WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 12 March 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:01.840 From the Skying Center. 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.920 This is Paul Murray Live. 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:08.200 Did they come on in the man Cave as the 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:10.240 center of the political universe for the next hour. Thank 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.119 you so much for watching. Yeah, of course I'll talk 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.120 about the tariffs, how Albo is going to try to 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.239 turn the obvious loss into a win. I'll use some 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.080 stats to prove that in the moment of two his time, 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:23.239 not one, but two segments of debate tonight looking forward 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.640 to This is tonight, the night Stephen Conroy finally beats 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:28.880 problem and vishof or where she continue her unbeaten run. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:30.960 As part of our conversation, we'll get the all of 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.440 that and a massive decision in the High Court today 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.560 that could lead to biddinings and I mean biddings a 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.320 dollar's worth of federal government compensation to indigenous peoples in 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.040 the Northern Territory specifically. But before I get to the 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:43.400 wall of that, I want to talk about something that 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.360 is a little more real than many of the news 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.760 stories that are around today and a little more personal 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:51.839 than what you may come to expect when it comes 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:53.440 to the front page of the paper or so the 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.160 six PM news. Last night, there was a huge reaction 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.160 when I highlighted the comments of a gentleman who is 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.120 at his wits end on the central coast of New 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.600 South Wales who had to move out of Sydney because 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.480 of the cost of rent. He's now in a scenario 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.399 where if rent goes up, he is going to have 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:11.640 to move again, and that's a good chance that he, 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.200 his family and his little girl are going to be homeless. 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.040 One more rent increase and my family, my one year 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.319 old baby, we're facing homelessness and we've got nowhere to go. 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.800 Now, I've spoken a lot about the number of people 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.000 that are this close to homelessness. Sometimes they get the 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:30.160 number wrong and say two million. 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:31.960 It's actually three and a bit million. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:37.039 That is an extraordinary indictment on our federal government. But 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:38.640 before you think, hey, Paul, I've heard you say all 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:40.200 this before and you start to tune out, No, no, no, 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.480 come back, come back, pay attention, because last night on 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.480 SBS there was another example of another Australian who was 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.360 doing it tough, and this was on the Insight program 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.120 on SBS. Now, I really liked this show because essentially 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.800 they sit around, they do a forum with people. They 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.200 get really interesting stories, all different perspectives are quite like 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.400 the show. But there was one bloke in particular who 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.000 symbolizes just like that guy did on Q and a 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.240 millions of people who are struggling, millions of people who 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.480 couldn't work any harder, but they go backwards every day. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.119 Currently juggling three jobs, so I'm holding a full time 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.399 job down in the insurance sector. I'm doing Uber Eats 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.800 and Tawdash food delivery in whatever free time I can get, 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.519 and on top of that, I'm also making YouTube videos 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.080 online as an extra source of income. When I first 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.960 started three years ago, I was doing seventy hours a 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.840 week and I held that up across an entire year. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.840 I hit a New Year's resolution, outsaid man, I am 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:39.079 killing myself out here. 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.080 One of YouTube videos and I didn't know about them 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.320 until that program was him walking around his suburb talking 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.080 about the difficulties of cost of living that we have 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.240 focused on almost every show at the start of our 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.000 show for the past three years. 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:59.440 Things are expensive. The cost of living is insane right now. 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.000 If you are just working one job and you're on 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:07.359 the medium income in Australia sixty seven thousand dollars per 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.080 year right now, you are living just above the poverty line. 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.200 Ten years ago, I was earning probably half of what 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.000 I worked one job, and things just seemed easier to afford. 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.840 I go out and buy things. I wasn't stressing about groceries. 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.320 I wasn't stressing about paying rent. 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.040 And the federal election just weeks away, there's a key 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:29.880 question who's he going to vote for? 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:33.799 Who will you be voting for in the election? 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.400 The way things are going, it's whoever screws me the least. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.680 I think a lot of people have lost a lot 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.840 of faith in our politicians, in our political. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:44.840 Parties at this point. 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:48.080 So whoever screws me the least is probably going to 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.040 get my vote. I'm going to be looking at policy. 