WEBVTT - Sharri | 28 August 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:08.880 Live on Sky News. This is Shari. Good on you Andrew, 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:10.840 thank you for that good evening. Yes, t Price with 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:13.680 you filling in for Shari. Shari will be back with 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:16.239 you tomorrow night and I'll see you at six on 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:20.079 Friday night. Now coming up on Shari tonight. Are we 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:23.959 staring at the electoral nightmare of a minority labor government 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.440 depended on the Greens and the Teals to govern? And 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.840 if we are, wait for Green's leader Adam Vance's wish 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:32.640 list that he put out today. I have more on 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.919 that shortly. Also, how in the middle of an economic 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.280 downturn and a housing crisis and a lack of jobs 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.480 in the regions, could the federal government go and turn 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.319 its back on a billion dollar gold mine in New 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.680 South Wales Central West. We'll catch up with the Minerals 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.080 Council on what that means for our sovereign risk in 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.880 this country. Plus what did today's inflation numbers mean for 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:00.200 interest rates and the wider economy? Lethan Onsalen unpicked that 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:04.400 for us shortly, but first I can't help it. Green's 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.680 leader and federal member for the Inner Suburbs of Melbourne 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.160 today stood up and delivered a speech to the National 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:14.800 Press Club that was highly delusional and an insult to 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:20.679 every Australian. Adam Bant, in his self described egotistical guys 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:25.360 of somehow being Australia's version of Robin Hood, has laid 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.440 out an attack on profitable, multi national Australian companies that 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.959 he claims are ripping off ordinary Australians. He includes the 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.800 big four banks, the Commonwealth Bank, our biggest company, aine Zed, 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.640 the NAB and Westpac. He includes West Farmers, which of 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:46.560 course runs the very popular Bunnings. He threw in Telstra, Woolworth's, Cole's, 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.680 JB Hi Fi and even Ampol. Now Adam Bant wants 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.640 to hit these companies and others. He calls it a 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.400 plan to his words, hit the rich. He also promises 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:01.840 to bring in a coal and mining tack, demonizes gas 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.200 today and says this will raise five hundred and forty 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.160 one billion dollars, a figure plucked out of nowhere, and 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.760 that will be his price for supporting labor. In the 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:16.040 event of a hung parliament, enough is enough. 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.240 It's time to make the big corporations and billionaires pay 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:24.880 their fair share of tax. This election, the Greens will 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:29.200 propose a package of robin Hood reforms. The first component 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.440 is targeted at big corporations who are making excessive profits 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:38.280 beyond a normal return to shareholders. It will apply to 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.200 companies with an annual turnover of over one hundred million 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.959 dollars take taxing the excess profits that these companies make. 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.320 This new big corporations tax would apply to both Australian 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:56.320 corporations and multinational corporations operating in Australia. Over the next decade, 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.800 this component of the tax is expected to raise to 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:01.440 hundred ninety six billion dollars. 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.360 What a joke this bloke is. Now, Let's state the 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.640 bleeding obvious and then turn our attention to what the 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.440 Greens under Adam Bant actually stand for robin Hood. Adam 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.799 is about as likely to have anyone agree to any 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.639 of this as he has living out his warp dream 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.280 of being the Australian version of robin Hood. None of 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.320 any of this, by the way, is new. I wrote 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.840 a column back in July about this when he first 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.600 outlined this craziness aimed at peeling off labor voters that 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.320 lean heavily left in inner suburbs of the capital cities 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.640 of Australia. Now, Bant's grasp of economics is about as 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.360 sharp as someone wandering around Sherwood forest back in the 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.200 fourteenth century. When you look at the corporations whose profits 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.920 he describes as excessive, and who would attract this new 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:53.480 forty percent tax that he calls a big corporations tax. 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.240 Great imagination with the name by the Way, one thing 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:01.040 stands out. Every Australian with a superannuation fund, earns dividends 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.760 from all of those companies, especially the banks, So Adam 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.840 Bant would be taking from the rich and also taking 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.000 from the middle class, the working class and the working class. Paul, 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.640 I'm not sure Ban with his taxpayer funded super actually 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.839 understands superannuation and how it works. 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:23.080 While people went backwards, the biggest five hundred corporations made 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.839 ninety eight billion dollars in crisis profits off the back 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:32.839 of the pandemic. Willworths, Handcock Prospecting and nab Alone Release 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:38.200 reaped billions of dollars in crisis profits. Coles and Woolworths 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.159 have both increased their profits too. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:46.919 Now incredibly, incredibly to me, the ABC representative at the 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:51.719 Press Club lunch today, interestingly sponsored by the Way with 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.240 a sign at the back of ban by Westpac, one 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.960 of the bank's bant wants to hit. The ABC reporter 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.040 made the point that if all these corporations, especially the 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.640 mining companies, are to be hit with massive new profits taxes, 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.719 they will simply up and move offshore. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.880 The Parliamentary Budget Office, who you engage to do your 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:17.640 costings on the corporate tax issue, warns that the numbers 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.000 you think you'll raise was basically a happy guess at best, 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:25.120 because there's a lot of uncertainty around the assumptions. One 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.919 of the reasons would be that global capital is incredibly mobile. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:34.279 Copper is available from Peru, lng is available from Russia 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:38.120 and Qatar, and iron ore from Africa and Brazil. What 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.919 makes you so certain you'll have a resource as industry 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:45.080 to support the welfare spending you envisage. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.200 Well, our tax is designed to still encourage investment. We're 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.080 talking about excessive profits that can still come here and 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.960 make a return. We're talking about these obscene profits that 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.080 they're making. Like what we're saying with the gas industry, 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.919 for example, is that when there was a Russian increasion 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.360 of invasion of Ukraine and it sent the price sky high, 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.720 they made billions in windfall profits. 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.160 Even the ABC doesn't buy it now. As I said 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.520 at the start tonight, I'm a minority Labour government dealing 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.760 with this bloke and having anything to do with the 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.159 Greens having to implement this fantasy world where evil rich 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:23.320 corporations need to be flogged because they're profitable, and moneys 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.240 can flow to fix everyone's teeth and build houses. It's madness. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.920 At the same time, Robin Hood refuses to accept immigration's 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.359 got anything to do with the housing crisis. The Middle 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.600 East war started by a terrorist attack on Israel can 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.120 be sold by everyone being nice to each other and 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.120 that the corrupt c FMEU is somehow going to fix itself. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.800 Band presents to me like some UNI student living in 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.680 a sharehouse, riding a bike to lectures with a rainbow 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.960 view of the world where money comes off a tree 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.000 and if we all get together in some Kumbai world, 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.680 everybody wins, no poverty, no internation, conflicts, sun and win 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:06.520 power of the wide brown land. He is so naive now, 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.880 just finally on Band, he refused today to slam the 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:13.680 Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler Mather. He attended one of 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.080 those CFMA, you rallies yesterday acting like some sort of 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:21.640 warm up man. Why are the right signder attack where 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:21.840 we go? 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.360 Labor has used these untested allegations as an excuse to 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:31.440 attack an entire union. And let's be clear that union 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.520 is everyone here today, not any individual. It is all 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.840 of you here today, and they have attacked all of. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.960 You, not the black T shirt. He's not a union member, 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.640 he's a Grittins MP. Now on that stage there were 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.840 signs calling our Prime Minister a Hitler like figure disgraceful 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.679 and band defended him being there. But apparently I should 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.680 point out Chandler Mayor asked for those signs to be 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.120 taken down prior to his speech, and of course the 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.360 CFMA you didn't do it. But have a look at 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.720 the agro coming from the construction arm of this union, 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:11.200 infiltrated by vikings and claims of standover tactics. 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:19.080 When I say you did you say that? 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:38.400 Put the air dochlod dot frightening stuff. Now, this mob 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.880 are not going away anytime soon. And watch carefully the 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.680 pressure they put on the Victorian government, in particular over 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:50.760 giant infrastructure projects that that union dominates. It's their workforce 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.840 on those projects and don't expect to send to Allen 0:08:54.080 --> 0:09:01.480 to stand up to them. Get into tonight with Sharhi's 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.640 regular Wednesday night panel form of Victorian Liberal Party President 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.720 Michael Kroger is with us and former Labor Minister Graham Richardson. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.480 Welcome to you both. Rich are going I start with 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:15.320 you so Bant and this super profits tax his speech 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.640 today claiming this would be his am but claim to 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:22.319 deal with a minority labor government. Surely they're not going 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.080 to deal with Band, are they? 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:25.640 Well? 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.000 I certainly hope not. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.600 You know, the more you look at this like he 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.760 is completely crazy, and I just hope we don't go 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.520 down a Looney Tunes path. I hope we're more mature 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:37.800 than that. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.760 If you were in that room and you had to 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.600 I mean, if the Teals couldn't get you across the 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.319 line and you had to deal with Band, would you 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:53.720 have any other option? Though? Well, I'd certainly be searching 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:54.240 for one. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.880 You know, he'd be the last card in the pack, 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.640 because I think he's getting more radical as the time 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.360 goes by, not less, and I think that's making him 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.200 a harder sell. You know, the Greens just get that 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.280 hard line ten percent left vote in Australia. They have 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.560 never been able to lift it. It just sticks at 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.960 ten or eleven and stays there. And that's because the 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:24.559 policies that they've got will never appeal to the ordinary Australian. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:30.560 Ever, Michael, how bad, how damaging for Australia with a 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:35.120 minority labor government doing a deal with the Greensburg, Well, 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:36.119 it would be disastrous. 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.079 I mean, this guy banned is a wrecker. He's a 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:42.199 wrecker around, an extremist and you know he's pie in 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:46.680 the sky policy today. I mean, you know, Ri rich 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.040 O's right. You know, even if Albanezi was forced to 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.280 do a deal with Band after the election, had to 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.280 be a one term labor government. So no one they told, 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.240 They told them the Tasmanian Labor leader at that state election, 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.240 you're not going to do a deal with the Greens 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:05.240 to win government down there in Tasmania. And if Albo 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.920 had to, he'd be there for if he won the election, 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.080 he'd be there for five minutes because they would wreck 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:14.440 the Labor Party and wreck Australia. And you know, thank goodness, 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.679 people are starting to see, you know, the more publicity 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:21.520 Band gets this anti Israel stuff, this weird tax policy, 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:25.080 this guy speaking of this CMF you rally yesterday. The 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.240 more exposure they get, the more extreme they get, the 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.439 less likely they are to win seats, and that's a 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:31.280 good thing for Australia. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:37.040 Steve. Those disgraceful signs there are portraying Anthony Albanezi as 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.440 a hitler like figure Graham. That just shows that the 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.640 CFMU are not going to just sit back, take this 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.400 administrator and say, okay, we have to do things differently. Now. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.400 How much of a problem is that for the PM. 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.480 Well, it's a problem, but provided you stick to your guns, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.840 you know, it's a problem will eventually go away. The 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.600 one thing that Labour's got to be certain about is 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.079 that once you start the move, when the CFMAU, you've 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.000 got to finish it. You can't leave it half aasked. 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.440 You've got to finish it. And I hope that Albert 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.400 gets on with that job very quickly. 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.800 Michael. We learned today via a media release from an 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:22.960 outfit in Melbourne that the Muslim Votes Matters is about 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.000 to launch its national campaign. It's going to happen in 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.040 Melbourne this coming Sunday. They asked all sorts of media 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.480 people who want to go along, they need to register. 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:37.559 The release says Muslims in Australia had been grossly overlooked 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.160 and undermined for decades thanks to They blame the mainstream 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:47.040 media perpetrating Islamophobia. Michael, we saw this launched in New 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.280 South Wales. We're not sure where that's going to go. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.560 Will it take hold in Victoria and how much should 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.800 the major parties be worried about this Muslim vote. 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.160 Well, it'll take hold to a certain degree because I 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:03.120 think that it will be quite disciplined, but I don't 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:07.040 think it'll it'll affect any seats in Australia as it 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:12.520 did in Britain Vaders who are pretty educated, and I 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.240 don't think it's going to I don't think it's going 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.720 to swing a seat. It could, but I don't think so. 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.920 I think I think Peter Khalil will probably still hold Wills, 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:22.440 and I think Labor will hold the seats in New 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:27.480 South Wales. But it's another distraction and to to this government, 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.120 and it's not it's not helping them. By the way, 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:32.240 see if you can just go back to the c 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.760 FMU for for one minute to add to something. Graham said, 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.280 What the press haven't you worked out is that Albanese 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.480 is Albanese is motivated by long running faction fight he's 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.360 been having the New South Wales division. He's Albow is 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.880 the leader of the hard left in the New South 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.719 Wales division. There's there's the soft left, which is the 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.280 old Ferguson family of which the CFMU were part of 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.920 that faction. So Albo's had this long war with the 0:13:55.920 --> 0:14:00.960 Ferguson faction. So in bashing the c FU, he's finishing 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.120 off his long term factional opponent in the News of 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.199 Wales Labor Party. That's why he is so keen to 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.360 finish them off. There are enemies of him within the 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.199 Labor Party in New South Wales and have been for decades. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:12.719 And so when he. 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.319 Says, oh, it's all because of you know, these corruption allegations, 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.800 et cetera, the subtext to all of this is great, 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.160 I can I can stick a knife into my factional 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.160 opponent in New South Wales and stick another knife into 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.640 the into the Ferguson faction who's opposed for generations. So 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.720 that's the subtext what's going on here. And the CFM 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.040 knew they're obviously a wake up to this. Mate. 