redbridge group for quite some time. As you know Simon Wells.
Speaker 4: She's a former or is a psychologist, so the way
Speaker 4: he conducts these groups is really interesting. And Anthony Alberizi
Speaker 4: and his personal brand is just not there. There is
Speaker 4: a factor for Peter Dutton where you know, people don't
Speaker 4: really know who he is, and he's got some of that,
Speaker 4: you know, there's negative aspects from when he was the
Speaker 4: headkicker in the Liberal Party. So look, I think that
Speaker 4: is that is a problem. But you've got to look
Speaker 4: to seats like in out suburban and I think we've
Speaker 4: got to watch Victoria really closely. Everyone you speak to
Speaker 4: in Victoria says that labor it is just an absolute
Speaker 4: basket case for labor. But it's how those votes then
Speaker 4: shift to the coalition there. I think there should there
Speaker 4: could be a few surprises in this election, maybe on
Speaker 4: one seat at least in Adelaide Tasmania. I mean that
Speaker 4: the vote pool is so small that a small shift
Speaker 4: can have a big difference there. And then you've got
Speaker 4: w A just had a state election. There has been
Speaker 4: a shift away from Labor. But also that shift didn't
Speaker 4: go all the Liberals way, so I think that's a
Speaker 4: little bit of concern there Again, the Teals, Paulie, I
Speaker 4: think they probably all hold. Maybe not Kate Cheney, maybe
Speaker 4: not Sophie Scomp's. I mean, Nick Ryan in the last
Speaker 4: couple of days has had a lot of bad press.
Speaker 2: Imagine the colder in that house. You're sleeping in the
Speaker 2: other room. He's in the doghouse at the farm.
Speaker 4: Imagine that's how far.
Speaker 1: He is off. Oh, Laura, thank you, my friend.
Speaker 4: Now, because one more thing, I just think, I just
Speaker 4: think the best thing Peter Dutton's got going for him, sorry,
Speaker 4: is that labor under to make him. They always have.
Speaker 4: And one thing he's got going fro him He's got
Speaker 4: many things, by the way, is authenticity, and he's got
Speaker 4: a great family behind him. He gets it. He lives
Speaker 4: in the community, breathed the community. He was a copper
Speaker 4: for some time, and he does have his finger on
Speaker 4: the pulse. You know, didn't grow up in a political
Speaker 4: family and become a staffer and do all that. And
Speaker 4: just a check for you, Paul, because I knew you'd
Speaker 4: be interested. Curly wasn't watching Maths tonight. She told me
Speaker 4: that it's not on on a Thursday night, which I
Speaker 4: didn't know, so I just had to check for you.
Speaker 4: He wasn't watching Maths. Risk is okay?
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I'm sure she liked the shout out to from her
Speaker 2: husband or at a big time ahead for her as well.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Laura. I'll see you in the morning. I'll
Speaker 2: be part of everything as it all rolls apart and
Speaker 2: will be with you from mind tomorrow morning. Thank you mate.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having us over to your joint tonight. All right,
Speaker 2: quick break back with more lots more to talk about
Speaker 2: about the election, about the speech, and then we'll get
Speaker 2: into some other things, including a great example of journalists
Speaker 2: who never gave up and guess what it was true.
Speaker 1: What they knew all along more in a second.
Speaker 2: Thanks very much. What a big weekend we've got coming up.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to be in Toowoomba tomorrow and then
Speaker 2: we're going to go off the to Wombe show. We're
Speaker 2: going to go to the King of the Mountain which
Speaker 2: is the Races. We're going to have some dinner with
Speaker 2: some good friends there and we have a show Ouurtown
Speaker 2: on Sunday night, and then on Monday the pub test.
Speaker 2: Peter Duddon in his electorate election will have been called
Speaker 2: by then. He'll have done had a big weekend, but
Speaker 2: he's got a big message to sell and he's going
Speaker 2: to be asked whatever the audience wants. I haven't even
Speaker 2: seen the questions. That's the way it works is the
Speaker 2: first people to apply, viewers of this program, ask the
Speaker 2: alternative Prime Minister whatever they want. We've got a big
Speaker 2: full house that's Monday night, so I must see stuff.
