WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 23 March 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:06.560 From the Skying Center. This is Paul Murray Live. You know, 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.200 a modern misconception of the husky gens is that this 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.800 just happens overnight. No, No, this only happens when you commit. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:17.280 And I committed every single day, certainly of high school 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:23.160 Sausage roll, cheese twists, chocolate moves all day, every day 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:27.320 and look at the result. Look at my body is 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:29.400 a temple, you know, one of those mind ones right 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.440 at the back of the jungle. That's mine. All right, 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.200 We've got a lot to get to tonight, including Sunday 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:36.400 Nights hardcore night for politics. This is when we get 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.000 right into it, all the detail they'll be talking about 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.080 for the next week or so when it comes to 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:42.559 the state of the race. Yeah, we've got to get 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.640 it ready for the budget can Honestly, the spending is ludicrous. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.680 They want a gold Star for twenty five dollars a 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.880 months off your power bill, fit income and how good. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:59.280 Oscar Perstoria is the next dozy, looking like he's on 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.000 his way to big success in Formula one. He won 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.360 in China today, figures cross he'll be able to get 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.720 over Lando and be the world champion by the end 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.160 of the year. All right. Now, as we know, the 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.560 greatest Prime minister of all time, he's not focused on 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.480 upgrades for himself when it comes to personal travel. He's 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:22.160 not interested in making sure that he's got a multimillion 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:26.440 dollar retirement plan just in case you the electorate, don't 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:30.559 give him seventeen terms as prime minister. No. No, he's 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.800 a person who is focused, like us, on the number 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:35.880 one issue in the country. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.000 A plan to address cost of living. Take pressure off 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.600 cost of living, pressure off the cost of living, the 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.559 cost of living, cost of living, cost of living, relief 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.600 downward pressure on cost of living. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.160 And I don't know about you, but you know ourbonomics 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.160 has worked, hasn't it. I mean he promised at the 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.600 start of the last campaign that everything can be cheaper. 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.280 And I don't know about you. I mean everything's gone 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.440 down since election. I know that's right. That's just Australian's 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:06.680 confidence and trust in government. Now we also know today 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:11.680 about just who was being taken care of and focused today. 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.359 The real priority when it comes to cost of living 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.640 was it small business? Where today you could read a 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.120 story that ossie couples who run small businesses they've had 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.079 to go without money to keep their own businesses afloat. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.680 In fact, self employed small business owners are paying themselves 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.040 less at the same time as inflation to smash their 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.200 buying power, resulting in an eighteen percent collapse in real 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.840 income for somebody who owns a small business since Labor 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:43.799 took office. The decline comes as food prices, energy insurance, 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.239 rent and wage increases of all fueled a surge in 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:50.560 hospitality businesses, which have shuttered at an our nine point 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.440 three percent rate in February. That is, of all of 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:58.639 the businesses, almost ten percent in small business, particularly focused 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:04.000 in and around restaurants they've closed on. It wasn't their 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.079 cost of living? What about the effects that the cost 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:12.080 living crisis has had on poorer and vulnerable Australians. Was 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:13.760 that the focus is that what we're going to be 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:18.200 having a national conversation about in the next few days. Well, No, 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.239 even though there's an article that you could read today, 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.120 available online, available in the newspapers that shows the cost 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:29.440 of living crunch has actually resulted in an increase in 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.840 child neglect. Australia's cost living crisis has been linked to 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:36.360 a record three hundred and seven and twenty two child 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.600 abuse and neglect notifications. Can I just repeat that number, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:45.040 three hundred and seven thousand neglect notifications. That's up twelve 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:49.160 percent over the past two years. Why inflation difficult is 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.200 when it comes to somewhere to live, either the one 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.560 that you're renting or the one that you were paying for. No, no, no, 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.520 no no. Today the Prime Minister was out there fighting 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:02.400 for the cost of living of lazy public servants. Now, 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.000 not all public servants are lazy, but push there's an 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.160 awful lot of them that are. This is after, of 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.360 course he's already hired an extra thirty nine thousand of them. 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.640 And as we know, the Coalition is planning to bring 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.120 the public sector back to pre COVID levels. Oh e, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.800 they're going to trim some of the fat. They think 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.440 that Australia does not need an extra forty thousand public 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.599 servants doing the jobs on top of the hundreds of 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.400 thousands that already cost us billions and billions of dollars 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.880 each in every year. In fact, here is the shadow 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.000 Finance spokesperson whom, if don't becomes Prime Minister, will be 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:36.240 in charge of the public service. 