WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 15 August 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:06.600 From the Skyinging Center. This is Paul Burray Live. Thank 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:07.440 you so much for watching. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:10.320 Yeah, of course I'll get to Zalie Stegul showing how 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:11.560 mean the left can be. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:14.040 For there apparently as they're compassionate. 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:18.360 There's an amazing story about China interfering in the debate 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.479 here in Australia. It was been years you probably didn't 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:21.960 hear about it. 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.400 And today was actually a very good day to Donald Trump, 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.159 not just because of the way he handled himself, but 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.320 also new opinion polls, new data. I'll get to all 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.639 of that as always, and i'd love to know you 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:33.600 think that Winna Musa of the Week is going to be. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:36.960 But first, as we know in the UK, it's been 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.839 tough watching this place of which we've either visited or 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.599 many people are from, and that we love, that has 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.480 descended into a form of chaos that's been a long 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.519 time coming, and of course once you get to that 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:50.920 stage it is too late. 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.120 But something has also devolved. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.280 In the UK over a long period of time, which 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.880 is the normalization of knife crime of stabbings. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.680 London is on a knife edge, with the capital recording 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.080 a new knife crime incident every thirty minutes. 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.840 Zombie style knives and machetes. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.880 Knife crime in London, stabbing attack on the British seaside 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:17.880 town of Southport. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.880 Literally anyone who pays attention to English news or has 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.479 family every day, every day and as you just heard, 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.520 there every thirty minutes and they say they're going to 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.640 crack down on it, and then nothing happens. Well, as 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:35.000 you have heard today, a little Australian girl who was 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.399 doing what many little Australian girls do, which is have 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.880 a dream holiday in the UK, going to the place 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.920 where there's the Lego store, the eminem store, it's the 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.720 equivalent of Times Square. A little eleven year old girl 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.640 was stabbed. It was confirmed in the past twenty four 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.560 hours that this little girl is from New South Wales. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.440 Now, this shock attack happened in broad daylight Michael in 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.520 London's busy Leicester Square. She was with her thirty four 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.280 year old mother at the time of the attack, and 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.799 the ABC understands that the family, who is on holiday 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.639 in London at the moment, is from New South Wales. 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.800 The girl was taken to hospital with serious but non 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:24.120 life threatening injuries. She received plastic surgery, but has since 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.280 been released from hospital. 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.800 An excellent part of the story is how, just like 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:34.520 in the scenario in Bondi, that there were security guards 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:39.040 who were there. Thankfully, unlike the Bondou situation, a life 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:43.120 was saved because of the actions of this security guard 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:44.200 who spoke to the ABC. 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.840 I heard a screen I sold said there was a 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.120 guy who was stabbing a girl. So as I saw them, 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.880 I stabbing the girl, I started running towards the guy. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.639 I jumped on the guy, hold his hand in which 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.160 she was cutting a knavee him down on the floor, 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.720 and then kick the knife away from him. At that time, 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.400 there was only one thought to save the kit, to 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.919 save her more, nothing else. 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.560 From everyone in Australia. Mate, thank you, well done. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:16.679 You welcome here anytime you want, come for holiday or 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.120 stay for even a little bit longer. 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:20.840 But this isn't the only. 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.000 Part of what I wanted to mention at the start 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.400 of tonight's show, because, of course, in and around Paris 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.919 and the phenomenal Olympic Games that we all sat there 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.360 and watched and enjoyed. Before the games, there were a 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.280 couple of terrible stories, including of course, significant assaults that 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.960 had happened on a couple of people who worked for 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:41.080 the Channel Line broadcasting team. Also, the gold medalist of 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.960 the BMX had been robbed a couple of days before 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.080 he was set to compete, and thankfully they swamped the 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.480 area with police, because you can do that during something 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.760 like an Olympic Games. And apparently crime was dealt with 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.360 quite aggressively. Now to the bit I really want to 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:59.600 talk about. At the time, the chef to Micheon of 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.880 the Australia Olympic team and Emirs said this about the 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:05.920 crime situation in Paris. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.280 We're in a big international city. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:11.760 Crime is a part of life. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.680 Unfortunately, we just need to have some common sense and 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.400 stay safe where we can and make those smart decisions 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.839 and be grateful for the people who are putting themselves 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:21.200 in a position to keep us safe. 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.600 Well that makes sense. I can't stand that view. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.680 Because slowly but surely, like we've all heard of the 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.480 frog in the pot that doesn't realize it's in boiling 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:37.800 water until eventually it is too late. Societies crumble when 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.320 they start to look the other way and start to 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.120 normalize the idea, Yeah, this stuff happens, fingers cross, it 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:43.920 doesn't happen to you. 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.280 This is a terrible attitude for people to have. 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.520 I understand why people say it, We've all probably said 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.919 it to ourselves, but it's something that links back to 0:04:55.200 --> 0:05:00.760 Australia and our attitude towards crime. Now increasingly people are 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.320 telling us that as a dominant political issue at state 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.000 and even federal level is things like crime. But just 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.880 like I said, we don't want to ever become a 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.400 place that ends up having race riots in whichever direction, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.440 with whomever is stoking them or whoever is the focus 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.560 of them. We also don't want to get to a 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.799 stage where an eleven year old girl can be stabbed 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.880 in the middle of the equivalent of whatever our version 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.240 of Times Square is, be it Federation Square in Melbourne, 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:35.640 be it Circular Key, be it the Valley in Brisbane, 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.400 or anywhere else around the country. But sadly, the way 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:43.600 that we get information about crime in Australia tends to 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.919 show us that the attitude is what you're going to do. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.040 You see if you actually have a look at the 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.840 numbers which are served up in the crime statistics and 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:57.200 what I'm just going to focus in on New South 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.040 Wales because I know how to read how they do 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.839 this data. Now we'll tell you that domestic violence is 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.200 up and non domestic violence is up, and breaking end 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.760 as are up, and stealing from a car is up, 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.880 and stealing from a store is up, and other stealing 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:18.360 is up. There's this horrible word that is used by 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.799 crime statisticians, and it's not because they're heartless. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.120 It's just this is their description that. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:24.839 If it doesn't really go up and it doesn't really 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:29.919 go down. The term that they use is stable, and 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:35.520 in New South Wales murder is stable. Murder is stable, 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.680 and assaulting police is stable, and sexual assault is stable, 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.600 and other sexual offenses are stable, and abductions are stable, 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:49.080 and blackmail and extortion is stable. But the reality is 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:55.080 that behind stable or behind up or behind down are 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:59.120 human beings. For crimes to be committed, there obviously is 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.280 a perpetrator, there are obviously is a victim. So think 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:06.279 about this from the perspective of these statistics are not statistics. 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:11.360 They are victims on the other side of somebody who 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.920 has been arrested and potentially gone through the court system. 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:21.239 This is the numbers from March this year to March 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:25.360 last year in New South Wales. These are the categories 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:29.239 that are of course referred to as stable sixty five 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:35.520 people were killed non domestic violence they say is up 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.360 just by six percent. What if I told you that 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:43.680 there was a football stadium of victims of domestic violence 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:47.080 in New South Wales, that number feels a lot different, 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:51.720 doesn't it than just six point six percent up? Or 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:56.240 the general assault figures another football stadium of people, the 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.760 number of people have been sexually assaulted, a smaller but 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.080 still football of people. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:03.360 In terms of police officers, we've. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.880 Broken this down many times where there are what the 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.080 best part of six assaults that take place every day, 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.320 public holiday, Monday, Tuesday, middle of the week, middle of 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.760 the year. So you get to two and a half 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:19.480 thousand police officers who were assaulted last year, twenty thousand 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.640 examples of somebody breaking in and stealing something from a house, 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:29.800 a car, or somebody who smashes up property. Now, each 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:34.240 and every one of those numbers is a person. So 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.760 when I hear people say big city crimes, part of it, 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.400 just remain vigilant. At the heart of that, well, I 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.080 understand what the cautious statement that is being given is. 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.760 At the heart of it is, Yeah, somebody's going to 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.520 get stabbed, but fingers crossed, it's not you. Now, the 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.800 same way that people rage about certain types of crime 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:59.000 that take place and demand that the only acceptable result 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:03.240 is zero h next to some of these offenses, well 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:08.000 that applies to all offenses. Now, Can you live in 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.840 a crime free society that doesn't have a police state? 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:12.920 Probably not. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.920 And just like we talked last night about education and 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:18.720 mental health, and I'll get to that in a second, 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.840 about some of your incredible responses to that, we have 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:26.920 to remain vigilant that the goal of policing, the goal 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.280 of the people who pass the laws, and theoretically the 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.800 goal of the people who end up handing out the punishments, 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:39.400 is not stable. Is not it'll happen, fingers cross It's 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:45.720 not your eleven year old daughter, But it's zero. When 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.959 these numbers come out, so very few politicians comment about it, 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.920 and so very few people follow up as to why 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.000 these numbers are the way they are. Again, certain categories 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:57.760 of crime get, you know, their own little day and 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.160 their own little ribbon. But if you are somebody who 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.880 is the victim of that general assault number, which again 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:08.720 was as I say, thirty four thousand people one state 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:10.720 one year, those. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.199 Are people whose lives are changed forever. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.040 So as always we remain very pro police on this 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.960 show that they have to deal with all of this 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.240 each and every day. But I wanted to take the 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.000 chance it started the show to say, if you are 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.600 one of the people who has been a victim of 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.079 crime in this state, in these stats, we see you 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:32.640 as people not as slightly up, slightly down, or stable. 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:34.880 Sat as. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.040 I hope that we remain getting as much information as 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.080 possible about that little girl and doesn't just become a 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.640 day where it comes and it goes, because you know, 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:47.000 that's just what happens. It's not acceptable, it's not okay. 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:51.439 It's a sign of a society in a world of trouble. 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:53.800 And again, strength and love to everyone who's having to 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.360 deal with or any of those things in your recent 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:02.960 or way back when history. Thank you so much to 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.120 everyone who reached out in the past twenty four hours. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.280 I don't think we've got as many emails in a 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.920 day as we have in the past day. Now, the 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.200 way to send an email to us is polotsgnews dot com. 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:14.680 That are you, But there are lots of other ways, 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.360 and some people remember my personal email address I used 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:18.800 to give out on the air before we had polots 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.880 gonews dot com that are you and I got flooded 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.200 lots of people, lots of messages, lots of Facebook, and 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:29.240 all of it was in and around the difficulties are 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.520 in and around mental health and how this country needs 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.920 to put front and center it as big a priority 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.560 as trying to cure cancer. The child psychologists clear Row 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:40.840 was very supportive of what we had to say, but 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.319 equally said it's not just about money. Well said, well done. 