WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 28 January 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:06.920 From the Sky News Center. This is Paul Murray Live. Well, 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:09.720 I'm Sharry. Welcome into the man cave. Oh have I 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:13.600 got to show for you. We ain't mucking around tonight. 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:17.520 We hit full gear. If you've been distracted by tennis, cricket, whatever, 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.200 no excuses, welcome back. We've been here for a couple 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:22.960 of weeks. We're here every night nine o'clock, the og, 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.080 the one that's been here for fifteen years. If you've 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.080 been here since moment one, thank you so much. But 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:30.080 if you're back, we are fired up, ready to go 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:33.240 an election year. That's when Sky newses at its best, 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.800 and that's when we have laser like focused on everything 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.200 we want to achieve. I say tonight it's a good show, 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.120 because how's this Meghan Kelly's on the show tonight. Normally 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:43.640 later in the week she's got to go to Washington, 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.680 blah blah blah. You don't care, but you get to 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.760 see her on TV tonight. Fight up and in. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:54.080 Four k this woman has decided to manufacture tears to 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.040 try to work herself up, you know, as an actress 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:02.480 mate before a scene that could potentially be say oscar worthy, 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.760 and try her best to turn on the water works. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.720 She's fantastic. You will see her in full flight ladder tonight. 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.480 Oh but we're not done. The Great Nigel Farras joins 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.080 us live from London. A brand new opinion poll has 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.880 dropped in the past couple of hours that shows that 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.000 the Reform Party, if there was an election held, would 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.640 win more seats than the Conservatives and even Labor. Could 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.120 he go from half a dozen seats in the Parliament 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:28.800 all the way to the Prime Minister. We'll talk. It's 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.280 all going his way. As I say, we're not mucking around, 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:32.760 and a big part of that is everything we've got 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:34.720 to deal with. It's in the news today, including a 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.440 lot of stuff that I know you have not heard 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:38.160 or you're probably here in a couple of days time, 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.160 but you're going to hear it first right now. So 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.839 Prime Minister election year, billions of dollars in promises, ones 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.120 that he knows he can't afford, but he doesn't care. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.200 The Prime Minister is going from door to door telling 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:52.760 people how much money he's got for this and how 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.240 much money's got for that. But we don't forget the 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.720 federal budget is in deficit between now and the next 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:01.480 forty four zero years. And while this bloke wants to 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.280 pretend everything is awesome, everything's okay, we've turned the corner. 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.760 That's all old hands. We're through the worst of it, 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.440 like we've flattened the COVID curve or somehow we're repelled 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:17.280 the invading forces of World War II. Please, the reality 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.840 of Albo's Australia is that today, as hundreds of thousands 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.880 of kids went back to school Prince of bleed back 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:28.239 to public schools in Queensland, there are many more parents 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.880 that are having serious financial trouble. Now. I know this 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:32.840 is not as exciting as telling you, oh, here's the 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.359 load oft starter about climate change. It's not as much 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.000 fun as oh look what Lydia Thorpe did today. But 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.080 this is a statement of the country and where it 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:44.440 is under this bloke difficult sacrifice. Parents are making hard 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:49.000 choices to pay for kids education. According to analysis which 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.720 is done by a group called Good three sixty Australia, 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.680 nearly two in five parents so they are more concerned 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.800 with how's this, more concerned with affording school essentials than 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.120 in previous years. Oh but we've turn the corner. What 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.280 about the two little too? Late tax cuts. Oh, haven't 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.440 we saved everyone two hundred and seventy five dollars in 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.440 their power burs Oh, that's right, no topic. The concerns 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:13.480 of costs include things like digital tools. You see, way 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.560 back when it was Kevin Rudy was handing out the laptops. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:19.000 Now it's you who's paying for them. Making sure that 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.120 your kid has the best possible technology to keep up 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.079 with the latest version of the software that everyone else 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.399 has in the classroom. Otherwise your kid starts to fall back. Meantime, 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.320 you might be paying through the nose for more internet 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:29.880 than you actually need. And it's not so you can 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.000 stream telling. It's so that the kids can keep up 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.120 with the work that they are doing. If you're a 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.760 grandparent you're taking care, you too may be paying way 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.880 too much for internet that you don't need. Forty three 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:44.760 percent of families refer to the digital costs of education 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:49.040 as a quote major burden. The person who founded the 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:50.880 charity that did this work is somebody I want to 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:55.880 highlight for you tonight. Alison Covington says, as the cost 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.560 of living crisis continues, our research shows that parents are 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.720 making difficult sacrifices to set poor children's learning. This is 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.440 Ourbo's Australia. Everyone feel good should he get another three years. 