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.720 Well, we got the godfather of factions with us tonight, 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.280 Richard As Michael picked that correctly. 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.080 I think, Michael, there's a grain of truth in what 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:46.800 Michael says. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:52.120 I'll just say that a grade of truth, only a 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:52.880 grain of truth. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.480 He's still very polite, gret He's still very polite. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.640 A couple of grains. He's very polite. Whichjoe, you know 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.480 those seats of Southwest Sydney as well as anybody. Is 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.760 this Muslim vote going to catch on? And is it 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:08.800 a problem for labor? 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.720 Look, I don't think it'll catch on in any big way. No, 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:18.600 it'll be a small irritation and annoyance, but it'll be 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:19.360 no big deal. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.520 Michael, I need to go back to this. Max Chandler 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.000 made the bloke. He's the guy that loves, or seems 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.440 to love a microphone. He's got a very healthy ego. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:34.760 He's been blasted for addressing that rally that featured those pictures. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:38.320 He wanted them taken down apparently, But what the hell 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:43.680 is a Greens MP from Queensland doing standing up there 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.160 addressing a CFMU rally. What's that about? 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.080 Well, he's starring up trouble against the Labor Party. That's 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.560 what he's trying to do here. Any opportunity for the 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.840 Greens to get an add to their innicity vote and 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:58.720 stick it into Labor, that's what he's doing. And by 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.440 the way, if this is true that you know these 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.280 signs were any request that these signs be taken down. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:06.720 He should have refused to appear. 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.280 He should have said, I'm not going to stand here 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.360 at a rally where the prime Minister this country is 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.000 depicted as Adolf Hitler. Nor am I going to appear 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.840 at a rally where there's a coffin of the effectively 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.680 of Albanize eye. He's dead body politically in front of him. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.240 He should have said, take those down and then I'll appear, 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.560 But I'm not going to appear with that behind me. 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:30.440 So he appeared anyway, So irresponsible of him, disgraceful of him. 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:31.880 But this is the Greens. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:35.080 They are just wreckers and any if they can wreck 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.840 the Labor Party, boy, they're very happy to do that. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.720 They're very happy to wreck the Labor Party and that's 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.320 why he steamed up with the CFMU. But what Adam 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.560 Band needs to do is given undertaking that he will 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.800 not accept any donations from the CFMU. It's going to 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.320 be harder now because they're an administration or any of 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.840 their allies who are backing the CFMU for the next election. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.480 You just watch if there are donations from these radical 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.360 left unions to the Greens at the next election, because 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.000 any cf supporter he should say, We're not accepting donations 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:03.320 from you. 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.960 Labor Minister Murray, what weighed into this this morning. Here's 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:08.720 what he had to say. 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:13.040 I think it's also very very disturbing that we saw 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.639 a Greens MP, Max Chandler Nather decide to share a 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.800 stage with the Construction Union yesterday in Brisbane, despite those 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.520 placards invoking Nazi references, despite the coffins with the Prime 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.600 minister's face. I mean, what does it say to people 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.639 that a Greens MP puts grand standing in front of 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:35.280 a crowd above making a statement about what's respectful or not. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.479 When you share a stage with a group, you make 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.760 a choice and you're endorsing the culture and behavior of 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:41.640 that organization. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.919 Richo, how much is this about the Greens sending a 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.400 signal to the CFMAU that look, you know, if you've 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:51.439 got any spare money to toss around you in an 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.040 election campaign, we'd be more than happy to take it. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.600 I think there's an element of that in this, that's 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:03.560 for sure. Sadly, you know, the CFMU occasionally looks to 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.760 the Greens, or some people in it do, and I 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.840 find that very sad. I mean, the CFMU has been 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:14.520 a bit of a let's say, a two edged sword 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.800 for years. You know, there are a lot of good 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.320 people in the CFMU, but my god, there are some 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.000 horrible bases in it as well. 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.960 Nicely put Graham. Now, Michael, let's get onto one of 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:31.399 our favorite topics, the dysfunctional Victorian labor government, taxing the 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.679 hell out of anyone they can find they now, have 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:39.040 you believed this? You know this is somehow able to 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:40.720 be fixed, but I'm not sure how they're going to 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.320 do it other than tax everyone to death, including now 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.480 a seven a half percent tax on Airbnb, so no 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.800 tourist will come here. You had a hospital emergency department 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.800 this morning. You two won't believe this. They had a 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.760 hospital emergency department had to call an ambulance to rush 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:01.000 to the hospital empty to treat a cardiac patient because 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:05.320 of a lack of resources inside the hospital, Michael, what 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:06.320 the hell was happening? 