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:54.680 I'm going to be reading policy, and more importantly, we've 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:59.080 got to I think we've lost faith a lot as 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.880 Australians at this point. We have our pension is struggling 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.000 to retire. They can't retire. And if our pensions can't 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.440 retire right now, what the's going on with me? When 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.280 I retire? Can I retire? 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:11.960 Am I working till the day I die? 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.600 Because this is looking pretty grim in my stances. 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.160 We know people are hurting, We know people are starting 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.440 to get angry and they are sick of being told 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.120 that everything is getting better when their life is only 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.400 getting worse. More than three million people this close to homelessness, 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.039 and the number of people who are homeless in this 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.320 country is the record number it's ever been. But again, 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:32.880 before you think, well, hang on, Paul, haven't you sung 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:33.559 this song before? 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:34.080 Yes, I have. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.039 But there are others that are noticing. Simon Benson, writing 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:42.120 in the Australian newspaper Today, makes the following point that 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.239 Australia's living standards are the worst in the developed world. 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:48.919 No other developed nation in the world has suffered the 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.600 decline in living standards anywhere near the magnitude of Australia. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.200 No amount of boasting that the household recession has finally 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:00.080 come to an end can alter that reality, he continues. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:04.280 Fresh OECD data in the form of updated data set 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.159 on household income shows that even after the marginally better 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:12.640 but still slightly grim economic news, Australia's living standards continue 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.120 to be the worst in the world and there's no 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:19.600 bounce back coming soon, at least not within this decade. 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:23.040 The updated OECD data released in the past two weeks 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.960 gives expression to this. The average gains in living standards 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.880 by OECD countries, whereas we're talking about places like the 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.960 United States, New Zealand, Canada, UK, the first world basically 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.880 is up five and a bit percent since March twenty 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:37.479 twenty two. 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.200 Australia in decline. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.159 Before this week's National accounts the cumulative fall in living 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.920 standards was a negative eight point three. So the rest 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.560 of the world goes forward, Australia goes backwards. They go 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.080 forward five point five, we go backwards eight point three 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.120 and again. If you think you've heard all of this before, 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:01.880 new data out today shows us that Australians are losing hope. 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.880 It comes via this study from the Australian National University. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.919 It helps put again more data, more insight into how 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.680 Australians are feeling about their lives, about the future for 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:16.640 their kids, and the future for their country. Overall life 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:21.400 satisfaction between October two thousand and nine and the dots 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.280 on the far right of your screen is January twenty 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:29.520 twenty five, you can see that Australia is turning pessimistic 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.479 about its current situation and about its future. 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:34.480 You can see that. 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:39.279 Those numbers are the worst, even after periods of time 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.560 like the COVID pandemic. Now, there's a lot inside all 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:44.680 of this, and I want to take you through it 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.640 nice and slowly because it's many thousands of people who 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:52.080 participated in their survey, and there are some people whose 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.040 sense of doom is linked to things like climate change 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.359 and housing affordability. But I want to zone in on 0:06:58.400 --> 0:06:59.880 this issue in and around cost of living that is 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.039 not just a talking point. It is a moment where 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:07.160 Australia is going backwards and this government promised promised to 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.160 make it better instead worse after the past three years. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.000 In fact, I have a look at this life in 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.320 the past twelve months, thirty one percent of people saying 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:18.080 that it is worse, just twenty one percent saying better, 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.600 everyone else basically saying pretty much the same. And of 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.800 course if life has been tough and it's still pretty 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.800 much the same, then that's way over fifty percent that 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.000 are in a world of pain right now, specifically in 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.480 and around the issue of cost of living and the 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:35.440 effect on your household. Again, I show you this here 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.840 that thirty five percent of people believe that things are 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:43.360 worse since last year, sorry, since twenty twenty three So 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.000 despite two little too late tax cards, despite four fifths 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:48.280 of bugger all twenty. 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:48.800 Five dollars a month. 