Speaker 1: The sky Setter. This is Paul Murray Live. Hello, Happy Sunday.
Speaker 1: Lots to get to today. If I look particularly relaxedus.
Speaker 2: Because I had that wonderful few hours in the garden.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what you do when you're out and about.
Speaker 2: It's lovely to do if you had the chance to
Speaker 2: do so in the sunshine in the past couple of days.
Speaker 1: But it may well be short lived.
Speaker 2: Now in Victoria, there has been a very quiet drought
Speaker 2: that has been rolling on for some time with Victorian farmers,
Speaker 2: in fact, so much so that we read today in
Speaker 2: the Sunday Herald Sun several that a severe drought is
Speaker 2: already starting to hurt Victorian farmers. And obviously we're only
Speaker 2: sort of on our way through spring. We're not in
Speaker 2: summer yet, and Victorian farmers are facing a serious drought,
Speaker 2: with some already forking out hundreds, yeah, hundreds of thousands
Speaker 2: of dollars to feed their animals. Not enough rain is
Speaker 2: predicted in spring to get them through to summer. Now,
Speaker 2: there's a couple of sheep farmers in Harrow, and that's
Speaker 2: Michael and Jane Craig. They say they've had to spend
Speaker 2: more than four hundred grand to bring extra feed in
Speaker 2: for their animals due to the lack of reign in
Speaker 2: recent months.
Speaker 1: They warned that as well.
Speaker 2: It cost, they could generally only endure one in every
Speaker 2: twenty years. As Michael says, Mother Nature occasionally likes to
Speaker 2: remind us who is in charge and so so it
Speaker 2: gives us an opportunity at the start of the show,
Speaker 2: at the start of the week, before we get distracted
Speaker 2: by everything from here to the United States and beyond,
Speaker 2: to remind you that there is an opportunity to help
Speaker 2: the farmers of Australia, like the ones in Victoria or
Speaker 2: maybe the ones in your state, because you always have
Speaker 2: an opportunity to help them out through the good people
Speaker 2: of Rural Aid. Now Rural Aid have up on their
Speaker 2: website which is a donations dot rule ai dot org
Speaker 2: dot are you donations dot rural aid dot org dot
Speaker 2: are you a chance to donate money but more importantly
Speaker 2: to donate a haybal. It will cost you about fifty
Speaker 2: dollars if you want to. But when people are spending
Speaker 2: four hundred thousand dollars to keep their stock fed and
Speaker 2: alive to get them through spring, and what looks like
Speaker 2: a dry summer. Every little bit help, So if you
Speaker 2: can please jump on and give them a hand.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: There is a fair amount of rain that's apparently on
Speaker 2: its way, a rain bomb, which means an awful lot
Speaker 2: very quickly is on its way a little bit later
Speaker 2: in the week's gone is weather, and our dear friend
Speaker 2: Lucy Polkinghuon has plenty to say about what might be
Speaker 2: on our way.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: This rain band will continue moving eastwards throughout the week,
Speaker 3: increasing that cloud cover first of all from Tuesday onwards
Speaker 3: for the east of the country, then bringing those cooler
Speaker 3: conditions and showery weather as well. So in fact, eighty
Speaker 3: percent of Australia is likely to see some kind of
Speaker 3: wet weather from this event as we head into next
Speaker 3: a week.
Speaker 2: All right, figures cross it's out of the way for
Speaker 2: Grand Final or preliminary final days if your team is involved.
Speaker 2: But more importantly, as you just saw with Loose, there
Speaker 2: there will be a little band which will come across
Speaker 2: rural Victoria. Please help them out.
Speaker 1: Rule aid dot Org. I've got au.
Speaker 2: Now let's get to Queensland because this is going to
Speaker 2: be my focus for the next little while. The Queensland
Speaker 2: election getting rid of a terrible government, an awful premiere,
Speaker 2: and taking on a machine that knows how to win,
Speaker 2: no matter how bad those politicians are. Now Stephen Miles, thankfully,
Speaker 2: according to every pole that we see is looking like
Speaker 2: you said in for the Exits, no matter what giggles
Speaker 2: he wants to put up, no matter how he literally
Speaker 2: puts on like the joker at the end of eighty
Speaker 2: nine Batman glasses, don't hit me, don't hit me. He's
Speaker 2: got the Marone's hat on. Oh please, don't vote me
Speaker 2: out on one of you. Well, it looks like it's
Speaker 2: going to happen. Newspoll.
Speaker 1: What a thumper this is.
Speaker 2: Is it time to change a government, give somebody else
Speaker 2: a go, or re elect the government? Just twenty nine
Speaker 2: percent of people, obviously mostly labor voters, so the government
Speaker 2: should be re elected. Fifty seven percent of people say
Speaker 2: it's time to give somebody else a go, which is
Speaker 2: excellent news. They don't know number at fourteen. Now, let's
Speaker 2: imagine again, is put that to fifty to fifty. Obviously
Speaker 2: the re elected number is nowhere near fifty. So that's
Speaker 2: a very good signal of what hopefully is coming its
Speaker 2: way towards the end of October Queensland first few days
Speaker 2: than in the American election. Imagine how the world could
Speaker 2: change in just one week for the better. When it
Speaker 2: comes to the preferred premier, of course, the race is
Speaker 2: between the current Premier, Stephen Miles, the potential and most
Speaker 2: likely future premier David Crucifully.
Speaker 1: You know which one. I back on this and have
Speaker 1: for years.
Speaker 2: Miles is preferred premier thirty nine percent. Kruci fully is
Speaker 2: at forty six percent. Obviously you want to be in
Speaker 2: David's position on Steven's position because again you take uncommitted,
Speaker 2: you imagine it breaks fifty to fifty, it still does
Speaker 2: not get Miles anywhere near to the fifty and will
Speaker 2: put Crucifully up and over the top. As for the
Speaker 2: actual vote by party, now I know that the further
Speaker 2: north you go the options start to change, where place
Speaker 2: is like one nation and the Catter Party become a
Speaker 2: lot more live options, sort of from Rocky all the
Speaker 2: way up. But the ALP down the best part of
Speaker 2: ten points since the last election were a primary vote
Speaker 2: of just thirty percent, up by six and percent, the
Speaker 2: LMP at forty two percent twelve percent, the Greens ever
Speaker 2: so slightly up that will affect labor seats in the southeast.
Speaker 2: One nation is up by almost a full point now
Speaker 2: to eight percent. Others, including the Catter Party, is basically
Speaker 2: where it was at the last election, which brings us
Speaker 2: to two party vote which has virtually flipped since the
Speaker 2: last election. The LNP at fifty five is up eight
Speaker 2: point two. The ALP is down by the same number
Speaker 2: to forty five. Queensland, you are going to hear a
Speaker 2: lot of scare and drama coming out of the Labor Party,
Speaker 2: pretending that every idea the Liberal Party has is the
Speaker 2: sky is going to fall in and they're going to
Speaker 2: try to bring up the ghosts of government's way, way, way,
Speaker 2: way long ago. You know, and I know how badly
Speaker 2: this government has performed on youth crime, how badly they
Speaker 2: have performed when it comes to the health system, let
Speaker 2: alone the education system.