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.760 Nobody should be forced to choose between essentials for their 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.720 child's education and basic family necessities such as food and clothing. 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.080 What was his promise three years ago? What is the 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.880 central promise that you count? It has been broken every 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.680 day a labor government will lower the cost of living. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:27.040 They didn't you name it. It's higher from the cost 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.839 of the school uniform, to the school shoes, to the 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:31.920 computers that they're using, to the internet that you have 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.320 to pay for, for the insurance on the car where 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.520 you drop them off, or the cost of the fuel 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.240 that goes into the bus that picks them up, not 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.400 to mention all of the other things to do in life, 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.839 like paying off the house with all there's interest rate rises. 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.000 Nothing to see here, it's all better, I know, that's right. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:54.120 It's all worse. The central promise is a lie and 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:58.440 has been broken. It is the central reason why no 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.720 matter what they pull between now an election day, you've 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.560 got to put the size nine on and be it 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.280 the clerks, the hushpuppies, or if you're able to get 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.800 around in a pair of dock Martins, or you can 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.360 wear some rossy boots, belt them as hard as you 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:17.599 possibly can when you get the chance. Green's last labor, 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.320 second last. Now, I say all of this because there 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.520 is some early signs that the inflation number, which is 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.320 about to be released in the next couple of days, 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.200 which will feed into the decision making of the Reserve Bank, 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.560 is going to be where we have long needed it 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.360 to be, between the two and three percent margin. But remember, 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.560 it's not just a one off sugar hit. But the 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.480 patients of the federal political gallery do not remember last month, 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.600 last year, the year before, the year before, or all 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.400 the other resets, all the other changes. They're going to 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.720 lock in that when inflation lands at the number that 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.520 they know the Reserve Bank is looking for, no matter 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.359 how artificially it has arrived at because of the b 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.920 billions of dollars that are being spent to artificially hide 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:06.160 the increases of power prices. When the rates come out tomorrow, 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.840 it seems like the Treasurer has got a preview and 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.960 he has already started doing the victory dance. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.440 Now, when we came to office, inflation had a six 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.520 in front of it, and it was rising. Now inflation 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.000 has a two in front of it, and that is 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.400 a demonstration of that progress. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.000 So get ready, mission accomplished. And in fact, from the 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.599 very same people who told us that it was mission accomplished, 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.839 they are all prepared to run the line that everything 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:34.599 is okay, everything is awesome, and it's time for the 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.880 Reserve Bank to start cutting interest rates. Now. It is 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.360 time for the Reserve Bank to start cutting interest rates 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:43.000 because we have been in a per capita recession for 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.640 the best part of what seven courters in a row 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.960 I think it is. It's been a huge period of 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:51.880 time where we the average people have gone backwards. The 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.120 living standards are at nineteen forty nine. This government is responsible. 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.840 This government promised to change it. This government should be 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.760 punished for it. Oh but get ready, get ready for 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.320 the media to say that just because prices are going 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.920 up by a little less than they previously went up, 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.360 then magically the assumption is that we're all too stupid 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.840 to know the difference between what the cost of everything 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.480 was before this bloke became Prime minister at the cost 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.120 of everything now that he is Prime minister and has 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.040 had a full term to screw up the joint perfect 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.560 example how much extra it costs to pay off the 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.800 family home. A third of Australians are trying to pay 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.640 off a house, more than that are trying to pay 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:31.240 off their own house. So once you start to throw 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.120 in the people that are paying off an investment property, 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.400 the majority of people in Australia care about what is 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.280 happening when it comes to interest rates. And the West 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.440 Australian did a little thing on the average homeland in 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.640 West Australia, which is about four hundred thousand dollars, many 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.679 thousand dollars lower than say what you happening in Citney, Melbourne, Brisbane. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.640 But how's this about? Sixty thousand dollars is how much 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:53.840 extra interest you have had to pay since this mob 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:58.760 came to power. Sorry, that's your interest repayments. It works 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:02.640 out at the best part of almost forty four zero 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.320 thousand dollars increase since this blow came to power. Do 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.760 your sums? Divide it by twelve, divided by six, divide 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.560 it and whichever way you want. Having to find an 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:17.880 extra thirty forty fifty thousand dollars depending on where you 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.600 are and how much you're paying off your house is 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.720 a disgrace. You didn't have the money then, you don't 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.360 have the money now, And yes, why there has not 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.080 been a huge number of people that are whacking the 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.640 for sale sign up because they can't pay for the 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.160 roof over their head anymore. You know in your suburb 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.640 there are plenty more places for sal than were a 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.719 couple of years ago, even when the interest rates were 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.760 as low as they were. They said it was a 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.160 cost of living crisis and the ultimate example of why 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.120 been needed to change the government three years ago. Well 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:48.880 guess what three years later, more people cut back on 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.760 Christmas than they did the year before, the year before that, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:54.520 More people are worried about how they're going to pay 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:55.920 for their kids to go to school, and more people 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.320 are having to find tens of thousands of dollars in 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.480 what limited way as they actually had. Because unless youre 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:05.400 a public servant, unless you're a politician, you have not 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.600 got the pay rise that matches the increase in your 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.240 costs from interest rates, which in part are because of 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:15.960 government spending. Australia must remember this. You have to remind 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:20.400 your family members of this show that promise again from 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.559 elbow from a couple of years ago, I want you, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.600 if you can, to pick up your phone right now. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.880 I'll give you a couple of seconds. Pick up the phone, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.640 lean in and take a pharto with the LBO promise 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:34.320 that everything would be lower under a labor government. I 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.760 want you to keep this one nice and close. You 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:38.440 can go and google image it if you want. But 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.240 the cost of everything is going up, and a labor 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:42.760 government will lower the cost of living. I'll give you a 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.480 couple of seconds here, all right, everyone, five four three 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:50.559 two one, Take the photo, post it online. Remind your 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:54.120 family that that was the promise. Did this happen No? 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.040 Two seventy five y twenty twenty five? Nah, everything else 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:02.239 go up? Yes, and in part because of very sneaky taxes. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:06.959 So come over to camera five. One of the ways 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:08.959 that this federal government has been able to get itself 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.760 to a surplus is not through incredible economic management, not 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.000 by cutting wasteful spending, but of course because they've been 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.439 kissed on the proverbial, because they've been hit by lightning 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.840 and more money out of the mining industry that looks 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.839 like it's about to dry up, which means ah pany panic. 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.160 And why we're going to start the first of the 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:31.480 next forty years forty four zero kids years in deficit. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.600 Oh but aren't they fantastic that will go over retreating dollars. 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.760 But don't talk about that. That was the last mob please. 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:44.120 Now it is now twenty five years since we had 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.079 a discussion in Australia about changing the tax system. You 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:54.240 might remember the ads uji. Australia is currently being held back. 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.240 We are tied to a tax system that's been patched 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.920 up over and over again since the nineteen thirties. 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.079 Now, imagine the outrage if somebody was doing that. Now, oh, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.120 there's a child, How did the child's being held by 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:08.040 the chains? 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:08.960 Oh? 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.520 Goodness me? And there's not enough diversity in the you know, 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.760 all the crap that we go on. Now, twenty five 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.120 years ago we got the GST, which was the major 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.800 change to our system, which was supposed to get rid 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.400 of a whole bunch of sneaky taxes, lots of the 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.000 sneaky taxes that the state and federal government put in 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:30.360 place in exchange for a overall consumption tax that didn't 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.679 apply to everything, but basically applied to everything bar a 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.000 very few things. That meant that the federal government was 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.520 getting more revenue than ever before. But put simply, the 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.760 people who spend more than other people end up paying 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:47.280 more tax than the people who don't. It means if 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:48.920 somebody wants to go and buy a speed boat, they're 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.120 going to be paying more tax than the person who 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.800 is only going to the supermarket to buy the basics. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.199 That's the general idea in and around it. But something 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.240 that has ever been us but certainly has creeped up 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:06.360 during this term in government is a dirty little thing 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:12.559 called excise taxes. Now these are easy because obviously they're voluntary, 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.640 because if you didn't fill up your car, you wouldn't 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:19.920 have to pay the tax on petrol. If you didn't 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.240 have a drink, you wouldn't have to pay the tax 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:27.240 on booze. God forbid, you are slightly killing yourself via smoking. 