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:53.480 When it comes to power, the reality is this, thirty 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.239 five percent of people the household is financially worse off 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.960 under this government. Meantime, if you have a look at 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.040 the overall graph, you're about the percentage of Australians who 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:04.920 find it difficult or very difficult when it comes to 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:09.560 their own financial circumstances. Have a look. These are not 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:15.800 good graps for our country. These show how unhappy, emotionally 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:22.360 unhealthy and struggling. Too many people are equally depressing about 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:26.120 all of this is does anyone think anything is going 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.160 to get better? Yes, about twenty nine percent of people, 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:30.480 so less than a third say it is going to 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.520 get better. But once you put together same which is 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:38.080 the worst in recent memory, plus those the quarter who 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:39.679 believe it's going to get worse, you can see they're 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:43.600 what's sixty six in a bid percent, almost sixty seven 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.520 percent of people who believe that things are not going 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.560 to get better. And then we come to the part 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.520 that broke my heart. How do we feel about our 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.280 kids and the life that they will have in an 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.920 Australia that is supposed to be the greatest place in 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.480 the world. As a person who's got two little ones, 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.120 this one broke my heart. Fifty eight percent of people 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:12.880 in this survey believe that their kids' lives will be 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:20.760 worse than theirs. Almost sixty percent of people believe that 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.240 their children are going to be worse off. What will 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.040 life be like in the next fifty years? Fifty percent 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.080 of people there also believe that life is going to 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.599 be worse. So it's worse for their kids. It'll be 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.079 worse for them as they move into retirement and then 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:40.280 into the oldest of years, and when it comes to 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.560 this current government and the institution of Federal Parliament. This 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:48.000 survey again is heartbreaking. It's one thing to talk with 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.160 pride about your country, and we do. It's one that 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.760 love our country and we do. But one of the 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.240 reasons that we have remained laser focused on cost of 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.640 living for the past three years is because if you 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.240 cannot provide for yourself for your kids, if you are 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.200 one of three million people who doesn't know where their 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.040 food is going to come from, if you're the bloke 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.959 who is working seventy hours a week, and you still 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:13.200 can't make ends meet that our system is failing. Every 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.400 member of the Australian Federal Parliament has received not one, 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.480 but three pay rises in the past three years. Every 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.840 member of the Australian public services receive their biggest pay 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.880 rise in ten years. But what do people think about 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.840 the institution that is Federal Parliament. Do you have confidence 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.520 in the Federal government? It is now down sixty six 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:36.720 percent of people have little to no confidence in the 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.600 Federal government, in part because they don't do enough, in 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.880 part because they claim they're doing more when they aren't 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.040 doing enough. But again, let's compare that over time. Have 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.880 look at this graph again, it's the same when it 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.040 comes to our trust in the Federal government. It's the 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.000 same when it comes to our confidence in the life 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:55.959 that is there for our kids. It is the same 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.720 when it comes to our own financial circumstance. If anyone 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.200 thinks the politicians like Jim Chalmers or the Prime Minister 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.800 can spin and bs their way that everything is better 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:06.600 when everything is. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:07.800 Worse, good luck. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.120 But to see the greatest country in the world having 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.720 an awful lot of people in it who don't have 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.320 faith in its future, than we are at a fork 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.760 in the road. We need to get rid of this government, 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.280 the government that lied their way to power, that promised 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.640 that everything would be cheaper. Instead everything became more expensive. 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.760 And now because they're able to cobble together some numbers 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:36.720 deeply affected by government spending that make things seem ever 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:40.360 so slightly better than the bottom dip, the reality is, 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.720 how could anyone vote for the return of a government 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:47.599 that has presided over not just are breaking. 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.720 Our finances, but a break in our hearts. We are 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:52.679 at a fork in the road now. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.520 I don't know if it's this election that this means 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.800 people go further to the left or further to the 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:00.760 right than the parties of government, searching for someone, anyone 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.199 who is going to promise them a better future than 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.600 what they have currently had. But off all of these numbers, 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.160 there is no way that anyone is going to be 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.679 voting for the current government because they think they've done 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.120 a good job. It's going to be at best out 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:19.320 of partisan loyalty or about something even deeper than that, 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.079 but it's not going to be based off any sort 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.920 of quality performance. Those numbers are frightening, and that's why 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:26.760 I talk about that before we get to tariffs and 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:27.680 the politics of all of that. 