WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 24 June 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:07.240 From the skyinging Center. This is Paul Murray live. You know, mate, Now, 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.200 if you want to stay humble, get a job on 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:14.560 the tell somebody who works in another part of the 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.960 overall broadcast business in which we're in here. I was 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.000 bumping into them today. Hi, how are you grave? This 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.160 is my friend, introduced the friend. The friend says, oh 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:27.160 are you Paul Murris? Yes, well I just saw your 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:32.199 photo in the foyer. Very photoshopped. Yeah, I know. We 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.760 just don't tell anyone, right, I see it in the 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.360 mirror every day. But Joey, here's the posters get touched up. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.440 That's the way it works. Thanks for watching tonight. Let's 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.120 get to this evening including let's talk about vaping for 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:48.360 a second, because something massive happened today. Huge news today 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.160 is that this federal government of Courses wave their finger 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.440 and or it's a terrible thing and nobody should be 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.840 vaping and anyone who vapes bat smoking smoking. You've heard 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:59.959 this how many times? This is an example of them 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:05.440 waving the finger. The vaping situation in Australia is an 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.080 absolute crisis. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:12.040 Nine out of ten vaping stores are deliberately located within 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.600 walking distance of our schools. It is now the number 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.039 one behavioral issue in our schools. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.840 We know there's a lot of pollution because of vaping. 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.000 My team's thrown that in. I hadn't said that. That's hilarious. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.280 And as a result of this new threat, that was 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:35.880 the new moral outrage. Sure, let's legalize possession in the 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:41.440 Act for cocaine and for ice and heroin. But you're vaping, 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.080 oh dear goodness. So the government said we're banning right. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.000 It won't be available anywhere to buy. The only way 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.400 to get it is if you go to your doctor first, 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:52.880 and even then it'll be hard to get a prescription. 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.960 We have legislation before the Parliament today which will be 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.400 debated in the Senate when we go back to camera 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.920 in a couple of weeks, that seeks to ban the 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.840 sale and the supply of these products that are so 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:09.440 obviously targeted to the youngest members of our community. 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:14.000 It's why we're working to stamp out vaping. So it'll 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:18.840 be banned. We will get rid of this scourch. Not really, 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.239 you see, for the thing to become the rule, it 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:23.840 has to become a law. For it to make its 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.560 way through the parliament. They need the support of the Greens. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.120 So guess what God announced today, and hoping that you 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.880 would be distracted by every other thing in the world 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.720 other than this thing that is going to make vaping 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.720 just as normal as it is right now. Instead, it'll 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:45.920 actually become fully legalized. Today, the Health Minister pushes out 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.480 a little statement, hoping nobody's going to notice. But what 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.400 now is going to happen is that vapes will now 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:58.480 be sold at your local chemist. Seriously, they're not banning it. 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.280 You will need a doctor prescription, but only until October. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.840 And then in October you, if you're over eighteen, will 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:07.400 be able to go in and just like the cold 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:11.320 and flu stuff, you go into your local chemist and 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:18.120 you buy the vape from them. Seriously, now, whether this 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:19.600 is a forerunner of how they're going to go when 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.799 it comes to the sale of tobacco, we'll all wait 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.200 and see together. But the idea that the chemist is 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.000 the place where you are now going to be able 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:33.440 to go and get your vapes amazing. Now, let's have 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.040 a look again a part of this story that popped 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.800 up today. The changes were pushed by the Greens, which 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.040 will make nicotine only vapes, say pharmacist products, and none 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.240 of the flavors of the apple this and the orange 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.360 at and you know, citrus fun time or whatever the 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.160 heck it is that they do. And this is now 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:54.040 going to work basically exactly the same way about your 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.200 hardcore cold and flu. People will first have to talk 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.600 to a pharmacist who will give them information on health 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.280 harms and alternatives for quitting smoking. You have to then 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.600 prove that you're over the age of eighteen. But that's 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:09.280 it now. I don't know exactly what the rules are 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.160 here about under what circumstances The chemist says no, but 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.440 we continue. There will be limitations on the nicotine content, 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:21.279 and vase will only available in menthol mint or tobacco flavor. 