WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 22 May 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:05.559 From the Skyinging Center. This is Paul Murray Live. 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:07.040 Mate. 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:09.920 Happy Wednesday. Now, as we know, this is a really 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:11.960 special week in Australia. I did up at you. 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.760 But everywhere I go I see the banners in the streets. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.919 I see bunting out the front of people's houses to 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.759 celebrate two years since Anthony Abenezi became the Prime minister. 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.280 But you can just feel it in the air. How 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.840 amazing the country is. Well, of course things have changed 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.440 ever so slightly since he just won power with the 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.720 lowest primary vote that they'd had in the best part 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:40.280 of a century. The polls well, unsurprisingly they started to 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:42.160 turn against the Prime Minister as he was more focused 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.080 on spending half a billion dollars on the Voice rather 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.880 than dealing with cost of living. And in actual fact, well, yes, 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.000 they're leading a news poll in the turnbul Times, the Guardian. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.720 They have a poll where they actually count the number 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.600 of people who don't know. I remember that number was 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.319 significant ultimately when it came to being able to work 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.920 out what was going to have and at that referendum 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:06.680 last year and today on two party preferred in the Guardian, 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.920 the Liberal Party is leading forty seven to forty six 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.920 with six percent undecided. So in terms of that divide, 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.160 what is it, Well, just four percent of men are 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.880 undecided because at this stage most of them seem to 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.960 be leaning the coalition's way. The problems for Labor in 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:27.000 part are because of female voters, with almost one in 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:31.120 ten nine percent saying they are undecided. Now that is 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:35.199 why all of the uga booga politics will all be about, 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:36.840 you know, Petered up in his evil Petered ut in 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.280 his trumple all the rest of it right where the 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.400 Liberal Party has a problem with women, despite the fact 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.560 that it's the leader of the Labor Party who of 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.120 course went to the domestic violence rally and well he 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.040 made the women cry who were organizing it. 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:50.360 But you know, nothing to see here. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.360 Well, of course, what was supposed to change all of 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:57.040 that was the amazingness of the federal budget, which is 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.200 now a week and a day old. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:05.680 It's a great potent provide cost of living support whilst also. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.600 Having that eye on the economy of the future. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.880 Now, as we know, the polls not so great because 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:14.799 people have seen too little too late when it comes 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.680 to the tax cuts average thirty six dollars. The idea 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.960 of the energy rebate, which is really seventy five dollars 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.880 every three months, which is really twenty five dollars every 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:24.960 It's not amazing. 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:26.320 It's not amazing. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:28.799 So what do you do when you're in a world 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.320 where the cost of living relief is too little. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:31.480 Too late. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:36.440 Well, you reach for other people's money, an endless supply 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:42.880 of abilities to turn that public opinion around. Now you 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.280 may well have started seeing and hearing ads which are 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.799 talking about the two little too late tax cuts. There 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.560 are plenty on radio, there's a few popping around on television. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:54.320 But of course it's pointless because it's not like you 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:55.200 have to apply for them. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:56.920 They just take place anyway. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.560 And while the big numbers that they like to put 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:06.080 around them are that this is going to change the 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:07.960 cost of living, the reality is that you pay your 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:09.640 tax weekly, fortnightly, and monthly. 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.160 I made the point how many times. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:15.960 Over, Well, guess what, There is a limitless amount of 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.560 other people's money when you are trying to use taxpayers 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.360 dollars to get the political effect that the government cares 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:26.320 about you. And today Daily Telegraph broke the story that 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:30.480 one hundred and seventy two million dollars worth of other 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.560 people's money is being spent by this government right now 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:39.840 in overtly political games, political ads to tell us the 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.160 silly Australian public who don't believe the government is doing 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.080 the right thing certainly enough on cost of. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:45.600 Living that yeah, they're in our corner. 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.280 The Aberdezi government is forking out more than one hundred 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.480 and seventy two million dollars on spooking various government initiatives 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.400 across their different portfolios, including ten million dollars to raise 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:59.280 awarenarth about the new vehicle efficiency standards. Oh, I've got 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:00.960 someone to say about that in a couple of minutes. 