WEBVTT - Paul Murray Our Town: Batemans Bay 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:05.800 Live from Bateman's Bay. This is Paul Murray live our town. 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.320 Can I can? I Bateman's Bye? 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.080 How are you hi? 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.440 It up and ready? Our first outtown in the year 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:18.360 you got love out. Thank you so much. Batemans Bay. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.720 What a magnificent place. We are looking forward to celebrating 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.200 it tonight. We're here at the Catalina Club and people 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:29.160 are fired up tonight you're ready to go? When? When? When? 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.600 All right? Now? We have been having a great time 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.000 in Bateman's Bay over the past couple of days. It's 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:35.920 the start of what is going to be the biggest 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.280 week on the road we've ever had. It starts here, 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.120 it goes via a bit of federal politics. It's off 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.680 to Vegas and maybe on our way towards an election. 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:48.000 We have I played with an African rhino. I got 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.279 around on a jet boat. We've had plenty of fun 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.000 and we'll talk to some of the local heroes here. 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:54.400 All in a couple of moments time as we celebrate 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.960 all that is regional Australia. Thanks the wonderful people of 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.240 Harvey Norman, without whom we cannot do what we are doing. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.600 And this year they step up to celebrate those local 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:06.240 heroes in a particularly special way. But as always my 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.240 love letter to the Prime Minister that you get used 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.959 to at the start of each and every show. By 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.960 this time next week there's probably going to be the 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.880 Prime Minister will have called an election. Now, yes, that 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:18.440 means we've got the next few days of will he 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.000 won't he? But generally speaking, the reason they call an 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.080 election on Sundays is because it's the biggest TV ratings 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.840 for the six pm news, it's the biggest newspaper day. 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.399 That's changed a little over the years. But of course 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.720 it means that we will be in the best season 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:35.959 of all and that is election season, the opportunity for 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.160 you to be making the decisions, for you to be 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.480 in charge of where the country goes. And all of that, 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.039 of course starts with the Prime Minister visiting the Governor General. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.119 Remember the handpick governor General that it now is paid 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.639 even more than he is. Her salary. Now, what's seven 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:55.160 hundred thousand dollars? Okay, well he's paid six hundred thousand dollars. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:56.880 And how many pay rises here in Bateman's made in 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.240 the past three years. That's what I would have thought. 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.279 Remember they got three in the past since the election 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:07.760 now in terms of prospective dates, by this time next week, 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.079 if an election is called, will be all in all 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.960 the data will do all of the full coverage that 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.760 will be because the election will be on Saturday, fifth 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.440 of April. If for whatever reason it's all delayed for 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.960 another week, the most likely one before we start getting 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.400 into school holidays, public holidays, all the rest of it 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.120 will be April twelfth. But he absolutely has to have it, 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.320 whether he wants to or not, and wait till I 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.400 show you some poll numbers, which might mean he might 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.520 want to go and hide or pretend to have COVID 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.640 for another week, because the seventeenth of May looks like 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.080 it is obviously that the last time that he should 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.280 be getting up and into it now. As always, whenever 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.919 you pick a day, there are people who say that's 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.280 the wrong day because it's important to my community, or 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:53.680 my availability or my ability to vote, and just adding 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.240 a little bit more insult to injury. It looks like 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.919 that will be passover for the Jewish community in Australia, 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.160 and that community has said that they don't want the 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.800 fifth to be the date. But of course, the great 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.960 difference between elections in the past and now is like 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.160 half of people vote early. So even if it's you know, 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.560 the first Saturday of the school holidays, the point is 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.839 lots of people they get up and vote early. In fact, 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:19.800 can I show you this, which is have look at 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:21.040 one of the screens of you in the room, or 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:22.840 just keep looking at what you're looking at right now 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.960 at home, Have a look at this. This is the 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.799 total number of people who've hated early. In the last 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.840 federal election. Seven point three million people or forty two 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:36.360 percent of people voted before election day. Previously, that was 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.800 about three almost four million in the twenty nineteenth. So 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.680 generally speaking in Australia, if you want to play you know, 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.200 soothsayer all the rest of it. If there's more early votes, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.080 then generally speaking, obviously people have made their mind up 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.880 and generally that is about getting rid of a government. 