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.000 We think that the thirty six thousand public servants that 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.599 have been brought on haven't demonstrated that the improvements to 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.640 the put to the services to the public have been corresponding. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.880 We think we can bring it back down to levels 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.200 that were at the end of COVID, not the beginning 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.039 of COVID, I might add at the end of COVID. 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:56.200 And part of what they want to do is to 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.800 get public servants to go back to the office that 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.360 is already paid for by the tax. You see, not 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.520 just because they're nasty and evil, but they want people 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.799 to go back so that all the cafes, the restaurants, 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.039 all of the businesses, the cleanings, all the rest of 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.960 it that actually service those buildings will be able to 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.600 remain employed on and over. The Prime Minister has come 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:19.320 out today and his focus while Grimjim's twenty five dollars 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.919 a month power nonsense is what they want to distract 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:26.000 you with today, he says that getting more public servants 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.760 than ever before to stay working at home will help 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.040 them with the cost of living. You see. One of 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.360 the reasons why a public servant doesn't have to go 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.520 back to the office that we're already paying for is 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.960 because they would have to use some of their own 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.160 money to get to work, just like every other person 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.240 who has to get themselves to work, let alone a 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.520 small business who of course is going backwards out of 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.159 this government. But sh nothing to see here. Here's the 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:56.440 Prime Minister picking the cushy life of a public servant 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.719 over small business and over kids in neglect today because 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.599 this is what he chose to talk about. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:07.159 Working from home has enabled them to work full time 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.080 and therefore it has increased workforce participation. 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:16.000 This guy, this guy. Now, after the budget this week, 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.960 the expectation is the election could be called as early 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.400 as next weekend. We will have Peter Dutton at a 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.120 special pub test on the following Monday, so not this 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.880 but next Monday in his electorate. I want you to 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:29.720 check out the questions of people have got because we've 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.440 got a nice full room and people got plenty of 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.919 questions for the alternative prime minister. Of course, the media 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:37.599 between now and then will do everything they can to 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.159 boost the current Prime Minister, trying to pretend you that 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.240 everything is better, despite the fact that while every indiccy 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:48.479 from child abuse to small businesses have shown that this 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:53.320 joint has gone backwards fast under the current mob. Which 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.200 brings us to the buyoffs that are planned for this week. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.239 Forget what they promised three years ago that cost living 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.560 would be cheaper. No, no, no, no, no, the government now, 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.200 so we'll just hand out billions more on top of 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:09.800 the billions already promised. Now, as you know, labor is 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.280 the side of politics that decided to get rid of 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.320 the energy system that worked, and it worked for decades because, 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.720 of course it was powered by coal. Evil, awful, nasty coal. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.760 You know, the type of stuff that the Ukraine has 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.240 been asking us to send them to help power their 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.040 country in a time of war. No, no, we're better 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.520 than that. So we decided to blow up what worked 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:34.320 before we had spent the hundreds of billions of dollars 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.440 to replace it with what now we know does not. 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.120 We also know that this is the government that, in 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.120 one of their first acts as government, decided to have 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.120 everyone stand around as they signed a piece of paper 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.040 saying that we will now set a law in this 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.400 country that Australia will cut forty three percent of one 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.200 percent of the world's emissions, and we will in part 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:57.520 do it with more than eighty percent renewable energy. Of course, 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.680 they say that it's the cheapest form of energy, and 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.120 it may it will be in thirty years time, but 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.040 right now it has to be built. And as you know, 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.480 it's tens of thousands of solar panels each and every day. 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.320 Oh yeah, made by slave labor in China, but sh 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.520 wind farms hundreds of thousands of those that will be needed, 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.280 both onshore offshore. Bug of the birds. Who cares about 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.280 the dolphins? And I know we must destroy the earth 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.760 in order to save the atmosphere, And all of this 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.000 was apparently going to cut your power bills. Now, I 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.240 won't play the same thing that we've played hundreds of 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.959 times since the last election. But you remember the promise 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:40.720 to seventy five teeth, eventy five teeth, eventy five teeth 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.720 aventy five. That was the promise that basically, take your 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.120 power bill from May of twenty twenty two compared to 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.439 the one in May or right now, what at the 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.120 end of March April of twenty twenty five, and it'll 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.360 be two hundred and seventy five dollars cheaper. Why because 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.920 we've moved from that evil, awful coal and we've replaced 0:08:57.920 --> 0:08:59.840 it with all the stuff that is so much cheaper. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.840 The only problem is the cost of transition the CSIO 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:05.839 once told us was trillion dollars, but now they say 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.520 it's half a trillion dollars. But apparently we all know 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.120 that it's a little higher than that, and of course 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.319 it has all of the destruction that goes with it. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.360 But because they have failed to deliver on that promise, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.559 and again I say it for the unpdeenth time, Tony 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.360 Abbott promised in twenty thirteen to stop the boats if 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.520 he had not stopped the boats, but in fact more 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.080 boats were turning up by twenty sixteen, unless, of course 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.040 the ghost had already knifed him. What do you think 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.920 the reaction would have been of the Camber Press gallery. 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:38.000 Apparently this promise just doesn't matter. It's never mattered to 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.439 them because it was lipstick on the pig. It's exactly 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:42.319 the same policy that Bill Shorten was defeated in with 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.840 two thousand and nineteen. But in twenty twenty two, if 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.840 we tell everyone they're going to get a power bill cut, 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.120 they'll vote for it, and they did so. They either 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.920 screwed up or they lied, and I think it's pretty 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:57.920 obvious that they lied right and twelve months ago when 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.280 they were delivering what they then thought would be final 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.280 budget ahead of what they were planning. Could be an 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.160 early election as soon as the back half of last year, 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.560 but definitely not as late this year. But we all 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.160 know that the storms have cost the federal budget one 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:15.480 point two billion dollars. Okay Radio. They made a promise, 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.240 and that promise was that they would pay three hundred 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.920 dollars off everyone's power bill, and then you start doing 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.000 the sums. Well, of course, most people pay their power 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.080 bills quarterly, so that was like seven hundred and seventy 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.480 five dollars, and then if you divide that between the 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.720 number of months that are in a quarter, it's twenty 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.640 five dollars twenty five dollars a month. And there's no 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:41.560 means testing, meaning the biggest mansion with the most cashed 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.800 up person in Australia they got the same relief as 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:46.720 somebody that was on the bones of their backside in 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.200 a shack in the bush, because you could be bothered 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.559 administering this policy. What of course they wanted was a 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.960 multi billion dollar slogan for an election that a tax 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.360 cut for every Australian, Sure, the people who needed it. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.440 It was fourti dollars a week, and a power bill 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.720 cut for every Australian for those who needed it again 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:09.280 just twenty five dollars a month. All of this costs 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.480 multiple billions of dollars, and they don't give you the money. 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.520 They pay the power bills of the power companies that 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.599 just happened to, in many cases be the same companies 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.680 that are getting government subsidies to spend the hundreds of 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.360 billions of dollars to build the new electricity grid that 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.160 fingers cross one day will be cheaper than what currently works. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.240 And if you've been paying any attention to the inconsistencies 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.880 in this then you, of course are the problem. We 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:37.840 are the climate deniers. Of course, I've never denied that 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.160 if you have seven eight billion people on the planet, 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.160 multiple industrial revolutions, that you're probably going to do something 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.679 to the natural ecosystem. And certainly Australia is part of 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.360 a globe and needs to do it's bit. But if 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.839 we're one percent of the world's problem, one percent of 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.600 the world's problem, we should look to countries like say 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.960 China that are thirty something percent of the problem. When 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:58.920 do they have to get to net zero twenty fifty 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.240 like us on a hotel twenty sixty. The United States 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.760 has done the hokey pokey both being out and then 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:09.280 in and then out and then in of the Paris Agreement, 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:13.319 and they're what twenty something percent, so they're not agreeing 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:17.439 to this system. And then there's the third world developing countries, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.080 the Global South, a's the lefties like to call them. 