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:06.240 Another ten million dollars on the net zero transition. The 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.520 total figures come as Treasurer Jim Charmers has been forced 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:13.360 to defense spending forty five million dollars on advertising for 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.880 the future Made in Australia policy. Another forty million dollars 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.960 on the Stage three tax cuts. Now again, public advertising 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:26.480 should be information about public health or welfare. When it 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.279 starts going on about the Australian government, who's doing this, 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.440 that and the other, go to this website to learn 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.359 it's not public education. It is overtly political. Story continues 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.320 among the spending was ten million dollars set aside for 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:44.359 a national communications campaign to raise the awareness of the 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.120 new vehicle efficiency standard, while another ten million will be 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.400 spent over two years from twenty three to twenty four 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:53.640 to deliver public information on the net zero transition and 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:58.680 ensure affected workers and communicate are aware of the support available. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:03.320 It's just all puff, but it's other people's money. And 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.479 while the very significant number of people that are amongst us, well, 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.200 they don't pay as close attention to the news as 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.000 you and I do, because if you do, you are 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.359 where the polls are. But if you just sort of 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.120 pick up the vibe through the ads here here in 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.400 the radio or the TV, oh my gosh, greatest government 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.960 of all time, it's doing something for me. And then 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.600 you actually check your bills and you realize they're doing nothing. Now, 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.920 obviously this Prime Minister would not want to be at 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.040 odds with what he had said when he was the 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.640 opposition leader. I mean, that's not the way this guy goes. 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.039 This guy is exactly the same as he was when 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.320 he's in opposition. Right, like two seventy five power bills, 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.279 like they lived up to that cost living to be 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.200 cheaper they lived up to that, we'd be a more 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:50.200 transparent government. They lived up to that, right, Anthony abneasy 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:55.480 about government advertising other people's money used to promote politically 0:05:55.560 --> 0:06:00.200 the previous government, because this prime minister is addicted to 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.800 spending taxpayers money as if it was liberal party money, 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:04.960 and the ads you see from the government on TV, 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.400 which are promoting liberal and National parties are paid for 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.000 by the taxpayer. It was a bad idea back then, 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.080 but guess what, it's not a bad idea now. 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.240 Could there be a name for this type of personality 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:18.640 trade of the prime minister. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:23.320 Where he's one way and then another, But it's all 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.279 okay because even more gifts come his way as a 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.080 result of other people's money. Don't forget this budget, and 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.760 it's worth mentioning as often as possible. While you're looking 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.359 down the barrel of thirty six dollars a week on 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.400 a tax cut, whoo, twenty five bucks a month on 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.359 power bills, they're spending four point fifty four to fifty 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.000 million dollars on not one, but two brand new planes 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.720 for the prime minister. Now, the Prime Minister may well 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.719 end up using other people's money to advertise why it 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:50.760 was important for him to. 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:52.960 Have one of these planes. 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.200 But one thing that I will give him for free 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:59.280 is what he can name this new two plane airline 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:05.120 airbus Elbow. I mean, we've got that and the logo 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:09.000 ready for you right now. If you want other people's money, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:10.600 they always find a way to spend it. One hundred 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:12.360 and seventy two million dollars on ads to tell you 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.960 how amazing their policies are. While they spend what four 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.040 hundred and something million dollars on planes, Oh yeah, but 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:23.440 they're really in it for you Meantime, in the real world, 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.200 cost of living still the number one issue has been 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.800 since the day this government came to be, and it 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.720 remained so two years after they are here now. To 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.360 the Prime Minister's credit, he did launch the Red Shield 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:38.200 Appeal today. But the Red Shield Appeal and the Salvation 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.360 Army which is kicking off right now, these people do 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.520 incredible work. Any opportunity you can to support them in 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.280 any way possible, with your time, with your money or 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.760 with goods, please do so give and give very generously. 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:50.760 To the Red Shield Appeal. Well. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.480 While the Prime ministers spend one hundred and seventy two 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.520 million dollars on ads to pump his own tires, and 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.360 four hundred million dollars on bran new planes to fly 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.520 him in Toto around the world. A survey of fifteen 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:06.080 hundred of the Salvation Armies financial service clients found that 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.480 two thirds were often going without food so their children 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.920 could eat, and one in three feared that they could 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.800 lose their home and effectively become homeless. Even more strikingly, 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.520 one in five were living in darkness, using candles or 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.880 torches at night to save on power bills. 