WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 29 May 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:06.920 From the Skying in Center. This is Paul Murray live well. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.480 A you kind, my dear friend. Thank you very much 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.039 to Sharry Markson of course for doing it. Nobody else 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:14.840 does yet it's gott he's no room to appreciate her 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:17.240 and all of my other friends and colleagues here. Let's 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.040 have a great night together. And yes, let us talk 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.759 about something that may will have slipped through the fingers. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:25.200 Of much of the news media today. 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.360 Remember a couple of weeks ago we told you about 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.840 Channel Line reporting at the time it's exclusive for them, 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:36.080 and it was about China disrupting members again of the 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:40.000 Australian Defense Force. This was the scenario where the chopper 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:43.960 was flying and then some flares had been released in 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.040 front of it. If it was not for the skill 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.080 of the pilot, then they may well have ended up 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.360 in a scenario where the helicopter may will have crashed 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.320 and this could have been come very serious, very quickly. Now, 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.600 Andrew Croben in the story when he broke this story, 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:04.200 had this what is called in the business peace to camera. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:10.200 Richard Marles says Australia has formally registered its deep concern 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:16.600 about the incident, telling Beijing it's completely unacceptable, and the 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:22.280 next day the Prime Minister was waving his finger Beijing's way. 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:27.080 We have made very strong representations at every level to 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:34.200 China about this incident, which your regard as unprofessional and unacceptable. 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:36.560 Okay, I'll just wait for the control room. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:38.920 Can we requeue that and let's play that again when 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.760 everyone to understand what the Prime Minister said after this 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:47.160 story had become public, and what he said was our 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.000 response to China one more time. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:55.040 We have made very strong representations at every level to 0:01:55.360 --> 0:02:01.200 China about this incident, which your regard as unprofessional and 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.280 unacceptable at every level. 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:08.400 Well, guess what the Prime Minister lied now. That is 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:14.200 not my assumption. It is the basic admission of parliamentary 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:18.000 officials in Senate Estimates. This was written up today in 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.080 part by the Financial Review saying the Prime Minister Anthony 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:24.480 Abernezi did not seek a phone call with President Jijingping 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.840 or the Premier after a Chinese fighter jet dedionated flares 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.120 in front of an Australian Navy helicopter earlier this month. 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.800 Repeat Prime Minister did not seek a phone call. Senate 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:40.720 Estimates heard on Tuesday that no direct contact was made 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:47.120 between ministers no direct contact to protest the dangerous maneuver, 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:54.720 despite Albanesi claiming very strong representations had been made to China. Now, 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:59.520 remember they did not release the information about this incident 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.840 until Channel nine had got in touch with them. So 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.600 was there a chance we would never have known about 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:12.560 this potentially near fatal incident where the obvious aggressor is 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.840 China who knows. Thankfully Andrew Proben was able to find 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.160 the story, put it to the government, and then the 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.680 government of course the next day in wider media says 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.399 we have done everything we can to contact every possible 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:33.760 level of the Chinese government. But again Senate estimates yesterday. 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.040 Let me show you the moment when it was clear 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.160 that there has not been phone calls. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.520 There has not been every possible level. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:51.800 Instead, representations are very strong and clear and direct representations 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:59.640 made at the diplomatic, defense and political levels, including ah 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:04.080 public statements by the Deputy Prime Minister, our Minister for 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:14.400 Defense and the prime ministers. Then the public statement that 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.080 the Prime Minister was making on his feet at the time. 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.080 Let me translate that for you. 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:26.000 Apparently, part of our communication with China at every possible level. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:28.440 Was not a phone call. 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.600 From leader to leader was not a phone call minister 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:41.440 to minister. Instead, the press conference at Beefweek is considered 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.640 part of our response to China. Apparently that is what 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:49.599 counted in part as confronting China about what had happened. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.560 Again, more from Senate estimates. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:57.200 Arranging phone calls with China's leaders is not a straightforward 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.560 or speedy process, so we. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:03.400 Don't do it very often. 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:08.080 We're going to see the Chinese premiere in Australia very soon, 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.200 and we will have thorough discussions with him when he arrives. 