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.320 So we'll watch this day to day and see whether 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.480 certain seats like Gillmore, which of course is in and 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.920 around this area, which is very tight, if there's early votes, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.640 what can you read into it? And as you know, 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.520 I love the data, we'll get nice, deep and dirty 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.360 because we know that you're interested in it, because it's 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.760 about the future of our country. Also, I just want 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:17.359 to get in with all of this because in a 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.599 week's time there'll be this all this other information floating 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:25.800 around that there is a very significant number, literally hundreds 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:27.760 of thousands of people that are going to be voting 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.520 for the first time. And no, they weren't all people 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.360 who joined the country in the past two weeks thanks 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.080 to Tony Burke, of course, it's a collection of people 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.640 over the past three years who have become eighteen I 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.279 think we have one in the room right now. That's okay. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:41.960 We'll tell you how to fill out your form exactly 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:47.200 in the order it should be filled out. But also 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.040 there are hundreds of thousands of people, of course that 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.359 have come to the country. It's a four year process 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:56.360 for citizenship. But that means this eighteen million people will 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.000 be voting in this upcoming election. There'll be a new 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:03.120 electorate well as two existing seats that get the hive Hoe. 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.160 There'll be half a million households which have moved from 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.640 where they did at the last election, meaning that perhaps 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.720 super Lefty from Victoria has now moved up to Supernational 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.359 Party area in country Queensland. Obviously they bring their politics 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:21.359 with them. Overall, you need to know that Australian voters 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.720 are older, because we're all three years older than the 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:27.279 previous one. But there's also more of us than ever before. 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.960 There's a very significant growth in the number of people 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.400 in Western Australia. So all of this is going to 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.160 be fascinating to see in the election. And again when 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:38.760 we're just trying to work out what's going to happen 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.360 at the election. And I'm not going to be a 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.360 happy talk person. I'm not going to sit there each 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.479 and every day and say going to happen, going to happen, 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.400 going to happen. Because what's the lesson we learned in 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:50.120 twenty nineteen when all the yebiyaba was oh Bill Shorten 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.480 next Prime Minister of Australia, what do we say? Nothing's inevitable, 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.440 Nothing is inevitable. It doesn't matter what the polls say today, 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.720 with the bookie say tomorrow, doesn't matter what you're best 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:03.880 made over the fans. You you will decide what's going 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.479 to happen. Okay, not just with your first preference, but 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.080 with your second preference as well. Your number two is 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.600 as important as your number one as always, but it 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.920 is certainly something you have to think about if you're 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.840 going to stray away from major party voting, about how 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.880 quickly you get back to a choice of someone to govern. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.920 All Right, we can all hide behind they're all terrible. 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.880 Sometimes that's true, sometimes that not. But at some point 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:28.919 in time a choice has to be made. There is 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.800 a big fault line in the Australian electorate that we 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.680 will be discussing a lot between now and election day. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.240 There are just as many people under the age of 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.960 fifty as over the age of fifty on the electoral role. Okay, 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.520 there is basically fifty to fifty, slightly more, but fifty 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.240 to fifty in terms of men and women. But the 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.080 opinion polls are showing us blokes are heading in a 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.320 direction and ladies are heading in a different one. So 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.720 there'll be certain seats with more women more men, and 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.359 that'll again give us an idea of what's happening right now. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.680 Latest to peace im Pultage came through in the Turbul 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.919 Times otherwise known as The Guardian, was that when it 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.599 comes to blokes, they're leaning a little more towards the 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.120 Liberal Party. That's the blue squiggly line of DNA. The 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.200 Labor Party, these little sort of ups or downs like 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.080 one to two points. Okay, but essentially that's been the 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.080 way it's been for a little while. However, when it 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:23.720 comes to female voters, you'll see a significant reversal of 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.200 fortune here where the Labor Party ends up being slightly 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.280 in front. Now, if I can ask our control room 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.600 back at sky News that gray line at the bottom, 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.600 can we go back to the male figure as well? 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.320 You can see there between five and ten percent of 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:42.280 undecideds in females and less than five percent of undecided 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.520 in males. So it's all really tight. We're looking for 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.400 the numbers, it's all kind of fifty to fifty, where 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.080 one hundred people this way a thousand people that way 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.960 is going to have an obvious effect. Now, that gender 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.680 gap is really important because when we talk about an election, 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:04.480 who sways an elect particularly females thirty five to fifty five. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.680 We'll have a look at this. There are seven and 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.320 a half thousand more female voters and male voters in 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.520 the seat of Kuyon, So if they're leaning away from 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.360 the Liberal Party and there's a TLMP, that's how you 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:19.360 start to see the predictions of this seat's going to 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.280 move this way. This is not going to move that way. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.840 Now you've all lived life and you all know this information. 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.400 But I wanted everyone to see in the room and 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.080 at home that there are very significant they say, the 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.120 seat of Boothby in South Australia one where the Liberal 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.440 Party would like to win it. Nicole Flint, she'd be 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.280 a fantastic member of Parliament. I don't know if you 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.720 would agree or not, but she I think she's a ripper. Well, 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:41.960 she's got work to do when there's that sort of 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.560 gender imbalance. Also, what about the sizes of the electorates. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.400 It's not one size fits all. So to win the 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.080 seat of Longman you have to get fifty point one 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:55.400 percent of one hundred and forty one thousand people. Now 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:59.120 Longman is in and around Kabulcha, just on the very 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.680 northern fringes of Brisbane. Have a look at this, one 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.360 hundred and forty one thousand. The biggest in New South 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:10.680 Wales is Kauper Parks. See these big numbers right, plus 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.440 big pieces of land. Well, you can get elected in 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:19.480 the seat of Lions with forty four thousand votes. So 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.200 the size with which and the number with which you 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:26.280 need to convince people. So again, this is why Jackie 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:30.120 Lamby matters in Tasmania, because while they've only got eighty 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.440 eight thousand people, forty four thousand, you need to convince 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.520 that number two matters. So if you think all electorates 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.280 are the same, it's about one hundred and fifty thousand. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.319 It's the same everywhere kind of fIF it is this 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.680 granula and I explain all of that. So when we 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.280 get into that great Sunday Night segment which I hope 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.800 you've joined the bandwagon on where we talk about the 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.280 details of elections and get deep into it, that's where 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.400 we're going to go. So yes, we're, in my view, 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.440 going to surprise anyone that i'd like to see change. 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.559 But whether that's going to happen rather than just what 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.200 you want to happen, well you only know that by 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:09.040 following the data. As we say. Now, an opinion pole 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.920 dropped up today. Good way, I'm on television. Everyone wave 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.160 you're on TV. It's okay, you can wave. Don't worry 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:19.559 about it, all right, you can always say ta ta hi, 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:25.360 all right, you're all on telling excellent. Now he started 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:31.000 a trend that bloke up the back security note there 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:34.480 was an incredible poll which came out six o'clock Canberra time, 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:40.280 which is a huge jump towards Peter Dutt. Now this 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:46.160 is you very big, very good, very good. So this 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:47.880 thing's put out by the Channel nine. People have a 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.360 look at this. This is the number of the votes 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.400 in the election from three years ago. Labor Party thirty 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:57.520 three Liberal Party thirty six percent. The pole that has 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.560 just dropped tonight. The Labor Party has gone from thirty 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.760 three percent to twenty five percent. The Liberal Party has 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:11.280 gone from thirty six to thirty nine percent. So interesting 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.720 to see where all of that is. James Campbell, writing 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.200 in the Herald Sun today, well, I think he believes 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.160 that the momentum is going to go Dutton's way. In fact, 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.439 he wrote a little bit about this today about the 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.360 tenor off what we will be potentially talking about a 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.800 week from now, which of course will be a month 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.520 out from when it's time to get on with it. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.360 Every poll makes absolutely clear that people have had a 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.000 long hard look at Anthony Alberanezi and decided he's basically 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:42.800 rubbish of this job. He wasn't pulling punches normally. This 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.079 will be a problem for a first term Prime minister. Normally, 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.360 you would expect a Prime minister in this position to 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.520 be desperately keen to tell us about all the exciting 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.199 things that he's going to do for us and give 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.240 him another go. However, he's underwhelmed us in the way 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.200 he's done the job, and he's going to underwhelm us 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.839 potentially on the way out. So no mystery which way 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:03.440 James thinks all of this is going to go in 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.160 the next couple of days. Which brings us to the 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:10.000 first of the major pre campaign campaign events, which was 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.640 the Prime Minister today. I believe in Tasmania because again, 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.960 lots of labor seats there, but smaller numbers, which is 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.600 why constantly you're in Wa, you're constantly in Tasmania. And 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.360 he was there and it was all about banging on 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:26.640 about Mediicare and another billion, eight billion dollars of your money, 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.120 roll tape and hold it in as long as you can. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:35.080 An eight point five billion dollar commitment to deliver stronger 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:40.400 medicare everywhere, saving people hundreds of dollars in out of 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:48.120 pocket costs, no asterisk, no fine print, no terms and conditions, 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:56.559 just one hundred percent bulk billing covered by medicare. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:03.200 Okay, enough great cool, YESO, Toto up? Can I get 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:04.880 an upgrade? You know you have a look at a 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.920 new joint. Anyway, this was really all about trying to 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.520 move the conversation from the number one thing that's cost living, 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.600 trying to move it to medicare Why liberals bad Ugenborger, 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.040 Peter Dutton all the rest of it. You know the 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.600 video that I've showed you where they literally just cut 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.480 up what he said and Frankenstein something to make it 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.800 look like he was going to kill off medicare. Well, 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:30.360 even though they know that's not true, it didn't stop 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.679 the Prime Minister from dropping this. Today. 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:39.040 When they talk about efficiencies, they mean cuts. When they 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:43.760 talk about economic surgery, they mean cutting bulb Billy off 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.040 at the news. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:53.040 Ah Man, he's openly said that it's not going to happen, 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.280 but they're just going to pretend that you can ignore it. 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.360 They'll still do this silly videos. But Peter Dutton very 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.520 clever today in terms of political stratum. Because the government said, oh, 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.040 eight point five million they're going to rip medicare apart, 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.240 Darton turns around and says, okay, not just eight point 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.959 five now nine billion, because I'm going to throw five 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.560 hundred million, which will be their major promise in and 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.080 around mental health. Here was the pushback from Dunton today 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:20.080 as he hasn't just matched, but bettered what Labour's wanting 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:20.960 to do on Medicare. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.360 The Coalition government is committed to nine billion dollars worth 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:29.400 of investment into our general practice network. It will provide 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.800 support to training, it will provide support to mental health services, 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:37.080 and it will provide support to making sure that practices 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:41.840 are viable and can provide a mix of services to patients. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.280 And it'll help build those billing rates back up to 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.400 what they were under a coalition government. 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.600 Now, before we celebrate the good people at Batman's Bay, 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:53.600 can I just make one little point on the behalf 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.280 of Australia that has to pay for this, the future 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.640 generations that will have to pay even more for it. 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:03.040 The Prime Ministers January has made twenty seven and a 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:09.200 half billion dollars worth of promises. The election hasn't even started, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.120 So on the behalf of everyone, how the hell are 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:16.240 you gonna pay for it? The Intergenerational Report says we 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:20.160 are in deficit for the next forty freaking years and 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:25.200 you want to add twenty seven and a half billion dollars. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.440 I don't think people are gonna believe you, but we'll 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.640 all wait and see together. All right, Bateman's Bay, We're 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:34.160 fired up, ready to go. We've got the red meat, 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.040 we've got the fire up, we got the fight pipe pipe. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.960 So let's celebrate Bateman's Bay. Bateman's Bay about a four 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:46.520 hour drive from Sydney. It is a spectacular part of Australia. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.520 A little further south is Mogo, not too far from Canberra. 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.200 So yeah, the odd lefty. But that's okay, that's okay, 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.840 that's fine. You know, just just sure, sure, sure Shaw, 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.600 go for swing. No, it's a beautiful part of the 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.200 world and it is fine. Ohso many things, including, of 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:06.960 course the beautiful Clyde River, the Clyde River oysters in particular, 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.080 some of the best, if not the best in the country. 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.240 I think you're going to say the best in the country, right, 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:16.240 I thought so. Picturesque National Park here, kayaking, snorkeling, there's 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.320 the finest seafood that's dished up at waterfront restaurants, the 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.280 sculpture walks that you can go and do here, but 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.600 most importantly, the single best thing about Batman's Bay are 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:29.160 the people who live here. Twelve thousand, two hundred and 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.480 sixty three future friends with a median age of fifty three, 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.480 and the leading place they were born apart from Australia 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.680 was in England. As you know, about five years ago, 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.840 pretty horrible fires that there are still obvious scars the 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.560 some we've had chats about all of that, but also 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.240 there's plenty of heroism and there's lots of comeback. The 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.160 place looks amazing. We were here about five years ago. 