WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 4 September 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:07.320 From the Skyinging Center. This is Paul Murray Live. Thank you, James, 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:09.639 all the best to Sharry. See her again tomorrow or 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:11.799 definitely next week. We've got lots to get to tonight, 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.320 including a massive debate. And yes, I'm going to rip 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.320 into Jim Chalmers. How can you not after the garbage 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:19.439 that he's been serving up today. Oh, it's all a 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:22.759 global and systemic problem, loang, and it was very personal 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:24.560 when it was the other bloke. And I'll tell you 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.080 why Australia is actually underperforming the rest of the world. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.840 Can you believe there's a plan for facial recognition to 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.120 be the way that you may end abit paying for things? 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.159 You wouldn't even need to double tap or beep, you 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.040 would just use your face. What could possibly go wrong? 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.720 And the Great Meghan Kelly joins us to discuss two 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.920 months ago in the American election and about a week 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.120 ago until the debate. But first, every now and then 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.360 we like to try to focus and start with some 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.720 good news. We know how tough the rest of the 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:54.920 news is. It doesn't mean we won't talk about the 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.600 serious stuff, but an update on some stuff that we 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:01.600 hope will make you smile, including your update today on 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:03.520 the little Bubba that we've been following for more than 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.920 a week now, the little Bubba who, of course was 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:12.640 burnt by a lunatic who decided to pour what was 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:15.640 hot coffee and now we understand a thermos full of 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.520 it and he's been pretty badly burned. Now, we brought 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.160 you the news on Sunday that thankfully he is up 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.600 at walking, laughing again. Well, the good news I can 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.400 bring you now comes via a social media post of 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:33.800 his mum. They're out of hospital. In a social media post, 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:35.960 the woman said that he has been home for a 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:40.440 few hours. He's already knocked his head like toddlers often do. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:45.040 It's going to be a great few months. She's of 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.040 course saying that because back to hospital on Friday and 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.160 then on Monday of next week to start the skin 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:55.600 graft process. The Bubber's had three surgeries and they were 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.400 undertaken on Monday, early procedures revealing that he would most 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.680 likely suffer scars under his neck and chest due to 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.880 the serious burns. But the good news is the firstly 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.720 up and walking, secondly now at home, and thirdly a 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.959 recovery process is going on. I still don't understand how 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.880 or why the person police believe responsible has not been found. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.200 If you know the image, if you know the information, 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.280 if you know anything, even a week and a bit 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:26.919 on call Crime Stoppers one one hundred, triple three, triple zero. Now, 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:31.040 the Fox sisters are legends of the paras Olympic Games 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.680 because not one but two of them ended up winning 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.680 gold medals. Between them, the family won at three gold 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.560 medals and they are rock stars. Well, of course, there 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.359 is a facility that was built almost quent five years 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:47.880 ago for the Sydney Olympic Games for canoeing and kayaking, 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.920 and it's the water sports arena that is in Penrith 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.040 on the outskirts of Sydney. They are both from there. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:59.680 They are both proud Panthers fans, and today a part 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.000 of the course has now been named after them. It 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.200 will be known as Fox Island. 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:07.640 Yeah, that's very special. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:12.240 Something we see every day and the cost Island, say a. 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:13.360 Lot of island. 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.600 They are cuties. And in terms of the Paralympics, look 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.440 I like you. I love watching them, I really do. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.399 Just to see what these athletes are able to do 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:28.760 with the obvious disabilities. People who've got you would imagine 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.560 no capacity to be athletic. Of course, will they outshine 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.000 able bodied people. It's incredible to see what they do. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.280 And a perfect example of somebody that we've met before 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:45.080 who was at the Paralympics is Madison do d Rosario. 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.720 My apologies, she's a rockstar. She's going to be competing 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.240 in marathon as well as the fifteen hundred meters. We 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.440 of course met her when we were doing our town 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.320 in bower Galla on the northern beaches of Sydney, and 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.440 I'm pleased to say that she is now a medal winner. 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.800 She got bronze in one of the three events that 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:06.680 she is competing in. The one that she hopes to 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.440 go for gold will be in a couple of days time. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:16.800 But congratulations, three bits of good news to start the day. Now. 