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:13.119 Well, when Joan Kernel left office through the good growth 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.080 of the Victorian public back in nineteen ninety two, she 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.960 left a debt behind her of thirty three billion. We're 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.959 now approaching one hundred and eighty billion under this mob right, 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.600 same dollar terms. There's no money here in Victoria, Steve. 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:26.680 The place is broke. 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:32.600 Andrews and Cindra Allison have bankrupted Victoria effectively, so there 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.920 isn't any more money for the hospital services. They've taxed 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:38.840 the hell out of the place. Land tax in Victoria 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.560 is at absurd level, so people have selling investment properties. 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:45.040 They've massively increased payroll tax in Victoria, every other tax 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.280 they could think of property taxes to make up this 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:49.320 shocking budget. 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:49.800 Shawful. 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.200 Tim Pallace has been the treasurer here for ten years. Tim, 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.159 you order hang your head in Showmte. You've left this 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.240 place a burning wreck. But there's no money, Steve. They've 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.680 run out of money. And he bought the two elections 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.600 in eighteen and twenty two. He spent fifty billion at 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:05.920 each election. Daniel Andrews, he promised everything. Well, of course 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.720 people are going to vote for fifty billion each time. 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.480 But of course at the next election there's nothing to spend, 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.520 and people are going to say, well, you know, you've 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.000 ruined Victoria as they have, and hopefully they' altern to 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.159 John Pursuito and the Liberal Party because this mob have 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.000 left a ruin here in Victoria. 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:27.440 Steve rich Omichael's very optimistic about that. I mean, if 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.359 you had an election today, incredibly, to Michael and me 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.600 and to everyone who mainly lives in Victoria, Labor would 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.159 get re elected. I mean, this is the problem that 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:40.600 the alternative opposition, particularly with John Pursudo as leader, who 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:42.199 I don't think can lead them to any sort of 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.199 win that still get back Ingram. 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.520 You know, I don't see that as a problem. I'm 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:53.359 delighted to hear it, but of course it's true. I 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:57.480 think sometimes you know that it doesn't matter how good 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:00.280 or vad you are, it's how you perceived. I don't 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.200 think Bashudo is ever going to be Premier of Victoria. 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:07.920 And the problem that lies beneath that is that how 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.159 do you replace him when you've got a caucus of 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:15.040 nobody's It's pretty hard to do. So I think the 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:17.400 Liberals in Victoria have got a lot of soul searching 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:22.400 to do. So Michael, get on the job. I think 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:23.640 he might already be on the job. 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:25.119 Graham. I don't think you need to tell him to 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:30.560 do that. I've long thank you. Oh, I don't know 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.200 about that. Michael and Graham, thank you as always. We'll 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.160 catch up with you shortly coming up after the break. 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:38.879 Premier Chris Men's in New South Wales. Look, he's not 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.439 holding back his disappointment at Tannya Plipa Sex decision to 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:46.320 block this billion dollar gold mine. Mining Council CEO Stephen 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:49.280 Galilee will join me to discuss what that might mean 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:53.280 for projects right around the country, plus the stunning snub 0:21:53.640 --> 0:22:00.679 by former Queensland Premier Anastasia Palache. Hang around. Welcome back 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:02.040 Steve Price in for Shari. 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:02.280 Now. 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:05.200 This route between the New South Wales and the Federal 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:08.639 Labor government around this gold mine has escalated. Today. You 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:11.520 had the Premier of New South Wales, Chris Mins, ramping 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:15.679 up his retric against the Commonwealth's last minute order to 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:19.560 kill off this gold mine. Min's didn't hold back in 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:22.480 budget estimates earlier today I ever listened to him. I'm 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:26.120 disappointed by the decision from the Commonwealth Government. You disagree 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:28.240 with the reversion. I'm slut said that many times and 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:32.320 so in your view ten you're cleversick using that power. 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:33.240 Was she was in error? 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:36.960 Yes, that's Chris Mins Today. Now the Prime Ministers insisting 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:41.360 that the project can still go ahead though regiu's resources 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:43.920 does not sound as confident. Let's bring in New South 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:49.280 Wales Minerals Council Chief Executive Stephen Galilee. Stephen, good to 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:54.040 see you again defending this decision, Minister Pleversecond, even the 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:57.560 Prime Minister say, look, this can go ahead, just move 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:01.720 the tailings dam But surely the company, Stephen, looked at 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:04.200