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.920 Under eighteens will of course be unable to access it 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.640 unless they have a script. I'm not entirely sure which 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:32.120 doctor is handing out to seventeen sixteen year olds the 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:38.000 prescription to vape. But something very big changed today. If 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.839 you thought the weirdest thing that was available that is 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:46.479 counter to the concept of your health was chocolate bars 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:51.520 at your local chemist, get ready for vapes now? Is 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.200 it a better more regulated system than frankly, what is 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:59.479 currently a black market that is openly operating in defiance 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.599 of the rule. But what a change. These were the 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.320 people who were out and about telling us, oh, we've 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.479 hired a number of inspectors that are going tobacconist to 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:14.039 tobacconists and double checking what's available. Well, now you will 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.640 be able to purchase a vape with the doctor's permission, 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.240 and then in October you've just got to turn up 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:25.000 with your driver's license schedule, quick little lecture. But they, 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.839 as I can see, it won't be able to say no, sorry, 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.320 you've ordered it too many times. And of course the 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.360 reality is is that if you have got it too 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.839 many times from this place, they'll go somewhere else, somewhere else, 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.600 somewhere else. Can you buy one? Can you buy three? 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:42.600 Who knows? Amazingly, there are people who support the idea 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:47.480 that the best place for a tobacco replacement is the chemist, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.320 and it isn't the chemists. The Pharmacy Guild's been blowing 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.120 up this afternoon saying, ang on, why don't we have 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:57.600 to get involved in this, and obviously that also increases 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.120 Let's be honest, the potential thefts that may well happen 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.240 from places that are not as well guarded. Now, pharmacies 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:08.120 generally speaking and got ways of shutting things down, but 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:13.479 people literally break into tobacconists to get these type of products. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.120 Have a look at this. The Senate's expectation is that 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.560 the community pharmacies become vape retailers and vape garbage collectors. 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.320 Is insulting. That's what the Pharmacy Guild says. Everyone wants 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.239 to keep illegal vapes out of the kids of hands 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.720 of kids and teenagers, but the Senate wants pharmacists to 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.600 stop vapes next to children's panadol, cold and flu medicine 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:40.680 and emergency contraception. Now, for what it's worth, you know 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.880 that I'm not going to pretend to be or hire 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:44.800 the Mighty on this. You know what I do with 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.320 my spare time when it comes to cigars terrible, awful, 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:52.120 shortening man life, no question. So I don't have a 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:53.880 problem with adults doing what they want to do to 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:55.599 their body, as long as it doesn't end up injuring 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:59.760 other people. But what an insight into the potential future 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.360 for our country is the place that you will get 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:08.240 your vapes is the chemist. Maybe tobacco your chemist and 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.960 then in places with much more liberal drug laws, what 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.640 other things will your chemist eventually end up stocking. Now 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.920 this is a good idea because the band clearly was 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:18.640 not going to work, but it is a very bad 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.440 idea in terms of the way it's going to be implemented. Now, 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.520 this is because the Greens and Labor got together. The 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.360 Greens know that younger voters are the ones who are 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.080 using these products, so they don't want to be part 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:31.840 of a band, so they're going for a bit of 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:36.280 harm minimization. But mark my words, it is the trojan 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.400 horse for how things that have nothing to do with 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.280 your health will end up being distributed in Australia watch 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.600 this space. And as for the poor chemists who are 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.200 now in a position where they don't want to stock it, 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.560 they're going to have to stock it and they're going 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:55.000 to have to sell it. Olbo's Australia well done. Now, 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:56.920 before we get to Matt Keenan, sure I've got plenty 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.280 to say about that. There was a major business that 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.800 has fallen apart today. It is the construction side of 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.080 the Apollo Kitchens group. Now this is an area that 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.360 is based out of New South Wales, but it is 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.960 a joint that has well employed an awful lot of 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.680 people over the years. Today we learn everyone is gone, 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.000 the company's collapsed, twenty three million dollar company gone, see 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.800 you later. All of that is the reality of Australia, 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.440 and as more people lose their jobs, this is the 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.240 reality you expect. You've got a job on Friday, it's 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.440 all gone by Monday. The organization that you work for 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.400 completely could put see you later. This is also at 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.080 a period of time when I've told you how many 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:38.080 times that more than nine minion Australians have got less 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:42.160 than one thousand dollars in savings. In fact, it's about 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.360 two hundred and fifty dollars that most of those people 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.360 have in the bank. So it's four fifty bugger rule. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.800 So at a scenario where people are worried about their 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.880 job and they don't have any money in the bank, 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:53.920 It's why I spend so much time on the show 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.600 talking about other people's money, that being your and my money, 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:01.000 that being the great tax payers of Australia's money, how 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.880 is it spent? You've seen a couple of examples today 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:08.680 that well, they'd break you if you were't a stronger person. 