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:18.920 I'm pleased to see that a few people have noticed 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.719 what we told you last night, which was that Giggles Miles, 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:26.520 Stephen Miles, the Queensland Premiere, took an eleven minute flight 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:30.000 on a private jet paid for by the Queensland taxpayer, 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.600 an eleven minute flight so he could go to an 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.640 MP's birthday and he can announce a brand new school 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.600 fence This is ridiculous. I agree with everything that's been 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.560 said thus far. Now, of course, Stephen Miles, well, as 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.839 always when it comes to labor, you never a minute mistake, 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.560 you double down. You know you're the one with the problem, 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.760 not me. Well that was the game today. At the 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:56.440 press conference as the Cory mal said that, he defended himself, 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.320 saying he had no regrets about the flight. It is 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:05.799 an eleven minute flight on a jet, taxpayer funded simply 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.760 because it's an easier way to get around than driving 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.560 on the goat tracks that the Queensland government have let 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.080 become goat tracks. 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.279 So well, look, it might be easy fodder to pick 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.400 one leg of that trip, but taken in its totality, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.800 I think you'll see that I was very busy and 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.760 it was an appropriate, entirely appropriate. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:26.479 Use of travel resources. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.640 I get that it's easy fodder for tableaux journalists, but 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:34.719 when you look at the trip in totality, it made sense. 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:40.240 Please please if he uses tone diff as this after 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.479 what we caught him doing earlier in the year when 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.840 he had a private jet and the Police Commission had 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.400 a private jet to fly from the same place to 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.000 the same place, and he got torched in and around that. Politically, 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.400 you would think that when you look at the itiner 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.279 and you say, wellang I am, we're going from here 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:59.679 to here's for eleven minutes. I don't know about that, because, 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.760 of course on the plane with him were news reporters, 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.560 so the idea that it was ever going to get out, 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.640 of course, was not to be seen. But the courier 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.440 mal who had the information and put it on their 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.880 newspapers and have gone after him again today well done, 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.240 have got a lot of commenters to their website and 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.839 the letter section of the newspaper, and says, typical of 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.560 this goose. He knows he's cooked, Hence he doesn't give 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.880 a hoot. Ian says, if his goal is to look stupid, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.480 he's doing a first rate job of it. Paul says, 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.760 the arrogance of this bloke shows no bounds. He loves 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.599 splourging other people's money. Now that sounds like something that 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.200 I would have written to the paper, but it was 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.400 somebody else called Paul. But it's one hundred percent true. 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.160 And Graham says, this is yet another example of why 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.360 we don't have money for our roads and hospitals. Out 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:51.000 the door in twenty four oh yet one more, David says, Oh, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:52.960 come on, guys, it's hardly fair to be critical of 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:54.840 mister males. Do you realize how long a seventy five 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.760 kilometer trip would take on Queensland roads, with all the 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.680 potholes and acts and delays, he could have taken a day. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.000 Tongue firmly, of course, planted in cheek. But it is 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.320 yet another example about other people's money and how it 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.440 is spent. Now we know that the Prime Minister has 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.000 got quite a sweet tooth when it comes to this 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.520 stuff about the amount of private travel bouncing around an 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.920 airbus elbow, the brand new plane that's coming, which he 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.880 couldn't possibly have canceled despite the fact that it was 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.960 ordered a couple of years ago, and even as we know, 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:29.080 nicknames the plane that you and I pay for Toto 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:34.040 after the dog. Well, today Daily Telegraph had to look 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:35.600 at some of the money that he's spending on top 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.040 of a bunch of other things that you're already paying for. 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:42.040 It's three point eight million dollars. Three point eight million 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:43.680 dollars must be fun to be up the front of 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.320 the bus, or not have a bus, or to have 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.080 your own plane a brand new one. Anthony Alberdezi slugg 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.040 taxpayers one hundred thousand dollars and twelve months for private 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.080 com car bookings. So, by the way, this is on 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.920 top of on top of CEE one plus two hundred 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.840 and fifty three thousand dollars for printing in communications his 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.360 staff and he has sixty one of them. Remember a 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:09.040 significant number of those working in the media department helping 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.520 to fluff the image of this Prime minister was worth 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.559 two and a half billion dollars. The Prime Minister's annual 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.560 three point eight million dollar expenses bill does not include 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:23.800 his private chartered flights, It does not include his salary 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.320 at six hundred thousand dollars. It does not include the 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.960 wages of his staff, which are estimated to be about 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.880 ten million dollars. Again, comments to the paper that wrote 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.360 about it this morning and has been online all day 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:40.320 about it, Anthony says, mister Alberinsi talks about the cost 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.120 of living, how Australians are struggling, but neglects to mention 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:47.800 it doesn't include him. Francis, we can't afford a forty 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.920 dollars cab ride, Prime Minister, so out of touch. You 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.560 are also inside this report is the amount of money 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.840 that is being spent by some of the dopes that 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.480 are in Parliament and some of the dullards that are 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.280 in and around this Prime Minister formerly sitting around the 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:07.199 Cabinet table or the ministry idiot Andrew Giles, the bloke 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:11.560 who absolutely stuffed up the National security with the response 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.400 to the High Court decision. He spent a million dollars 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:19.679 on office administration. That's rent bills, printing, stationary software and telecommunications. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.040 Jim Charmers or Grim. Jim had to of course flight 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:24.760 in the United States. We talked about this trip at 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.160 the time. We now know his five day trip costs 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:31.440 eighty five thousand dollars. All of these people tell you 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.840 should work from home. All of these people say your 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.000 kids shouldn't go to school during a pandemic. All of 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.360 these people say why not do it on zoom? But 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:43.000 when it's them Tims and Tim hehs is the Assistant 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:47.280 Trade Minister. He spent two hundred and fifty eight thousand 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.960 dollars on international flights. And if you don't remember who 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.080 this bloke is, like most people in Australia, he's the 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.160 one who abused anyone who believes that we should have 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.160 a proper royal commission or real inkoo worry into COVID. 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.679 He basically calls you a conspiracy theory and a lunatic. 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.600 There is a well spring, a sort of fitted wellspring 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:15.320 of COVID conspiracy theorists, and some of them, some of them, 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:19.160 some of them in habit the benches over. 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.839 There, classy staff, Oh, we always care about cost of living. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.120 Quarter of a million dollars flying around the world and 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.640 it's extended to the people that aren't even in the government. 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:34.960 Sophie Scamps is the Independent or the Teal Party MPO 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:36.880 should say, oh, of course it's not a party. We 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:38.480 all just look the same, say the same and fund 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.320 the same. But it's absolutely a community independent. She spent 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.959 two hundred and forty six thousand dollars on printing and communications. 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.840 A perfect example of once you elect somebody, they have 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:54.080 taxpayer funds to market themselves to the electorate. When you 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.719 are not in government, you're able to not have to 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:01.599 take responsibility for anything. There are more people on the 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.520 cross bench as a result of the potential minority parliament. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.160 They will all have the ability to do so. And 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.840 why it's so hard to move them on, no matter 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.160 how irrelevant they are or how far the actual reality 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.160 of their time in offices. Remember she didn't even work 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:21.160 weekends at one point. Is with their rhetoric. So let's 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.160 get to the economy. I know a couple of other 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.520 people have mentioned it in some detail tonight, but you know, 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.480 this is our Bally week, this is what we do. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:29.280 This is our line and length, and there's lots of 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.520 numbers I need to get to here. As you know, 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.640 the Prime Minister and Jim Chalmers claim that they have 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.480 been pushing the economy in the right direction. Well, as 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:42.440 you know, the GDP results so that Australia is still 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:46.199 in a per capita recession. This would be the sixth 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.679 quarter in a row that we have been in a 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.080 per capita recession. That is the best part now of 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:59.800 eighteen months. The ABC, by the way, actually agrees with 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.679 my worldview when it comes to how bad the situation is, 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.640 because once you take away the Ponzi scheme of immigration, 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.920 the average Australian you and I is in a world 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:09.600 of trouble. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.920 There's an argument that it's a dumb way to keep 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.520 yourself out of recession simply by adding more people into 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.000 the economy because it's not a real reflection of your 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.160 economic performance. So if his trip that out, we're gone 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.680 backwards for six consecutive quarters, which is not a great 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.400 performance for the economy. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.600 Outrageous, unbelievable right to give you an idea of the 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.760 growth rates where we were as rather than roaring, if 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.120 we were a car, we're idling, and you know when 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.080 your car's out of tune, and the idle means that 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.880 you slightly roll forward at the traffic lights. Well, that's 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:48.040 been the Australian economy in September of last year zero 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:53.400 point two percent, in December zero point two percent, March 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:57.880 zero point one percent, and the statistics released today again 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:03.240 zero point two percent. The annual rate is now the 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.920 best part of one percent, and that is the worst 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:12.320 it's been since the recession in nineteen ninety one. In 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.080 a blow of the Albanese government's economic credentials, figures released 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.680 by the Australian Bureau Statistics on Wednesday show the economy 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.600 grew by just zero point two percent in the June 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.800 corter of the annual growth down to one percent last 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:27.000 financial year. It's the weakest performance by the economy outside 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:33.400 of COVID since nineteen ninety one's recession. The poor result 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.960 has been driven by households who cut spending by zero 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.240 point two percent in the three months to the end 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:44.120 of June. They are pulling back on things like food, alcohol, clothing, footwear, cafes, hotels, 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:48.000 the purchase of new cars. Discretionary spending down one point 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:53.240 one percent. This, of course, was the treasurer pretending nothing 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.559 to do with us. It's happening everywhere around the world. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:01.400 This is the inevitable consequence of global economic uncertainty. In 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:05.920 the context of a really difficult global economic environment, any 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.640 growth in our economy is welcome growth. This is an 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.199 economy being buffeted by global uncertainty. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.840 Now, the reality is is that if we're being buffeted 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.440 by a global uncertainty, you would imagine that people who 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.600 have economies similar to ours would be in the same 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.280 position as us. But as I showed you last night, 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.320 when it comes to inflation, that's not true. But they 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.040 know there's not enough time for that to be mentioned 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.560 in the six pm news. It'll barely make the headlines 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.280 of the clickbait let alone the papers the next day. 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:38.160 Australia's inflation three point eight percent, the United States two 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.960 point nine, Japan two point eight, Canada two point five, 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:45.320 the UK two point two. We are almost double that 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.760 of the United Kingdom. And when it comes to growth 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.920 around the world, the most recent quarterly numbers in the 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:59.120 United States three percent, we're zero point two, Japan, the UK, 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.160 Canada all doing better than us. We are sputtering along 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:06.240 and the only reason we are above water is of 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.560 course because of the amount of government spending that goes 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.920 into state based projects and the amount of pay rises 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.680 being given to the public sector, as well as the 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.800 number of people that are being bust into the country. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.240 All of that means they can say, oh, we've technically 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.640 avoided a recession, but the per capita recession, the one 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.360 you and I are living in a quarter is three months. 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.640 Six of those quarters now the best part of as 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:36.280 I say, eighteen months, we have been in a recession. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.920 By the way, the japan number this is after their 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.800 country had come out of a recession. So what exactly 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.600 is the excuse for Australia will debate that in a 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.000 moment or two's time, very much looking forward to that. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.360 Now interesting little bit of politics is playing right now 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:57.080 around tax agents. Now, as you know, two ways that 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.520 you do your tax One is that you prepare your 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.560 own turn. And remember that was sort of big even 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.800 a few years ago. You know, you stack pack or 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:06.840 tax pack or whatever it is to be called. Now, 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:08.240 of course, there's a whole bunch of people who can 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.320 do it for themselves online, or you go to an accountant. 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.840 You go to somebody who will you give them all 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.920 the receipts. They work out what's possible, what's not possible. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.400 You have a look, you make sure everything's above board, 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.480 you sign, and away we go. Where there may will 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:27.880 be a change in a relationship between the accountant and 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:31.040 you and the accountant rather than being the person who 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:35.600 helps you get the largest possible tax return that you 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.480 are entitled to under the law, not suggesting anything other 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.040 than that, but what you are entitled to under the law, 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.800 will they now move from being the person who's on 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.400 your side to the one on the side of the 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.320 tax department and may well end up having to play 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:54.200 the role of being a tax cop. Tax agents could 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.840 be forced to dob in clients for any misleading tax 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:01.600 statements and reveal personal mental health in from about themselves 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.879 to clients. Under new reforms which are planned by the 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:09.240 Albanezy government. Under a rafter changes to the tax sector, 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:13.119 tax agents will be required to act as compliance officers, 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.960 so again not helping you get as much back as 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.440 you can legally, but helping the tax offers take as 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:24.600 much as possible. The agents would also be required to 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:29.720 advise all current and prospective clients of any matter that 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:34.480 could significantly influence a client's decision to hire them. The 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.760 Chartered accountants say, well, hang on, what if I've got 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.199 a mental health issue? Would I have to declare that 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.399 to my client? And therefore the client would know that 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.120 I had a mental health issue and they may well 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.040 run the other way, which I think would actually be discriminatory. 