WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 20 May 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:07.160 From the Skying Center. This is Paul Murray Live. Thank you, Sharry, 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:09.280 Happy Monday wherever you happen to be. Thank you so 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:12.559 much for joining us here tonight. Heroes walk amongst us. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.560 They do it each and every day in our emergency services. 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:17.919 Can we focus in on what we mentioned at the 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:22.000 start of last night's show, A hero police officer in Sydney, 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.960 a person who was doing traffic duty when someone came 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:28.640 up from behind and is alleged to have stabbed them 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.800 twice in the back of the head. I can now 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:33.680 tell you who the police officer is because, believe it 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.240 or not, he's actually out of hospital tonight. Elvis Power 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.760 is his name. His dad collected him from hospital today, 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.839 smiling face, representing our community and keeping us safe. This 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.960 bloke is unbelievable. Now, the person who is believed has 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.919 been i should say, accused of the stabbing has now 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.760 been formally charged. But I want to give you some 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.720 detail here because this is extraordinary what took place. Now, 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.560 think about this in any line of work, but certainly 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:06.560 that this was a very targeted effort because one person 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:10.440 was the police officer. One person wasn't very simple. Right today, 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:12.800 the police Commissioner gave us a little bit of information 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:17.440 about exactly what happened while Elvis was working traffic patrol 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.720 in the middle of Sydney on a Sunday afternoon. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.720 We will allege at about one ten pm yesterday afternoon, 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:31.039 whilst officers were conducting duties on the corner of Castlereagh 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:35.800 in Park Street, that an unprovoked attack occurred where an 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:41.520 officer was struck from behind from by an offender currently 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.840 charged them before the court. However, we will allege that 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.920 he was in possession of a knife and stabbed the 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.440 officer in the back of the head at least two times, 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.800 causing two skull fractures. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:01.160 Extraordinary Now, apart from the fact that this assault is 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:05.160 alleged to have taken place, what about Elvis, the pride 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.200 of his family and the pride of the police force. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.560 Despite the fact that he had been stabbed twice in 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.680 the back of the head, he continued to chase the 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:16.240 bloke with the knife. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.880 He was chased down by the victim offender and another officer, 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:26.320 and shortly after other officers arrested the offender on Elizabeth Street. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.560 As I said, he was charged, beall refused. 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:31.160 And put before the court. 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.200 He appeared at court this morning and has been bell 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.520 refused until the ninth of July. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:42.320 As I understand what a superhuman thing to do that 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.240 he literally was so selfless. Elvis was not thinking about 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.440 himself who had been stabbed. Instead, I'm going to get in. 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:52.280 That is phenomenal. Now people have spoken to Elvis, no doubt. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.320 Hopefully you'll get the chance to give interviews in the 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.720 next couple of days. But this show is pro cop 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.959 and we're pro cop because of people like Elvis, who 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:05.160 in a moment goes from taking care of traffic, becoming 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.480 a victim and then chasing down the attacker. What a champion. 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:14.919 I spoke to both those officers since yesterday, and one 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.640 officer has been in hospital as you can imagine, and 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:21.360 was under observation, and the other officer is at home. 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.440 They are doing well. I've commended them for their actions, 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.720 their courageous actions yesterday in what, as I said, we 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.600 will allege was an unprovoked attack. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:37.400 Constable Elvis Power, you are amazing. He's at a hospital, 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.960 he'll take obviously a few days to recover, and then 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.160 he's back keeping people safe. Thank you for what you do, mate, 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.040 Thank you for your service. Thank you to everyone in 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.040 the police services all around the country. It is the 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:52.240 toughest job and you are the heroes amongst us. Well done. Meantime, 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.320 huge news today is that police specifically in New South 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.280 Wales decided to swoop on not dozens, but hundreds of 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.360 people who are believed to be significant domestic violence offenders 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.640 in and around New South Wales. This was phenomenal to 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.160 see all of this take place today. The message to 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.600 abuses pretty bloody clear. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.080 Something has to give. These offenders have got to get 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:22.159 the message that abuse of females is not acceptable, domestic 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.400 violence is not acceptable and we will not stop in 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.640 our operation now. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.880 Compare this to the weak is proverbial actions of national 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.080 Cabinet when all the politicians that will pat the police 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.960 officers on the back today had an opportunity to get 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.320 together to agree on a piece of legislation that guaranteed 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:46.000 that anyone with form still before the courts on potential 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:50.520 domestic violence charges should have their bail refused. No example 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.159 of it. Instead, no, everyone bought the headline of the 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.160 five thousand dollars payment, which by the way doesn't kick 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:01.160 in until not July this year. July next year, empty 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.080 promises and we all know when it comes to the 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.719 Prime minister. He bullied his way onto the stage at 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.120 a rally of people demanding more action. He made the 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.800 organizer cry. But she, of course has now been pushed 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.640 into hiding because once you cross this Prime Minister he 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.440 wishes you well, as do his supporters in the media 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:23.479 and on social media. Now, Australia has got too many 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.240 people coming into the country too frequently. This has been 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.360 the case for years, but particularly since the Abanese government 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.279 came to power. We've given you the numbers, we've given 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.040 you the data, and one person notices this and he 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:37.800 is going to do something about it should he become 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.880 the Prime minister. Peter Dutton. He, of course last week 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.880 and his Budget and reply speech said there is going 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:48.200 to be a significant reduction in immigration. Why because there's 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.760 an awful lot of problems that come with more people 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.120 being added to the keys of housing and hospitals and 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.440 schools and all the rest of it. There will still 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.960 be more than one hundred thousand people have got skills 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:59.839 to come into the country, but we're going to tap 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:02.480 the breaks now. Of course, this is sent the Left 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:06.679 is absolutely nuts we begin with the Treasurer, whose entire 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.599 budget plan is based off the Ponzi scheme of tipping 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.039 in hundreds of thousands more new people who pay tax. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.800 Bugger where they live, Buger the pressures on the streets. 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.920 Bugger the pressures on the society. Here's the Treasurer telling 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.760 us why Peter Dutton's got a bird idea. 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.840 It'll cost the economy billions of dollars. But even the 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.760 kinds of estimates that you will see are conservative because 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.640 it's not possible to fully capture the damage that Peter 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.120 Dutton would do to the skills base of this country, 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.680 to our hospitals, on our building sites, the sorts of 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.080 things that he hasn't thought through. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.320 Again, not a total stop in immigration. They're just going 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.279 to make it seem like that. Instead he's going to 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.159 be a significant reduction in the number. There's still going 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.240 to be one hundred thousand people coming in each and 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:53.880 every year for a couple of years. That is the 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.960 numbers required to be the nurses, and to be the sparkys, 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:02.080 and to be the engineers. And it doesn't take long 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:03.919 that when it's an idea that's put up by the 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:08.800 Liberal Party, it's racist According to the Greens, don't get 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.440 sucked in by the racist trope from Peter Dutton and 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.600 the Liberal Party. Now, where was this the economy's going 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:21.000 to collapse and it's lots of racism. When the Labor Party, 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:25.680 the Prime Minister and his clueless immigration minister, as well 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.360 as clues Clara Now the Home Affairs Minister was announcing 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.720 what was it, Oh, that's right, that they were going 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.400 to have the number of people coming into the country 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.320 now while Peter Dutey's planning to go even further. Where 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.400 was the scream of racism. Where was Jim Chalmers saying, 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.640 don't do it because you'll destroy the economy. Of course, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.720 it's all rubbish. Instead, it's where normal people are. That 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:51.240 people understand that when you get up early, sit on 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:55.120 a motorway, squint because the sun's in your eyes, and 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.200 then do the same thing as you're coming home, that 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.120 there's a lot of people here. When you go to 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.200 look for a rental property, there's lines around the block. 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.600 When people are bidding for houses, you are bidding against 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.640 hundreds of thousands of people who were not in the 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.000 country just a couple of years ago. This is not 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.520 an argument against immigration. It's an argument about not adding 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:20.200 to the problem. For his part, Peter Dutton says the 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.520 advantage of his policy is more people will be able 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.640 to buy a house because fewer people will be competing 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:27.800 for the house. 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.400 The Prime Minister is making the housing crisis much much worse, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:38.080 and Australians need homes now. We believe that by rebalancing 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:42.800 the migration program and taking decisive action on the housing crisis, 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:47.040 the Coalition can free up almost forty thousand additional homes 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.720 in the first year and well over one hundred thousand 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.679 homes in the first five years. 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.200 As much as the Greens are going to hate it 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.400 and Nasty Nicky's going to hate it and all of 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.400 the other gallery people that hate this idea or will 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.920 try to turn it into he's stopping He's not stopping immigration, 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:08.360 he's reducing immigration. Guess where the Australian people are the 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:09.920 poll that we showed you last night. I'm going to 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.120 drive home again for you here this evening in the 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.640 Resolved Political Monitor, which is the fancy way of saying 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.320 the pole that turns up in the Citny Morning Herald. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.360 In the Age the Channel Line newspapers, fifty percent of 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:25.240 Australians currently believe that the amount that are coming in 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.280 this year, which is the next year, is too high. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.920 The poll before that said that it was too high. 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.240 The poll before that in July last year said that 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.480 it was too high. The poll before that in November 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:46.000 twenty twenty one said that it was too high. And 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.520 also if that doesn't flow you both that you think 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.720 there's something wrong with that polling organization. What about the 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:55.360 one that appears in the Turnbull Times, the Essential Research Report, 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.959 which is the polling used in the Guardian. It says 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.600 fifty nine percent of people believe even a cap on 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:07.080 migration i e. Peter Dutton's idea to help housing now. 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.880 Interestingly as well to note here is that one of 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.599 the other things that Peter Dutton is going to be 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.880 putting in place, which you notice none of the media 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:15.680 want to talk about because they know how popular it 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.080 will be. Peter Dutton is going to in the first 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.520 couple of years of his Prime ministership whenever that may 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.440 well come about, he will stop foreign investors being able 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.760 to bid for Australian homes and anyone who has gone 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.439 through a scenario of trying to bid for a house 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:35.560 at auction anytime in the past twenty years, let alone 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.480 the past couple of years. Knows it is you versus 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.240 a lot of mysteries about where the money is coming from, 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.520 and people who have migrated to the country or born 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.280 in the country are not able to buy because of 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:51.520 the foreign money that is washing around. Now. By the way, 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.200 I actually went back and had to look through the 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.760 Treasury statistics on this, and they try to hide it, 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.960 but I worked that out. Today. Has this six point 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:03.000 six b four billion dollars worth of real estate residential 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:08.120 real estate was bought by overseas investors last year. Now 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:13.800 think about it. If it's million dollar properties, well, how 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.600 many of those can you get for six point six 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:20.560 billion dollars for a couple of years, Fewer people competing 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.280 with you at an auction, and you're not competing against 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.800 foreign buyers with limitless money that they're trying to hide 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.840 from offshore. It's a brilliant idea. It's an idea that 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.880 will absolutely connect with Australians, which means the press, gallery, 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.680 the media, the labor Party, they'll all have to turn 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.959 around and call it racist because God forbid, you should 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:43.040 be able to buy a house in Australia, that it 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.200 should be easier for your kids or your grandkids to 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:51.240 buy a house in Australia. I meantime, it's not even 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.120 a week since the federal budget and no one's talking 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.280 about the federal budget anymore. Now. Remember the whole idea 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.600 was that this is a big scene ce change in 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.000 political fortunes. It wasn't even a week since we showed 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.440 you the awkwardness of this last week and the lead 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.680 up to the budget. Out of sympathy for you, I 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.839 will not replay the audio, but it was funny. Now. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.080 Of course, the budget was two little too late tax 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.000 cuts and a power bill credit that you won't notice. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.360 But one thing that was also in the budget that 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:24.880 nobody noticed until this weekend was that the Prime Minister 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.920 is getting a brand new private jet. Yay, hey bus 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.400 Alba gets to keep flying around in an even bigger 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.280 and more comfortable plane. There's one for a minister and 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.439 there's ones for the Governor General as well. But you 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.079 should be happy with your thirty six dollars a week 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.720 and your twenty five dollars a month power bill. Four 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:51.079 hundred and fifty million dollars being spent on private jets 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:56.679 for the kids who don't care. So Erebus Albow currently 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.320 calls the Prime ministerial jet Toto one. What will he 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.440 call the new one? Toto to Toto one point five? 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.840 What will it be? As he swans from country to 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.120 country pretending he can't possibly answer questions about divestic policy 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.000 while he's overseas. See how it works. All the money 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:16.200 for them, all the gold stars for them. You get 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.040 screwed over in the budget and they get private jets. 