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:15.120 But we will not break. Now this government is going 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.400 to spend, after last year, four hundred and fifty million 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.960 dollars on a yes no question that they successfully argued 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.120 from sixty forty yes to sixty forty. Hell no, They're 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.000 going to spend four hundred fifty million dollars and not one, 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.240 but two brand new jets Yes, ordered by the previous government, 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.199 but not canceled by this government. Therefore this government's problem. 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.880 So they can fly around in brand new luxury jets. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.040 They might even take two of them, like they did 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.400 in recent clean energy announcements when they went to places 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.920 like the Hunter Valley. Last week. We focused a lot 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:44.599 on the idea that it wasn't just the first. The 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:49.000 third pay rise for politicians has taken place since the 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.800 last election. PM now being paid six hundred thousand dollars, 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.840 the third pay rise since that election. As I say, 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.959 the abanez A government, also, after spending what nine hundred 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.600 million dollars on planes and referendums, is also spending forty 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.360 million dollars flogging two little, too late tax cuts. You 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.640 know why they're too little, You know why they're too late, 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.240 and you know it's all about trying to help the 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.920 Labor Party, not help the people of Australia. Well, as 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:18.280 you may have heard by now. But if this is 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.959 your first chance, I hope you're sitting down because the 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:22.920 Prime Minister is picking one of his mates to become 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:27.240 the next Governor General. Now this is hardcore lefty female 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.640 business activist. Finefair enough, that's the decision. I think there 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.840 are better options out there. But still, this Governor General, however, 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.599 is going to go from being paid less than the 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.040 Prime minister to way more than the Prime minister at 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:44.240 two hundred and fourteen one thousand dollars pay rise. Nothing 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:48.000 has changed in the job. It's the same job with 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.880 all the same perks, but the salary goes from four 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.400 hundred and ninety five thousand dollars under the current Governor 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:58.120 General to the next Governor General, Suzanne Moston at seven 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.960 hundred and nine thousand dollars. Prime minister is paid six 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.720 hundred grand. The Prime Minister has paid more than the 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.600 United States President, and now the Governor General is paid 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.640 more than the Prime Minister. And by the way, it's 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.760 not like they've got to spend the money on anything. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.560 It's not like they're paying the power bill it's not 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.560 like they've got to keep the internet connected, because of 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.880 course they have not one but two mansions. Of course, 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.520 the one in Canberra Government House, where of course most 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.559 famously a prime minister will roll in asking for an election, 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.880 they get an election. Or of course there's the one 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:34.800 next door to the Prime Minister's place in Sydney, which 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.080 hasn't even better view of the Harbor Bridge when it 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:42.680 comes to the fireworks. So you've got money going out 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.640 the door on a government trying to literally keep itself 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.640 a little more comfy in the bot bot when they 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.800 go on a plane, or when they try to buy 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.320 their place in history, or when they try to buy 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.040 your vote telling you that thirty something bucks a week 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.080 is enough to change your life because of two little 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.840 too late tax cuts. Well, guess what. There's another example 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.400 of other people's money and the disgraceful waste of it. 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.839 And it's across both political parties. But it is the 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:13.440 forever part of our system. It's the bureaucracy. Now, remember 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.480 all of these pay rises that people understandably blow up about, 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.679 and rightly so about politicians. All of this stuff happens 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:22.800 for the top end of the public service and they've 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.040 got all the same travel experiences, so they tell you 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.960 uphill and down Dale, we're going to take care of you. 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:33.880 But guess what, Treasury loves a party, the bureaucrats who 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.640 helped put together the budget that, in this case was 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:40.120 announced by Grim Jim formerly Josh Friedenberg. How's this for 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:44.000 a story today? That came out from the Audit Office. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.880 Tens of thousands of dollars spent by Treasury on food, 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:53.080 alcohol and venues for its Budget Night functions breached probity 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:58.280 laws and internal policies. So they broke the law. Will 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:02.400 anyone be held accountable? Of course, it's a thing that 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.200 broke the law. No, people who make the decisions around 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:09.280 the thing. An investigation by the Order Office found that 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:16.120 Treasury spent thirty four thousand dollars on four budget events 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:23.079 two we're in twenty twenty two, the first under Fredenberg, 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:27.040 the second under the mini budget of Charmers that total 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:31.160 nine six hundred and thirty dollars. Part of a long 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:36.280 standing tradition on Budget Night colloquially dubbed the budget binge, 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.280 by staff to help celebrate a busy period of budget preparation. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:44.480 You mean doing their job, so doing their job means 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.199 they turn around and take your tax dollars and pittle 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.320 it up against the wall on parties for themselves that 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:57.840 are illegal. There's more. Two other events and functions which 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.320 were hosted a Parliament, House and Budget Night authorized by 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:05.800 the Treasurer's offers to thank officials broke the law because 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:12.960 they were not properly authorized. Now if they are spending 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.360 what thirty four grand on parties for themselves that are 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.680 not compliant and no one is held responsible, what do 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:25.040 you think the tax office would do if you broke 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:29.600 the law with your tax return and you misspent thirty 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.600 four thousand dollars, you reckon, You're going to get a pass. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.640 Of course, not that come down on you like a 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.440 ton of bricks. But because it's not people making the decisions, 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.600 it's the entity that made the mistake once, twice, three 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:52.760 four times. Nothing. No one held responsible other people's money. 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.920 The politicians are blind to where it comes from. The 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.920 people who draw up the budgets which are always wrong. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:09.200 They too spend like well drunken tax and Treasury people. 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:14.640 Now wonder people get frustrated, and we voice that frustration 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.920 for you each and every night. But I bet that's 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.280 literally the first time today you even heard about that story. 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.800 That story is worth a little follow up. But of course, 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.560 because it's both sides of politics, there will be no 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:28.160 questions asked of anyone in the Parliament tomorrow. Instead, Yeah, 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.880 I know we got caught. Does anyone pay a fight? No? 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:35.560 Is anyone going to lose? No? Just do it quite 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:41.280 a next year feeding all right, Matt kin, let's get 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.800 to it now. Matt Kean has finally lived out his 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.000 true purpose, which is to be part of Olbow's team, 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:49.880 part of the left wing team. He was a lefty 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.040 liberal who was a liberal who of course covered himself 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.360 in no glory with the way that he ran the 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:59.200 energy system in New South Wales. His most famous quote, 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.600 of course, was the people should think twice about turning 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.640 on their dishwashers because you know, we're rationing power as 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.080 if it was the Blitz. But of course, because he's 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.200 a renewable energy zealot, because he's part of the clean 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.240 energy future, he's beloved by all of the people. The 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.480 love he's on Channel two and Turnbull times and Turnal 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.480 himself all the rest of it, right, so he can 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.760 do whatever he wants. But doesn't it stink the high 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:28.240 Heaven that he is still a member of the Nissobais 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.080 Parliament yet today, of course, gets a brand new job 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.560 with the federal government. Now, remember, not even a week 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:37.800 ago this bloke resigned from politics in New South Wales. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.160 He by the way, is still technically an MP because 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.920 the Speaker has not formally accepted his resignation, so he's 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:48.400 still being paid to be an MP in New South Wales. Now, 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.080 I told you at the time there was something just 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.960 weird about the timing which was done on the budget 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.880 day and some of the reasons about why he was 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.920 jumping away. Firstly, the reason he was leaving New South 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.560 Wales politics and cause a by election in his allegedly 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.560 beloved Hornsby, I. 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.560 Won't be running for federal parliament. I intend on pursuing 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.399 a career in the private sector. 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:15.120 So could you just run that again. He's leaving the 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:20.480 parliament and the taxpayer purse because he's going into a 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:25.320 government job or a private job. Roll it again. 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.119 I won't be running for federal parliament. I intend on 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.520 pursuing a career in the private sector. 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:38.600 Okay, So that was last Tuesday. He also said this 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.520 about how long he's been considering this jump to the 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.880 private sector, so presumably there was a job for him 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:45.520 to go to. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:49.680 I've been thinking about this for some time. 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.480 Well, guess what, it turns out the job that he 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.800 was on his way to was announced today that he's 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:03.000 now going to be in charge of the climate change 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.120 organization that, of course you and I funds, they helped 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:07.720 push a lot of money around, They help set a 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:11.040 lot of policy. But isn't this magical. His job in 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.639 the private sector is a job working for the Labor 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:21.440 Party and the federal government. Now let's be very clear here. 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.560 This is a big change from what he said just 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.800 a few days ago, which means potentially the whole process 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.359 of him getting this job is one we probably should 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.280 spend a couple of minutes talking about. Now, let me 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.600 explain the current chair that he is about to replace. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:43.280 Is this bloke. His name is Grant King. Now, Grant 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.919 King was also announced today as having a new job, 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:51.720 which is to be the chairman of Transgrid, which is 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.120 the organization in New South Wales that in many ways 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:59.439 is in charge of things like poles and wires. So 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.520 I've got a few questions that we will spend the 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.040 next couple of nights trying to work out because Matt 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:12.280 Kean was leaving politics for the private sector. But now 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.920 he has dropped the private sector and got a job 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:21.159 with the federal government in less than a week. So 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.000 here's my questions that I have. And if it all 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:29.280 is above board, then okay. But when did the government 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.800 know that the current chair of the Climate Authority was leaving? 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.959 Did the government interview any other candidates to replace him 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.280 on the assumption that he was off to another job 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.600 to be announced today, So last week they knew he 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.520 was going, and presumably they knew where he was going, 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:47.560 so there was a vacant spot and they were trying 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.320 to find out who would fill it. Did they interview 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.639 anyone else? Did the government pick up the phone and 0:19:53.680 --> 0:20:00.440 approach Keen or did Keen approach them? What happened in 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:04.880 the last week apparently? Now, if the government did approach him, 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.360 when did they first approach him? Because if they approached 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.520 him one minute before he announced his resignation from politics 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:13.600 that apparently been thinking about for a long time, and 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.040 that apparently he was going into the private sector, then 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:20.640 there's going to be a problem inducing somebody to leave 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.440 the parliament. Not a good thing to do. This has 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.080 got people into a lot of trouble with corruption commissions before. 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.440 Because I don't know, I can't make and make no inference. 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:33.439 But that's a question that somebody somewhere and Canberra Columbo's 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.840 we know if they decide they will hunt down every 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.160 one of these questions, or because he's a lovey, we'll 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:41.040 just let it go, wait for something else to replace. 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:45.280 And finally, if they can't answer all of those, will 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:48.000 the government please send the details of how this appointment 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:51.439 came about to the National Corruption Commission, because that, in 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.240 part is supposedly the reason why this thing was put 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.160 in place. Why did governments make decisions? How do they 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:00.560 make decisions? Because if you and I are to believe 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:07.280 that the chair existing chair leaving gets a new job 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:14.040 and they had no replacement prior to Matt Keane announcing 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:18.400 his retirement from Nwsabel's politics to go into the private sector. 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.080 Play it for the third time. I want everyone to 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.600 see and everyone to know, and don't in the next 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:26.240 couple of days there'll be some little friendly piece in 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.919 the turbul Times or something trying to push away the dots. 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:35.760 Remember his reason for leaving state politics less than one 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:39.560 week ago was to go into a job. 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.959 I won't be running for federal parliament. I intend on 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.359 pursuing a career in the private sector. 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:51.440 But the job he gets is in the federal government. 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:54.000 And they're so proud of it that they don't just 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:55.800 put it out of the press release. They do the 0:21:55.880 --> 0:22:01.000 full Prime ministeri or courtyard short of state visit for 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.679 the Chinese where they go and inspect the guards. This 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:05.960 is about as high profile as you can get. It's 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:08.680 the same place where the Prime Minister calls elections, it's 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:12.720 the same place where the Prime Minister appoints governor generals. 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:15.520 So they were very proud of this one. Now we're 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:18.639 supposed to believe that everything was above board. There was 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:22.960 an empty seat Captain's pick. This wonderful candidate appeared, so 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:27.640 they nabbed in and jumped Canberra Colombo's in the press gallery. 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:30.919 Anyone want to follow up, anyone who does all of 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:35.000 the interviews going to follow up at all? Why do 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:38.840 I think there's something odd at the very best about 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:43.399 the timing here, because this government has form, despite the 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:44.919 fact that, of course most of the media and have 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:49.600 never talked about a scandal involving the Trade Minister Don Farrell. 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:52.440 Now remember these were the no jobs for the boys. 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:54.520 We're going to change everything. The last mob was terrible, 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:56.320 when of course this is bad as bad as it 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:58.760 gets in terms of jobs for the boys. You see 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:01.520 Don Farrell trade ministers. He gets to decide people who 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:05.040 represent him in the trade portfolio in different parts of 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:07.320 the world. There was a job which is on offer 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:11.520 to a trade envoy in San Francisco in California. This 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:16.480 lady had already been somebody who applied for the job, 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:20.040 was qualified for the job and was referred to as 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:23.160 the preferred candidate, but she didn't get the job. Instead, 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:27.400