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.440 That is a horrific thing of which you should pay 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.559 more tax because you're a burden on the health system. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.240 Blah blah blah. And even if you buy a pair 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.160 of shoes, you got to pay some tax on that 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.079 as well, and not the GST. In fact, in Australia 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.520 we now pay an excise tax for all the things 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.600 I've talked about and then the GST on top of it. 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.360 Put simply tax on top of a tax that produces 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.520 for the federal government last year forty seven almost forty 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.600 eight before billion dollars. Keep that number up, soak it 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:05.560 in petrol, who's smokes shoes? Diesel forty seven point nine 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.520 billion dollars. Let me break this down for you for 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.480 some of the areas, and just how much tax you 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:17.400 pay if you need to fill the truck or the 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:23.240 family trucks with diesel seventeen b four billion dollars in tax. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.520 Guess where that gets passed on to if you're a 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.960 truck that happens to be moving anything around Australia. And 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:31.600 last time I checked, nothing grows at the supermarket. It 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:36.720 all has to be driven tax. Tobacco eight point seven 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.440 b four billion dollars. Now they tell us fewer people 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.240 are smoking that ever before. And yes, of course it's 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.520 a terrible thing, you shouldn't do it. But less than 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.800 ten percent of the population is paying eight point seven 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:52.560 b four billion dollars out of tobacco. But of course 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.880 they decide to move to vaping, but they don't tax vaping. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:59.000 So what's going on here? As for petrol, they decided 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:03.079 to increase it. Remember, increase it. So now they're getting 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.240 seven b for billion dollars out of petrol. I want you, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.960 every time you drive past a servo to think kuching. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:15.920 Every time you see what's being sold behind the counter 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.160 in tobacco, kutching. Every time you go to the boozer, 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.480 spirits three point three b four billion dollars, beer two 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:30.360 point six billion dollars, other forms of alcohol one point 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:34.080 seven b four billion dollars. All of that, I remind 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:40.120 you forty seven point nine billion dollars every time you 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:41.960 see this stuff. I want you to see it that 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.280 not only do you pay the excise tax, but then 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.560 you pay the GST on top of it. In Australia, 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.200 the system that supposedly had been cleaned up twenty five 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.520 years ago now has a tax on top of a tax. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.160 Incredible scenario that we have to pay in Australia. And 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.400 this is how this federal government is able to bank 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.240 a surplus. It is exclusively through these areas. If you 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.920 took these areas out of a federal budget, they're nowhere 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.520 near a surplus. So they can bang on about the 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.680 future Fund as much as they want. They can whistle 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:18.640 Dixie about reforms to this or cutbacks on that. If 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.400 you didn't drink, you didn't smoke, you didn't drive, and 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:27.480 you didn't wear clothes, they wouldn't be anywhere near able 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.440 to make the type of ludicrous promises that they make, 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.680 and this Prime Minister is making more of them day 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:38.560 by day by day we are what the twenty eighth 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:43.480 of January, the Prime Minister has made promises. And I 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.120 gave him the benefit of doubt because when we first 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:46.720 put this number up, I thought, jeez, we must have 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.160 missed something. No, multiple media sources they came to the 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.920 same number. We did. Have a guess, just have a guess. 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:56.000 He's made fifteen point one six b for or billion 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.560 dollar promises since the start of the year, not as 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:05.800 a hangover from the budget fifteen billion dollars. As he 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:11.440 tries to buy votes, change opinions, just like you did 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.280 last year. But it didn't move the needle, just like 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.800 the year before that didn't move the needle. But magically, 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:22.240 somehow this one will move the needle. Now. By the way, 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.760 the stuff that he's promising, you can say, some of 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.320 it's good, some of it's bad. It's up to you, 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:27.960 but have a look. It's everything from you know, the 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:31.080 brand new version of the NBN fixing roads that he 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.120 promised to fix three years ago. So it's just old money, 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:38.560 forever money, never going to see it money. This bloke 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.479 is not even one month into this election year, fifteen 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.520 billion dollars. Why am I the only one telling you this? 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.880 Why is everyone else focused on the minutia of today's 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.640 movement in the election? Why is the six PM news 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.640 obsessed with trying to sell the elbow with a day message? 