Speaker 1: And I could list a whole lot more. They deserve
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 2: They deserve to go last time, but COVID saved their backside.
Speaker 2: May that not be the case this time? And everywhere
Speaker 2: in queen they vote as hard as you can in
Speaker 2: the opposite direction of this current government. They deserve to go.
Speaker 2: They deserve to be crushed. They deserve to lose as
Speaker 2: many seats as possible. Let's start with the premier seat
Speaker 2: and work back from them.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: For the past a few years, we have of course
Speaker 2: been building the cat about how big Australia, despite the
Speaker 2: fact that every single opinion poll tells us is not
Speaker 2: what the Australian public wants.
Speaker 1: We get it anyway.
Speaker 2: Last week I told you we cracked twenty seven million
Speaker 2: people thanks largely to the number of people which are
Speaker 2: being brought into the country. About nine hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: four thousand people. That's the net migration take away the
Speaker 2: people leaving. Have a look at the people coming in
Speaker 2: a million people in just two years, just two years
Speaker 2: of this government. By the way, that number is over
Speaker 2: a million once who actually have a look at everything
Speaker 2: from June twenty twenty two on.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, our O'm being strangely kind to
Speaker 1: the government.
Speaker 2: Now we know that this is because treasury demands more
Speaker 2: people coming in. More people, pay more taxes. More people
Speaker 2: keeps the country growing ever so slightly. But more importantly,
Speaker 2: it's able to through pay as you go taxes. The
Speaker 2: number one source of revenue for the federal government for
Speaker 2: them to be able to say, look at us, we're amazing.
Speaker 2: We have a budget surplus, but of course the baked
Speaker 2: in spending the ideas of this government guarantee that as
Speaker 2: soon as that money runs out, probably in the next
Speaker 2: twelve months or so, it is budget deficits for the
Speaker 2: next twenty five years. Judith Sloan is the excellent economics
Speaker 2: writer at the Australian Newspapers.
Speaker 1: She wrote a great column which I.
Speaker 2: Had the chance to read over the weekend, which is
Speaker 2: the immigration numbers they are just too high.
Speaker 1: The intake is still too high.
Speaker 2: The existence of multiple open ended visa classes and the
Speaker 2: Department of Homed Affairs effectively acting as administrators rubber stamp
Speaker 2: basically subject to ministerial discretions mean the numbers entering the
Speaker 2: country each year are largely unconstrained. There's nothing standing in
Speaker 2: its way.
Speaker 1: This is the.
Speaker 2: Subject to This is subject to the speed at which
Speaker 2: the public servants can process the application. She had more
Speaker 2: to say to my mate Sherry markson last week.
Speaker 4: They say, oh, this is essentially a supply problem, but
Speaker 4: it is actually both a supply and a demand problem,
Speaker 4: and they have allowed the population to grow too rapidly
Speaker 4: and the people. I mean, it's not their fault, but
Speaker 4: people coming in need somewhere to live, and there is
Speaker 4: no way the private sector, even under the most flexible
Speaker 4: and ideal arrangements, could have built a sufficient number of
Speaker 4: new homes to accommodate those numbers.
Speaker 2: This is the problem. Too many people, too quickly, too
Speaker 2: few homes. Not enough places in our ambulance. There's literally
Speaker 2: not enough places in the back of those ambulances, let
Speaker 2: alone the actual hospital bits. That's our issue every time
Speaker 2: on this particular subject. Well, as you know, there was
Speaker 2: a promise that by this time this year it was
Speaker 2: all going to be different. Now, anywhere else this would
Speaker 2: be referred to as a broken promise. But of course
Speaker 2: you couldn't dare say that about the greatest prime minister
Speaker 2: of all time, ministers that has put around them. Well,
Speaker 2: today the Treasurer while trying to lay the booting to
Speaker 2: any and everyone but himself, trying to pretend that there's
Speaker 2: going to be a magical.
Speaker 1: Fix to inflation.
Speaker 2: By the way, even if inflation goes up by less
Speaker 2: this month than last month, it's still up, which means
Speaker 2: prices have increased every.
Speaker 1: Single month since this mob came to power.
Speaker 2: Well, today he admitted that migration will be higher than forecast.
Speaker 2: I love the way that this is not described as
Speaker 2: a broken promise. Remember December they promise to cut the
Speaker 2: migration number. September the number has not been meant. That
Speaker 2: would be called a broken promise or in grim Jim's case,
Speaker 2: this garbage.
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, those net overseas migration numbers showed
Speaker 5: that in net overseas migration is coming down. It has
Speaker 5: already peaked in the past and it's been coming down
Speaker 5: ever since, and so that's important. And also those numbers
Speaker 5: are from before our new migration policies ticked in on
Speaker 5: the first of July. They predated that. So those are
Speaker 5: a couple of important caveats.
Speaker 2: Please please, there's block a million people on their watch,
Speaker 2: a million people. Before they came in, there still wasn't
Speaker 2: enough room. Rental accommodation has been difficult to find, let
Speaker 2: alone an affordable place to live. You add a million
Speaker 2: people to every single version of every single queue in Australia,
Speaker 2: everything gets tougher. It means that the scarcity of something
Speaker 2: means people can charge more for it.
Speaker 1: This is all part of.
Speaker 2: The overall picture in and around cost of living. But
Speaker 2: of course they wouldn't dare talk about any of that
Speaker 2: period Uton bad, Pedioduton bad.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Meantime, the number of people who are trying to become
Speaker 2: refugees in Australia, people who are lodging asylum claims, has
Speaker 2: hit the highest number in multiple years. In fact, in
Speaker 2: the financial year just gone twenty five, two hundred and
Speaker 2: ten people claimed asylum in this country, you can see,
Speaker 2: way higher than the year before, the couple of COVID years,
Speaker 2: but even higher than it was towards the back end
Speaker 2: of the liberals time in power. Oh, nothing to see here, right,
Speaker 2: nothing to see whatsoever. The problem is, we do see it,
Speaker 2: you see it. It's why I give you the data. Data, wins, arguments,
Speaker 2: spin and distraction is how they play.
Speaker 1: We deal in the real world.
Speaker 2: Of course, the Prime Minister overseas again. Airbus elbow up
Speaker 2: off and running. Very important reason he had to be
Speaker 2: not in Washington but in Delaware.
Speaker 1: This weekend was a meeting of the Quad.
Speaker 2: Which of course is Australia, the United States, Japan and India.
Speaker 2: Now this is a bit of a sign about either
Speaker 2: how bad Biden is doing or how.
Speaker 1: Little the meeting actually mattered.