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.080 We'll have a chat to her in the next few 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.040 days about it. And lots of people told us their 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:52.680 version of the story about how the system sometimes worked 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.120 but mostly didn't work, or they didn't interact with it, 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.080 or there even some people who reached out to tell 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.400 me that I was the first person that they were 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.200 telling about a certain story. 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:04.080 To all of you, thank you. 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.840 It is not lost on me how much strength that takes, 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.280 and it has not lost on me the honor in 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.160 which it was that you put your trust in me 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.200 to have that information. I look forward to replying to 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.520 all of those messages over the next couple of days. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.840 As anyone knows, even my family, I'm not the world's 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.400 best at returning phone calls or text messages, let alone emails. 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.240 But I will to all those people that told beautiful stories. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.079 But there's a couple of other extensions to the story 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.280 that I wanted to bring you tonight, which was the 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.120 cost of living. The obsession of this program, because it 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.040 is the focus of the nation, does have an effect 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.240 on the amount of people who just don't have the 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.080 cash to go and seek some of the support that 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.240 may well help them deal with whatever is going on. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.640 Psychologists say that patients are unable to access their help 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.600 because of rising costs and shortening wait lists are being 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:55.680 triggered because people are simply unable to afford psychological care. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.120 In April, a survey by the Australian Psychological Association found 0:12:59.160 --> 0:12:59.959 that more than forty. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.479 Percent of psychologists reported costs. 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:06.920 As the main barrier for patient access. The President said 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.280 that psychologists were reporting they're shortening waiting lists were a 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:15.280 result of patients simply not accessing their services. Patients currently 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.080 face putting food on the table and paying their rent 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:23.880 rather than dealing with mental health. And there were a 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.120 couple of people who seemed to doubt what I was 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:30.160 saying about the government and the access to the telehealth system. Now, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.520 generally speaking this is mostly used for access to your GP, 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.840 but for people when it comes to mental health, that 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.120 is the first step sometimes on being able to work 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.840 out which way to go, and it's a really valuable 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.240 and important step. Now, at the height of COVID, when 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:49.280 people physically couldn't go to the doctor because they weren't 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.680 allowed to leave the house, you know all of that nonsense. Well, 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:56.400 ten free telehealth visits were available to all Australians. Then 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.080 this government came to power and of course one of 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.280 the first things they did to announce that this was 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.040 going to start to wrap up. At the time, there 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.520 were plenty of things where vulnerable Australians were filled with 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.680 dread over the potential telehealth cuts. The government decision to 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:15.360 limit telehealth services will make vulnerable Australians suffer more, said 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:19.800 the GPS. Now this was put back ever so slightly 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.120 for some people in regional areas, but in terms of 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:27.160 automatic access it is no longer the case. This must 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.840 be changed. Tomorrow there'll be a meeting of all of 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.800 the mental health ministers around the country. I hope they 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.400 come up with the opportunity of finding ways for more 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.400 people to get free access to the very least their 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:41.160 GP or other services, to be able to make sure 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.600 that you can start a journey, a journey that I 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.880 hope is as fast as possible. I hope it involves 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.800 as little medication as possible. But the reality is for 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.520 some people it will be long and it will involve medication. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.200 But I want people to be able to be taken 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.320 care of. And in the same way, we don't want 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.480 to ignore the lump on the back of your neck. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.960 I want you to ignore the lump that may well 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.080 be in here because of what's going on up here. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:07.640 We'll all find out what happens in a meeting, But 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:09.680 when these things happen on Friday and normally go for 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.040 two hours, the agreement has probably already been made. But 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:14.880 of course I've done my best to try to bend 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.600 arms in the past loudly on television, but I will 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.880 try to continue to do so quietly behind the scenes. 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:23.680 This is an important thing that needs to be done. 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.560 And yeah, I'm going to link this back to the 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.280 cost of living stuff that I've talked about over the 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:32.560 past or for years, because you see, when a government 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.360 turns around and takes fifteen hundred dollars automatic tax returns 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:41.680 off people like this government did in their first budget 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.680 in twenty twenty two. It meant that there was fifteen 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.760 hundred dollars automatically taken away from families that may well 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.720 have been able to be spent on reaching out for 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:55.680 the correct services. It was, of course, the load of 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.920 middle income tax bracket as it was called back then. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.280 Both sides of politics were committed to it. As I said, 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:01.800 if the Liberals had been returned, you know, I would 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.160 have been not bending arms, but I would have been 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.920 making sure that this would not have happened. But Labor 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.720 they don't care what we think. Well, they'll find out 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:12.960 what the reality of that and ignoring what we've been 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:17.000 talking about will be at the upcoming election. But even 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.080 the Australian Institute noticed ten million people get screwed over here. 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:21.640 And if you don't have fifteen hundred dollars to be 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.200 able to go and seek out services, this is what 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.920 some people are used with that fifteen hundred dollars. That's 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.360 why the smartasses in Canberra who thought, let's just take 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.240 the three and a big billion dollars that would automatically 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.080 be the fifteen hundred dollar thing. We'll move it over 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.800 to student dead because it doesn't really cost the budget, 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.720 but it's more politically advantageous over here. Ten median people 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.360 should still be getting access to that money as a 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:49.120 way of being able to keep themselves Afloat meantime, another 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.000 huge amount of reaction from people about our education system. 