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.560 It's not unimportant, but. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:34.079 This stuff is a little heartbeat check about a country 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:38.360 whose pulse is getting weaker. The other one is, I 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.400 want to talk about violent crime in Victoria. Now, this 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.440 has been a world of pain. And remember you've been 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.920 called racist for talking about it. You've been called somebody 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:50.520 who's beating something pretending it's not happening. Well, the reality 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.520 is that crime has been getting worse for a long 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.080 time in Victoria. Perfect example, a bayside family has this 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:01.199 not one, but two home invasions within twenty four hours. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.079 Daniel Andrews let all of this ride, but he changed 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.760 the subject just into Alan does not have the same 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:11.760 political skills, But she too, has failed to deal with this. 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.640 There have been many efforts to try to force the 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.560 government to do something, but chief amongst them is my 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.640 mate Fefe box over on Fox FM. 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:22.439 When an FM. 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.800 Breakfast show is basically doing what you would do in 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.440 the middle of a talkback show, then you know something 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:33.360 has gone wrong. Congratulations to Fife and her colleagues for going. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:33.760 Front and center. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.640 It's always easier to give away money and make people laugh, 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.640 but to talk about what people care about. It really matters, 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:44.120 and they are put together a petition demanding new changes 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:45.680 when it comes to bail laws, and they've had more than 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.760 one hundred and sixty thousand people agree with that petition. 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.160 Here's part of what Feofe was saying this morning on 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:52.000 the radio. 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:57.479 So many people have suffered through home invasions, aggravated assaults, 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:02.720 car jackings, theft, in timid dation, in supermarkets, in shopping centers. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.960 We have repeat youth offenders that have run riot in 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:06.600 this city. 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.120 Good stuff, mate, congratulations again. I know how hard it 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.000 is to make the call to do something as serious 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.480 as that in a format like theirs, but they've done it. 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.120 And the premiere didn't hold a press conference. She went 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.400 to Fife's show this morning to say that finally there's 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:23.360 going to be a change. 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.400 We are bringing in the toughest bail laws in the country, 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.920 and there's a combination of factors that lead to that. 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.120 The first year is we are putting community safety first 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.560 and foremost in bail decisions, putting the safety of the 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:41.120 community front and center. And we're also reversing that change 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:45.040 where ramand or bail was seen as a last resort 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.479 for youth offending. So that's a key change. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.520 But unbelievably, there are still people who want to tell 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.160 you that there is nothing to see here when it 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.760 comes to crime in Victoria. This was one of the 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.840 hot takes that was there in the turbul Times today 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.560 as Labour vows to introduce its toughest bail laws. Ever, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.280 is Victoria trulli in a crime crisis? 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:05.560 Now? 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.520 You see there's lots of ways that this gets hidden. 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.760 Often you'll end up seeing reporting which is a number 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.680 of crimes per one hundred thousand people, and therefore when 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.320 the population increases, the number of crimes increase, but the 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.560 percentage on which it's connected back to they're able to 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.920 hide the figures. But when you actually go and have 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.320 a look at the website that the Victorian government uses, 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.440 as you can see, even on this version of trying 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.800 to pretend nothing to see here, it's up twelve months 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.560 by twelve and a half percent. 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:36.800 Or ten percent. 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:40.640 We were talking about the offense raper one hundred thousand people. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.440 I also want to compare just the past couple of 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:49.240 years in Victoria about how many crimes are being committed 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.800 and have been committed under a system that this government 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:54.560 that has been in there for the best part of 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.080 ten years tried to look the other way or gaslight 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.160 victorians that it was not as bad as it seemed. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.240 This the total number of criminal offenses recorded in Victoria 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.440 just a couple of years ago was four hundred and 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:09.400 seventy four thousand, still way too many. That's jumped to 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:13.240 five hundred and seventy eight thousand in. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:14.200 Just a couple of years. 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.040 We don't even have the latest numbers when it comes 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.640 to now you want to break them down by say, 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.040 people being assaulted in Victoria, Well, the number of crimes 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.880 against the person, and that can be everything from assault, murder, 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:31.000 all other forms of that stuff, intimidation eighty three thousand. 