Speaker 2: He held it at his house, not the White House,
Speaker 2: not Camp David, but his house in Delaware. Literally, there's
Speaker 2: somebody else scarpering out the front door. I asked for
Speaker 2: your caption to this photo, which appeared in the Australian
Speaker 2: newspaper today. There were some very funny and sometimes very
Speaker 2: mean reactions to it. I'll show you what you came
Speaker 2: up with as the description of this photo in a
Speaker 2: moment or two's time. But let's pick the Prime Minister
Speaker 2: up yet again being caught lying. Oh sorry, Porcy Pie,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry misinformation, Sorry mistruth, Sorry inaccuracy. Sydney is about
Speaker 2: to get a second airport. Both sides of politics agreed
Speaker 2: with it. It has been being built over multiple years, little
Speaker 2: cost biddings dollars, but it will apparently employ thousands and
Speaker 2: thousands of people and everything will be amazing. Now that's said,
Speaker 2: there is a little bit of detail that was made
Speaker 2: when the Prime Minister held a press conference at the
Speaker 2: under construction airport.
Speaker 1: The news was.
Speaker 6: Arena Bay will soon be within reach from Badgery's Creek.
Speaker 6: In a major coup for the new Western Sydney Airport,
Speaker 6: Singapore Airlines has signed on as its first international carrier.
Speaker 6: It's a big win for the project, which has already
Speaker 6: added Quantas and Jetstar for domestic flights.
Speaker 2: Now the Prime Minister, when he was the Shadow Transport
Speaker 2: minister's supported this. He's always backed in the idea because
Speaker 2: he doesn't like the planes that are flying over his electorate.
Speaker 1: I'll get to that in a moment or two time.
Speaker 2: But of course he was there high visit everything to
Speaker 2: pretend that this is a major step forward that you
Speaker 2: can fly from Sydney to Singapore overnight.
Speaker 7: This is a vote of confidence in this airport. I've
Speaker 7: certainly seen the plans for the airport. It's going to
Speaker 7: be the best airport in Australia in terms of modern infrastructure,
Speaker 7: in terms of the way that baggage handling occurs, the
Speaker 7: smooth transitions through the terminal. Because it is a new airport,
Speaker 7: it's using up to date technology that will help to
Speaker 7: drive productive at this site.
Speaker 2: I wonder if one of his two private planes will
Speaker 2: take off from there or whether they'll still remain where
Speaker 2: they currently are. Well long lead up, here's the punchline.
Speaker 2: There is no deal. What he stood there and announced
Speaker 2: as a major step forward is a major vote in
Speaker 2: confidence doesn't exist. Reporting this weekend from among others, the
Speaker 2: Daily Telegraph, Singapore Airlines has the federal government over at
Speaker 2: barrel because the Prime Minister in the infragrat in Infrastructure
Speaker 2: Minister Catherine King announced to the company was the first
Speaker 2: international carrier to sign up to the airport before a
Speaker 2: deal had been signed. No commercial contract on the frequency
Speaker 2: of airlines and the fees involved have been announced before
Speaker 2: the major announcement was made a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 2: by the Prime Minister, a move which critics have handed
Speaker 2: the negotiating power of the.
Speaker 1: Foreign airline rather than our own country. Nothing to see here.
Speaker 2: For her part, Bridget Mackenzie, who is the coalition's infrastructure spokesperson,
Speaker 2: has accused like of jumping the gun, saying that Australians
Speaker 2: know more competition in the aviation industry is needed, requiring
Speaker 2: more than a press release.
Speaker 1: But while we were putting.
Speaker 2: Together this one for you tonight went back and saw
Speaker 2: the original Channel One reporting from a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: and one of the people who talks up the tourism
Speaker 2: industry formerly the retail industry, she said this this is.
Speaker 8: All about options for the traveling public and for the
Speaker 8: working community and for the agricultural sectors. So the capacity
Speaker 8: of this airport to operate twenty four to seven will
Speaker 8: be a great outcome across the board.
Speaker 2: Yes see, that's the dirty detail about this airport that
Speaker 2: all of its proponents never really want to address. The
Speaker 2: Western Sydney Airport will be open twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 2: It means that the noise will be twenty four hours
Speaker 2: a day over Western Sydney. Now, back when he was
Speaker 2: a local MP in the opposition, ed Husick opposed it
Speaker 2: because there would be noise over places like Mount Druitt.
Speaker 2: There will be noise over places like Penrith in the
Speaker 2: middle of the night. Now, if you say fine, fair enough,
Speaker 2: people have always known an airport was going to be there.
Speaker 2: Then could somebody please explain to me why the rules
Speaker 2: are different for the other Sydney airport to make sure
Speaker 2: that there's no noise over the Prime Minister's turf of
Speaker 2: the inner West of Sydney.
Speaker 1: You see, there's a curfew.
Speaker 2: That means there's a limit about what time they can
Speaker 2: fly in and what time they can fly out. So
Speaker 2: in Albow's world, you can sleep in peace because there'll
Speaker 2: be no planes flying over you in Western Sydney, where
Speaker 2: labor in peace may well be shaken by the Muslim vote.
Speaker 2: Apparently at this election. I guarantee at the next one,
Speaker 2: aircraft noise will be the number one issue in Western
Speaker 2: Sydney that will threaten labor in peace. Meantime, this week,
Speaker 2: expect there is going to be yet another decision from
Speaker 2: the Reserve Bank about whether they are going to make
Speaker 2: those more rates even higher, even tighter, because the Prime
Speaker 2: Minister and his idiot Treasurer, well, they have refused to
Speaker 2: actually do anything about the Australian economy rather than just
Speaker 2: turning around and pat themselves on the back for how
Speaker 2: amazing everything is, despite the fact that, as you know,
Speaker 2: while the overall economy is not in recession, there is
Speaker 2: a per capita recession, which means you and I, the workers,
Speaker 2: the citizens, the self funded retirees, we go backwards.
Speaker 1: The Reserve Bank.
Speaker 2: Of course, in the United States, it made a decision
Speaker 2: to cut interest rates last week.
Speaker 1: Do not expect that this week in Australia.
Speaker 9: It's actually high inflation that is really causing trouble for people,
Speaker 9: and it's causing trouble for the most vulnerable. If we
Speaker 9: don't get inflation down. It's bad for everyone, absolutely everyone.
Speaker 9: If inflation doesn't come down, then it might be that
Speaker 9: the best medicine is in fact that we have to
Speaker 9: end up putting more restriction into the economy.
Speaker 1: Extraordinary.
Speaker 2: By the way, don't take it from me that there's
Speaker 2: most likely not to be a cut. Here are the
Speaker 2: four big banks speaking of the Sydney Morning Herald. All
Speaker 2: four of them say nothing's going to happen at this
Speaker 2: month's vote. However, we'll see what happens maybe towards the
Speaker 2: end of the year. Westpac says we continue to expect
Speaker 2: the Reserve Bank to hold rates next week.