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.120 So many teachers who understood the nuance of what I 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:59.600 was saying. That I understand the well meaning and well 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.920 talented and well trained and the honest teachers that would 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.240 watch a program like this or certainly their family members 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.480 who are proud of the teachers in their life. And 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.640 that's why it didn't bash teachers last night about this issue. 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.840 The Naplan results were horrific. They remain horrific. They remain 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:20.120 something that is deeply emotionally difficult for anyone who wants 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:21.680 the future of the country to be good. That won 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.639 in three kids are not meeting basic literacy or numeracy expectations. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:32.040 Now again, there's a consequence to this Naplan. Literacy and 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:36.199 numeracy failure is a ticking time bomb. Say employers organizations 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.159 in US Willicks who works for one of them, will 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.320 represents bosses around the country says the latest Lapland tests 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.679 are a bad sign for our country and paint ablik 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.920 picture for a more productive and competitive future. The sheet 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:52.200 number of Australians falling behind basic and necessary foundation skills 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.919 is simply unacceptable. We must get the basics right to 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.480 develop the skills that we need for tomorrow's workforce. That's 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.000 the consequence too. It's not just ay you didn't do 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:02.800 well at school, see you later. There's a job that 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:04.080 has to happen on the other side of it. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:04.359 Why. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.359 Because we want to make sure that people are able 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.960 to determine their own future with their own money, not 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:14.520 to be determined and tied into a welfare system. The 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.720 funding issue must be resolved and the political blame game 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:21.000 has to stop. We have well passed the time that 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:28.719 this is to be settled. Absolutely correct. Now you've heard 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.840 everyone else talk about this tonight, and largely I would 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:33.840 agree with many of what you have already heard over 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.119 the past twenty four hours. But as you know, the 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.560 way things were put yesterday, I had my issues with 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.280 what was being said by the Opposition leader when it 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.040 came to people coming from a war zone. As I 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:47.439 said at the time, it will double down Now, of course, 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:51.320 the concept of all Palestinians automatically hamas is as ludicrous 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.480 as all Chinese are part of the CCP or so 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:59.439 one and so one and someone. However, today was ridiculous. 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:02.960 To try to pretend that the position of the leader 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:07.800 of the opposition was racist is absolute garbage. Now, his view, 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.960 as you know, is that it's all about national security, 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:12.040 it's not about race. 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:13.719 Now. 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:15.440 While I stand by the criticism of the way things 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.160 were said yesterday, and I know some of you didn't 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:18.520 like that I said it, but I'm not going to 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:22.159 flip day in, day out, I do appreciate what was 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.439 said today, and I do appreciate how he presented himself 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:27.920 today and how this issue got a little more detail 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:32.600 behind it. As you know, the media, of course, are 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:36.360 desperate and have been desperate since day one, and certainly 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.560 since the Voice campaign, as I told you, as I've 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:41.399 shown you, and I've shown you the receipts all the 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.560 way through, and when inevitably this conversation is cut out 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:46.720 of context and is put into the giant montage of 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.800 Sky News Primetime crazy Talk in and around all of this, 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:51.879 of course they'll miss all the other stuff I said last. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.080 Night or tonight. But you get the point. You know, 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:54.879 we'll we're up against. 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:57.240 They have been waiting for the moment to try to 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:01.320 cast Peter Dutton is too extreme, too much the Aussie Trump. 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.119 They've tried it on multiple fronts, multiple times and they thought, Aha, 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:06.399 we've got this today. 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:11.439 It's comments have drawn more accusations of racism, prompting a 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.840 warning from one Independent whose fled war that it could 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:17.480 inside fear and hatred in the community. 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:21.160 The Opposition leader's comments leading to angry scenes in Parliament 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.040 and more claims of racism. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.640 Peter Duttan's calls for a ban on Palestinian refugees has 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:30.520 brought the conflict in Gaza back to the floor of Parliament. 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:31.879 Again. 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:33.760 We all know where he was coming from and it 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:35.639 definitely was not from the position of race. It was 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:39.240 about vetting a national security. For it to be deliberately 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.240 twisted as it was by, among others, Zalie Stegel, who 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.320 sort of was doing the racism version of the Manique 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:47.400 Ryn put your mask on today in parliament. 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:52.119 These are families that you are seeking to paint that 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:54.920 somehow they are all terrorists and. 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:59.119 We hurt you in silence you can hear me in silence. 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:01.320 Stop being later of the opposition. 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:08.160 Of course she represents a diverse but not as diverse 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:11.040 as other parts of the country. Part of the country 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.400 in the northern beaches of Sydney, I would be fascinated 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.720 to know whether there is about to be a great 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:20.960 opening of the arms so people can live on the 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.879 tennis courts of Mossman. We'll all, of course wait and 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:25.840 see till then. I'm not going to fall for the 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:28.639 guard whiche. We know what he was talking about. I 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:30.600 called out what I thought was too much yesterday, but 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:32.920 I am not going to double down on this crap today. 