Speaker 2: Speaking of You've got to keep with us now, because
Speaker 2: none of them than James Ashby from One Nation joins
Speaker 2: us and Linda Scott will still have the parish of
Speaker 2: the Labor Party, but she's to say whatever she wants
Speaker 2: right as a person of no fixed political address in
Speaker 2: terms of an office. So James, what did you think
Speaker 2: of the speech I saw pulling on before saying yep,
Speaker 2: thanks for backing in what I've said for a long time,
Speaker 2: which is cut petrol tax.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well you can tell the experience from a bloke
Speaker 6: who's held many different portfolios in previous governments and now
Speaker 6: as the leader of the opposition, I think it doesn't
Speaker 6: spoke very well tonight. I must say that if one
Speaker 6: nation is in a balance of power scenario in the
Speaker 6: next parliament, whether that be in a Senate or a
Speaker 6: combined of lower House seats as well, there are a
Speaker 6: number of policies there that the Liberals have adopted of
Speaker 6: one nations, as you're well aware, over time. We've been
Speaker 6: talking about that domestic gas reservation policy for nine years now.
Speaker 5: The apprenticeship schemes where we really want.
Speaker 6: To bolster the apprentices of the future, we've already delivered
Speaker 6: on those in the past. A fewel exercise tax we
Speaker 6: announced in February, immigration cuts and of course access to superannuation,
Speaker 6: not just for first time by as I might just say, Paul,
Speaker 6: there's a lot of families that split up and often
Speaker 6: the blokes are left homeless. They've got access to well,
Speaker 6: they've got super, but they don't have access to it,
Speaker 6: and I think.
Speaker 5: That there's merit to expand that.
Speaker 6: So they're things that we can certainly work with the
Speaker 6: coalition on, particularly if we do have that balance of
Speaker 6: power in the Senate.
Speaker 1: Linda, no doubt you were thrilled.
Speaker 2: You were leaning forward, you were writing down notes, you
Speaker 2: were thinking, geez, I've joined the wrong party. Why was
Speaker 2: this the worst speech you've ever seen in your life?
Speaker 2: That scared you within an inch of your life. That
Speaker 2: means all of us should hide our children.
Speaker 7: Look, I think the honest truth about this speech was
Speaker 7: that Peter Dutton's pretty trapped in He doesn't have too
Speaker 7: many new ideas for the future. And the difficult thing
Speaker 7: is in the speech, in as James rightly says, adopting
Speaker 7: a whole lot of one nation policies, he's essentially admitted
Speaker 7: that he can't win any Teal seats. He didn't mention
Speaker 7: net zero, he didn't mention climate change. Now, whatever you
Speaker 7: think about those issues, he's not trying to pitch to
Speaker 7: the middle ground of Australia.
Speaker 8: I think this is a larger mission.
Speaker 7: Brilliant dollar that he can't win in his own right.
Speaker 7: He's not now aiming to win government. He's aiming maybe
Speaker 7: to win a minority or you know, align himself with
Speaker 7: James and Pauline Hanson and one nation. I think that's
Speaker 7: that's pretty extraordinary actually as an admission from an opposition
Speaker 7: leader tonight. He didn't barely mention anything about nuclear He's
Speaker 7: not explaining where the six hundred million dollars is going
Speaker 7: to come from in cuts. He's not explaining, like Jackie Lamby,
Speaker 7: how he's going to explain the public service cuts?
Speaker 8: Are they from veterans affairs?
Speaker 7: You know, these are really important questions that he needs
Speaker 7: to answer. As you say, Paul as the alternative leader
Speaker 7: of this nation.
Speaker 1: Can I just say about the teals? Right?