Speaker 1: They say it's not going to happen.
Speaker 2: Till February next year, thanks the Commonwealth Bank. Well, it
Speaker 2: says that recent strength and the employment growth had pushed
Speaker 2: out the bank's expectation of a rate cut from November
Speaker 2: to December. Thanks ALBO, the National Australia Bank. They don't
Speaker 2: expect anything to happen until May of next year.
Speaker 1: May of next year.
Speaker 2: And that's just for the first of potential cuts that
Speaker 2: are going to be taking place. And the A and
Speaker 2: Z they expect the Reserve Bank will retain much of
Speaker 2: the hawkish language in the August meeting and it's communication
Speaker 2: since put simply nothing till.
Speaker 1: February next year.
Speaker 2: Now, have you sitting down, because I've got some data
Speaker 2: for you that is going to win any and every
Speaker 2: argument about a you better off than you were three
Speaker 2: years ago at the upcoming federal election. To a third
Speaker 2: of the country that is paying off its own home,
Speaker 2: another third that is trying to potentially pay off an
Speaker 2: investment property because that's what people rent. So basically two
Speaker 2: thirds of the Australian economy absolutely linked. Higher interest rates
Speaker 2: means higher repayments. Yes, for some it does mean higher savings.
Speaker 2: But have a look at this Channel nine. They put
Speaker 2: this together where they had to look at the average
Speaker 2: monthly mortgage repayment. Now, the average mortgage in Australia is
Speaker 2: somewhere between five hundred and six hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Now you may go.
Speaker 2: Sorry, that's because yes, there's lots of units, there's lots
Speaker 2: of units in regional areas.
Speaker 1: But still here's the number worth having a look at. Right,
Speaker 1: the average.
Speaker 2: Monthly repayment in twenty and nineteen was the best part
Speaker 2: of two thousand, eight hundred dollars, right, give or take
Speaker 2: about two thousand something a loo. Where it is today,
Speaker 2: it's four and a bit. It's five and a bit.
Speaker 2: It's four in a bit. It's four and a bit.
Speaker 2: It's three and a bit. It's three and a bit.
Speaker 2: It's three and a bit, it's three in a bit.
Speaker 2: It's way back up to four and a bit close
Speaker 2: to for those people, almost double what they were paying.
Speaker 1: What was the promise the bloke made before the last election?
Speaker 2: What was his promise, by the way, Oh, that's right,
Speaker 2: it was too that the labor government will lower.
Speaker 1: The cost of living.
Speaker 2: The reality of a labor government is it's basically almost
Speaker 2: doubled for some people the amount that they are paying
Speaker 2: off their mortgage.
Speaker 1: Oh but it's all okay.
Speaker 2: It's going to slightly come down by maybe a little
Speaker 2: bit maybe in May next year. Punish them for the
Speaker 2: way they have run things, not the way they promise
Speaker 2: to run things. Now, I was the first here to
Speaker 2: build a cat about the not Misinformation Bill, but the
Speaker 2: censoring of the Internet bill. You know how much time
Speaker 2: I've spent talking about it because I think this thing
Speaker 2: is fundamental to a free and open democracy. Now they're
Speaker 2: going to try to say that the media is led
Speaker 2: off the hook. Well, it's not really about the media.
Speaker 2: It's about social media. It's also about independent media like
Speaker 2: certain websites or podcasts or YouTube videos that you might
Speaker 2: like to watch that may well push back against the
Speaker 2: official word of the government, the narrative. Now, remember we've
Speaker 2: seen the federal government used this power in the past when.
Speaker 1: It wasn't as explicit as what.
Speaker 2: Is being put forward in this piece of legislation, which
Speaker 2: remember is the second attempt to get this thing to
Speaker 2: take place. Literally thousands of posts on social media that
Speaker 2: challenge the COVID narratives, well, they were of course censored.
Speaker 2: Among those were memes about Daniel Andrews. That's before they
Speaker 2: had this legislation. So imagine what might be about to happen,
Speaker 2: or in my view, will happen, should this piece of
Speaker 2: legislation make its way through the parliament. Now, of course
Speaker 2: they say it's all about their favorite m.
Speaker 7: Word, misinformation, misinformation, misinformation, the misinformation which is there so misinformation.
Speaker 2: But the reality is that there is already very clear
Speaker 2: laws in Australia about discrimination and about defamation, about inciting
Speaker 2: people to violence, about trying to overthrow the government, all
Speaker 2: of which deserve obviously to be policed, no question. But
Speaker 2: the idea that the facts among which that I have
Speaker 2: just shown you here that may will be reposted somewhere
Speaker 2: else on the Internet will be ruled by a lefty
Speaker 2: think tank at the behest of the government to be
Speaker 2: misinformation because the government says otherwise, should frighten everyone. For
Speaker 2: her part, Michelle Rowland was here on Sky News today
Speaker 2: and she has a challenge to anyone, including myself, who
Speaker 2: does not like what is currently being put forward before
Speaker 2: the Parliament.
Speaker 1: She says, read the bill.
Speaker 10: Well, let's be very clear. The Coalition can't have it
Speaker 10: both ways. They've got on their public website at the
Speaker 10: moment a commitment to introduce legislation to tackle half for
Speaker 10: missing disinformation, and at the same time they're going out
Speaker 10: there saying basically that they don't support this. I suggest
Speaker 10: that the member of Parliament there reads the actual bill.
Speaker 10: I suggest that he understands precisely what the scope here
Speaker 10: is when it comes to missing disinformation.
Speaker 2: Well, the member that she casually refers to, by the
Speaker 2: ways the Shadow Minister, no respect given to their equal
Speaker 2: and opposite number. No, No, they're just unfit. Well, have
Speaker 2: read the piece of legislation. It's a shocker. Any attempt
Speaker 2: by this government to go down this path is going
Speaker 2: to cause major problems. Matt Canavan also has read the
Speaker 2: bill because he's going to have to vote on it,
Speaker 2: because he sits in the very chamber that will help
Speaker 2: negotiate or otherwise knock it back. He was on Outsiders
Speaker 2: this morning, and I agree with every word he said.
Speaker 11: There's been a remarkable reaction on social media to some
Speaker 11: of the things I've been doing and others have been
Speaker 11: doing on this bill. So we need your help too.
Speaker 11: It's not just a don't just rely on politicians to
Speaker 11: save you. That's not a winning strategy in my experience.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. All right, now, let's talk about America.
Speaker 2: But I will try to dial it back a little
Speaker 2: bit until we bring it back towards the election time.
Speaker 2: But there's so much info every day, I've got to
Speaker 2: tell you about it, right. The latest one here is
Speaker 2: that the Fox News pole tells us the number one
Speaker 2: issue for voters, and this, by the way, is a.
Speaker 1: Poll where Harris is apparently leading.