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:35.199 We'll debate it among others with Michael Kroger in a 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:40.480 moment or two time. Unemployment went up today, not a 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:43.440 good thing when it comes to our economy. Now, ironically 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:45.399 it went up despite the fact that yes, more jobs 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:48.520 were created in the past month. But this all feeds 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:51.840 into the overly complicated mix of what will happen when 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.199 it comes to the Reserve Bank, and as millions of 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:57.200 Australians are holding on frightened about what may will happen politically, 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.720 we know that certainly a thirteenth rate rise. Why it's 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:02.200 the tenth, not the twelfth, Not the tenth, not the eleventh, 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:05.040 not the ninth or the eighth rate rise that apparently 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:07.600 will cause trouble for the UB and easy government. Well okay, 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:10.200 but I've got to say some of the reporting today 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:14.280 was interesting. Talk about a sitting on the fence headline 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:18.040 from AAP Mixed jobs data gives RBA more food for thought, 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:21.840 thankscoup In, what do you think is going to happen? 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:24.679 But of course there was another bit of data too, 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:26.480 which you may well not have heard about today, and 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:29.960 it is going to heavily effect the Prime Minister and 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:33.760 his treasure is capacity to deliver yet another budget surplus, 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:36.520 another lucky budget surplus, because it's not by design. Spending 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:40.080 has gone up, Revenue has of course been what has 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:43.880 been able to hide the structural deficits that the Treasury 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:46.680 itself has promises promised in the Intergenerational Report for the 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:49.760 next forty years, meaning the way the thing is put together, 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:52.560 we spend more than we have coming in. Currently there's 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:55.639 a surplus because they have been kissed on the proverbial 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:59.000 by the amount of money we are making from the 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:02.359 mining sector among others. Well, today the beginning of a 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:05.520 potential wobble in this area. There's some problems in the 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:07.680 Chinese economy right now. Again, I'm not going to pretend 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:09.560 to play an economist on television, but I am paying 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:12.159 attention to the news that tells us that the Chinese 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:15.040 economy is starting to have some real troubles. 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:16.320 Now. 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:18.200 Of course, if that's the case, and they don't buy 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:20.800 what we make here, or they don't buy what the 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:24.400 world makes, well guess what starts to happen The record prices, 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:26.760 which in part are based off what China needs to 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:29.800 buy or China chooses to buy, or what we choose 0:23:29.840 --> 0:23:31.320 to sell them at a crazy price. 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:34.439 You get the point. The tax take starts to fall. 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:36.840 Now iron ore and the iron ore price is always 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:40.760 undervalued by the Treasury, so that when it over delivers, 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:44.200 you have surprised revenue when you end up with the surpluses, 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:47.080 which by the way, include the future fund. But today 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:51.240 an insight unemployment is going up not great. The Reserve 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:53.639 Bank right on the line about whether it raised interest 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:56.640 rates for the thirteenth time, and potentially the revenue coming 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:59.920 into the federal government way will be about to crack 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:01.520 wh because of what. 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:04.439 Is happening in China. 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:06.400 But I thought we'd learned the lesson, hadn't we about 0:24:06.680 --> 0:24:09.560 being overly dependent on China when it comes to our economy. 0:24:10.040 --> 0:24:12.800 Oh No, that was just silly talk during the pandemic, 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:18.399 wasn't it. Now speaking of China and its government, the 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:21.320 CCP again, you know you shouldn't have to point this out. 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:22.800 It is obvious in my mind. 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:25.119 But we know people like to pretend they tell you 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:27.159 what you think when you start to talk about this. 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:29.040 And when I talk about China, I talk about its government, 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:32.160 the CCP, and we know the position of this government 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:37.120 is to suck up to the CCP. Why because there 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:41.159 are votes in them Nah Hills. And if the relationship 0:24:41.160 --> 0:24:43.879 between China and Australia is on level and China isn't 0:24:44.080 --> 0:24:47.680 finding ways to punish us economically to serve up an 0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:49.960 example to the rest of the world, then maybe maybe 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:53.240 maybe the votes come your way. We certainly know that 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:58.199 that was the case at the last federal election. But 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:00.719 fascinating Exclusive and World under the at news dot com, 0:25:00.960 --> 0:25:02.880 you who are able to work this one out? That 0:25:03.000 --> 0:25:06.920 China the CCP, not the Chinese people, not the Chinese 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:10.480 people here in Australia, but China the CCP is trying 0:25:10.520 --> 0:25:15.520 to control debate in Australia, says an intelligence analyst. Now 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:19.840 this is five thousand AI run accounts on social media 0:25:19.840 --> 0:25:22.600 sites like x. It's all part of an information war. 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:25.640 As news dot com AU says that China is waging 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:29.840 against Australia. The cybersecurity firm, which is called cyber x 0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:33.720 said it also picked up that some Australian focused activity 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:35.480 was happening on these social media sites. 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:36.480 What was happening? 0:25:36.680 --> 0:25:41.920 The network is clearly trying to throw divisive content about 0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:46.639 particularly nuclear energy. What side of that debate fairly obvious. 0:25:46.720 --> 0:25:48.520 If it is to help the government that sucks up 0:25:48.520 --> 0:25:51.520 to them as opposed to the opposition who doesn't the 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:56.960 embattled CFMU and the government's immigration policies, As the analyst 0:25:57.040 --> 0:25:59.720 told News dot com that are you today. They use 0:25:59.760 --> 0:26:01.840 a look at private companies. The way they do that 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:03.680 is so that the CCP can say it's not us. 0:26:03.680 --> 0:26:05.440 But of course there is really no such thing as 0:26:05.440 --> 0:26:08.520 a private company in China. Why because just like the 0:26:08.560 --> 0:26:10.639 Wagners technically will kill us for hire, we all know 0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:13.600 they were really under Russian control. That's how the CCP 0:26:14.040 --> 0:26:17.600 uses these things. We're basically these network of allegedly private 0:26:17.600 --> 0:26:21.399 companies fiddling around in things like Australian debate is clearly 0:26:21.480 --> 0:26:24.360 being done on the behalf of the government. It goes 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:26.920 beyond meddling. The end goal is not only to quote 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:32.320 unquote control the narrative, but to control the infrastructure through 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:36.440 the means of political discourse. China's goal is to subjugate 0:26:36.480 --> 0:26:41.440 Australia cognitively, to control the narrative and control the way 0:26:41.480 --> 0:26:45.040 Australians think. Hence why I am not on and I 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:47.600 strongly recommend that you are not on or your kids 0:26:47.600 --> 0:26:50.000 are not on. As fun as the dancing videos might 0:26:50.040 --> 0:26:54.240 be the Chinese surveillance app TikTok, it is why we 0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:56.840 remain critical of a government that would prefer to slide 0:26:56.880 --> 0:26:59.200 up to these people as opposed to stand up to 0:26:59.240 --> 0:27:03.919 them and when they injure members of the Australian Defense Force. 