Speaker 2: My feeling here is that I think that you know,
Speaker 2: Goldstein most likely gone, I reckon coot Young after the
Speaker 2: behavior of mister Ryan, the first Gentleman, of course, because
Speaker 2: she could be Prime Minister according to her own ego,
Speaker 2: and I reckon Curtain. I reckon those three gone. Interesting
Speaker 2: what's going to happen in and around Brisbane?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Because there are seats, the three seats that came to
Speaker 2: the Greens. Now you've sort of got Labor and the
Speaker 2: Liberal Party both believing that a Greens down means they're
Speaker 2: going to step in. Interesting to note again about the
Speaker 2: politics of Brisbane is that at a local government level,
Speaker 2: the LNP has been able to hold onto that council
Speaker 2: for a long time, so that is a bit of
Speaker 2: an insight.
Speaker 1: An insight Labor of course.
Speaker 2: Say well, you know we're able to take a couple
Speaker 2: of Green seats off at the state election. But be
Speaker 2: fascinating around that and obviously we'll all dig in as
Speaker 2: time goes. Let's get into that election preview chat and James,
Speaker 2: I want to just just get straight to it.
Speaker 1: Do you believe the polling that.
Speaker 2: One nation's vote is up and maybe up by as
Speaker 2: high as four five points since the last election. Because
Speaker 2: if that's the case, very good for Malcolm Roberts going
Speaker 2: for re election in Queensland. But it also activates the
Speaker 2: preference question that worked for the Libs in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 6: And I sense it'll work for them again at this
Speaker 6: election too, Paul, because I'll make it very clear to
Speaker 6: every viewer out there, Labor and the Greens are going
Speaker 6: to last on one nation.
Speaker 5: How to vote cards. It's up to you how your
Speaker 5: number your boxes.
Speaker 6: But our recommendation to you as voters will be to
Speaker 6: put Labor in the Greens last, and where there is
Speaker 6: a Teal in the mix, they will go down just
Speaker 6: between Labor and the Greens.
Speaker 5: So we're making a very clear stand there.
Speaker 6: Look, we've always said that this Labor government has been toxic.
Speaker 5: We have seen just in the Look I've just spent this.
Speaker 6: Week down in Canberra. I only got back today. Everyone's glum.
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter which side you're talking to, Labor or
Speaker 6: the Coalition. So from an observation point of view, I
Speaker 6: don't think either side feel confident they're going to be
Speaker 6: able to govern in their own right in the next parliament.
Speaker 6: And then even if they do win the lower House,
Speaker 6: you've got this bench of misfits in the Senate. Jackie Lamby's,
Speaker 6: the Tammy Tyrrells, the David Pocox. We've got to change
Speaker 6: the dynamics in the Senate because otherwise if Peter Dutton
Speaker 6: wins the lower House, you've got big problems because you'll
Speaker 6: never get anything through. Currently, the Greens and Labor, with
Speaker 6: a couple of those half weeks from the cross bench,
Speaker 6: dictate what legislation gets through. So unless one nation get
Speaker 6: votes and senators in every state. We're going to have
Speaker 6: a real problem with a coalition Conservative government even if
Speaker 6: they do win. So that is imperative for every voter
Speaker 6: out there. Make sure that we get a preference vote
Speaker 6: in that top six in the Senate.
Speaker 5: It's critical and we will hold whichever Labor or Liberal form.
Speaker 6: Government, will hold them accountable if we've got that balance
Speaker 6: of power.
Speaker 5: But look, Paul, it's going to be very interesting.
Speaker 6: I don't think many Australians are overly thrilled with what's
Speaker 6: been delivered in the budget.
Speaker 5: They're not engaged.
Speaker 6: No one sees anything in it, all them and so
Speaker 6: it's going to be tough to call. And the book
Speaker 6: is look at them. They keep swinging. One week they're
Speaker 6: saying Labor is going to win. Next week they'll say
Speaker 6: the coalition. But I am starting to see green shoots
Speaker 6: after Peter Dutton's speech tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, Linda, as a person who has daor
Speaker 2: Knock been elected, been part of the machine and been
Speaker 2: outside of it as well.
Speaker 1: When you are trying to represent the Labor Party and
Speaker 1: there's the Greens or an independent that's.