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:24.560 Of course, the best they get out. 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.920 Of this government twenty five dollars a month, and that's 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.920 the exact same amount of money they're giving people with 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.760 mansions fared income. These people also use public amenities such 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.520 as bathroom's shopping centers to avoid using. 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:36.160 Water at home. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:40.679 An example of a family that has had to go 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.040 without before they were able to be helped by the 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.720 Salvos and now are not living on the streets. The 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.840 stories we're telling here because again all about the Salvos, 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.439 But in the quariyer Mal the Queens, their mother is 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.480 revealed that she went three days without eating to ensure 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.720 her children had food. When the family found themselves homeless 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.120 and forced on the streets. There were times that I 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.120 had twenty dollars to feed the kids for four days, 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.880 I'd actually go without something to eat and then end 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:08.959 up going to a food bank. 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:10.640 She's not alone. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.720 The new research by the Salvation Army, he's found sixty 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:17.080 nine sixty nine percent of parents revealing that they would 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.680 go without food so their children can eat, that being 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:24.360 the people who access the Salvation Army. Now, our friend 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.400 Joe Hildebrand was with the Prime Minister as it was 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.199 all launched today. He's a big supporter of the red 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:29.959 Shield appeal. He'll be in discussion in a moment or 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.640 two time with Bromb and Bishop. Because if the reality 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.280 of your prime ministership after two years of a prime 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:39.080 ministership is that people who are accessing welfare services are 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.880 literally going without eating so their kids can eat, we 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.360 have a problem that no amount of other people's money 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.240 can fix. And while this Prime Minister will just fly 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.240 over the top of them in a brand new jet, 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.840 the reality is is that this speaks to, in my view, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.079 the lack of morality about this government. Mainmetime Angus Taylor, 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.839 the Shadow Treasurer. He was at the National Press Club 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:03.000 to now, this is an away game for a liberal politician, 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.240 but he was able to get through a couple of 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.520 points to even the people living in the what second 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.520 most livable city in the world, Canberra, About the number 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.520 of people who have to pull back on things like 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.560 organized sport because their kids playing team sport is too expensive. 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:25.160 The sidelines who are quieter, the crowds thinner. When I 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:29.959 asked why, the answer was simple but heart wrenching. Many 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:34.480 families can no longer afford organize sport for their children. 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.960 This isn't just anecdotal, it's a trend we've seen nationally. 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.080 Now that was a story informedo his own experience on 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:47.520 a netball court in Sydney. The parents who sacrifice oh 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.400 so frequently is not something that is exclusively to be 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.040 mentioned at the National Press Club. We talk about it 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:53.840 here each and every night, and you may well know 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:55.959 it as your own life, or your kid's life, or 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:57.920 somebody who you know and loves life. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.000 While are their pride and make sacrifices. Haunted by the 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:07.280 fear of failing to provide for their loved ones, they 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:11.800 work extra hours and dig deeper into savings, savings which 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.880 are the foundation of their future aspirations. 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.360 And I will not have it heard that this government 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:18.160 does not care. 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:20.760 I mean they care so much that they are spending 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.120 one hundred and seventy two million dollars on ads for themselves. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.040 And yes, I'll mention it again, they're spending four hundred 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:28.960 and fifty million dollars on brand new planes for the 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.079 Prime minister. Oh but they care, They really care, don't they. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.240 Now the conversation about migration, what's the right number? Is 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:37.480 there a. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.280 Goldilocke's number about the number of people coming into the country. Well, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.319 as you know, Peter Dutton is exactly where the public 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.840 is where pole off the pole is constantly said that 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.440 Australians want a dramatic reduction in the number of people 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.680 that are coming to the country because in the years 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.880 since COVID, this government has got it grossly wrong, so 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.320 much so that this government's had to admit themselves that 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.880 they have got it wrong. But there's another group that's 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.120 out and about and telling us why any further reduction 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.160 to immigration would be terrible. Well, of course that's the 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.199 big business community. Big business would of course be desperately 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:08.640 I mean, this is going to affect our. 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:10.040 Skills space, et cetera, et cetera. 