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:07.919 A couple of quick ones before we get to our 0:27:07.960 --> 0:27:09.240 debate tonight, and I'm ken you know who do you 0:27:09.240 --> 0:27:10.600 think is the winner and loser of the week? Send 0:27:10.560 --> 0:27:12.960 me the email Paultzky News dot com dot Au or 0:27:13.040 --> 0:27:15.760 jump onto the socials. Rex Airlines if you have a 0:27:15.800 --> 0:27:19.280 ticket with Rex Airlines to fly a regional flight, it 0:27:19.359 --> 0:27:22.960 is now guaranteed by the government. So worst case scenario 0:27:23.119 --> 0:27:25.240 if the airline disappeared, and at this stage there is 0:27:25.280 --> 0:27:27.600 no sign of that happening right now, you would be 0:27:27.600 --> 0:27:29.720 able to get your money back. Why because the federal 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:36.200 government is now backing them in. The AFL of course, 0:27:36.240 --> 0:27:39.359 has its relationships with TV and radio networks to make 0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:42.080 sure that well it can spread how many people see 0:27:42.080 --> 0:27:44.119 the game and obviously make the majority of money for 0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:48.359 the game from those TV and radio arrangements. A sharp 0:27:48.400 --> 0:27:50.040 eyed person worked out a couple of weeks ago that 0:27:50.119 --> 0:27:52.520 inside some of these details of the contracts with those 0:27:52.520 --> 0:27:55.600 companies was a demand from the AFL for greater diversity 0:27:55.680 --> 0:27:57.720 in the people who cover the game. We're talking about 0:27:57.720 --> 0:27:59.760 everyone from the panel shows all the way through to 0:27:59.800 --> 0:28:01.040 the commentary box. 0:28:01.960 --> 0:28:03.600 Well, today, the CEO of. 0:28:03.560 --> 0:28:06.520 The AFL did an interview on one of the stations 0:28:06.560 --> 0:28:09.680 that has the financial arrangement with the AFL, that being 0:28:09.760 --> 0:28:12.960 three aw and it didn't make any sense. 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:17.720 Giving fewer middle aged white men like Brian Taylor and 0:28:17.800 --> 0:28:21.680 James Brayshaw and more, I don't know, more indigenous commentators 0:28:21.680 --> 0:28:24.280 more female commentators, more gay commentators. 0:28:24.560 --> 0:28:25.320 What are you actually I. 0:28:25.320 --> 0:28:27.320 Don't think it's less of anything. I think it's just 0:28:27.520 --> 0:28:30.399 more of but it will be not necessarily. 0:28:30.520 --> 0:28:31.879 I just picked the best commentator. 0:28:32.000 --> 0:28:33.880 I mean, I don't think especially on radio, no one 0:28:33.960 --> 0:28:36.159 cares what they look like or what their background is. 0:28:36.200 --> 0:28:38.200 They just want to know that they're the most interesting 0:28:38.280 --> 0:28:40.280 and well informed football people around. 0:28:40.480 --> 0:28:40.880 That's right. 0:28:41.120 --> 0:28:42.600 But I think you get that time when you have 0:28:42.640 --> 0:28:45.040 a diversity of thought and a diversity of background. 0:28:46.080 --> 0:28:50.720 But in the document is still in Melbourne. 0:28:51.120 --> 0:28:53.560 This may be an unpopular opinion, and I apologize if 0:28:53.560 --> 0:28:55.640 it does offend, but I like the scooters in Melbourne. 0:28:55.840 --> 0:28:58.800 Whenever I am luck enough to travel around the country. 0:28:59.000 --> 0:29:01.160 One of the best ways to get around cities if 0:29:01.160 --> 0:29:05.280 you are a tourist or a visitor, are those little scooters. Now, yes, 0:29:05.320 --> 0:29:08.959 some people carry on like pork chops. As best as possible. 0:29:09.000 --> 0:29:10.320 You try to ride them in the bike lanes. You 0:29:10.320 --> 0:29:12.160 shouldn't be trying to scare people, and you should always 0:29:12.200 --> 0:29:13.640 be wearing a helmet all the rest of it. Right, 0:29:13.680 --> 0:29:16.240 They've got them in Brisbane, great way of getting around. 0:29:16.240 --> 0:29:18.120 You can go from the hotel to the movies, the shops. 0:29:18.120 --> 0:29:20.560 It's really cool, right, rather than jumping into the uber 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:24.120 or the taxi or walking and in Melbourne, I particularly 0:29:24.160 --> 0:29:25.760 really like them. But as you know, decision has been 0:29:25.760 --> 0:29:29.480 made by our mates, the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Nicholas 0:29:29.480 --> 0:29:32.440 Reese and his counselors do banned to get rid of 0:29:32.440 --> 0:29:34.600 them from the CBD. They're not banned from Victoria. If 0:29:34.600 --> 0:29:36.320 another council wants to take them up, they should. 0:29:36.480 --> 0:29:37.080 And I'll tell you what. 0:29:37.080 --> 0:29:38.840 There are some places where you might be surprised where 0:29:38.840 --> 0:29:42.640 these scooters are. They've got them in Bunderberg and they're awesome. 0:29:43.720 --> 0:29:44.000 Again. 0:29:44.160 --> 0:29:46.440 Maybe they be unpopular view but I like them. I'll 0:29:46.600 --> 0:29:48.280 get and find out what Michae Kroger thinks. I think 0:29:48.280 --> 0:29:51.360 you be more than happy that they don't exist anymore. Now, 0:29:51.520 --> 0:29:54.840 good day for Donald Trump. Yes, overall the averages are 0:29:54.840 --> 0:29:57.680 still slightly behind for him, but good day for him. 0:29:57.720 --> 0:30:00.719 Why brand new pole? It's a Fox newspole now the 0:30:00.760 --> 0:30:02.680 most recent of the Fox News poles. Before this actually 0:30:02.720 --> 0:30:06.240 showed Harris in front. It now shows Trump in front. 0:30:06.560 --> 0:30:10.920 Nationally now again the national numbers fifty to forty nine. 0:30:11.000 --> 0:30:14.760 A Republican needs to be sorry. A Democrat needs to 0:30:14.760 --> 0:30:16.760 be at least two to four points up for them 0:30:16.800 --> 0:30:19.320 to be able not just to have big wins in 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:22.680 New York and California, but also start to win some 0:30:22.720 --> 0:30:25.160 of the swing states. Once you throw in everyone else 0:30:25.240 --> 0:30:28.320 is on the ballot, it becomes forty five forty five, 0:30:28.400 --> 0:30:31.400 so raise a thin but still Harris was up, so 0:30:31.480 --> 0:30:32.600 we may well have hit a bit. 0:30:32.480 --> 0:30:32.960 Of a peek. 0:30:33.360 --> 0:30:35.600 But the really good news for Donald Trump today was 0:30:35.680 --> 0:30:39.120 the issues polling, which much of the narrative media have 0:30:39.240 --> 0:30:41.360 not gone on because they're just on the She's doing 0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:44.600 better than Biden did, but we're basically back to a 0:30:44.640 --> 0:30:47.360 team red team blue race. And after all of that's 0:30:47.560 --> 0:30:51.360 concern and change, the number one issue remains the economy 0:30:52.160 --> 0:30:56.760 thirty eight percent. Immigration and abortion are next. And I've 0:30:56.800 --> 0:30:59.320 told you before, if it's about the economy and immigration, 0:30:59.400 --> 0:31:02.840 trump wins. If it's about abortion, then Harris is going 0:31:02.920 --> 0:31:05.479 to win. But a whole bunch of other things in 0:31:05.520 --> 0:31:08.680 here again start to work Trump's way. In fact, once 0:31:08.720 --> 0:31:10.800 you start to break these things down, look at the 0:31:10.880 --> 0:31:13.360 lead that he has. It's the best part of twenty 0:31:13.440 --> 0:31:18.720 points on the border, it's the best part of fourteen 0:31:18.800 --> 0:31:23.400 points on immigration. On foreign policy, it's seven points. 0:31:24.160 --> 0:31:24.320 Now. 0:31:24.320 --> 0:31:26.240 I don't know how Kamala Harris has been able to 0:31:26.280 --> 0:31:28.920 rebuild herself in terms of management of the economy, but 0:31:29.480 --> 0:31:32.400 he is up and clearly up there as well as 0:31:32.440 --> 0:31:36.360 on crime and on guns. You start to get really 0:31:36.360 --> 0:31:40.440 into fringe issues when you're talking about things like climate 0:31:40.520 --> 0:31:43.760 change and Supreme Court nominations. But again, the significant issues 0:31:43.760 --> 0:31:47.000 of access to healthcare and access to abortion is where 0:31:47.600 --> 0:31:52.800 Kamala Harris is currently leading. But Trump, after all of 0:31:52.840 --> 0:31:55.400 the nonsense, the issues. 0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:55.960 Are still in his favor. 0:31:56.000 --> 0:31:57.600 If he can run on the issues, then he is 0:31:57.640 --> 0:31:59.640 a good chance of getting as close as possible to 0:31:59.680 --> 0:32:01.520 the win. But who knows will be in the United 0:32:01.520 --> 0:32:03.160 States when it all takes place, and talk about it 0:32:03.200 --> 0:32:07.120 plenty of times between now and then. But again, another 0:32:07.120 --> 0:32:10.240 good day for Donald Trump because Kamala Harris is expected 0:32:10.280 --> 0:32:12.720 in the next couple of days to announce a whole 0:32:12.720 --> 0:32:15.360 series of motherhood statements about the economy. She will, of course, 0:32:15.360 --> 0:32:17.680 pretend she has nothing to do with the economy that 0:32:17.720 --> 0:32:20.080 people hate under Joe Biden, despite the fact that she 0:32:20.120 --> 0:32:22.520 of course was the one who cast the tie vote 0:32:22.560 --> 0:32:25.680 in the Senate to spend trillions of dollars to whack 0:32:25.800 --> 0:32:28.120 up inflation, no matter what the bill. 0:32:28.000 --> 0:32:30.880 Was actually called. So she can't pretend this didn't. 0:32:30.600 --> 0:32:37.600 Happen on this vote, the years of fifty, the nays 0:32:37.640 --> 0:32:41.480 of fifty, the Senate being equally divided, the vice president 0:32:41.600 --> 0:32:44.800 votes in the affirmative, and the bill as a mandate 0:32:45.080 --> 0:32:45.760 is passed. 0:32:50.120 --> 0:32:52.560 That's a deep think. It's a deep fect. She wasn't involved. 0:32:52.560 --> 0:32:54.160 She's qualified to be president because she was a vice 0:32:54.200 --> 0:32:55.280 president when she didn't do anything. 0:32:55.400 --> 0:32:58.560 Is the vice president she did twice trillions of dollars 0:32:58.600 --> 0:32:59.480 have made everything worse. 0:33:00.040 --> 0:33:00.880 But now I'm going to go. 0:33:00.840 --> 0:33:04.320 After the price gouging because it's the evil billionaires, nothing 0:33:04.360 --> 0:33:05.120 to do with the government. 0:33:05.160 --> 0:33:05.480 Please. 0:33:06.440 --> 0:33:09.240 But again, good for Trump today, Why because again he 0:33:09.240 --> 0:33:11.200 started to show a little bit more discipline. Now those 0:33:11.240 --> 0:33:13.120 of us who would like to see him win because 0:33:13.160 --> 0:33:16.000 we want to stop Harris and all of the crazy 0:33:16.040 --> 0:33:18.920 that's going to come with all of that. Right, Well, 0:33:18.960 --> 0:33:21.440 he gave a rally today and not really a rally 0:33:21.440 --> 0:33:23.680 and economic speech in North Carolina, one of the states 0:33:23.680 --> 0:33:25.560 that he kind of was taken for granted because the 0:33:25.560 --> 0:33:27.320 poles were so good. But he needs to double check 0:33:27.440 --> 0:33:28.800 that it is still going to be in place. So 0:33:28.800 --> 0:33:31.040 he went there and he kind of acted like an 0:33:31.040 --> 0:33:34.040 old school politician. Why because behind him in Allder, the 0:33:34.040 --> 0:33:37.080 speeches today were giant signs about what he was planning 0:33:37.120 --> 0:33:39.640 to do. This would be great because every time he 0:33:39.640 --> 0:33:41.680 says something else, at the very least this message will 0:33:41.720 --> 0:33:43.720 end up on the television. And then he made one 0:33:43.720 --> 0:33:45.520 heck of a promise that I don't know how he 0:33:45.560 --> 0:33:47.000 can deliver it. In fact, I do know how he 0:33:47.040 --> 0:33:49.880 can deliver it, which is basically drill, baby, drill. But 0:33:50.200 --> 0:33:53.000 this promise, this promise is just about as big as 0:33:53.000 --> 0:33:55.520 no tax on tips. Let's watch Kamala try to pretend 0:33:55.560 --> 0:33:58.960 this can be done, but I can't. 0:33:59.280 --> 0:34:02.600 Save announce today that under my leadership, the United States 0:34:02.600 --> 0:34:06.080 will commit to the ambitious goal of slashing energy and 0:34:06.120 --> 0:34:19.800 electricity praiss by half, at least half. We intend to 0:34:19.920 --> 0:34:24.160 slash praices by half within twelve months, at a maximum 0:34:24.280 --> 0:34:25.640 eighteen months. 