WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 17 March 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:07.040 From the Skying Center. This is Paul Murray Live. Thank you, Shery, 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.040 loving to see you. Happy Monday. No sooks, no lefties. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:11.760 That's the way it's going to be. To night, James Morrow, 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.640 Senator Matt Canavan, and a union buster who knows how 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:16.959 to go after the CFMAU. We get to that all 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.560 shortly before I get to a lot of news, a 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.119 lot of political news, polls, cost of living, all the 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.079 rest of it. I just want to focus on something 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.360 that doesn't get enough national attention. There is a drought 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.520 that is taking place in Victoria right now. Now. I 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.800 know we've talked about extreme weather events being things like 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.240 the extropical cyclone in Queensland. I know it was pretty 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.200 hot this weekend in Sydney, but I want to focus 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.360 on the drought in Victoria because it is causing huge 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.519 troubles for farmers. Right now. Let me show you an 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:49.080 image not just of one of the farmers here and 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.479 just how dry things are, but just about a drought 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:54.200 map right now. Now. This will give you an idea 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:58.800 from the Bureau of Meteorology about the rainfall, which is 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:04.600 the lowest on record. Severe severe deficiency there you go, 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.280 or serious deficiency. Basically darker the red, the dryer it 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:12.199 is now as you can see, almost like a third 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.840 almost half of Victoria is in the red. The same 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:18.760 of course stretches off into South Australia as well, and 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.639 well under the herald sun for looking at this today. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.480 Because the horrific drought that is gripping Victoria, thousands of 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.880 families are now turning to having to pay for drinking water. 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.800 This is months of no rain that has been taking place. 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:36.080 Water tanks and dams across Victoria are running dry, prompting 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.720 thousands of households and farmers to now pay for drinking 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:42.360 water to be trucked in by semi trailers. The water 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.680 comes to towns across the state who continue to struggle 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:47.760 the worst drout they've had in almost two decades. 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:48.400 Now. 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.960 We all know about the different droughts in different parts 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:52.760 of the country, but in certain parts of our own 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.520 country it's the worst it's been in twenty years. As 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:58.960 temperatures are set to sizzled this week, households and livestock 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:03.520 produces are rash water and buying it in from wherever 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.880 a possible after has to say months of no rain 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.640 now even if it does rain. This is the evaporation map. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.200 Spent a bit too much time in the bureau's website today, 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.160 but this is the evaporation map. The darker, the red, 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.080 the faster, whatever rainfalls is just going to go straight 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.840 back up into the air. Unsurprisingly, the areas that have 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.000 had bugger all rainfall, if they got it well, the 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.120 exact thing would happen again. Even if it fell, it 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.320 had start to go straight back up. Meeting. Of course, 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.160 it's not enough to soak the ground or to even 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.680 start to fill whatever balls or dams you might end 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:38.000 up happening having The Victorian Farmers Federation president is Brett Hosking, 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.120 and he told the Herald Sun today that it's dry 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.760 across vast parts of the state, but especially in the southwest. 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.639 Hence the maps that I've just shown you there. That's 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.600 why the need is sitting hardest, because they are now 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.919 facing a feed shortage because of no rain last year 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.519 for the crops, also now water shortage because the dams 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:02.040 are drying up. Now, this gives me the opportunity to say, 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.320 no matter where you are in the country, and whatever 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.720 the weather is like outside, you can do your bit 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.320 to help our fellow Aussies and to always take care 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:11.720 of those people who we know you love, which is 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.600 the Australian farmer. Farm Maide is the charity that does 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.639 everything from financial counseling, emotional support through too getting those 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.360 hay bails out to where they are needed, in this 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:27.040 case in southwestern Victoria. Their website is farm made dot 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.160 org dot au. When you go to the site, you'll 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.880 see this, which is their opening title, and they are 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:34.760 here to help. Now, what can you do? I know 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.280 there's a lot of good causes, but if you just 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.400 want to give a one off, for fifty dollars, you 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.360 can buy hay to feed the livestock. For one hundred 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.600 and fifty dollars, you can have an in person counseling 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.120 session somebody goes out and helps out a farmer. For 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.760 three hundred dollars you can get some clean drinking water 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.760 to these people. Or for five hundred dollars you can 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.960 provide a farm recovery event, meaning an awful lot of 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.520 people can consume into that area, fix up things, fences 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.280 and here bring some water with them. That's a one 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.840 off if you have the cash, if you're able to, 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.600 you can do it monthly. Now For twenty five dollars 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.800 a month, you will be able to make sure that 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.800 there is clean drinking water for a family. For fifty 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.640 dollars a month, you can provide financial assistance packages. For 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.680 seventy five dollars a month, you can provide fodder for animals. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.240 And for one hundred dollars a month a monthly gift 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:26.560 will mean in person counselors. All of this matters because 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.119 it's not just the financial health, it's their mental health. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.680 So help our farmers please. Rual aid dot org dot 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:34.920 au is their website. I mentioned this at the start 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.600 of the show before we get too hot and heavy 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.920 into the world of politics. And if you are in 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.760 this particular area that is being affected by drought, or 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.760 anyone in regional Australia who thinks they could do with 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.520 the help be at feed, be at water, b at 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.520 the financial counseling or other forms of assistance. One three 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.200 hundred one seven five five nine four rual lai dot 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.360 org got au or all write the number down nice 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.560 and slow for you one three hundred one seven five 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.680 nine five nine four if you're happening to listen to 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.719 us on podcast. Now, as to the politics and of course, 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:09.000 cost of living number one issue in the country. We 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.000 are hot and heavy on this issue because the Prime 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.520 Minister lied his way into office. He did so three 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.040 years ago. He promised to or gets ready to do 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.040 so again at this upcoming election. A labor government will 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.360 lower the cost of living. That was the promise from opposition. 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.000 The reality, of course, is something very different. The cost 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.640 of living has become the major issue. We lead with 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.040 it most nights, because how can you not think of 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.560 all of the things that other people want to talk about. 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.440 Seventy three percent of people say the number one issue 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.800 for them is cost of living. Then it's housing, which 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.280 of course feeds back into cost of living. Then we're 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:45.440 into healthcare. Crime is above the economy and even above 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.480 climate change. But look how far climate change has formed, 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.640 meaning potentially reality might sweep away a few of those 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.760 Greens and teals. As for the amount of money that 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.600 we are spending in our supermarkets, somebody who's put a 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.520 tally together of just how much cost of living has 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.400 gotten worse under the bloke who promised to make it better. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.880 It's a strategic battle. The Telegraph today said the grocery 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.880 bills have searched thirty percent during the Alberanzi's government's first term, 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:17.880 leveling families three thousand dollars a year poorer. Now remember this, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:19.960 three thousand dollars on top of the fifteen hundred dollars 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.920 they took away from ten million taxpayers. So see how 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.240 the numbers start. The rise, experts say, the relentless rise 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.400 and the price of consumers staples has transformed what was 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:33.120 once a routine task now into a strategic battle of 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.440 what can I afford? What can we do without? Of course, 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.520 none of this applies to the people who lied their 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.640 way into power, because remember the Prime Minister, the Deputy 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.480 Prime Minister and all of the people climbing the greasebyy 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.799 poles as his ministers have got not one but three 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:52.560 pay rises since the last election. They promised to make 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.000 it better. The only people that got better for was them, 0:06:55.120 --> 0:07:00.120 including the bloke is now on over six hundred thousand dollars. Well, 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.800 once you start to put in mortgages into that, the 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:06.760 number goes through the roof. In my view, rather than 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.000 photos of candidates that you either always vote for you 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.080 or you've never heard of, every opposition party should be 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.080 running a fact like this over and over again, and 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.040 localizing it to every electorate in the country because if 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.760 you have a labor mp, they lied their way to 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.600 get there. According to the Financial Review, today, the typical 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:29.480 family is now nineteen thousand dollars poorer since labour took power. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.920 This is why we talk about it every day. There 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.240 are many families who three years ago would have told you, oh, 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.640 we got nineteen thousand dollars under the couch, or we're 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:43.239 just peeling up against the wall. Price rises, elevated mortgage rates, 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.720 income tax bracket creep have combined to deliver the biggest 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.240 fall in living standards on record. Repeat, biggest fall in 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.080 living standards on record. What was their promise, they'll make 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:57.360 everything better as measured by real household disposable income per person. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.960 Financial Review hardly some sort of hardcore right wing out 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.680 goes on to say the biggest contributor to the erosion 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.600 household purchasing power is inflation, with the prices of goods 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:10.720 and services consumed by the average household up fifteen percent 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.360 in the past three years, real household disposable income down 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.720 almost eight percent. So everything costs more, but the power 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.840 of your dollar to pay for things goes backwards. In 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.880 dollar terms, it's a loss of four eight hundred dollars 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.200 per person between the March quarter and twenty twenty two 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.920 and the December quarter in twenty twenty four. This according 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.400 to the Coalition and their economic analysis, but no one 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.360 is arguing those numbers. Despite the promise of everything getting better, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.440 everything got worse. And when it comes to the stables 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.520 you're buying, when it comes to the supermarket, that's about 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.000 three thousand dollars backwards. And if you're trying to pay 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.560 off a house, well it is of course the best 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:53.280 part of well four and four eight hundred dollars per person. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.240 This is why there is a giant hole. And do 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.440 not let them get away with it. Do not let 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.400 them get away with lying, making everything worse and still 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.679 hoping for your vote. This was the Opposition today on 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:06.960 this matter with Chris Kenny. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.920 And this is Australian's paying for a labor government that 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:15.120 simply can't manage its own budget and we pay the 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.720 price for it. There's an old saying that when left 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.280 wing governments run out of money, they come after yours 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.040 and that's exactly what we are seeing. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.520 Apologies with Pete this morning. Now let's also talk about 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.400 the single greatest source of revenue for the Australian government. 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:35.520 You and me, anyone who pays as they go income tax. 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.160 This federal government is getting more than any government has 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.560 in a generation. In fact, it is a nineteen year high. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.200 Again the Financial Review of the ones banging out the 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:46.880 stories on this. So they're going to get a good 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.520 run with me because they are putting some numbers behind this. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.320 A thing tank called the E sixty one Institute, a 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.240 former Productivity commissioner says, income tax is the workhourse of 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.920 the Australian revenue raising system. To give you an idea, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:04.480 where does this mob of liars and fools get their 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.720 money from income tax? Two hundred and ninety three point 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:12.440 seven b four billion dollars, more than double the amount 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.880 that they get out of company tax and multiples of 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:20.320 the GST. Chris Richardson, who is with Access Economics or 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.599 Deloitte Access Economics, often a man you'll see in and 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.240 around budget time trying to push through the bs and 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.840 tell you what the real numbers are. He says, the 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.440 tax receipts will hit twenty three point eight percent of 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:35.160 GDP this financial year on a cash accounting basis, the 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:39.080 outcome would represent the highest level of taxation revenue since 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.120 the Howard government was in office in two thousand and five, 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:45.840 two thousand and six. Here he was when speaking to 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:50.000 my colleague and friend Ross a little earlier today on 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:50.800 business Now. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:56.439 Australia, its standards of living is going backwards at such 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:00.440 a rapid rate compared with other countries because in inflation 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.200 bracket creep, the amount of money that government has taken 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.880 from payg taxpayers is increased incrementally. 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.800 In other words, people's cost of living crisis. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.520 Largely is as a result of the government taking more 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.840 money out of their pockets, and. 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:19.240 That increase in the tax take has been part of it. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.559 Ross Greenwood, the question based off the stats again, I'll 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.480 show you the straining Financial Review and their headline done off. Yes, 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:30.040 the coalition's numbers, but nineteen thousand dollars poorer, nineteen thousand 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:33.959 dollars poorer when it comes to households because paying off 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:35.880 a house is more expensive, because buying any of the 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.680 supermarkets more expensive, Because the government takes more than it 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.360 has taken in a generation. And then it's what they 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.839 decide to spend the money on and we've got plenty 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:47.880 to say about that tonight, because aren't they trying to 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:49.880 change the subject on that one. There is no Jedi 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:53.120 mind trick that will work here, No weak minds watching 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.360 this program. Under this government, a football stadium of people 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.560 have been hired by the public service. In fact, the 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.680 size of government is worth mentioning again, Chris Richardson talking 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:03.160 to Ross. 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:08.280 The size of government has risen in recent years. In 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:13.560 twenty twenty two to twenty three, the size of government 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:20.560 spending was somewhere around twenty four percent of national income. 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.440 In the coming year it will be somewhere around twenty 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.920 seven percent of national income. 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:26.559 And that's a. 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.480 Pretty substantial shift in a short period of time. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:34.199 So if you're following their income coming in more than 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.480 that going out to pay for the public service wide 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.600 because the modern Labor Party has one view and one 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.840 view only. They view electoral strength through a triangle of 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:47.320 dependence that you either have your handout wanting welfare, or 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.199 you work for the government, or if you're in private 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.760 business and the biggest client is the government, that triangle 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.760 would be more than sixty percent of the Australian population 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:58.520 if they can get it to that nice sweet spot 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.760 like they have in Victoria. They did for a long 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:04.040 time in Queensland. Then it does not matter what they do. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.360 Remember in Victoria, their triple O system resulted in the 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:12.440 death of thirty three people. Yet we keep being told 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.360 health is such a high priority that government got re elected. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.240 The government that has bankrupted the state so much so 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.560 that now it is getting a greater percentage of the 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:25.440 gst PIE than the population it has is because, of 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.480 course it's a labor state, and it's a place where 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.840 Albo needs to hold onto seats in order to hold 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.520 onto power. What these people are doing to our country 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.960 is a disgrace with your vote, with your preference, with 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:41.160 your commitment to watching programs like this and spreading the facts, 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.760 the information that I'm handing to you from multiple sources, 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.280 and I show you the sources, and I pretend that 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.160 I found all of this in the middle of the night. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:53.040 I show you where it comes from. Well, this brings 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.679 us to old Grimjim Charmers. Now Hey, of course has 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.920 told us that he is the greatest economy managers in 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.760 sliced bread. Because for the plast couple of years they've 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:05.600 been running a budget surplus guess what's coming a budget 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:11.360 deficit exactly. This was announced today by the Treasurer, trying 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.400 to get out in front of the budget that will 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.640 be formally announced on the twenty fifth, So that's not 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.080 this week, but next week. And by the way, that 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.680 is the first of what is going to be forty 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:29.560 and I repeat forty budget deficits in a row. Why 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.600 do I know it's forty years because Jim Chalmers also 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:36.480 released a document called the Intergenerational Report, how Australia stacks 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.760 up financially and socially for the next few decades. And 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.360 despite the fact that we will have the best part 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.760 of forty million people living here over the next little while, 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.280 the government will still keep spending like drunken salors because 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:53.520 what is baked into the budget only gets more rotten 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.120 as the year's roll on. In fact, have a look, 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.840 I circle it for you in the red every budget 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:03.560 year between now and twenty sixty three. Anything below the 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.960 line deficit this year, next year, year after year after 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.600 year after year after year after year after year after 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.480 year after, and they want you to vote for them. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.040 They have more money than ever before, but they are 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.560 spending more than ever before. They have designed a budget 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:22.560 to spend even more when you and I may be 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:26.280 long gone, or it'll be our kids and grandkids that'll 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.320 be paying for it. Unbelievable, right, and they have the 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.080 stones to say they are the great economic managers. They 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.720 took fifteen hundred dollars off ten million workers as an 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.320 automatic tax return. One of the first things they did. 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.000 They turned around and used every opportunity to put up 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:43.920 every price they possibly could when it came to the 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.800 little taxes fuel and smokes and booze along the way. 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.160 These are the people who say cost of living is 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.320 absolutely front and center, and everything we have to do 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.000 reality is too little, too late. Tax cuts were fourteen 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:58.960 bucks a week, and I'll get the interest rates in 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.920 a moment. Let's just keep talking here about this budget 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.360 because I want to puncture some budget bs before it 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.720 starts to take hold. Now, yes, you know, I've got 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:07.880 a dog in this fight, and it is for not 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.760 for these people to remain the governor of the country. 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:11.920 And I think after three years of running it, they've 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.920 run it into the dirt and it is time to 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:20.280 save our country. Today. Jim charmers well, he softly announces 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.800 what he will not have to announce with any great fanfare, 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.400 because it will be by then old news that the 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.640 great economic management of two budget surpluses has now become 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.120 a disaster. Now. 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:35.480 Defining feature of our first three budgets was responsible economic management. 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.640 That will be a defining feature of the fourth as well. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.000 Even this year, where we will be printing a deficit 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.200 for this year, it will be much much smaller than 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.800 what we inherited from our political opponents, and that shows 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:50.600 the progress that we've been able to make. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.400 Okay, let's all do this again. Remember the reason why 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.280 Fridenberg and Morrison said back in black was because before 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.600 the pandemic, the joint had balanced its books. Then the 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.120 introduction of a safety their job keeper as well as 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.880 higher one off welfare payments meant that that only came 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.240 from one place, and it wasn't from revenue. Because well, 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.160 the country shut down, the state premiers decided to lock 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.280 it down harder and for longer, and that meant that 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.679 those payments had to go further. Meaning yes, the budget 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.280 went into deficit, but if they want to pretend that 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:22.119 it was because the Liberal Party was going crazy with 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.680 a credit card, that's not the case. You know, anner, 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:28.639 you and I remember budget night before the pandemic struck, 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.160 and it was that things had leveled out and things 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.399 were only going to get better. But under this bloke, 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.520 he's had a couple of years where mining has boomed, 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.919 where population has boomed, where company tax has gone okay, 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.720 but income tax has gone through the roof, and he's 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.760 about to produce a budget deficit, one that'll be not 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.400 for decades. But I repeat one more time, for the 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:54.360 next forty years. And remember, every one of those budget 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.320 deficits is added to the previous, to the previous, to 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.320 the previous, of the previous. So if there was a 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.760 trillion dollars in debt in the handover, guess what ten 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:06.800 twenty thirty forty years of spending more than you bring in, 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.199 that'll become two trillion within a couple of blinks of 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:11.920 the eye, and that will be a disgrace. And of course, 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:13.840 don't forget. One of the reasons why they are going 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.080 to be spending more money than money's coming in is 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:18.600 because they are trying to buy and slide their way 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.760 through an election. They lied in the last campaign. Now 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.040 they just want to bribe you, thinking that you can 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.800 forget about your own circumstances that I repeat for the 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.920 third time are almost twenty thousand dollars worse than when 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.680 this mob took over. How's the promises going? 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:38.760 Albo a seven point two billion dollar announcement today? Five 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.560 million dollars ten million dollars, two hundred million dollars, three 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:46.399 billion dollars, three hundred and fifty million dollar, two billion dollars, 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.879 thirty seven million dollars, eight hundred and forty two million dollar, 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.840 two point four billion dollars eight point five billion dollar, 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.240 four point eight billion dollar, one billion dollars. 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.800 Oh wis is economically responsible? Feding? Yeah, I'm going to 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.080 keep talking about it. Why because he just is insulting. 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:08.359 But they believe that triangle of dependency. Once you're throw 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:10.000 in a bit of a goodble good music under black 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.280 and white images of Peter Dutton cuts cuts, cuts, cuts, cuts, 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.879 all they will do is strengthen that triangle and it 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.080 will be almost impossible to move. And the only time 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:21.959 people do wake up is after you get to an 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:26.760 absolute point of no return with disaster like Queensland. This 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.520 is what we're facing right now. This is why your 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.520 vote matters, your preference matters. Bugging them all is not 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:38.120 an option. Doing any and everything you can to make 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:39.960 sure that you spread the news is far and wide 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:43.480 about the failure of this government matters. And what about 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:47.360 the hoodspurt today from the Treasurer who now has got 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.560 a brand new scapegoat as to why he is saying 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.800 that the budget is going to be in deficit despite 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.720 the fact that they knew there'd be one coming this year, 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.639 despite the fact they were planning and expecting them for 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.000 the next forty years. No, no, no. The reason why 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:09.440 we're having this one this year X tropical cyclone Alfred. Now, yes, 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:10.719 I was in the middle of it and it was 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:14.000 not a fizzer, but fed income. This is, of course 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.280 the ex tropical cyclone where Albow was definitely not campaigning. 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.359 Charmers was definitely not hoping that you would confuse his 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:22.880 orange jacket with the orange jacket of the sees because 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.200 you know, he's just here to help and he's out 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.960 there briefing today that the cost of the federal budget, 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.200 now this is really important, not the cost of the 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:35.200 Queensland or New Soubal's budget. Who actually pays for the 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:40.080 fire services pays for In the Queensland's case, the electricity 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.160 workers to go around. I know this is the federal 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.040 budget that in taxes they're going to lose one point 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.800 two billion dollars because of essentially what two and a 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:52.399 half days shutdown in a very specific part of Australia. 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:56.080 And of course the media, well they were cynical, weren't they. 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.240 Were they willing to call bs on this? Of course, 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:02.479 not to how just a new scapegoat when these people 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:06.280 have promised and planned deficits for the next forty years, 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:09.399 have baked in tens of billions of dollars that they 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:14.720