Speaker 2: They say that high prices are still the single biggest
Speaker 2: motivator about who they're going to vote for, which brings
Speaker 2: us to one of the weirdest things I have seen
Speaker 2: in politics. Now we know that there are town halls,
Speaker 2: and there are town halls. Now there are candidate forums,
Speaker 2: is what they often get referred to here in Australia,
Speaker 2: where they're often run by lobby groups. They know who
Speaker 2: every person is in the room, they know who the
Speaker 2: host is, they know what questions will be asked, and
Speaker 2: worst case scenario, no one in the room is interested
Speaker 2: in hearing anything up but a positive answer from their
Speaker 2: favorite politician.
Speaker 1: But then there are actual town halls.
Speaker 2: These are formal, serious events, like say the People's forums
Speaker 2: that we run each and every election, where the media
Speaker 2: organization turns around and tries to find a polling company
Speaker 2: to try to find legitimately undecided voters and they get
Speaker 2: to ask whatever questions they want of the two candidates.
Speaker 2: Kamal Harris, of course, we know, does not want to
Speaker 2: actually expose ourself to anything but already committed Democrat voters,
Speaker 2: which is why she had a town hall on her
Speaker 2: own website, not on television, on her own website. Where
Speaker 2: Oprah Winfrey, who of course has been backing Democrats her
Speaker 2: entire media life, but certainly has been out and about
Speaker 2: as a Democrat after Obama put his hand up in
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight. So let's not pretend that she
Speaker 2: is an honest broken year She is literally you know,
Speaker 2: like when you watch some of those TV advertorials, it's like, so,
Speaker 2: tell us more about this incredible product, really, and how
Speaker 2: could I save more money for my family?
Speaker 1: Well, believe it or not. Even in the tightly.
Speaker 2: Controlled nonsense that is still available on her YouTube page
Speaker 2: and produced, of course the appearance of interaction with the
Speaker 2: public rather than an actual interaction with genuine random members
Speaker 2: of the public, she couldn't even follow the script if
Speaker 2: there was one. This was a question that was asked
Speaker 2: of her by a couple who clearly you can tell
Speaker 2: want to vote for her. Watch in particular the face
Speaker 2: of the bloke here.
Speaker 12: We really would love to know what your plan is
Speaker 12: to help lower the cost of living?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 13: Why do you go wrong?
Speaker 1: But watching me, I don't have an answer for this?
Speaker 1: Can you see that? Can we roll again? Watch her face?
Speaker 13: Watch how frightened this woman is about answering a question
Speaker 13: in a scripted forum that is a advertorial because she
Speaker 13: has no answer on this, We.
Speaker 12: Really would love to know what your plan is to
Speaker 12: help lower the cost of living.
Speaker 1: Ah Wow.
Speaker 2: Leading in the polls inevitable according to the five point
Speaker 2: thirty eight model. Well, it's her answer to the scripted question.
Speaker 2: In the scripted room. They should frighten everyone again. Keep
Speaker 2: an eye on the blocure when they start to take
Speaker 2: shots where the wife is trying to be impressed and
Speaker 2: he's slowly not because this is a buffet of word salad.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 14: First of all, thank you both for being here, and
Speaker 14: yours is a story I hear around the country as
Speaker 14: a travel and in terms of both rightly having the
Speaker 14: right to have aspirations and dreams and ambitions for your
Speaker 14: family and working hard and finding that the American dream
Speaker 14: is for this generation and so many recently, far more
Speaker 14: elusive than it's ben And we need to deal with that.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Now come over here something to show you, you know
Speaker 2: how the way that Kamala Harris was so amazing in
Speaker 2: that debate where she sort of was side eyeing Trump
Speaker 2: the whole time and all of that business, well, we
Speaker 2: thought that we should get Kamala Harris to review Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris's word salad for example.
Speaker 15: It's a crying shame. I mean, my heart breaks for
Speaker 15: this community. You know, there were children, elementary school children.
Speaker 16: Who it was.
Speaker 14: It was school photo day.
Speaker 15: You remember what that's like going to school on picture day.
Speaker 1: I'm with one of the Kamala's there, the one who's
Speaker 1: not talking. And what about finding joy?
Speaker 15: There are sometimes when your adversaries will try and turn
Speaker 15: your strength into a weakness. Don't you let them? Don't
Speaker 15: you let them. I find joy in the American people.
Speaker 15: I find joy in optimism.
Speaker 2: Now, Kamala, what do you think of Kamala saying a
Speaker 2: lot of words but nothing about you know, safety.
Speaker 15: I mean, you can go back to Ohio. Not everybody
Speaker 15: has secret service. And there are far too many people
Speaker 15: in our country right now who are not feeling safe.
Speaker 15: I mean I look at Project twenty twenty five, and
Speaker 15: I look at you know, like the don't say gay
Speaker 15: laws coming out of Florida. Members of the LGBTQ community
Speaker 15: don't feel safe right now.
Speaker 1: Really really four years of that place.
Speaker 2: But of course, for those in the media who are
Speaker 2: boosting her up, like this lady on MSNB.
Speaker 1: Say she's one of the hosts who you know, if.
Speaker 2: You watch the promos. It's all about educating the audience
Speaker 2: and let's learn more. But if you want to know
Speaker 2: anything more about Kamala Harris well to chokes on you.
Speaker 17: It's not too much to ask Kamala say, are you
Speaker 17: for a Palestinian state if Hamas is going to run
Speaker 17: that state?
Speaker 1: Okay? Yes or no?
Speaker 8: And let's say you don't like her answer. Are you
Speaker 8: going to vote for Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: No, I'm not.
Speaker 17: I'm not going to vote.
Speaker 8: Not running for perfect, she's running against Trump.
Speaker 17: We have two choices, and.
Speaker 8: So there are some things you might not know her
Speaker 8: answer to.
Speaker 1: And the little.
Speaker 17: Tree is a substantive answer on real questions facing the
Speaker 17: American people on inflation, immigration, foreign policy, basic things that
Speaker 17: we used to expect presidential candidates could answer.
Speaker 1: Okay, then I would just say that did you ever
Speaker 1: play the game?
Speaker 9: Would you rather?
Speaker 6: Because that is what voting for the president is.
Speaker 2: I know I'd rather do, which is just hear what
Speaker 2: she actually is planning to do. But her whole campaign
Speaker 2: is to pretend that she doesn't have to say what
Speaker 2: she's going to do, because then she'll be measured against
Speaker 2: her own lack of performance. Because you see, she's been
Speaker 2: the co pilot of the American government for almost four
Speaker 2: years now. She is not running against the incumbent Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: she is the incumbent. The fact that this person is
Speaker 2: surrounded by people where she can't even get the fake
Speaker 2: advertorial right, I'll give you the tip.
Speaker 1: Five years ago.
Speaker 2: One of the great honors of my life was to
Speaker 2: be able to interview an American president, which meant I
Speaker 2: got to go to the White House, which meant I
Speaker 2: got to see the Resolute desk, which meant I got
Speaker 2: to go into the Oval Office and breaking.