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.480 None of these people wing when it's the Labor Party 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.080 promising to do the same thing. But when it's Peter 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.800 Dutton promising to match their cuts and go even deeper. Oh, 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.600 the sky is going to fall in the big end 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:26.559 of town is about to collapse. Well, please, any decent 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.800 person understands what this is really about. It is not 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.240 about robbing Australia of skilled workers. That still be one 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:35.800 hundred thousand that would come in each year, but we 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.920 wouldn't end up with the hundreds of thousands of more 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:44.000 people who turn up, including family reunion, under this government. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.600 For his part, Peter Dutton understandably is doubling down on 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.120 where he knows the people are. That when there are 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.079 as many problems that come about everything from problems in 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.000 our hospitals to cues for rental properties, that you don't 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.120 add more people to the problem. 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:05.160 The outrage from the usual suspects about you know why 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.040 you're proposing to cut the migration program because I'm putting 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.680 Australians first. That's why i want to make sure that 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.600 our migration program works for our country, not against the 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:14.680 interests of our country. 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.000 And all of the people inside the bubble of the 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.800 bubble of the bubble of Canberra, they say that this 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:23.200 is ugly politics, nationalist politics, that's code for Trump politics. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:27.920 Perfect example is a cartoon that sums up just you know, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:31.440 the nuance of the argument in the City Morning Herald, 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.040 where apparently the number of people that will be migrating 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:35.679 to the country, well it gets cut and then they 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:36.520 all fall into what a. 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:40.000 Nuclear vat of acid. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.920 Seriously, again, none of this stuff when it was the 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.040 government that was promising to cut. But because people don't 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.160 believe that the government's actually going to cut, well, supprise 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:51.280 suppose And there's actually another person who agrees with the 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:55.360 position of Peter Dutton, and it's the Queen's Land Premier. 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.079 He says that the amount of population movement that's happened, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:02.080 particularly intra state move as well as internationals, is starting 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.640 to cause problems in road congestion and a whole bunch 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:05.240 of other things. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:11.080 But probably the less said about him the better. Okay, 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:12.079 I'll keep talking about him. 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.920 So Stephen Miles, the Queensland Premier is in a world 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:15.320 of trouble. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:16.120 More evidence that. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:20.120 He is sinking by the day. And once Queensland has 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:21.560 get the chance to go to the polling booth. They 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.560 will walk right past him, no matter how much morone 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.840 he tries to wear, no matter how much he tries 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:27.640 to say, oh. 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.520 Come on guys, on one of you, I'm like go Queensland. 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:31.360 People don't care. 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:36.520 New prole in the Brisbane Times shows that the primary 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.040 vote of the Labor Party could well be down as 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.200 low as twenty six percent. Now I don't believe that 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.320 that's the case, but still it's way down from where 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:43.720 it was at the election when it was closer to 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.920 forty percent, and the LNP is now well over the 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.200 forty percent, meaning that the minor parties such as One Nation, UAP, 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.880 a whole bunch of others their preferences well should be 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.880 able to help the government to change in Queensland. Fingers 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.840 cross And just in case people think that maybe Stephen 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:01.640 my is the answer to the political problems of the 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.200 Labor Party, well he preferred premier. He's twenty eight percent, 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.680 don't know is sitting at thirty three percent, and at 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:13.160 thirty nine percent right now is none other than David Cruci. Fully, 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:14.760 so fingers crossed, there is going to be a change 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.520 in Queensland. But if you need to get another reminding, 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.680 if you're watching us in the Sunshine State about why 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.800 there needs to be a change, let's get back to 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.160 hospital ramping. This is when forty five percent of all 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:27.760 people who end up in the back of an ambulance 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.920 have to wait about thirty minutes, but most likely longer 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.520 because there's no space in the hospital for the people 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.680 who have called the ambulance. Now, this situation is the 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.520 worst that has ever been in Queensland history. So understandably 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.280 the LNP says, can we sack the health Minister? 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.640 And how long have I said? Shannon Fnjaman said she'd 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:54.080 be different, Well, she's different, alright, she's worse. Shannon Fnsaman 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.680 said that she would be transparent. Well, Queenslanders can see 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:02.400 right through Shannon Fenceman cannot trust Shannon Fentman and that 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:03.920 is why she must go. 