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:37.160 Two years later, it's four and a bit thousand more people. Now, remember, 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:41.920 these are not just crimes, these are victims. Eighty three 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:46.560 thousand victims two years ago becomes ninety one thousand victims 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.520 last year. It's not about the perpetrator, It's about the 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:56.160 person who forever looks around a corner and is nervous 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.160 about what's about to happen. When it comes to property 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.680 crimes again, showing you this too, what an explosion this 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:07.920 has been in terms of people breaking into houses two 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.200 hundred and forty three thousand, seven hundred and ninety eight 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.000 Crimes Committee just two years ago up to now three 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.720 hundred and thirty two thousand. Yet the Guardian turns around 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.560 and asks the disgraceful question, is Victoria truly in a 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:24.000 crime crisis? It was two years ago, it is now 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:29.800 and it will be next year. I mean, this is 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.879 very serious stuff that we need to talk about. This 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:37.200 is very important because this is not just people making 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.359 it up, responding to talk back radio, getting REDVD up 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.360 by what they read in the paper or see on television. 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.639 This is their lives and this is things that is 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:49.280 happening to their family, to their home, to their business, 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:55.520 to their car, to their communities. And good on everyone 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.240 who forced this government's hand, but shame on this government 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:06.000 for needing this all three three mcgs worth of offenses 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.000 for them to finally take notice and finally promise that 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.240 they're going to be doing something different. For their part, 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:16.440 the police have responded today the Police Association, who remember are. 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.200 The people who have to lock these people. 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.840 Up only to see them get bail when some sort 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:25.720 of soft magistrate, here's some sort of sob story. They 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.480 respond today that they're police that's happening. Yeah, too little, 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.040 too late, but they're pleased at least something is moving. 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.560 Ordinary people in our community who deserve to be safe 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.639 in their homes, deserve to be safe in their cars, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.320 deserve to be safe on our streets. They've got every 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.280 right to expect that, they've got every right to feel 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.320 that when the police do their job, that the courts 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:55.440 will carry out effectively are decisions that are in their best. 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.680 Interest as for the people that will potentially take over 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.240 government whenever that Victorian election is This was their take 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:03.879 on too little, too late today. 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.879 The Premier may have apologized for a poor judgment and 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.800 weak bail laws, but that's going to be very cold 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.800 comfort to the families of every victim of crime who 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:19.639 has suffered attacks on them on their personal safety because 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.760 this premier got it so badly wrong. An apology isn't enough. 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:27.600 Labor got it wrong because they believe in weak boil laws. 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.280 Make no mistake, the Premier is being dragged, kicking and 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.760 screaming to announce these changes today, not because she believes 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.560 in it, but because the polls tell of Victorians are 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:39.919 sick and tired of Labour's week bail laws. 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:46.960 Absolutely absolutely, Oh does Victoria have a crime crisis problem? Seriously, 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.320 these numbers are on the front page of the Crime. 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:51.000 Statistics so I want to know. 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:52.320 But if you push this one and you double this 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.840 near please, if somebody broke into your house, it had 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:57.760 changed your life forever. If somebody has sold it a 0:19:57.800 --> 0:19:59.919 member of your family, it had changed your life forever. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.719 So don't give me this population garbage. The reality is 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.359 that a system where people think they can get away 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.359 with it means there will be more crime when they 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.080 don't think they're going to get away with it. Guess 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.879 what crime will fall. That's the way it has worked 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.040 the world over. It should be that all over Australia, 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.480 particularly in Victoria. Now today massive news out of the 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.280 High Court as well. This one's going to cost taxpayers billions, 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.280 and I mean billions of dollars. A landmark High Court 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.560 decision today has led about seven hundred million dollars worth 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:35.119 of compensation to Indigenous people in the Northern Territory. Put simply, 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.200 these is a decision in and around a mine from 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:39.879 a long time ago. Let me try and read this 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.400 to you because it does get complicated. The case, which 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:46.200 was brought by the late Indigenous elder and land rights pioneer, 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.800 exposed as the Commonwealth with a multimillion dollar compensation claim 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:53.119 of a land had acquired in the Northern Territory during 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.520 the twentieth century. The claim would reach about seven hundred 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:58.600 million dollars based on the reported value of the forty 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:02.240 two year old Rio Tinto and Go traditional owners stuck 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:05.200 struck in twenty and eleven. It's all to be with 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:08.280 a mind that goes back to the sixties. Beyond that, 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:10.439