Speaker 2: There and somebody says one politics is broken, I just
Speaker 2: really want someone who's going to be able to act
Speaker 2: on our you know, the sort of empty calorie stuff.
Speaker 1: How do you pull them back your way?
Speaker 7: Look, I think people acknowledge that labor's had a difficult
Speaker 7: time with a global inflationary environment and that's really hard.
Speaker 7: They're also in a very volatile time with the new
Speaker 7: Trump administration managing.
Speaker 2: That I've got to run against him, got to get
Speaker 2: a Trump mentioned off.
Speaker 7: Peter Dutton, he's aligning himself with a number of Trump policies.
Speaker 7: I think that does frighten Australians.
Speaker 2: Trump the first person who ever thought it was that
Speaker 2: the government was too big. He's the first person in
Speaker 2: the history of global politics whoever thought this to be published.
Speaker 7: You know, Peter Dutton again is adopting a lot of
Speaker 7: those Trumpian policies and I think Australians are pretty frightened
Speaker 7: of that. And when you dawknock people, when you have
Speaker 7: that conversation with them, they are frightened of having that
Speaker 7: kind of American conservatism imported over here. They understand that
Speaker 7: if we have that kind of policy, it will destroy Medicare,
Speaker 7: It will allow American pharmaceuticals to come in, come in
Speaker 7: and take over the price of our medication which is
Speaker 7: so protected by the PBS, now down to twenty five
Speaker 7: dollars under a labor government like these are the kinds
Speaker 7: of things that actually really matter to Australians and it's
Speaker 7: you know, it's really important that we Dawn. We don't
Speaker 7: take anything for granted, we ask for people's votes, but
Speaker 7: they want to see a detailed vision and I think
Speaker 7: Peter Dutton has not outlined an alternative vision for the
Speaker 7: country of this nation tonight.
Speaker 9: Policies from the you've got it yeahs Labour's run in
Speaker 9: the country as we have done extremely well for three years,
Speaker 9: and that is absolutely not true.
Speaker 8: They've announced billions.
Speaker 7: Of dollars the medications in the PBA, billions of dollars
Speaker 7: for hell, no.
Speaker 8: Policies up GP that have not been matched by the coalition.
Speaker 1: All right, plenty more.
Speaker 2: Let's get away from this type of politics and get
Speaker 2: to another type of politics and we will crown a
Speaker 2: winner and loser of the week and a wonderful example
Speaker 2: of journalists who didn't take no for answer because they
Speaker 2: knew what they were talking about was true or in
Speaker 2: a secure on poor Murray life.
Speaker 1: Thanks for watching.
Speaker 2: I want to say well done to Jimmy Jones and
Speaker 2: the team in the Adelaide Advertiser. It's an excellent newspaper.
Speaker 2: She is an excellent journalist and spectacular editor. The former
Speaker 2: leader of the Liberals in South Australia is a guy
Speaker 2: called David Spears, and when videos came out of him
Speaker 2: snorting a white substance, they were apparently, according to the
Speaker 2: now former MP, a deep fake. He'd never ever been
Speaker 2: involved than anything to do with things like that. Well,
Speaker 2: the front page of the Adelaide Advertiser confirms that exactly
Speaker 2: what they said was true is true. He has pled
Speaker 2: guilty to multiple drugs charges in a South Australian court today.
Speaker 2: He was asked by the judge about whether he had
Speaker 2: supplied a controlled drug substance to two separate people in August.
Speaker 1: He said guilty.
Speaker 2: He is now looking down the barrel of tens of
Speaker 2: thousands of dollars of fine, are up to a ten
Speaker 2: year jail term. Well done, Gemma World done, TiSER, well done,
Speaker 2: and there was a lot coming back at them. I'm
Speaker 2: telling you the blowback on this was huge, but they
Speaker 2: held their ground and they were right well done. Let's
Speaker 2: continue our conversation with James Ashby and with Linda Scott,
Speaker 2: let's do a speed round now, James, Nature Positive back
Speaker 2: on the table now. The Prime Minister pulled they said
Speaker 2: it was dead. Well now it's back and this is
Speaker 2: going to be big trouble at the election again in
Speaker 2: places like Western Australia it is a massive issue.