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.120 But of course Stephen Myles has no interest in sacking 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:08.840 the Health Minister and I no matter how bad she is, 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.920 because remember, of course, at one point in time she 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.200 wanted to leave frog Hin to become the premier. They 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.880 ended up not having a fight, which meant it didn't 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:17.920 have to go to the members and fentlemen probably would 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.080 have won. So unsurprisingly, Stephen Milesy is backing one of 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.520 the worst health ministers in Queensland's history. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:28.120 What I know is that Shannon as our Health Minister, 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.200 is doing a very good job in what is a 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.400 very difficult job. I know how difficult that job is, 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.160 and she is doing it well. We are giving her 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:44.080 and Queensland Health extraordinary resources because we know the growth 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.960 in demand that we are currently experiencing. Those resources are 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.960 what's allowing us to employ more doctors and nurses and paramedics, 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.240 and to build more hospitals and deliver more hospital beds. 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.800 Yet, just this week we hear stories about a person 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.840 in the seventies who died of a heart attack in 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:02.120 the back of an ambulance because they weren't able to 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:03.000 get into a hospital. 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:03.720 Seriously. 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.560 Now, meantime, there's another minister who deserves a little bit 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.640 of attention here, and it is a minister who has 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:15.480 been spending the people's money going off on cultural diplomacy 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.320 while many Queenslanders a struggling to keep a roof over 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:22.040 the head. Queensland's Communications Minister Lianne Enoch was jet sitting 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:25.200 around North America in business class with three senior staffers. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.040 Documents obtained by nine News under the Right of Information 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:32.360 reveal the trip, which was led by her. Her other 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.919 minister of responsibilities are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander partnerships 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.000 in the treaty. She's also the Arts Minister. And it 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:39.600 cost one hundred and twenty six as I say, one 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:41.640 thousand dollars. It was a ten day trip. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.520 It took in New York. 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.800 Edmonton and Vancouver in Canberra in Canada for the purposes 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.639 of cultural diplomacy that was approved by the previous premiere 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:56.040 before she got da hepho. And speaking of terrible governments, 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.280 the Victorian government now this has been an election winning machine, 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.000 no matter how how bad they've been as a government, 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.400 no matter what they've done to the state's finances, and 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.160 no matter how badly they ran their health system. Because 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:11.760 you know, I've got a north face jacker. Well, since 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:15.439 the removal or since the resignation of Daniel Andrews, the 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.760 replacement premier isn't quite as attractive to the people of Victoria. 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.800 In fact, again polling, same organization, but this time in 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.359 the Age newspaper shows that the primary vote of the 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:31.200 Labor Party is allegedly twenty eight percent. Now twenty eight percent. 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.560 It was, of course close to forty percent around the 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:38.679 last election. The LMP is edging up at thirty seven percent. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.800 But before anyone gets too excited and thinks that Persudo 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.719 is going to end up as the premier, he's currently 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.200 the preferred premier choice of but just twenty six percent 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.000 of the electorate. She's thirty one percent of the electorate 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:55.160 and the extreme majority undecided. So thea regularly the next 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.600 election is up for grabs, but no doubt both of 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.760 those leaders will probably be replaced and then we'll get 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:01.040 back to the way politics has. 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:02.879 Normally played in Victoria. 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:04.639 But one thing I wanted to update you on that 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.600 we brought to you over the past couple of nights was, 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:09.720 of course, that the treaty process which is playing out 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:13.640 in Victoria right now, is one where things are put 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:15.359 on the table, and then as soon as anyone reports 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:17.480 about what's put on the table, everyone pretends there's nothing 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:19.760 to see here. However, the government has said they will 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:21.399 not rule anything in or out. 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.639 When it comes to the treaty negotiations. 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.600 Remember the story this week that the Allen government has 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.000 refused to rule out giving compulsory acquired private property to 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.560 Indigenous groups and establishing seats designated for Indigenous members in 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:35.639 the Victorian Parliament. 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:37.960 Now Artie Jill, remember Artie Jill. 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:42.160 We spoke about her previously when her ten points suggestions, 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:44.959 which among other things were interest free loans and no 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:49.119 rates and no taxes effectively for Indigenous people to be paid. 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:51.240 And then after we reported it, she turned around said, oh, no, 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:52.520 there's no Idea's not happening. 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:56.000 She's turning around and saying that the compulsory acquisition thing 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.119 definitely not happening. But then when she was on the 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.120 radio this morning on through Our w with Tom Elliot, 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:03.679 she says, I think reparations should be on the table, 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:05.879