Speaker 1: News, Kamala, there's no teleprompters in there. Quick break back
Speaker 1: with more here on.
Speaker 9: Paul Murray Life.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for watching.
Speaker 2: Hey, before we get to our panel tonight, newspole has
Speaker 2: just dropped in the Australian newspaper.
Speaker 1: It remains fifty to fifty at the two party preferred.
Speaker 2: Labour is down on primary to thirty one. The LMP
Speaker 2: is up on primary to thirty eight. Remember, if they
Speaker 2: have four in front of it, they will win an election.
Speaker 2: So as we've seen before with the Redbridge Polly, it's
Speaker 2: not just a minority government, but potentially a minority government
Speaker 2: that could run in either direction. Green's ever so slightly
Speaker 2: up to thirteen percent, one nation down ever so slightly,
Speaker 2: the six Independence and others currently sitting at twelve percent.
Speaker 2: So your preferences matter more than ever before, and they
Speaker 2: matter at this election. So if you want to go
Speaker 2: somewhere else, that's fine with one. But two, I say,
Speaker 2: pick who you want to be the next or current
Speaker 2: prime minister of the country. One may agree, one may
Speaker 2: disagree with what I've just said, but let's get to
Speaker 2: them anyway. James Ashby, of course running for one nation.
Speaker 2: He is doing so in the seat of Keppel in
Speaker 2: Queensland and that upcoming queens An election. And Linda's got
Speaker 2: us free of all responsibilities but professional and personal. But
Speaker 2: of course we all know she's label who bootstraps. But
Speaker 2: I want to start with something not quite as national
Speaker 2: as these things, quas International as Quad meetings. Interestingly, today
Speaker 2: The Herald's Sun had an interesting piece about the number
Speaker 2: of potholes that are turning up all over Victoria and
Speaker 2: the expectation is that there will be even more of
Speaker 2: them turning up as the rain bomb comes in the
Speaker 2: next little while. Now, Linna, I'm going to start with
Speaker 2: you the Australian government at all three of its levels
Speaker 2: gets more revenue than ever before. All right, the share
Speaker 2: of I know, we've had our discussion about where the
Speaker 2: local council gets enough forver blah blah blah, but all
Speaker 2: three levels have more money than ever before. They also
Speaker 2: have a lot more to spend than ever before. But
Speaker 2: what does it say about the fundamental failure of the
Speaker 2: system and how it has been designed that it is
Speaker 2: Russian roulette whether a road will or won't have a
Speaker 2: pothole in it that will or won't damage your car.
Speaker 12: Well, a great introduction, but I don't agree with much
Speaker 12: of what you've said. I mean, we fought very hard
Speaker 12: as a local government sector when I was the National
Speaker 12: President up until very recently to ensure there was a
Speaker 12: real focus on funding and that it came particularly from
Speaker 12: the federal government. You're right to say, Paul that local
Speaker 12: government's attract about four percent of the nation's tax take,
Speaker 12: so in reality the Commonwealth government collects the overwhelming majority.
Speaker 12: And we were successful in getting Catherine King and Christy
Speaker 12: mcbaying to double the amount of Roads to Recovery funding
Speaker 12: that would go to local government from five hundred million
Speaker 12: to a billion dollars over the forward estimates. There were
Speaker 12: also really significant increases in black spot funding, in heading funding.
Speaker 12: So look, the funding is increasing, let's be clear about this.
Speaker 12: But also, of course, like everybody's household budget, the costs
Speaker 12: are increasing and the number of potholes are in many
Speaker 12: areas increasing because of the weather. Now I'll get.
Speaker 1: We're going to say climate change in potholes.
Speaker 12: We'll get lots of abuse for this, but it is
Speaker 12: true that it is the case that rain bombs, more
Speaker 12: severe weather, climate change means more potholes, and they're expensive
Speaker 12: to feel.
Speaker 1: But as we have discussed in the past. Right, sorry, James,
Speaker 1: I promise.
Speaker 2: You you're getting ready to go and you're getting on
Speaker 2: in thirty seconds.
Speaker 14: Right.
Speaker 2: But Linda, my issue has always been right, which is
Speaker 2: that I understand that local council needs to have a library,
Speaker 2: it needs to have a child GISs and it needs
Speaker 2: to have a swimming all of those things, right, But
Speaker 2: it also turns around and offers jobs for like one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand dollars to people to work on
Speaker 2: their website or community outreach or diversity offices.
Speaker 1: My point is, if you literally don't have.
Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty thousand dollars to fix the potholes.
Speaker 2: How do you have fifteen hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 2: for the diversity office.
Speaker 12: Well, look, if you don't have one hundred and fifty
Speaker 12: thousand dollars to support the childcare, then the people who
Speaker 12: go and fill the potholes can't go to work because
Speaker 12: they've got no childcare. We saw these kinds of things
Speaker 12: opening up during COVID and they were really problematic.
Speaker 15: So look, the.
Speaker 12: Communities need support. What's happening in Sydney is different to
Speaker 12: my lovely friends in Alice Springs. You've got to fix
Speaker 12: the potholes. But I want to say these councils need
Speaker 12: more funding to do that. But it was good for
Speaker 12: the government under lay about to double the funding for
Speaker 12: roads to recovery.
Speaker 2: The climate change in potholes. James, how will that planning
Speaker 2: your pun?
Speaker 16: Yeah?
Speaker 18: Well, I have to admit New South Wales roads are
Speaker 18: probably the best on.
Speaker 16: The East coast.
Speaker 18: Queensland dreadful, Victoria not as dreadful, but they're getting worse
Speaker 18: and you know that the figures speak for themselves. What
Speaker 18: I found amazing in that report too, is the shelf
Speaker 18: life of a road is ten years. I didn't realize that,
Speaker 18: and so therefore they need resheting or ripping up.
Speaker 16: And starting again here in Queensland.
Speaker 18: You know, for those Victorians who think they'll flee Victoria
Speaker 18: for better roads in Queensland.
Speaker 16: Don't bother. We're worse again.
Speaker 18: But when you're paying five million dollars a kilometer to
Speaker 18: produce roads, now single lane roads here in Queensland, right
Speaker 18: across the country, this is These are figures that came
Speaker 18: out in a Senate inquiry in our federal parliament. Five
Speaker 18: million dollars per kilometer per single lane of road. It's
Speaker 18: disgraceful where the cost is going. The other point, too,
Speaker 18: is we are now collecting the most amount in excise
Speaker 18: that we ever have before.
Speaker 16: Fifty point six.
Speaker 18: Cents for every leader you put in your car. You
Speaker 18: chuck that in plus gst on top of it. There's
Speaker 18: no excuse the money is there, except the fact is
Speaker 18: that money goes into consolidated revenue. It is not specially
Speaker 18: dedicated to our roads any longer.