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.319 They don't have to apply to this either. Then there's India, 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.320 then there's Russia, and countries like China get to call 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.240 themselves developing countries. So again, despite the fact they've got 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.600 a space station and have held the Olympics twice this century, No, no, no, no, 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:39.200 they must be treated like the country like a country 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.040 in Africa that can't keep its head above water. Of course, 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.360 so Australia signs the piece of paper and continues on 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.040 a path despite the fact that wha more than half, 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.400 we're kind of getting our close to two thirds, but 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.000 let's say over half of the planet is not playing 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.839 the same game that we're playing. But this government, of 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:58.920 course says that there is a moral need for us 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:00.920 to do this, So they can go off and either 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.360 go to climate conferences or spend hundreds of millions of 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.480 dollars for US to host climate conferences because you see, 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.240 they don't care because they're the ones that have got 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.840 three pay rises, promises on six hundred grand ministers on 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.440 four hundred thousand dollars. Most of the people in charge 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.840 of the businesses or spinning for the businesses, or the 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.760 ones setting the rules, they've got hundreds of thousands of 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.360 dollars a year. Oh small business, whatever, But can I 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.000 have a lard a place or how's everything going? Oh 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.880 that's a shame, isn't it. Well, today they are going 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:32.959 to extend the system that has already been there for 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:34.560 the past twelve months and they're going to extend it 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:38.440 for another six months, which means the media called this 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.280 out for what it is, right, twenty five bucks a 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.320 month on No, the government made an announcement, so you 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.000 need to have the biggest number possible and did in 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.720 the media love this one to day, every Sydney household 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.600 will receive a further one hundred and fifty dollars off 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.640 their power bills. Latest offering one hundred and fifty dollars 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:57.280 off power bill. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.880 Now the one hundred and fifty dollars rebate, so it'll 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:02.400 be a one hundred and fifty dollars rebate and. 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.720 Your major pledge by the federal government to bring down 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.439 soaring energy prices. 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.800 One hundred and fifty dollars rebate applied to their power bills. 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.120 So you see, they think you're so stupid that they've 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.400 cut your power bill by three hundred dollars in the 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.120 past twelve months, and now it's going to be an 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.720 extra one hundred and fifty So they've technically brought power 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:25.280 down by four hundred and fifty bucks. Right, No, twenty 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.680 five dollars are quarter for multiple quarters that go to 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:29.880 a year, and now they're going to push it through 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.800 for another six months. So the Prime Minister spins it 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:33.640 like this. 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.720 And it follows the seventy five dollars, another seventy five, 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.560 another seventy five, and another seventy five that they've received 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:43.640 this year. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.720 Twenty five, twenty five, twenty five, twenty five. There's lots 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.000 of ways you can cut the number, but the reality 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.080 is people either pay a quarterly bill or they pay 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.320 a monthly bill. But either way, seventy five dollars paid 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.040 to the power company to not pass on the increases. 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.320 It's kind of the whole point. It also creates about 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.080 zero point five percent reduction in the overall number when 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.720 it comes to inflation. Now, as you know, inflation, if 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.920 it is between two and three percent, the preserved Bank's fine. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:15.600 If it's above three percent, well they keep interest rates high. 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.000 And interest rates have gone up twelve times under this government. 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:21.120 Oh sorry, they've come down once since, saving you a 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.360 grand total of one hundred bucks, when it's already cost 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.520 you tens of thousands of dollars extra to pay off 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.240 your home under this mob. And now they again think 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.520 you're so stupid that you won't notice that the power 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.760 bill that I told you to keep on the fridge 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:36.840 from the last election, and if it was two hundred 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.240 and seventy five dollars lower than that number, then guess 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.840 what you should vote? Labor. Well, the reality is that, 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.360 of course it's many hundreds of dollars. In fact, the 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.240 one thousand dollars or thousands of dollars higher if you 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:51.280 happen to be in a small business. But Jim Chalmers 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.720 doesn't think that you even pay attention to the bills 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.240 that you pay. He thinks you've got some sort of 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.000 autopay and you'll never really notice, they think that you'll 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.280 fall for the nonsense of where you have helped people 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.080 four hundred and fifty dollars with their power bills when 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.240 the actual thing is twenty five dollars a month and 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.160 the cost of power has gone up way more than 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.880 twenty five dollars a month since this mob came to power. 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.800 But Jim charmers again, I repeat, he thinks you aren't 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.440 even paying attention to your own bills, because what about 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.200 this garbage he was spraying around today. 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.920 Don't forget, in the last year to December and the 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.840 official inflation data, electricity prices went down by twenty five percent. 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.920 And you know what that reduction is. That reduction is 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.280 the amount that the government has been paying the power bills. 