0:34:26.280 --> 0:34:28.640 He's more likely to do that than Albo, because of 0:34:28.640 --> 0:34:30.759 course Albo wants to spend, of course, a trillion dollars 0:34:30.800 --> 0:34:32.359 of the two seventy five and all the rest of it. 0:34:32.480 --> 0:34:35.240 He's able to make that promise because you just double 0:34:35.280 --> 0:34:37.920 down on the stuff that's worked for generations, and the 0:34:37.960 --> 0:34:40.239 Paris Accord, which means China can do whatever it wants 0:34:40.320 --> 0:34:41.440 till twenty thirty. 0:34:41.400 --> 0:34:42.000 Rip it up. 0:34:43.239 --> 0:34:46.920 Fascinating. He's back in the game winning, not yet morenessing 0:34:52.800 --> 0:34:54.520 so much to get too all shut up because they've 0:34:54.520 --> 0:34:56.480 got plenty to say. The wonderful Michael Kroger is here, 0:34:56.560 --> 0:34:57.439 always there to help. 0:34:58.120 --> 0:34:59.000 Just quickly the. 0:34:58.960 --> 0:35:01.880 Thirty second view on scooters in Melbourne. I say save him, 0:35:01.920 --> 0:35:03.200 You say, dumpham, what do you reckon? 0:35:04.800 --> 0:35:05.680 Couldn't care less? 0:35:05.880 --> 0:35:06.120 Oh? 0:35:06.320 --> 0:35:06.680 Really? 0:35:07.160 --> 0:35:09.080 Okay, fair enough, there's just a lot of them down there, 0:35:09.600 --> 0:35:12.880 and the wonderful Frailer Leitch from the Center of Independent Studies. 0:35:12.920 --> 0:35:14.239 So let's get to the main game here. 0:35:14.920 --> 0:35:19.600 You've seen some of the reaction and the gallery assumption 0:35:19.680 --> 0:35:22.759 is there's the political consequence becomes quite terrible for Peter 0:35:22.800 --> 0:35:24.600 Dutton because now he sort of becomes the big uga 0:35:24.600 --> 0:35:27.480 booger of Australian politics that they were desperately trying to 0:35:27.520 --> 0:35:30.440 make him. I wouldn't think that's actually going to be 0:35:30.520 --> 0:35:33.239 the political response here. But what did you think of 0:35:33.760 --> 0:35:35.000 day two of this? 0:35:35.160 --> 0:35:35.520 Michael? 0:35:35.520 --> 0:35:38.040 To me, it felt like it was said in a 0:35:38.160 --> 0:35:40.280 more nuanced fashion than it was yesterday. 0:35:42.080 --> 0:35:45.000 Well, look, Peter Dutton is winning on this issue and 0:35:45.280 --> 0:35:49.040 I'll explain to you why, which will become more public 0:35:49.120 --> 0:35:51.320 over the next week or two as to why Dutton 0:35:51.400 --> 0:35:54.520 is winning on this issue. And I'm happy to be corrected, 0:35:54.800 --> 0:35:58.480 and Tony Burke's office hopefully will put out some statistics 0:35:58.480 --> 0:36:02.359 to correct me, and all Australia will benefit from having 0:36:02.440 --> 0:36:05.960 the exact statistics. And I credit Cameron Milner for some 0:36:06.000 --> 0:36:08.959 of these stats. There are one hundred and ninety three 0:36:09.000 --> 0:36:12.520 members of the United Nations. I can only find four 0:36:12.600 --> 0:36:17.680 countries that are taking refugees from Gaza. Four France have 0:36:17.760 --> 0:36:20.200 taken them. France have taken two hundred and sixty but 0:36:21.320 --> 0:36:23.320 you can only apply from the visa if you're in 0:36:23.480 --> 0:36:28.200 Ramala or in Jerusalem, So they've taken none from Gaza. Right, 0:36:28.680 --> 0:36:32.080 those countries which haven't taken and won't take any refugees, 0:36:32.160 --> 0:36:37.680 those racist countries, according to Zali Stegl, include these countries 0:36:37.680 --> 0:36:42.520 have taken zero refugees from Gaza, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, 0:36:42.600 --> 0:36:49.760 Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Russia, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kwait, 0:36:49.880 --> 0:36:54.200 North Korea, Turkey, Germany, France, etc. There's only four who 0:36:54.200 --> 0:36:59.640 appear to have taken refugees. They are the United Kingdom 0:37:00.600 --> 0:37:06.840 in fourth place. They've taken one one. The United States 0:37:06.880 --> 0:37:10.400 have taken sixteen, although last year they took fifty six. 0:37:11.600 --> 0:37:16.000 Canada have taken forty one. So one hundred and ninety 0:37:16.040 --> 0:37:18.880 two members of the United Nations out of one hundred 0:37:18.880 --> 0:37:21.560 and ninety three have taken the title of fifty eight 0:37:21.640 --> 0:37:26.319 refugees from Gaza. Fifty eight, I hope, and I'm sure 0:37:26.360 --> 0:37:29.719 this is wrong, But on the research that I've done 0:37:29.719 --> 0:37:34.600 and others have done, fifty eight Australia two thousand and 0:37:34.719 --> 0:37:39.080 nine and twenty two. What the is going on here? 0:37:39.640 --> 0:37:44.000 What does Tony Burke and Albanezi know that those racists 0:37:44.640 --> 0:37:49.040 leaders of other countries that racist? In Egypt, President el Sisi, 0:37:49.680 --> 0:37:53.439 What does President Elcci, that racist know that Tony Burke 0:37:53.520 --> 0:37:57.200 doesn't know, the racist President Kamenie in Iran who won't 0:37:57.200 --> 0:38:01.720 take any refugees, that racist president and Erduan in Turkey 0:38:01.719 --> 0:38:05.319 who's taking no refugees, and all of us, you know, 0:38:05.600 --> 0:38:09.239 for goodness sake, poor our president Kim John Kim Jong Un, 0:38:10.080 --> 0:38:13.560 the Orange man's friend from hes a racist too from 0:38:13.560 --> 0:38:18.080 North Korea. What is it that Albernizi and Burke know 0:38:18.920 --> 0:38:21.120 that no one else in the world seems to know. 0:38:22.600 --> 0:38:26.560 Why doesn't any enterprising journalist David Crowe stop writing this 0:38:26.640 --> 0:38:30.400 rubbish about Dutton. Go round to the Egyptian embassy, my friend, 0:38:30.600 --> 0:38:34.759 and ask the ambassador why Egypt, which is one meter 0:38:35.360 --> 0:38:41.120 from Israel. You walk straight from Rafa into Egypt, it's 0:38:41.160 --> 0:38:45.200 one meter away. Ask President Alcese's representative in Australia, why 0:38:45.320 --> 0:38:48.560 if you've taken not a single refugee? Go and ask 0:38:48.600 --> 0:38:51.440 the ambassador from Jordan. You know, to gate from Gaza 0:38:51.480 --> 0:38:54.560 to Jerusalem, it's about eighty kilometers right to one hour drive. 0:38:54.600 --> 0:38:55.480 I did it in January. 0:38:55.880 --> 0:38:57.280 And then to get to a man in the capital 0:38:57.280 --> 0:38:59.520 of Jordan's two hour drive. It's about one hundred klometers. 0:38:59.560 --> 0:39:01.479 But you're gonna go through a check board. It's three 0:39:01.560 --> 0:39:06.080 hours to go from Gaza to Jordan. No refugees, none, 0:39:06.440 --> 0:39:09.320 none of those our countries. What do you know, Albo 0:39:09.840 --> 0:39:12.160 that these other one hundred and ninety two countries do 0:39:12.280 --> 0:39:16.399 not know? My friend, this is a national disgrace. Peter 0:39:16.480 --> 0:39:20.760 Dutton is one hundred percent correct. It's not about racism, Zale. 0:39:20.400 --> 0:39:21.040 You fool. 0:39:21.560 --> 0:39:25.760 This is about national security and all credit to Dutton 0:39:25.800 --> 0:39:28.960 and James Patterson. And let me tell you, the working 0:39:29.000 --> 0:39:32.280 middle class in this country are right on Dutton's side. 0:39:32.640 --> 0:39:37.359 Yeah, Frey, thank you for the infirm I don't appreciate it. Again. 0:39:37.440 --> 0:39:42.360 The political calculation here again is that the assumption was, oh, 0:39:42.400 --> 0:39:43.800 Dunton has gone too far yesterday. 0:39:43.880 --> 0:39:45.200 Wezali went too far today. 0:39:45.239 --> 0:39:47.520 So we're sort of straight back into this whiplash where 0:39:47.520 --> 0:39:50.560 once you start to why he said what he has said, 0:39:51.040 --> 0:39:54.799 that information starts to back it up and instinctively we 0:39:54.880 --> 0:39:57.760 know Australians are absolute about their border. 0:39:58.200 --> 0:40:01.239 Yeah, that's exactly right. You're not racist. If you care 0:40:01.239 --> 0:40:04.359 about national security, you're not racist. If you don't want 0:40:04.360 --> 0:40:07.920 Harmas supporters coming into the country. The fact that you 0:40:07.960 --> 0:40:11.520 can offer rhetorical support for her Maas and that's not 0:40:11.560 --> 0:40:14.399 an issue for ASIO when they're approving of visa, that 0:40:14.600 --> 0:40:18.600 is absolutely disgraceful. And I'm on campus at Sydney UNI 0:40:18.719 --> 0:40:21.800 last week we had a pro Hamas motion get moved. 0:40:22.040 --> 0:40:25.759 It was voted eight hundred to eight. Insane stuff. We're 0:40:25.840 --> 0:40:29.880 already young people in this country are already overwhelmingly at 0:40:29.880 --> 0:40:35.600 our universities pro Hamas. Imagine if we have bad actors 0:40:35.640 --> 0:40:38.800 coming in because we can't stand up for our national security, 0:40:38.920 --> 0:40:44.160 this is only going to inflame the declining social cohesions. 0:40:44.280 --> 0:40:47.600 And look and again all I observed last night and 0:40:47.600 --> 0:40:50.200 I stand by tonight, which is what I'm very sure 0:40:50.400 --> 0:40:52.080 you would all agree with as well, the idea that 0:40:52.120 --> 0:40:56.920 everyone in Palestine is Hamas or its interrelated. I'm sorry, 0:40:57.600 --> 0:40:59.359 I'm not there. I can't go there. I want dog 0:40:59.360 --> 0:41:02.960 whistle in that direction. However, I am absolutely okay with 0:41:03.560 --> 0:41:06.240 it being a process for you to come to the country. 0:41:06.440 --> 0:41:09.560 If you go through a proper process, a proper security check, 0:41:09.680 --> 0:41:11.320 well then yes we have a lifeboat. 0:41:11.360 --> 0:41:12.360 It has so many people. 0:41:12.520 --> 0:41:14.520 But if it is disproportioned to the rest of the world, 0:41:14.680 --> 0:41:17.720 as Michael has been pointing out, well be pretty obvious 0:41:17.760 --> 0:41:19.000 how Australians. 0:41:18.480 --> 0:41:20.719 Will react when they learn more of that. 0:41:21.160 --> 0:41:22.400 Now, I want to talk about a couple of other 0:41:22.440 --> 0:41:25.400 quick ones here, including there's a bunch of Coalition MPs 0:41:25.400 --> 0:41:28.000 that are started to say that members of the CFMAU 0:41:28.080 --> 0:41:31.080 should be banned from any polling place in Australia. They 0:41:31.080 --> 0:41:34.200 shouldn't be able to, for want of a better term, 0:41:34.280 --> 0:41:37.440 be the heavies for traditionally the Labor Party. But Michael, 0:41:37.480 --> 0:41:40.560 I think the four hs here is it's more likely 0:41:40.600 --> 0:41:42.120 that they're going to end up being the heavies for 0:41:42.160 --> 0:41:44.719 the Greens because it seems like that's where they're going 0:41:44.760 --> 0:41:47.520 to end up and sort of pushing in that far 0:41:47.640 --> 0:41:50.080 left being their money and their muscle will be more 0:41:50.120 --> 0:41:55.440 than welcome. There's other people that there's other political people 0:41:55.480 --> 0:41:57.399 that will be reaching out for it. I would love 0:41:57.440 --> 0:42:00.000 to see the muscle nowhere near the polling boot. 0:42:00.200 --> 0:42:00.919 But what do you think. 