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.080 But still this is what may will be being put 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.800 into the system. Furious Chartered Accounts have written an Assistant 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.560 Treasurer with independent legal advice that shows broad new requirements 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:02.080 could extend to mental health condition. Whose side are they 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.080 on and by that I mean the government. It's always 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.320 on their side, not on yours. It's already your money. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.400 It's the vast majority of people pay it through their 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:16.120 employer in the pay as you go system. In fact, 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.919 that is the single largest source of revenue for the 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.639 federal government. It's not the GST. It's not company tax 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:26.160 it's not smoking taxes, it's not taxes on mining. It's 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:32.399 the employees paying their tax. Now we will debate tonight 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.679 an interesting topic. It is one of the Greens have 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:36.240 tried to own for a while. But I think there's 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.000 a great opportunity here for everyone to think of how 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:44.080 to do it, and that is going to the dentist. Now, 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.400 depending on your lifestyle, you may well rarely go, will 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.639 you go as frequently as I do? And I've got 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.000 to say a big shout out to my dentist. Wonderful, amazing, 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:57.160 great management of pain. In fact, even fall asleep sometimes 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:01.480 while they are bashing away with mutum, which is probably 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:05.080 a sign of morbid obesity. But anyway, I digress. A 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.040 bunch of labor in peace have come forward today to 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.760 suggest that Medicare should have more dental involved in it, 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.200 and that there should be a better taxpayer funded system 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:18.280 in and around dental care. We'll debate it tonight, but 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:22.119 I'll tell you what my position is. I agree. Now, 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:25.520 I know that the NDIS, once introduced, has blown out 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.880 now to tens of billions of dollars in a giant 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:31.000 black hole. But I also know that there's an awful 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.399 lot of people who put off going to the dentist 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.240 because they can't afford it. We have to make sure 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:40.080 that there is a properly funded dental scheme because, as 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.480 you know, what may be problems in your mouth ends 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:45.800 up going into other parts of your body, and worst 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:50.560 case scenario, the worst possible consequences. If we have a system, 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.320 a better system, well we'll debate it all in a 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:57.119 moment or two time. Also back to Queensa now for 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:00.280 another example about other people's money and how it is spent. 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.399 You may remember the former Deputy Premier Jackie Tradd. Now 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:06.840 she was of course a threat to Palachet, so she 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.439 was slowly but surely pushed out the side door, and 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:12.760 thanks to idiotic preference deals where the Liberal Party decided 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.680 to give preferences to the Greens, her seat has now 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:19.879 been replaced in Central Brisbane with a Greens MP. The 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.840 idea of the Libs backing in the Greens is as 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.879 dumb as Labor backing in the Teals, both of them 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:29.879 setting themselves up for huge disasters. But you may remember 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:33.000 that there was a matter that went before the Crime 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:37.760 and Corruption Commission surrounding mus trad Now she was absolutely 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:44.200 cleared of any wrongdoing, any illegality. This was a good report. 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.119 But for some reason, Jackie Tradd and the Queensland government 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:52.119 has spent more than three hundred thousand dollars trying to 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.840 stop the release of the report into a politician who 0:20:55.840 --> 0:21:00.440 hasn't been in the parliament at all this term. Three 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:06.959 hundred thousand dollars. Now, remember that's a premier ago, a 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:13.520 couple of deputy premiers ago. Why do they hide this stuff? Again? 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:16.679 It was a good report, a good report, but a 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:20.080 good report that they don't want you to see. It 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:23.440 doesn't make any sense, does it. And massive news out 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:25.639 of the United States today, there's nothing to do with 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:30.560 Trump and Harris. A Chinese spy had been working for 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:34.400 the Governor of New York and had been doing so 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:40.240 for many, many years. The money that came via the 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:43.639 kickbacks of the Chinese went into a mansion in a 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:48.840 regional part of New York, plus ferraris and even some 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:53.359 free salted duck. Here is also what was happening in 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.040 exchange for the money. According to the authorities. The news 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:58.880 source the American version of the ABC. 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:02.960 Worked for former Governor Andrew Cuomo and his successor, Governor 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:06.119 Kathy Hokeel for more than a decade and never disclosed 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:09.719 any benefits she received. Instead, prosecutors say she acted as 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:13.840 an undisclosed agent of China, allegedly blocking representatives of the 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:16.680 Taiwanese government from having access to the New York State 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:20.439 Governor's office and changing the governor's messaging regarding issues of 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:23.680 importance to the Chinese. Sun traveled to China, as seen 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:26.440 in this photo included in the indictment, where prosecutors say 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:28.879 she met with officials from the Chinese Communist Party. 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:34.719 Nothing to see here now to the rice between Trump 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:37.960 and Harris. Now, I wanted to do something while there 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:39.959