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.640 It's too hard to make a phone call, but we'll 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.640 tell the public that we did it. It's too hard 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.760 to make a phone call. But the Chinese premier is 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.080 coming here. Does anyone honestly believe that, while we are 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.120 rolling out the red carpet for the second most significant 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.880 person in the Chinese government, that we're going to say, 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:36.360 by the way, about that event a couple of weeks ago, 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.599 where the behavior of your defense force could have killed 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.040 members of our defense force. 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:42.760 No, of course not. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:48.200 You see, China knows that they have got this government 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:49.279 right where they want them. 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:51.719 We'll let the trade happen. 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.960 That'll make you look better, will send no messages to 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.679 the diaspora. We'll hope that they're voting patterns which change 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.920 to the life election, continue into the next election. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:07.680 Just never call us out. What has now been proven. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:13.479 In questioning and in this reporting today is the Prime 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:18.640 Minister lies. Now we've seen this many times before at 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.000 every possible level, every possible level. In fact, third time, 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.000 Control room, Let's bring it back. I wasn't planning to 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:26.440 do it, but let's bring it back. Here's the Prime 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:30.440 minister third time. Now, given what you have just heard 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.919 from Senate estimates, what you've just read in the Financial review, 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.280 does this match up with what the prime ministers said? 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:44.240 We have made very strong representations at every level to 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:51.360 China about this incident, which we regard as unprofessional and unacceptable. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.240 Now, this is a pattern of behavior when it comes 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:59.000 to this government that when we talk about them sending messages, 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.719 it's akin to when you want to have when you 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.479 need to have an awkward conversation with somebody, but you 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.359 secretly hope that their phone is turned off, so you 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.920 leave a voicemail and move on. Or in this case, 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:15.520 they probably wrote China Police call and send it to 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.880 a fax machine that hopefully isn't connected at the other end. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.320 But you say, well, I sent a message, was it received? 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:21.880 Who cares? 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.960 They say, at the diplomatic level? So yes, okay, let's imagine, 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:28.400 and I'm going to give them the benefit of the 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:32.400 doubt that they don't deserve. Perhaps it was embassy to embassy, 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.160 but that's not every level. That's not what you've now 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.240 seen three times from the Prime Minister. 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:39.480 Three times. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.320 They never told us this event happened until the media 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:49.760 called them, and then they claim that they spoke to 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:51.560 every level of the Chinese government, when of course the 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.920 proof is there that they didn't. And why do we 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:58.040 know that this process is one that's burnt them in 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.200 the past, because remember Maus Towoomba. 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.120 This, of course was the. 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:07.160 Australian navy divers who were trying to free up something 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.520 that had got caught in one of their propellers. That's 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.840 when the Chinese decided to fire sonar at them. 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:14.840 One of them got injured. 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:16.800 The Chinese said, oh, it's not us, because if it 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:21.080 really was us, they would have been killed. And again 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.200 the Australian public was not told about this until the 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:29.160 Prime Minister was on his way back from the Australian Sorry, 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:33.600 from the Asia Pacific Economic Forum of the APEK. That's 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:37.199 the meeting where he was face to face with the 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:42.760 President of China. He did not raise this face to 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.440 face with the president. He has not picked up the 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:51.480 phone to even try to arrange the phone call to China. Now, 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:56.440 presumably the handsome boy has been given their new mobile number, 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:58.640 because we know that when they broke up with the 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:04.520 last guy, they definitely didn't return calls. But China has 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.640 the Abaneze government and thus Australia right where it wants it. 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.960 Don't upset them. Tell your people whatever you want because 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:14.640 nobody will really follow up, and even if they do 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.320 follow up, it'll be a few weeks later and no 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:21.600 one will care. The Prime Minister lied, lied about who 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:25.439 knew what, and it came to our national defenses. Now, 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.120 no doubt there'll be a whole bunch of smart Aleci 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.400 replies when he's asked this question, if at all, in 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:34.000 the Parliament tomorrow. But the evidence seems pretty clear right 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.480 the reporting of the Financial Review here is absolute that 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.320 the Prime Minister, and I say one more time, did 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.360 not seek a phone. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.440 Call with the bloke who's coming to Australia, or the 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.360 bloke who he went and met in Beijing. 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:55.120 The beautiful boy is a useful idiot and a lot 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.760 of people will get rich and a lot of people 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:01.080 will be happy. What does it say when the leader 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.520 of our own country will lie to his own citizens 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:09.120 about a potential situation that could have killed members of 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:09.920 the defense force. 