0:42:03.560 --> 0:42:06.000 Well, I've seen many occasions over the years where the 0:42:06.120 --> 0:42:11.680 CFMU have been very intimidatory on polling bers. But I 0:42:11.680 --> 0:42:15.160 don't think you can ban people from attending poly booths 0:42:15.239 --> 0:42:18.799 unless they're guilty of some offense against the candidate. They're 0:42:18.800 --> 0:42:24.440 a threat to the physical safety of a candidate or others. 0:42:25.360 --> 0:42:28.000 It breaches the freedom of association rules in this country. 0:42:28.040 --> 0:42:30.160 So as much as I agree with the sentiment, I 0:42:30.200 --> 0:42:33.800 don't think it can happen unless there are restraining orders 0:42:33.800 --> 0:42:38.120 by candidates or electoral officials against certain CFMU officials. It's 0:42:38.160 --> 0:42:40.759 not going to happen. Although the bigger issue is why 0:42:40.760 --> 0:42:43.600 the Labor Party won't pay back the donation. I mean 0:42:43.600 --> 0:42:46.160 they should pay back this money to the CFMU. I mean, 0:42:46.239 --> 0:42:49.239 forget about some fat old Blake's having too many four 0:42:49.239 --> 0:42:54.200 and twenties standing on a polling booth. What about the millions? 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:58.000 What about the millions they received from the CFMU won't 0:42:58.000 --> 0:43:00.880 pay back? Who was it? Was it Chris, who's otherwise 0:43:00.920 --> 0:43:02.919 done a good joe up there, said Oh, we've spent 0:43:02.960 --> 0:43:04.640 all the money, which is what we can't pay it back. 0:43:04.640 --> 0:43:06.520 We'll go and get a loan mate, like everybody else, 0:43:06.840 --> 0:43:08.720 go and get a loan done and repay the money. 0:43:08.880 --> 0:43:11.319 All right, let's get to a winner and loser. Freyer, 0:43:11.320 --> 0:43:12.720 who is your winter or loser this week? 0:43:13.520 --> 0:43:17.560 Winner this week? It's hard to say. I actually don't know. 0:43:17.600 --> 0:43:21.640 It's been a pretty depressing week all round for loser 0:43:21.760 --> 0:43:24.640 of probably the one hundred and fifty New South Wales 0:43:24.680 --> 0:43:25.880 Council candidates. 0:43:26.960 --> 0:43:29.480 Yes, yes, and you know, well anyway you can't get 0:43:29.480 --> 0:43:30.239 your own house in order. 0:43:30.239 --> 0:43:32.600 We'll see what happens, Michael, you'll winner, loser. 0:43:34.080 --> 0:43:39.080 Two losers. President Shaffik of Columbia University, who's finally resigned 0:43:39.480 --> 0:43:44.640 allowing campus any Semitism in America a fantastic, fantastic victory, 0:43:44.680 --> 0:43:47.840 and Elbows had another shocker winn of the week. Well, 0:43:48.000 --> 0:43:50.360 you know, I'm partisan, but I think Dutton is winning 0:43:50.400 --> 0:43:53.080 more votes amongst middle Australia than I've seen any opposition 0:43:53.200 --> 0:43:57.000 leader for a long long time. So Peter Dutton is 0:43:57.000 --> 0:43:57.759 the winner of the week. 0:43:57.920 --> 0:43:58.360 Good stuff. 0:43:58.360 --> 0:44:00.200 Guys, have a wonderful weekend. Thank you very much much. 0:44:00.239 --> 0:44:02.640 We'll see you again next week or straight after the break. 0:44:03.000 --> 0:44:04.759 The people of the coal industry have had enough, have 0:44:04.840 --> 0:44:07.000 been pushed around, demonized, all the rest of it. They 0:44:07.040 --> 0:44:14.799 start their fight back next Thank you so much for 0:44:14.840 --> 0:44:17.919 watching the coal industry in Australia use something that pays 0:44:17.920 --> 0:44:19.759 a lot of tax employees a lot of people, but 0:44:19.840 --> 0:44:22.040 obviously creates an awful lot of controversy. 0:44:22.080 --> 0:44:25.359 Why because the extreme left would like it gone. They 0:44:25.360 --> 0:44:26.280 aren't going anywhere. 0:44:26.320 --> 0:44:28.759 In fact, they've got a new group to advocate on 0:44:28.800 --> 0:44:31.640 their behalf and a new add to help change hearts 0:44:31.640 --> 0:44:32.200 and minds. 0:44:34.440 --> 0:44:36.359 Australians rely on coal every day. 0:44:37.200 --> 0:44:39.759 They rely on coal to generate power to keep the 0:44:39.840 --> 0:44:43.680 lights on, and to make steel to build homes, schools, 0:44:43.760 --> 0:44:46.120 hospitals and bridges, and to. 0:44:46.120 --> 0:44:47.360 Keep that a central call coming. 0:44:47.560 --> 0:44:48.600 Australia relies on. 0:44:48.600 --> 0:44:51.520 Us, those of us at the coal phase and those 0:44:51.560 --> 0:44:52.720 of us that support them. 0:44:53.160 --> 0:44:56.239 Everyone in our community, whether you were high verse or not. 0:44:56.880 --> 0:45:00.840 When Australians rely on coal, they rely on us co communities. 0:45:03.600 --> 0:45:06.400 Nick Jaws represents a new organization called Coal Australia. Is 0:45:06.440 --> 0:45:09.440 it's only joins us now, what is Coal Australia, mate. 0:45:11.880 --> 0:45:15.399 Ok Paul Cole Australia is a grassroots movement. It's really 0:45:15.480 --> 0:45:21.280 representing our workers, our communities. We've got forty thousand plus 0:45:21.280 --> 0:45:26.120 direct workers in the coal industry in Australia, another court 0:45:26.120 --> 0:45:31.320 three hundred thousand plus additional knock on jobs. The colonistry 0:45:31.400 --> 0:45:33.360 touches an awful lot of people. It's our second biggest 0:45:33.520 --> 0:45:36.520 export industry. It's the biggest export industry in Queensland. It's 0:45:36.520 --> 0:45:40.680 putting one hundred billion dollars into the economy in the 0:45:40.680 --> 0:45:44.600 community every year. It's something we should rightly be proud of. 0:45:44.680 --> 0:45:46.799 So what we're aiming to do is just restore that 0:45:47.000 --> 0:45:49.920 pride in the coal industry and get that message out there. 0:45:50.080 --> 0:45:52.520 Yeah, Niko talking about the few I did it hosted 0:45:52.560 --> 0:45:54.680 an event for the Qureia mark or to the future 0:45:54.719 --> 0:45:57.520 of the resources sector in Queensland and literally sort of 0:45:57.560 --> 0:45:59.360 after i'd sort of heard sort of a couple of 0:45:59.360 --> 0:46:01.960 people be a little bit cheapy shows, come on, you know, 0:46:02.239 --> 0:46:04.239 chest out, you know, be proud of what you do 0:46:04.360 --> 0:46:07.359 because of what you've put into the economy via as 0:46:07.360 --> 0:46:10.440 you say, employment and taxation. So for this moment to 0:46:10.480 --> 0:46:14.279 be here is I'm happy to see. But also, what 0:46:14.320 --> 0:46:17.480 don't people get about coal? For want of a better term, 0:46:17.560 --> 0:46:21.200 we all understand how the left paints it, but what 0:46:21.320 --> 0:46:23.640 don't people get about it that you'd. 0:46:23.400 --> 0:46:24.080 Like them to know? 0:46:27.040 --> 0:46:30.200 Yeah, as you will, well remember Paul I was on 0:46:30.200 --> 0:46:34.680 that panel on the Future Resources Day, which was a 0:46:34.680 --> 0:46:39.360 fabulous celebration. Look, I think the coal industry has just 0:46:39.440 --> 0:46:41.319 been kind of kicked to the curb a little bit. 0:46:41.520 --> 0:46:44.760 We haven't been in the debate. You know. The Australian 0:46:44.760 --> 0:46:49.560 Coal Association was effectively subsumed in the Minerals Council over 0:46:49.600 --> 0:46:52.200 ten years ago now and sort of effectively snuffed out, 0:46:52.280 --> 0:46:55.680 So we haven't had a voice in the debate. You know, 0:46:55.800 --> 0:46:59.120 coal industry, as I say, employees tens of thousands of 0:46:59.120 --> 0:47:02.360 people directly on hundreds of thousands indirectly, it builds communities, 0:47:03.360 --> 0:47:05.200 and it builds communities that we can be proud of 0:47:05.960 --> 0:47:08.239 people in the industry I speak to and we've done 0:47:08.239 --> 0:47:11.920 some polling and this is this is consistent. They are 0:47:11.960 --> 0:47:14.800 proud of the industry. They just haven't had permission to 0:47:14.840 --> 0:47:18.239 feel that pride and to speak about it. So you know, 0:47:18.600 --> 0:47:22.200 cole also builds the future. We literally our coal creates 0:47:22.800 --> 0:47:26.280 the steel that's building our buildings and our bridges and infrastructure, 0:47:27.040 --> 0:47:30.480 without which you know we wouldn't we wouldn't be here today. 0:47:30.560 --> 0:47:34.160 So you know, it is about restoring that pride, unleashing 0:47:34.200 --> 0:47:39.040 that pride, telling our story. As I say, our workers 0:47:39.040 --> 0:47:44.200 should rightfully be proud of their position in this critical 0:47:44.239 --> 0:47:45.319 industry for Australia. 0:47:45.360 --> 0:47:49.160 So we know that the rough costs cso RO twenty eighteen. 0:47:49.239 --> 0:47:49.880 I believe it was. 0:47:49.920 --> 0:47:52.080 They say it's now half the amount, But it's about 0:47:52.080 --> 0:47:54.120 a trialling dollars to move from the system that has 0:47:54.200 --> 0:47:55.759 been around for a while cold a big part of 0:47:55.760 --> 0:47:58.200 that obviously to the new one where they claim coal 0:47:58.480 --> 0:48:00.640 is no part of it. We see that has to 0:48:00.680 --> 0:48:03.040 be paid for somewhere and the cost of transition is 0:48:03.040 --> 0:48:07.560 what we are all living through right now Trump's out 0:48:07.600 --> 0:48:10.520 there saying that he can have their power bills. Clearly 0:48:10.600 --> 0:48:12.200 he's going to have that as part of the mix 0:48:12.560 --> 0:48:15.160 in the US. How important is it to the mix 0:48:15.200 --> 0:48:17.000 here in terms of prices. 0:48:18.520 --> 0:48:20.600 Look, it's critical, Paul. I mean, you know, if you 0:48:20.640 --> 0:48:24.920 hark back only less than ten years ago, electricity prices 0:48:24.960 --> 0:48:27.359 wholesale prices were under fifty dollars a mega what hour 0:48:28.280 --> 0:48:34.200 cold still pumping out of Victoria cheaper than that. You know, 0:48:34.520 --> 0:48:38.000 we've now got to around one hundred and fifty with 0:48:38.080 --> 0:48:40.960 the current system. This quarter has gone up again, so 0:48:41.160 --> 0:48:44.799 we've doubled the triple wholesale electricity prices on the back 0:48:44.840 --> 0:48:48.640 of real energy targets and also turning her back on 0:48:49.080 --> 0:48:53.799 the cheapest, lowest cost, most reliable form of energy we've got. 0:48:53.840 --> 0:48:57.040 So you know, it's a critical part of the mix. 0:48:57.080 --> 0:48:59.400 It will remain a part of the mix. Energy demand 0:48:59.480 --> 0:49:03.840 is incre and you know, as you may well know, globally, 0:49:04.440 --> 0:49:07.920 eighty two percent of energy, total energy, not just electricity, 0:49:08.080 --> 0:49:10.319 is provided by Colon and gow I've got to Joel 0:49:10.400 --> 0:49:12.879 being the biggest part of that. In Australia it's ninety 0:49:12.880 --> 0:49:15.120 one percent. So you know it ain't going anywhere. 0:49:15.239 --> 0:49:15.720 Good stuff. 0:49:15.719 --> 0:49:18.000 Thank you, Nick, appreciate it. Sorry to go, I've got 0:49:18.040 --> 0:49:19.800 to get out of the way for the late debate. 0:49:19.800 --> 0:49:21.680 Thank you, mate, appreciate it. All the best with the efforts. 0:49:21.680 --> 0:49:23.480 All right, have a great weekend. I won't be here 0:49:23.520 --> 0:49:25.800 on Sunday Leo's birthday, so go Yankees. 0:49:25.840 --> 0:49:29.399 See you Monday.