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.560 So don't forget power bills are coming down. But hang on, 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.280 aren't you paying the power bills not to pass on 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:47.040 some of the increase? Sh nobody's going to notice he's 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.520 claiming power bills are going down when what was that 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.120 story that was in that far right wing publication, the 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:57.360 Sidony Molner Huru. In fact, from July, power bills are 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.200 expected to go up by two hundred dollars. This is 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.280 on top of the ones that went up last year 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.080 or the year before or the year before that. They 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.919 do think you're that stupid. I certainly hope that the 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:12.160 election will remind them. No, well now, and you can't 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:16.560 buy me off with twenty five dollars a month, which 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.639 brings me to another thing to remind you, please be 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.840 here on Tuesday night. Tuesday night, nine thirty astraight in 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.600 eastern day light time eight thirty in Queensland is when 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.600 we are going to have our budget show. Now, I've 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.640 done these for fifteen years, and you know that over 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.239 fifteen years, generally speaking, there's the reaction that comes out 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.160 of camera, and that's fine. They've sat around all day 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.720 pretending that they're studying an exam. I've been in those rooms. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.080 They're not studying an exam. There's double checking what everyone 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.200 else is going to report. And generally speaking, if it's 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:49.080 a labor government, they take whatever numbers they give and 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:54.200 they say completely fine, there's no suspicion about the numbers whatsoever. 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.119 There of course will be no issue whatsoever that a 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.800 government that claimed they were better than the Liberal Party 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.120 they went from deficit to surplus surplus. But of course 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.359 we know now that it is going to go back 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:12.359 into deficits. And remember, every single dollar in deficit is 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.520 added to every previous deficit of every government in the 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:19.120 history of this country. And certainly we know that debt 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.760 was way down, if not completely gone, under Howard. So 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:26.119 we're talking about every budget deficit of Rudd, of Gillard, 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:33.040 of Rudd, of Abbot, of Turbul, of Morrison, and now 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:39.360 of Albaneze. In fact, the is some expectation that there 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.160 is going to end up being as high as twenty 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.520 billion dollars when it comes to the budget deficit. Now 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:45.920 I think that's just a bit of spin and it 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.720 will probably end up being seven billions, so therefore it's 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.800 not as bad as twenty Well, every dollar in deficit 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:53.639 is added to every other previous one, So if you've 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.280 got a trillion dollars worth of debt, it'll be a 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:59.480 trillion and twenty billion dollars worth of debt. Jim Chalmers 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.440 fourth budget it will feature an underlying deficit of about 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:06.080 twenty billion, but once these off budget items are properly 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:09.240 accounted for, it the real deficit is almost double. Remember 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.880 I've told you about that before, that there's a whole 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.879 bunch of stuff that they will have in those budget documents, 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.240 and then there's a whole bunch of staff that they 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.160 don't put in those budget documents despite the fact that 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.080 they still are borrowing money from overseas to pay for them. 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:29.480 So the actual increase in the deficit will not be 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:31.960 five billion, will not be ten billion, but will probably 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:37.520 be one hundred billion dollars. According again to the Financial Review, 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:39.919 who've kept a pretty strong on our eye on all 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.320 of this, they claim there is off budget spending of 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:47.080 one hundred billion dollars by this government. So there's all 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:48.920 the money that they're going to tell us about on Tuesday, 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:50.760 and then there's all the money they're hiding from you, 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:53.720 which could be one hundred billion dollars extra. This is 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.760 the stuff that is an investment, but the reality is 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.240 that it's all borrow money, and borrow money will be 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:06.160 part of the Australian economic story for the next one, two, three, 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:11.160 four decades. The Prime Minister wants to talk about seventy 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.520 five dollars, seventy five dollars, seventy five dollars when he's 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:18.879 looking back at what eighteen months of trying to fool 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.800 people when it comes to their budget savings from power 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.639 bills that are already going up. That then, of course 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.479 fakes an inflation number that they then turn around and 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.040 use to tell the Reserve Bank you must cut interest rates, 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.880 when the actual reality is that if Australia wasn't spending 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.280 as much money as it is on public servants, then 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:40.399 we would be in a recession. The only way that 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:42.639 our country is slightly moving forward is because of the 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:45.879 amount of government money that is being spent, including this 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:49.760 one hundred billion dollars that's off budget. And if you 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:51.520 think again, I'm just making up this number that we're 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:52.960 going to be in a budget deficit for the next 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.320 forty years. Yet again, I show you the Intergenerational Report 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:58.920 produced by Jim Charmers buy the same people who will 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.000