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:15.920 Nothing to see here, I'm albow Now. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.920 Maintime, let's talk about Jim Charmers and the economy that's 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.319 put in place right now. I hate to report what 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.760 we've known instinctively for weeks and weeks and weeks that 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.200 guess what Jim Charmers is wrong on inflation? The Reserve 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.720 Bank is more likely to be correct on inflation and 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:33.600 cost of living? Is that the Reserve Bank is said, 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.280 unless it is going to be between two and three 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:40.160 percent the consumer price index, then guess what they're going 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.400 to do. They are going to hold into strates or 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:48.320 god forbid, increase interest rates until inflation starts to fall. Well, 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:53.559 today inflation went up again. It is now three point 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:58.560 six percent. But of course there's a whole bunch of stuff, 0:10:58.559 --> 0:10:59.920 and I do this every month. There's a whole bunch 0:10:59.920 --> 0:11:02.480 of staff that is nowhere near the headlines. A whole 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:06.000 bunch of stuff that is way above the average number 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.400 that still is nowhere near the number that the Preserve 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.880 Bank needs to respond to. Have a look at all 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.720 of the stuff that is way above three and a 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.880 bit percent and three and a half percent, I should say, 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.760 at the moment when it comes to inflation, Tobacco year 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.760 on year up thirteen percent, insurance up eight percent, rent 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.199 up seven and a half percent, petrol seven and a 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:33.360 half percent, alcohol six and a half percent, education six percent, sorry, 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:37.560 health six percent, education five percent five. 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:38.960 Percent for bread and cereal. 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.480 New homes that are purchased by the people who will 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.840 live in them again way higher. Not to mention food, 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:51.120 not to mention electricity. Someone writing about this at news 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.360 dot com Dot a U puts it very cleanly. For 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.600 anyone who is expecting an interest rate cut anytime soon, 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.240 particularly a government that would fingers cross be one to 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.160 go to an election sooner rather than later, because the 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.640 economy is not going to get better from here. Responding 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.920 to the hotter than expected figures, traders slashed their rate 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.600 cut bets, pushing out and expected easing of rates until 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:19.839 November next year. November next year. The hope had been 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.000 that they may well have done something this year, or 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:23.199 certainly by May. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:23.680 Of next year. 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:28.760 Now another year and a half. Of the pain that 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:30.880 you feel when it comes to trying to pay. 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:31.520 Off a house. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.640 All because, as we have told you many times before, 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.880 what they will all claim is global factors. There are 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.640 plenty of things that this country and this government in 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.440 particular have made things harder for. That is the effect 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.640 that exists. When it comes to inflation. They have been 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.760 there for more than two years. In that time, interst 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.120 rates have gone up twelve percent, up twelve times. I 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:59.000 apologize twelve times. When it went up once before the 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.120 last election the sky was caving in. 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.520 Well what do we say now? Oh yeah. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.800 And by the way, about people trying to build homes 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:11.760 in either order to rent them out or to move in. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.800 Interest rates in part is the reason why, according to 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.080 the Turnbull Times, forty thousand homes waiting to be built 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.040 right now are not being built because of high interest rates, 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:24.080 interest rates that, according to the market today, don't expect 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.600 to cut until November next year. While the information coming 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.160 today is close to where the Reserve Bank was not, 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.559 the rosy picture of a treasurer trying to get through 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:40.280 a political cycle. Now, there was plenty of air support 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.280 today for lefty Laura Tingle over there at the ABC. 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:49.880 This cartoon in the nine newspapers confirmed that Australia is racist. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.840 I mean they just put words like terranalius and white 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.760 Australia policy and both people and kids in detention and 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.559 then apparently sixty percent of the country voting against the 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.920 change its own constitution. No, all proof that Australia is racist. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.960 We all know this is the attempt to support Laura 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.560 Tingle because she is, of course one of the high 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.800 priestesses of the media left. The Turble Times writing about 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.720 this makes it all seem like it's a news corp 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:25.480 fever dream. Meantime, today we got to see that by 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.600 the way, other media organizations have focused on this. Just 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:30.800 I know this won't matter by the time it makes 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.480 it to TV next Monday. Not on the ABC, but 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:37.680 still the New Daily they wrote about this story and 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.880 this story by the way, they are owned by union 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.600 super funds. Then there's the radio station that's owned by 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.560 Channel nine, who has also talked about it. But no, no, no, 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.680 it's all a fever dream of Sky News Prime Time. 