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.280 I think the local council has done a pretty good 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.240 job of tarting things up in the streets. Things look 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.360 pretty good and back together. And I know it's painful 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.520 for some ev and with us today to see those 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.280 sorts of images. But on top of that story of 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.879 five years ago was think about having to not just 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.639 a movie family, but say moving a zoo. It's exactly 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.119 what happened when it came to the Mogo Zoo and 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.080 obviously we went down there, had to chat about that 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.520 and then got on with the fun that is this 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:30.159 part of Australia. When the fires were ripping through this 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.240 part of Australia five years ago, there were so many 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:37.040 frightened people. Those scars are still obvious today, and while 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.480 the trees have grown back, there are other scars that 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.520 are worth talking about, including the emotional effect on the 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:56.960 beautiful animals of the Mogo Wildlife Park. It was incredible 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:00.000 to hear about the dedicated workers and what they did 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.760 to keep this place standing during the devastating Black Summer 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.400 fires back in twenty nineteen, because let's be honest, without them, 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:11.040 we'll be talking about a very different story today. Now 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.359 you've been here for five years. The timing of that is, 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.520 of course, it's five years ago since the fires in 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.480 this region, and you took over just as basically all 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.679 of that was happening, and you took an incredible photo 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.919 of this, which was giraffes and the area on fire. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.200 It's so good to see that things have come back. 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:37.040 How the hell do you move a zoom in. 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.160 A fire, Well, that was kind of the thing. 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:39.600 You don't. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.280 And so the job was to protect them, protect this 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.880 site because here you can't call in trucks to put 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.280 ten riff on. At different times, that whole tree line 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:54.280 was on fire. We were getting spotfires everywhere, and if 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.160 we hadn't just stayed on top of it. This place 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:02.640 was gone. 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.879 The dedicated workers all share their own unique bonds with 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:11.840 these incredible animals, whether they've been raised literally by hand, 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.240 from birth all the way through to the latest stage 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:20.480 in their life. The love never stomps. Now, we were rolling, 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:22.679 but I just saw something amazing. So let's see if 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:27.400 it happens again. He'll respond to a call of his name. 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:33.760 Watch this, just watch this extraordinary. Please Jobari, come on, 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:48.280 good boy. That is amazing. More than three hundred animals 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.480 called the Mogo Wildlife Park home, and it's been carefully 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:57.880 designed to mimic their natural habitats. What I like to eat, Well, 0:19:57.920 --> 0:19:58.359 they are. 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.639 A scavenger, yeah, so that's why you often see them 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.560 digging in so much. And we've got all these tunnels 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:07.240 here like Insects are by far their favorite, yep, but 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.240 they do have quite a lot of vegetable in their 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:11.000 diet as well. 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:13.600 He was so great to see all of these animals 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.840 and how far they've come from the fires in this 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:19.399 area might be home to all of these beautiful little meercats. 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:25.919 But you want size, you want power, You want to 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.639 get on a jet boat where our pool's worth of 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.240 water goes through the engine every minute. All right, let's 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:35.600 talk about what we're about to experience this mofo. Give 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:39.600 me an idea. How big, how powerful? Ten thirty foot long, 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:40.720 we can take twelve people. 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:44.359 We've got eight hundred and eighty horse power, very strong, 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:47.360 solid pill boat ocean tours. 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:49.640 All right, well, throw me around. 0:20:49.320 --> 0:21:07.760 Like a rag doll. All right, let's go. 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.840 This is so much fun but also an incredible way 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.760 to see things that you've got to see with your 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:25.199 own eyes. These islands are incredible, the colors of the 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:29.120 ocean unbelievable, and if you really look hard, some penguins 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:33.120 I've written on a. 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:44.119 Camel written motorcycles, jet boating, new favorite. 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.760 How good was that you could see the little inner 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:55.200 bogan going bang bang, Nick? Thank you very much made 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:57.640 a wonderful man. All right, Matthew Hatcher is your local man. 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.760 Give it up for him. Why are you loving to 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:04.720 see king? It's out now, Matthew. This is a really 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:08.520 special part of Australia. It's a place that wants to 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:11.159 continue traditional while also making sure that it's as up 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:15.280 to date as everything. How do you approach being the 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:19.480 person with the most local power to do something here? 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:22.360 Yeah, I think it's all about bringing people together constantly, 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:26.480 and this community post fire is obviously really banded together, 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:30.560 the whole shire and the region really not only counsels 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:32.760 and state and federal governments, but you know, your neighbors 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:34.879 really had to come together. And I think it's just 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:38.040 that having that constant dialogue and you know, really keeping 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:39.920 your finger on the pulse, I guess, and getting out 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:42.400