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:04.520 Because they don't want a change of government. They don't 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:09.440 agree that this government has poorly performed, so they will 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.399 do everything they can to offer the benefit of the 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.840 doubt to a government who has made everything worse, who 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.840 has got a sneaky form of taxation that, yes, other 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.960 governments have had, but they have ramped it up. So 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.280 every time you hear them say, oh, we've done everything 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:28.159 we can for cost of living, they increased these taxes 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.159 to drive home the point, by the way, when I 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.800 say when you see petrol stations, when you see a 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.760 clothing shop, when you see all sorts of places, I 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.240 want you to think, kachin, kachinkachin. We did this work today, 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.480 an average tank of petrol twenty five dollars in tax 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.640 fifty cents a liter. If you get a slab one 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:55.439 of the country's most popular beers, Great Northern, twenty dollars 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.359 of a slab of beer in Australia is now tax 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.760 to the federal government. Tax in the federal government. So 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.720 they can go and make never never promises or pretend 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:07.879 they're balancing the books. If you happen to be a 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:15.400 wine person, eight dollars of that bottle is tax. If 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:19.359 vodka's your thing, it'll cost you about seventy dollars. Thirty 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:26.240 six dollars. Half of that bottle is now tax in Australia. 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:28.399 But if you don't drink, you don't pay the tax. 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:31.840 And then, of course our old mates at Bundy rum 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:33.800 I'll say it, and I'll say it again. Sixty three 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:38.520 percent of this bottle, more than half, sixty three percent 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:43.840 of the bottle show their ad is tax in Australia. Now. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.560 Should there be a slight excess on goodso okay, maybe 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:49.760 as a little bit of extra money here or there, 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:54.000 but they are taking the piece. When a bottle of 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.919 booze has sixty three percent, when a tank of gas 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:04.240 is twenty five dollars when about a third, maybe more 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:10.480 depending on what you drink in beer is tax. Oh 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.959 but we're here for the little people, you see. I 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.200 hate to break this to the people who love to 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:16.639 fly at the front of the plane. I hate to 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.040 break this to the people who were able to have 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.880 the corporate credit card or the government credit card pay 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:25.520 their lunches. You see, the vast majority of Australians, they'd 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.440 hand lived the high life. The vast majority of Australians. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.960 They work their backsides off. They get up early, They 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.080 squint as they drive, as the sons in their eyes 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.240 before they got the chance to say goodbye to their kids, 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:38.600 sit on a motorway where they pay more tolls than 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.520 they did before. If they want to get a coffee, 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.600 it's costing more than it ever did. Once they actually 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.840 get work, let alone meat pie, anything the peak right, 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.960 they work longer, They drive back in the squint and 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.320 maybe after the kids have gone to bed, after the 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.359 homework's been done, they sit down and they watch a 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.320 show like this at a time like this, just before 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.960 they go to bed. The only luxury in their day, 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:07.639 maybe a little tipple, maybe just a little half glass 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.760 of something, but the bottom for which it comes sixty 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:18.320 three percent of it is tax That is outrageous. Now, 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.160 you can have the theory about tobacco and taxation because 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:24.040 of the causation or whatever. Right, I think those taxes 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:26.399 are too high and I don't believe them to be 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:31.399 the determinant of the deterrent that they have profited to 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.560 be Why because the making rates, yes, have slain, but 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.400 they have not been blown away. But for the vast 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:39.160 majority of the country that's not. Yeah, you have a drink. 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.879 I'm a minority because I don't drink, but I definitely 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:44.840 fill up my carb with petrol, definitely buy a pair 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:53.200 of shoes. This country is built on a political lie 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:57.439 when it comes to economic management on the federal budget. 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:04.080 Without the taxes on your simple pleasures, they would be 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:08.879 nowhere near being able to balance the budget. So my 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:14.919 suggestion is that they should reduce the taxes on normal 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:19.520 people who look forward to that one thing they do 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.920 for themselves for half an hour a day, maybe a 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:26.680 little more on the weekends because God the pit they 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:28.400 want to go and see their family and hang out. 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:32.760 They want to sit around a campfire in the middle 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.240 of winter. They want to have a couple if they 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:37.840 go to the cricket, the footy, or even the ballot 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:44.040 boozers everywhere. Now, who's going to have the stones to 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:48.200 come up and promise this not five percent, not two percent, 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:52.760 but like half And then you know what they have 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:54.240 to do. They then have to go through the rest 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:55.919 of the federal budget and find some stuff to get 0:21:56.000 --> 0:22:00.399 rid of. And yes, there will be some outrage because 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:04.359 a dollar removed from here means that your political opponents 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:08.280 could turn around and go cuts, cuts, cuts, cuts and services. 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:11.600