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.280 You know, of course it all comes around the fact 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.800 that she said that Australia was a racist country. But 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:01.200 I took particular focus on this comment, which I notice 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.480 nobody else seems to focus on, because yeah, Australia's the 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.560 racist countries are sexier quote. But what about what she 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.320 thinks of her fellow Australians for a. 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:16.000 Major politicality that us been saying, As Nicky says, you know, 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.920 everything that's going wrong in this country is because of migrants. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.000 And you know, I had a sudden flash of people 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.120 turning up to try to read a property or at 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.160 an auction, and they look a bit different whatever you 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.280 defined different as that basically he has given them license 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:34.280 to be abused. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.440 Rubbish. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.760 She is admonishing Peter Dutton for a situation that she 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:46.080 has imagined and one that, as I have said before, 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.880 frustrates me because in suburban Australia there are lots of 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.320 people who look like lots of people from lots of 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.440 places around the world. Nobody's being abused because of what 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.880 they look like when it comes to real estate. And 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.440 maybe Lefty Law, in her bubble of whiteness in and 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:06.640 around the Act, perhaps that strikes her differently than it 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:07.680 strikes the rest of us. 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:09.880 But it was that particular. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.800 Comment that has been part of my focus. Now, of 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:16.040 course I also say this that I'm fine for people 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.400 to have strong opinions, but come out and join us 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.840 in the commercial world. Come and join us in a 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.120 world where your opinions have to stand on their own 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.720 two feet and people have to show confidence in them 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:33.880 by buying access to your service. But of course no, 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.240 she of course has it both ways. She's able to 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.080 sit as the independent umpire of everything on the ABC, 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:43.680 all of the fame and adulation that comes withered, and 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.040 then she gets to have the side gigs where she's 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:50.080 able to give her opinion. Well, today, the slap on 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:54.160 the wrist exactly as we expected. The boss of ABC 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.720 News puts out the following statement. Now, none of this 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.000 is on camera, because if they've spoken of a camera 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.920 and microphone, it would elevate it. It would recognize the 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:08.120 seriousness of an otherwise unseerious issue. Laura has been reminded 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:13.119 of their application that being ABC standards at external events 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:16.360 as well as in her work. I have counseled her 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:21.320 over the remarks. Could you imagine how strenuous that struggle 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.160 session would have been Laura Tingle, and then immediately after 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.080 admonishing her has to give her a cuddle. Laura Tingle 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.920 is one of the most experienced, knowledgeable and accomplished journalists. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.880 For her part, Laura Tinger put out an essay today. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:36.840 I didn't really mean it, but I did mean air 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:38.600 because I prove it, and then I don't prove her. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:42.760 You know the footballer's apology. Here's the bit worth reading 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:43.160 to you. 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.159 I regret that when I was making these observations at 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.000 the Writer's Festival, the nature of the free flowing panel 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.240 discussion means they were not surrounded. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:56.359 By every quote substay sorry, substantiating. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:18:02.360 Them, which would have had included what I had said 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.639 earlier on the ABC. Can we go back and play 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:06.800 the grab. I'm sorry to keep doing this to your 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.400 control room tonight, but can we go back and play 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:09.440 all of this crap? 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:09.600 Right? 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:14.040 There's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of words before this 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.320 is what she said. 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:21.200 For a major political ley that be saying, as Nicky says, 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.800 you know everything that's going wrong in this country is 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:28.200 because of migrants, and you know I had sudden flash 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.320 of people turning up to try to read a property 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.479 or at an auction, and they look a bit different 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:38.280 whatever you defined different as that basically he has given 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.040 them license to be abused. 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.280 She didn't really deal with this at the statement, because 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.280 of course this hasn't been the focus of much of 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:50.600 the conversation. She can, of course, immediately then pulls the 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.119 shield of the ABC in front of her. This is 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:57.120 created an opportunity for yet another anti ABC pylon. Yeah, 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:02.440 because you called Australia a racist country. You suggested a 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.280 situation when fellow Australians would turn on each other because 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:06.800 of the way they look when they turn up to 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.720 an auction. This is not helpful to me. You're the 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:15.800 victim or the ABC or the national debate. Well, guess what, sorry, 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:19.720 criticizing you does not affect the national debate. You criticizing 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.480 me does not affect the national debate. Get out of yourself. 