Speaker 6: Well, they've had to go through it, particularly with Cultural
Speaker 6: Heritage Act which comes into play with this Nature Positive
Speaker 6: plan as well. I note though, Paul, if you have
Speaker 6: a look at a press release at Tenure Pleavu.
Speaker 5: Sect put out last week, they committed five.
Speaker 6: Hundred million dollars more money to locking up. They've guaranteed
Speaker 6: now thirty percent of the land and ocean.
Speaker 5: They've just done it in.
Speaker 6: A little different department, different pot of cash, and so
Speaker 6: they have achieved that and that's what they set out
Speaker 6: to do in the Nature Positive Plan. So they are
Speaker 6: slightly but surely implementing this whether we like it or not.
Speaker 6: But to set back on the agenda after only a
Speaker 6: couple of months ago the Prime Minister said it was dead,
Speaker 6: nothing to worry about. Now we do have to worry
Speaker 6: about this because this has clearly been put back on
Speaker 6: to win the love of the left faction within Labor,
Speaker 6: but also too to show environmental credentials to both the
Speaker 6: Teals and the Greens ahead of this election. So it
Speaker 6: is doomsday if Labour get back in, particularly if that
Speaker 6: nature positive plan gets up. So I just caution everybody
Speaker 6: so much we don't know that wasn't announced in Jim
Speaker 6: Chalmer's budget this week, that will pop up, that will happen,
Speaker 6: that will have enormous impacts on industries and businesses that
Speaker 6: we all rely on in this country.
Speaker 2: Well, and remember before the last election, literally a day
Speaker 2: before the last election, as a way to try to
Speaker 2: save Terry Butler from losing to the Greens in Griffith,
Speaker 2: that's when they announced there the federal EPA. Of course
Speaker 2: this was basically on the table, no chance for it
Speaker 2: to be debated. Nature Positive should be debated all election long. Again,
Speaker 2: speed round means not debate on everything. But let's get
Speaker 2: to some other things. Queensland have released their plan about
Speaker 2: what they're going to do with the twenty thirty two games,
Speaker 2: and whoever was in charge of the packaging compliments to
Speaker 2: the chef because they've been able to basically say that
Speaker 2: every light bulb they're changing at a local footy oval
Speaker 2: all the way through to a new stadium at Victoria Park.
Speaker 2: It's all about the Brisbane twenty three thirty two games.
Speaker 2: I even loved it. In the launch video there was
Speaker 2: Steve Irwin and there was Queensland. I loved it was great,
Speaker 2: as you know, as a person who'd love to be
Speaker 2: one one day.
Speaker 1: It was a lovely little bit of packaging for Queensland.
Speaker 2: Really good about this is things like equestrians going to
Speaker 2: be based in and around to Woomba, where we're going
Speaker 2: to be this weekend. These are opportunities, aren't they for
Speaker 2: government and local government to really big up things for
Speaker 2: a long period of time down the road. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Look, I think it's lovely.
Speaker 7: My lovely friend, the Deputy mayor up into Woomba, Rebecca
Speaker 7: von Hoff, was so thrilled this week when the equestrian
Speaker 7: events were announced for to Womba. This is a big
Speaker 7: deal for regional Australia, right. You get to see infrastructure
Speaker 7: built during time of Olympics that you wouldn't otherwise get
Speaker 7: to see, and then communities get to use them for
Speaker 7: a lifetime. In Sydney we absolutely have the privilege of
Speaker 7: using a lot of the pools and the stadiums and
Speaker 7: the infrastructure that came out of the Sydney two thousand
Speaker 7: Olympics and there is a lasting legacy there and if
Speaker 7: you spread it out a little bit and do it
Speaker 7: across those regional areas. So congratulations that I want to say,
Speaker 7: this idea to get these games, do you it to
Speaker 7: originate from Queensland?
Speaker 4: Mays that is true.