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.080 No wonder the reviews of the budget weren't great. We 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:25.719 told you that on the night of the budget, the 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.240 day after the budget, and now less than a week 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.559 after the budget, the polling is confirming exactly what we 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.360 knew about the rubbish that was being peddled by the 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.840 Prime Minister and the treasure role. We're fixing cost of living, 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:42.920 We're here to care. They're buying private jets for themselves now, 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.199 according to this thirty nine percent of voters. So the 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.760 budget will make inflation worse. If that's the case, interest 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.559 rates go up. If interest rates go up, well hell 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.880 to pay for lots of people now. Amazingly, the same 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.160 number of thirty nine percent was exactly the amount that 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.679 was shown in Newspoll as well, so two separate polling 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.400 companies about the same forty percent of people saying they 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.840 expect interest rates to go up as a result of 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.160 the idiocy of the Prime Minister buying private jests for 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:14.440 himself and a treasurer pretending that if they cut migration 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.880 it's good, but if the Opposition cuts migration, no, it's 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:21.920 going to destroy the budge. However, there is Newspole, and 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:23.960 I've got to point out here that in Newspole things 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.120 got ever so slightly better for the government. It was 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.720 fifty one forty nine, it is now fifty two to 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.800 forty eight, meaning that they would be able to form 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.040 a minority government or get close to forming a government 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.280 in their own majority. But that's only one pole. In fact, 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.200 in the Financial Review pole it says that the Liberal 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.880 Party vote is at forty percent. If that's the case, 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:46.200 it's very competitive. Labour is at just thirty two percent, 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.040 which means they're two party preferred. You can see the 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:52.840 bottomleft end corner is fifty to fifty and if you think, well, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:54.920 no known newspoles, that's the only one you've got to follow. 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.560 Have a look at this graph. Each little dot is 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.640 the two party preferred number that's gone since March of 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.400 twenty twenty three through to April. Now the direction for 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.440 the government is from the top left hand corner to 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:12.640 under fifty percent. Cos Samaras, who is a Polster but 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.640 used to work for the Labor Party, says this Labour's 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.120 primary vote shows more fluctuation because a portion of their 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:22.280 support base is undecided, wavering between voting for Labor or 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:26.560 a minor party or an independent. This variability could shift 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.680 from month to month. His suggestion is it's not going 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.800 to Liberals instead, it's going into anything but which could 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.320 lead into minority government. Some media coverage today fails to 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:39.800 grasp this trend. If the economic situation deteriorates for these 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.880 type of voters, this trend could significantly worsen. Geez, it's 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.240 almost like we've been saying that all the time. And 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:51.080 why because seventy seven percent of Australians are currently living 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.080 under a cost of living pressure. That's a finder dot 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.040 com dot au. Most people don't think the economy gets better, 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.080 and if it does, it's ever so slightly. And remember, 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.160 even if the Zerbank does eventually cut interest rates, their 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.800 prediction for twenty twenty six is that you will still 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.320 be paying seventy five percent of the increases in your 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:12.520 interest rates since Albo became Prime Minister and Jim Charmers 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:17.520 became Treasurer. Now another little issue here that we've got 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.520 to point out here, which is the Prime Minister heavily 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.640 distracted last year, spent four hundred and fifty million dollars 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.040 on a referendum that Australians went from hell yes to 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.640 hell no. Every day he campaigned it got worse. The 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.880 expectation was in term one the voice to Parliament that 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.960 would make him a historic figure. In term two Australia 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:38.760 would become a republic and then he would be a 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.000 labor hero forever. Now, of course the way that he 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.120 signaled that that was the case was because he made 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:48.200 a blow called Matt Thistlethwaite the Minister for the Republic 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.880 eight hours a day, five days a week on what 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.680 I don't know. I don't know if it came with 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.320 any staff for or it was just a title so 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:59.360 he can debate on Radio National. Peter van Onslan in 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.440 the Daily Mail says, when there is a reshuffle of 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.960 this government and inevitably people like Andrew Giles get the 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.520 hevo from Immigration perhaps clueless Claire or if we can 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.800 hope lots of other people go guess what job's going 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:14.000 to disappear? The Minister for the Republic because even Anthony 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:16.800 albneez he knows after spending four hundred and fifty million 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.840 dollars on he yes, no question that he lost. Australians 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:22.960 have no interest in doing that anytime in the future. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.560 And a Republic refereendum well in cost even more, wouldn't it. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:31.760 So alas his beachhead of becoming a labor hero will disappear, 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.880 and not before time. Now you know I can't stand 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.960 the Queensland government, It's Premier Stephen Miles in particular. Why 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.199 because they've driven the joint into the ground. Now, I 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.280 love Queensland and if I could have the blood transfusions 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.680 to become a Queenslander, I would, but take your pick 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.240 from youth crime to or whole bunch of other issues. 