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:25.520 I'm so proud of my work as a journalist at 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.000 the ABC on all of its platforms, and I. 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:30.639 Let that work speak for itself. 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.040 Well, of course, because when you do end up speaking 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:39.320 for yourself at libbing, you say things like you really mean, 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:45.159 like Australia is a racist country. It is based always 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.080 on solid research and a lifetime of experience reporting on 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.919 Australian politics. What that you think that there's going to 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:54.920 be Australians turning on Australians at auctions because they quote 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:59.560 unquote look different. That work is built on and delivered 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.240 in the frame work of the ABC's very high editorial 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:10.520 standards poice. They marked their own homework, They let themselves off. 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:15.600 Any criticism is a pylon. That's not helpful to me. 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:21.760 What about I'm sorry? What about I'm wrong? What about 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.840 I shouldn't have said that? No, no, no, no, no. 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:25.800 Here's the She was able to. 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:31.800 Produce her school project, the proof everything was right, and 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.480 didn't really deal with the bit where she just made 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.359 up a scenario that she was admonishing Peter Dutton for. 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:39.399 Now. 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.960 What will happen is that she will, of course be 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.280 completely embraced by the machine. She will be nothing but 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:50.800 defended in all directions because you see, apparently there are 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.160 people that are beyond criticism, There are people that are 0:20:54.280 --> 0:21:02.480 beyond observation, beyond ridicule, beyond a joke. And who knew 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:04.960 they all work in the one building and they all 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:08.000 mark each other's homework A plus. 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:09.639 A plus ABC plus. 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:16.520 Another example of it again, the multifaceted ways at which 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:21.080 they get the same message across. Peter Dutton as always 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:24.720 the focus of the government because of course he's the 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:27.080 biggest threat to them being able to hold onto government. 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:28.320 But the assumption is the. 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:30.479 Teals won't move anywhere, so don't worry Peter Dutton. It's 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:31.920 just a bit of noise between. 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:32.120 Now and then. 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:35.920 We can keep lying about China, we keep pretending to 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:39.000 be transparent, you know, all that stuff. We can make 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:42.280 the economy worse. But no, no, Peter Dutton is a real problem. 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:43.960 And of course one of the ways that they are 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:45.560 going to come with Peter Dutton is again to say 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:46.760 the Liberal Party has a problem with women. 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:48.080 Liberal Party has a problem with women. 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:50.840 Send the message until they have a statistical problem with women, 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:55.480 certainly what happened at the last election. Well, until people 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:58.639 are told, I know I'm stumbling tonight so much, I 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:03.879 apologize about why the problem with women. Before that narrative 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:06.160 starts up, I wanted to show you the essential poll, 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:09.800 you know, the one in the Guardian that shows this 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.080 dead level right now between the Labor and the Liberal Party. 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:13.520 It's not great. 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:15.760 It's a primary vout of twenty nine percent, but still 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:17.960 there is no difference right now in the female vote 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:21.199 between the Liberal Party and the Labor Party as the 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:24.680 equal number one options for women. So it is time 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:30.159 to send a message out that Peter Dutton has a 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:33.320 problem with women. And if Peter Dutton it doesn't have 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:34.879 a problem with women, women should have a problem with 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:35.560 Peter Dutton. 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:37.480 Who is the person. 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:40.120 Who is sending this message none other than again one 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:42.480 of the High Priestesses of the ABC. Cannot be questioned, 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:44.800 cannot be ridiculed because that would be a pilot and 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:51.120 that's not helpful for me or national debates. And miss 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:54.959 Crab says today among opposition leaders, Peter Dunne is a 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:59.040 miracle survival story, but easy about to nuke himself with 0:22:59.080 --> 0:22:59.919 women vote as well? 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:01.400 Oh here we go. 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:05.280 Pety Dutton is a freak of nature politically that is, oh, 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:08.320 always thought you did there. Two years in Dutton is 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:12.880 not only still in office, but nobody inside his own 0:23:12.920 --> 0:23:15.040 party or even the National Party is trying to blow 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:18.200 him out of it. Truly extraordinary achievement. Well that's cause 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:23.000 Malcolm's not there anymore. But then we get to eventually 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:26.600 to the issue that apparently is going to cost the 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:30.080 Liberal Party votes with women and its nuclear power. 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:30.639