Speaker 2: Bloody are such a great point. Any government that actually
Speaker 2: turned around and offered a bill to quarantine that money,
Speaker 2: it'd be interesting to see which share way the major
Speaker 2: parties voted on it. I would be surprised if they
Speaker 2: went anywhere near it. So let's again talk about renewables
Speaker 2: and renewables in regional Australia. Interesting here to see a
Speaker 2: story on the ABC the past couple of days about
Speaker 2: the hate plane and about the frustrations that many people
Speaker 2: have in that part of the world that they're promised
Speaker 2: the world a great economic this, that and the other.
Speaker 1: An investment.
Speaker 2: They end up with a logo on a footage Jersey
Speaker 2: and there's some reports. Again we're focused very much on
Speaker 2: Victoria to Night, but still in the Golden Planes wind farm,
Speaker 2: the little bits of the wind farms are actually now
Speaker 2: starting to break off and people are being told don't
Speaker 2: go anywhere near the actual blades.
Speaker 1: So yet again the bush gets screwed.
Speaker 2: So the comfortable people in the cities, particularly the teals,
Speaker 2: can feel better about themselves.
Speaker 1: James, sorry, my.
Speaker 16: Bad, Paul. I can't wait for this.
Speaker 18: You know, Arriott and a Kubra must be out there
Speaker 18: right now suggesting they're going to make new hard hats
Speaker 18: for the farmers out there, buggy wide brimmers. They're going
Speaker 18: for hard hats that'll be the new brand release by
Speaker 18: both those companies if they had any sense about their
Speaker 18: marketing team. But as a pilot, I know what this means.
Speaker 18: Delamination of a propeller effectively, and that's what these are,
Speaker 18: just giant, big propellers. If that happened on an aircraft
Speaker 18: the same way as it's happening on brand new wind turbines,
Speaker 18: you'd fall out of the sky and you'd kill people.
Speaker 16: One after another. So I hope that.
Speaker 18: Aviation are looking at this seriously and do not allow
Speaker 18: propellers to be made out of the same factor as
Speaker 18: these wind turbines.
Speaker 2: You know, the old slave labor in China, which of
Speaker 2: course is building many of the renewables.
Speaker 1: Look at the facts.
Speaker 2: But again Linda here, oh, this is just part of
Speaker 2: the cost of transition, isn't it. A few things will
Speaker 2: break along the way.
Speaker 12: I don't think that's right. There's got to be standards.
Speaker 12: Of course, we worked really hard to get the current
Speaker 12: federal government to undertake the Dire Review that was the
Speaker 12: review into the social license of energy providers, particularly renewable
Speaker 12: energy providers, and one of the recommendations out of that,
Speaker 12: which we were really proud the government accepted, was to
Speaker 12: have some standards for renewable energy developers, because let's be
Speaker 12: really clear about this, you can't have shonky operators in
Speaker 12: the market, and so those changes are coming into force
Speaker 12: and that is going to be really important. But let's
Speaker 12: also be clear. In Victoria the government has just taken
Speaker 12: the next step for twelve offshore renewable energy wind farms.
Speaker 12: There's been a whole lot also approved in New South
Speaker 12: Wales off shore twenty k's offshore in the Illawara. These
Speaker 12: kinds of projects are going to make a huge difference
Speaker 12: to people's power bills, and in Hey you'll see great
Speaker 12: local effort to negotiate the conditions so that local people
Speaker 12: within twenty k's of the farms are getting one thousand
Speaker 12: dollars back on their power bills every year. They're getting
Speaker 12: local jobs for decades to come. These are really positive beneficial,
Speaker 12: economic and environmental outcomes for the community.
Speaker 2: I would love to know if you live any near
Speaker 2: where near one of these things, is that your experience
Speaker 2: of it?
Speaker 1: So me an email polotskunes dot com. That doing you
Speaker 1: quick break back with.
Speaker 2: More predictions for the week ahead, and I want to
Speaker 2: talk about a solution to noise complaints. I know big
Speaker 2: small everything. That's the joy of what.
Speaker 1: We think is the best show on telling Glad you're
Speaker 1: watching it every now and then.
Speaker 2: And this is the reason why I should follow the
Speaker 2: Facebook page right where I'll put up a photo that
Speaker 2: is a news story of the day, and I'll ask
Speaker 2: for your caption on it. The best ones I'll try
Speaker 2: and show on the telly. This photo is of the
Speaker 2: Prime Minister and a parent living President of.
Speaker 1: The United States.
Speaker 2: This is when they were hanging out at his house today,
Speaker 2: and I asked for some of the best captions. Many
Speaker 2: I can't read, but these were cute. Mark says the
Speaker 2: latest postcard received from the Prime Minister having a great
Speaker 2: time here at Madame Soussos.
Speaker 1: I think that's fine. Julie Moore says, which one's the ventriloquist.
Speaker 8: I like that.
Speaker 1: That's clever.
Speaker 2: Angie Housin says, I put my head close to Joe.
Speaker 1: I can hear the sea.
Speaker 2: Alistair says, Albo nomics meets Biden nomics. The voices you
Speaker 2: can hear in the background, of course, either the great
Speaker 2: James Ashby and Linda Scott.
Speaker 1: I thought all of that was very important to hear.
Speaker 16: Now, people are very funny they are.
Speaker 2: They're very funny and as you know, sometimes going to
Speaker 2: be a little bit cool. By the way, the cartoon
Speaker 2: that is up now with Paul and Hanson that James
Speaker 2: is very heavily involved in it's all about misinformation, is
Speaker 2: very clever. It's the censoring of the Internet stuff, James.
Speaker 2: I think they're pushing it uphill here. But when the
Speaker 2: hill often involves the Greens who want to shut most
Speaker 2: things down, or Doormat Dave or you know Lamby who's
Speaker 2: already said that people like must should go to jail,
Speaker 2: there is still a path for this nonsense to actually happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Do you know what I found most concerning about that
Speaker 18: interview with Michelle Roland today was the fact that she
Speaker 18: admitted that this bill that was originally put up with
Speaker 18: the Liberal National Party. I might just say when they're
Speaker 18: in government, they may be against it now, but Labor,
Speaker 18: you know, banging on with.
Speaker 16: The idea this has got to go ahead.
Speaker 18: But she said in that interview today that this bill
Speaker 18: meets out international obligations. I'd love to know what those
Speaker 18: international obligations are and who's requested this?
Speaker 16: Is this coming again from the UN?
Speaker 18: You know, these are the questions that need to be
Speaker 18: fleshed out better.
Speaker 16: So there is going to be.
Speaker 18: Much debate in the Senate because obviously one nation will
Speaker 18: not be supporting this by the sounds of it.
Speaker 16: Matt Canevan said the same thing about the NAW.
Speaker 18: But we've got to get to the crux of where
Speaker 18: this bill originated from and why the hell are we following.
Speaker 16: The paymasters over at the UN or someone else.