Speaker 7: I'm going to go Pale Council came from the mayors
Speaker 7: Rebecca and the to Woomba Council have been advocating hard
Speaker 7: to get facilities into Woomba. So I'm celebrating right there
Speaker 7: with you all of to Woomba to see that equestrian
Speaker 7: facility that's going to be supported through this Olympic campaign.
Speaker 7: Can't wait to see the event, James.
Speaker 1: What does your poon get?
Speaker 2: Is your pon getting something or is it a place
Speaker 2: where people who don't want to be near the games
Speaker 2: get to go and get in the Airbnbs around you?
Speaker 6: We get stuff all mate, And I've got to be honest,
Speaker 6: I don't want it either. Look I've been one of
Speaker 6: those people that haven't been fond on the expense package
Speaker 6: that's going to be put towards this Olympics, especially when
Speaker 6: we've got a trillion dollars worth of debt. Let's not
Speaker 6: forget that. And here we are. Look, these things always
Speaker 6: blow out the Olympics, so I've not been a big
Speaker 6: fan of it. Look from a legacy point of view,
Speaker 6: I know there'll be a lot of people in ten
Speaker 6: twenty years time to go wow, I wasn't that great.
Speaker 6: We ended up at the stadium at the end of it.
Speaker 6: But again it's all down in the southeast corner. The
Speaker 6: large amount of the money has been spent down there.
Speaker 6: We get a few light bulbs, as they said, for
Speaker 6: sports rivals, big bloody deal. Sorry, in regional parts it's
Speaker 6: we won't get we won't get the benefitball, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Winners and losers of the week, Linda, who stands
Speaker 1: out for you?
Speaker 8: Mate? Albow Jim Charmas, what a budget?
Speaker 7: Magnificent tax cuts that paid it out in the post.
Speaker 8: So the loser of the week is pet out.
Speaker 7: How would you oppose legislated tax cuts less than one
Speaker 7: hundred days out from the election?
Speaker 8: Beyond me anyway?
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we look forward to your position and
Speaker 2: the party. So when it comes to fuel excise in
Speaker 2: the next little while. All right, Remember they put it
Speaker 2: up to fifty cents a leader, it'll be twenty five
Speaker 2: cents a leader should there be a change of government. James,
Speaker 2: we're or a loser of the week.
Speaker 1: Who stands out for you?
Speaker 5: Mate?
Speaker 6: The biggest winners this week of the five thousand workers
Speaker 6: in the salmon industry down there in Tasmania. It's some
Speaker 6: common sense prevailed from the government and the opposition and
Speaker 6: they've secured the industry for the meantime. But who knows
Speaker 6: what will happen after the election if the Greens end
Speaker 6: up in a coalition arrangement with labor. But they're the
Speaker 6: biggest winners salmon farm industry and Tazzy, well done to them.
Speaker 5: They put on a hard fight to be able to
Speaker 5: save it.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, good luck to all of you.
Speaker 2: Start as gun tomorrow morning, full coverage here on Sky News.
Speaker 2: You'll be doing your bit for your teams and there's
Speaker 2: plenty of debate between now and then huge weekend. As
Speaker 2: I said tomorrow, I'll be there with Laura in the
Speaker 2: morning as everything unfurls. We'll go through more data and
Speaker 2: more details. But as always, the promise from this show
Speaker 2: is well just to show you the data, show you
Speaker 2: the facts, be realistic about things.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: I've copt plenty of blowback from saying, look, while I'm
Speaker 2: on the Trump train, got the red hat, listen to
Speaker 2: the war room. He ain't as popular with the majority
Speaker 2: of Australians and that's why Albo's going to desperately hope
Speaker 2: that he's going to be running against him, not just
Speaker 2: Peter Dutton, but there's plenty of talk between now and
Speaker 2: then to one but Sunday night for our town, we'll
Speaker 2: also do a mini version of State of the Race,
Speaker 2: and of course Peter Dutton on Monday taking questions from you.
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, Go Yankees.
Speaker 4: Yeah,