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.560 This bloke is cooked, and this bloke is cooked at 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:53.639 the upcoming election. And one of the biggest reasons why 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:55.800 is because of what the Labour Party has done to 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.760 the hospitals and the ambulance services in Queensland Labour have 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:01.440 been power with the exception of three years, for the 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:05.600 best part of thirty years in Queensland. Queensland has an 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.679 opportunity in a few months to get a new broom 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:11.399 and actually fix their problems, and they're going to have 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.560 to do something because despite the fact that they changed 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.280 the minister and they change the spin and they've got 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.480 the social media videos and they've got the new premiere 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.880 ambulance ramping, the amount of time that an ambulance spends 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.119 with a person in the back not being able to 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.680 drop them off at a hospital is now at record 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:32.040 levels never been worse. In the March quarter, forty forty 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.400 five point five percent of Queensland patients spent more than 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.439 thirty minutes on a ramp being waiting to go into hospital. 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:44.520 So how's about that forty five percent of people who 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.600 go into an ambulance stay in an ambulance because there's 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.959 no room at the hospital for at least thirty minutes. 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:55.280 This is unbelievable. They have had billions of dollars and 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.399 decades to do something and the unions on their side, 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.880 but it's never in worse. And while you may think 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.080 I haven't had to call Triple O. It's not my problem, 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.920 it's just for Fred and Mary down the street. Well, 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:12.400 one day it is you, one day it is your partner, 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:18.719 your kid, your parents, and you deserve a hospital system 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:22.640 where the ambulance can drop you off you're taking care 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:24.960 of in the hospital and more importantly, the ambulance can 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.560 go and pick up somebody else. How many times did 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:30.000 we teddy at the end of last year about the 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.159 number of people who died because of the hospitals and 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:37.000 the ambulance ramping in Queensland. Well since then it's got worse. 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.280 Weld under the Courier Male, who have had particular focus 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.600 on the data because Queensland Health and the Labor Party 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.000 do their best to try to hide it. Weld under 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.560 Chris Jones and the team here, who again under the 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.919 banner of queens and Health shows forty five percent of 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.200 patients waiting outside in the editorial today. This set, it figures, 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.240 while understandably damaging for the government, at least gives Queensland 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.680 as a complete picture of the efficiency of our health system, 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.240 or should I say lack thereof. It might even be 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:09.600 used to inform decisions when requiring hospital care. Regular releases 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.399 of the same data sets sets government to be able to, 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.119 rather than hide from the truth, actually give the public 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:19.200 information that matters. Yes, occasionally it'll be damaging for a 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.199 governor or minister, but bugger it, so be it. Instead, 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:24.520 what they do is they used to do these things monthly, 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:26.280 and then they move them quarterly. Then they go back 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:28.160 to monthly, and then they hide it on a website, 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:29.719 and then they do a press release and then they 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.320 only put it in the annual report. Everything they can 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.439 to try to hide this information from Queenslanders. But anyone 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:39.240 in Queensland knows. You call triple zero, it may or 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.400 may not turn up in regional Queensland. As we've told 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.760 you the stories people who have called triple Oh, the 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.240 paramedic turns up. And if you need to go into 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:48.960 the back of the ambulance and the paramedic needs to 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.040 take care of you because there's no other paramedic in 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:54.520 the passenger's seat, a family member might have to drive 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.520 the freaking ambulance. Get rid of this mob. Get rid 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:03.480 of them so cleanly, because they don't deserve a day 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.679 longer in power, and Queensland deserves way better than the 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:09.199 rubbish being served up by Miles and the rest of 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.959 his merry men and women who are fools, who are 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:18.399 great at politics but terrible at public administration. One of 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:20.479 the conversations d ajure at the moment is in and 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.680 around social media and particularly the effects that it's having 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:26.480 on our kids. There are also the Daily Telegraph, the 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:29.560 Adelaide Advertiser and the Quariamal today are getting behind a 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:32.760 great campaign which is saying let them be kids. It 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:35.199 is a campaign that is all about making sure that 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.440 we keep kids away from social media until they're really 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:41.320 quite advanced teenagers, and even then we all know you 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.960 should stay away from this as far as you want now. 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:46.840 Of course, this should have been dealt with by National 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:48.879 Cabinet when they were meeting a few weeks ago, but 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:53.080 they couldn't even agree on bail laws about domestic violence. This, 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:55.480 of course should be a priority for a federal government 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:57.919 to get all state governments together, but no state governments 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:01.760