Speaker 18: Internationally as to why this has got to go through
Speaker 18: it very dangerous bill. You've said it, so many other
Speaker 18: people in very loaded positions have said it. I know
Speaker 18: that our friend sitting there at the panel with you
Speaker 18: is probably going to disagree.
Speaker 16: But the reality is this bill should not be.
Speaker 1: Passed, Linda. Why should it be passed?
Speaker 12: Look, I'm proud not to be on a unity ticket
Speaker 12: with Elon mask I've said that before. I think it's
Speaker 12: a good side to be on. Right, this guy is
Speaker 12: spreading disinformation and misinformation by the day. It's harmful. This
Speaker 12: bill seeks to find billionaire companies for putting out in
Speaker 12: the public arena. Seriously harm put disinformation and disinformation.
Speaker 1: We'll turn around and say so many of the posts.
Speaker 12: A video of this conversation that's rubbish. It's defined by
Speaker 12: an independent government regulator, which already has job of defining
Speaker 12: and regulating this kind of misinformation in pay per form.
Speaker 12: All they're doing is lifting that and essentially saying you
Speaker 12: can't have harmful, hurtful disinformation and misinformation on the Internet.
Speaker 12: And I think most parents would say, good. I don't
Speaker 12: want my child being exposed to this stuff. It's dangerous
Speaker 12: and it should be regulated by governments.
Speaker 1: A couple of fun months before we're done.
Speaker 2: I think Virgin is another one of these airlines that's
Speaker 2: thinking about letting pets onto planes.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I love Virgin, I'm not going to. I love them, right,
Speaker 2: and you know I always like to support them because
Speaker 2: the other one not amazing. However, James, I don't want them.
Speaker 2: I don't want pets on planes, right like I get it,
Speaker 2: and the emotional support the Internet, I don't want it.
Speaker 1: Right. Whenever you've been lucky enough to fly around America,
Speaker 1: you know what this is like. Somebody's bringing on their
Speaker 1: emotional support. Ard varg I don't want to. I want to.
Speaker 1: Kids are baud enoughing.
Speaker 18: I got to, Yeah, we got to welcome, Yeah, we
Speaker 18: get welcome to country and dogs on planes, and it's
Speaker 18: a real trifecta. If you get sat beside the big
Speaker 18: fat bloke who oos is over in your seat two,
Speaker 18: you know that's me.
Speaker 12: I just want to meet your emotional support advert. I'm
Speaker 12: so for the spring, your dog and your cat on planes,
Speaker 12: you're only allowed little ones. They're so cute. I just
Speaker 12: sit there like patting the dog.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fine, But then the yapping starts.
Speaker 12: And if you watch a movie, you get to chat
Speaker 12: to the person next to you get to pat their cat.
Speaker 12: I could make it tamala, you know, catch it, but
Speaker 12: I won show you so good I love it.
Speaker 1: Go over, I can say, is yeah, look again, I
Speaker 1: love him. Good luck. But here's the thing, right, let's
Speaker 1: imagine where like.
Speaker 2: In row thirteen, right, Okay, you're on one side, I'm
Speaker 2: on the other. Imagine poor James walks in and goes
Speaker 2: here are my options. I've got this fat bloke on
Speaker 2: one side and Sheila with a cat on the other,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to miss thank you so much.
Speaker 13: Oh and I'm paying more because it's surging, because I'm
Speaker 13: flying to watch my team play.
Speaker 1: Who would you choose?
Speaker 12: James, You'll sit here.
Speaker 2: I agree with this bloke but I'm not going to
Speaker 2: talk to him because he's leading over and I'm definitely
Speaker 2: not going to agree with this lady.
Speaker 1: Now, every now and then you'll.
Speaker 2: See a story pop up about noise complaints, and it's
Speaker 2: always a version of the same thing. Right, building that's
Speaker 2: been there for decades. Person who has moved in, not
Speaker 2: decades ago, blowing up about noise that comes from building. Okay, pubs, clubs,
Speaker 2: bowling clubs, you name it, right, I've got a solution, Linda,
Speaker 2: tell me, if this is legally possible, all right, why
Speaker 2: can't we grandfather it in to say existing structures cannot
Speaker 2: be complained about by anyone who moved in after the
Speaker 2: structure was built.
Speaker 12: Look, there is a possible way to do that. I've
Speaker 12: got a lawyer, but I councils can do this. And
Speaker 12: this club in Marrickfield is in the Inner West Council.
Speaker 12: They've done so much to protect live music. This club.
Speaker 12: I know it so well. It's a beautiful community club.
Speaker 12: It's been there for decades. It runs incredible community activities.
Speaker 12: And what's happened is the neighbors have circulated a bit
Speaker 12: of paper to all the local residents who have said
Speaker 12: you know, please lodge your noise complaints like this stuff
Speaker 12: does shut down community clubs and live venues. And it's
Speaker 12: so disappointing to see one or two people because usually
Speaker 12: that's all this is. It's one or two people making
Speaker 12: a tiny complaint. We had the famous example a couple
Speaker 12: of years ago in Surrey Hills in the inner City,
Speaker 12: where the Green Senator Lee rih Annon was complaining about
Speaker 12: play Bar, a club underneath her office that only played
Speaker 12: gigs at like ten o'clock at night, and she was
Speaker 12: repetitively making noise complaints about a club belower office at
Speaker 12: ten o'clock at night and saying she couldn't get work done.
Speaker 12: It was ridiculous.
Speaker 2: So, James, again, my thing is local people in regional
Speaker 2: Australia go hang on what. I'm not really able to
Speaker 2: push back against a wind farmer Asola farm, but somebody's
Speaker 2: able to blow up about a pub that was built
Speaker 2: twenty years ago.
Speaker 16: Yeah, a little bit of tolerance goes a long wi.
Speaker 18: I don't know what it is, but by today's standards,
Speaker 18: have we lost a great deal of tolerance out there?
Speaker 18: Or what I know you're talking about in Queensland about
Speaker 18: the fact that you pass on by law. Well, they've
Speaker 18: done that in Queensland with farming. So if a new
Speaker 18: housing estate's gone in beside a farm and then neighbors
Speaker 18: start to complain about dust or whatever might be going
Speaker 18: on at the farm, tough luck. You moved in after
Speaker 18: that farm was already established. You've got to live with
Speaker 18: it due diligence.
Speaker 1: Now I've got.
Speaker 2: Twenty seconds betweens, five seconds each, Linda Bold prediction.
Speaker 12: Mates once running the AFL Grand Finals. Such a good
Speaker 12: week for Sydney. We're going to beat all those Victorians
Speaker 12: and the Queenslanders go the monke.
Speaker 1: Did you the Red and the White? All right, are you? James?
Speaker 16: Jim Charmers.
Speaker 18: He's just said that they've allowed whoops more people into
Speaker 18: the country, so population growth is going to be a
Speaker 18: hot topic this week.
Speaker 1: Bloody.
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