WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 4 February 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.040 From the Sky News Center. This is Paul Murray Live. 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:08.440 Thank you, Cherry gooda mate, come on into the man cave. 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:10.080 Oh no, sooks no left this tonight. 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:12.680 And our special guest, none other than the Great Nigel 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:14.319 for us joining us the only time you've seen me 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.720 on Aussie Telly is only regular appearance here every Tuesday night. 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:19.680 Make sure you strap yourself in if you fired up 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.200 good and ready. Oh yeah, in a second, have a 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.160 look at some of the stuff in and around question time, 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:25.720 not just the stuff you've heard, but some of the 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.319 strategy behind it that gives us an idea of what 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:28.800 they want to. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:30.160 Do in the next couple of weeks and how they 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.800 plan to fight the election. And an early shout out. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.440 The first Ourtown of twenty twenty five is in beautiful 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:37.400 Bateman's Bay. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:39.360 If you would like to join. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.600 Us in this beautiful regional part of New South Wales, 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.920 please send me an email Ourtown at sky News dot com. 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.240 Dot February the twenty third Sunday. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:48.760 A couple of weeks. I've got the biggest room. We 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.559 couldn't get as many people in as possible. So if 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:53.080 you're a fan of this show and you'd like to 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.960 join us in Bateman's Bay February twenty three outown at. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.000 Skynews dot com dot Au. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:03.120 Now and fire both are extremes that are affecting different 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.360 parts of our country. I start with this tonight because 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.160 it is the greatest urgency for the people living in 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.319 those areas. Not everything's political, so let's focus in on 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:15.319 these people and also look, there is no good news 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.720 out of these scenarios, but seemingly the situation in Townsville 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.400 has gotten better. However, the focus now moves a little 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.800 further north, about halfway between Townsville and Cans. Don't hit 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:31.520 me on the absolute kilometers, but basically halfway the city 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:32.000 of Ingham. 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:32.800 Now. 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.640 Ingham is a small but beautiful part of Queensland, and 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:39.600 it is being absolutely smashed. It has been smashed where 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.000 it has been cut off. It has no power, There 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:46.160 are problems with drinking water, there are mass evacuations, There 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:47.480 are all sorts of problems that are. 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.480 Happening in that part of Queensland right now. Here are 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.400 some of the people that are caught up in it. Now, 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.960 Strength and love to everyone in Ingham tonight. 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.360 There's so many properties around here that are so heavily 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.400 affected by it. In all my life to them, I've 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:03.360 never experienced so much water since I've lived here in Engham, I. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.720 Haven't seen anything like it. Bloody, it's hard, it's hard. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.160 A lot of people are doing it tough, very very tough. 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.280 I should also say when it comes to Townsville that 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.400 there have still been plenty of evacuations in evacuation centers. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.040 We're not pretending there's no story there. But the epicenter 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.160 of the problems in North Queensland right now, the most 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.560 urgent is what is happening right now in and around 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.880 in Ingham. This is the latest that the Queensland authorities 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:30.800 are telling the locals, and I pass on to you 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.720 tonight by a Sky News Regional Flash or Fox Tell. 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.480 We have more police on the ground than possibly ever before. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.120 We have almost six hundred police working across the region, 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.000 assisted bybout one hundred and forty police have been deployed 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.400 from other areas, coupled with hundreds of SES volunteers, and 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.840 as we heard earlier, there are hundreds more on the way, 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.079 not only from down south but from Mina State. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:53.079 Yeah. 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.400 In a second, I'm going to check in with someone 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.480 in Ingham for the latest information. How the Tan's holding 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.520 up and whether they are getting the support that they 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.640 so desperately need. Stick around for that, because obviously, if 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.720 you're in the middle of it, you desperately want to know. 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.680 If you, like me, love the people all over this country, 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.360 particularly regional Australia, well you want to know exactly what 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:12.680 help is on its way. 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:13.360 Meantime. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.919 Fires, now, you haven't heard a lot about these, because 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.040 again it seems like the media can only kind of 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.280 handle one thing at a time. But we know there 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.919 have been some fires in around the Grampians in Victoria. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:25.359 We know there has been. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.880 Several properties and lots of evacuations. This is the latest 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.800 that we hear from them about the events of the 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.000 past couple of days. And again I say for the 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.600 unday time, strength and love to everyone dealing with this stuff. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:44.480 That's really challenging forested terrain. We've got rocky escarpments, so 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.480 we can't necessarily just what we traditionally do is use 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.000 bulldozers to cut lines in around these fires and then 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:55.280 do backburning operations or burning out operations to remove the 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.559 fuel from in front of these fires. That is really difficult. 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.440 So we're keeping on all of it. If you are 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.320 in a position to communicate with us, please do so. 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.680 Paul It's goodnews dot com. DOUF you would like a 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.200 message to go out to the rest of the country, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.040 to the officials about help that is greater needed. But 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.840 as always, thanks to everyone who's the volunteer. Thanks to 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.640 everyone who is in the community helping a neighbor, a stranger, 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.320 family or friend. And thank you to everyone whose full 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.800 time job is to go towards people on. 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:25.360 The toughest days of their lives. A grateful nation says 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:25.760 thank you. 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:28.719 Of course, I would not expend such grace to the 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.120 politicians of our country, but specifically the Prime Minister. As 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.000 I explained in great chapter and verse last night, he 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.840 wants to pretend that everything is awesome, but the reality is. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:38.760 Quite the opposite. 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:43.239 Direct question today from Peter Dutton, it basically was along 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.600 the lines of what I laid out last night, again 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.839 in great detail, about everything that's actually gone wrong in 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.040 the past three years. And by that I don't mean 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.720 stuff that happened two years ago. I'm saying today on 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.760 February fourth, where Australians are compared to where they. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.440 Were on day one of albert Under this week Albanzi 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:05.200 Labor Government. Interest rates have increased twelve times, energy bills 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.200 have risen by one thousand dollars, living standards have collapsed, 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.840 twenty seven thousand businesses have gone insolvent, and we're in 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.160 a record breaking household recession. Will the Prime Minister now 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.760 apologize for promising Australians they would be better off and 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.840 admit that they can't afford another three years of this week, 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:23.240 Albanzi Labor Government. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:24.480 All right. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.280 The nature of the way the question was actually asked 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.320 meant the Prime Minister had well a giant hole that 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.160 he could jump through, and of course he said, nothing 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.200 to see here. You should be skipping in the streets 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.080 and thanking the great Landlord of Australia. 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:42.839 When we came to office. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:49.120 Really, incomes we're going backwards, Inflation was going up. Rises 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.640 had a six in front of it, and indeed we 0:05:53.760 --> 0:06:00.800 had people's living standards going backwards, and we had deficits, 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:05.320 a seventy eight billion dollar deficit that we inherited in 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.039 the March twenty and twenty two budget. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:10.880 But as we know, the Camera bubble and those who 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.279 protect the Canberra bubble, or they want to pretend the 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:16.640 Prime Minister's version of events that look, it's COVID style 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.360 where we've been through the worst of Congratulations everyone, you're 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.000 the new version of the ANZACs because we did this together. Well, 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.719 it's not going to work because unlike a situation like that, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.560 this one is so many more multiple fronts and they 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.720 are trying to say look over there, while the reality 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.240 of the experienced people are having is very different. Put 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:42.440 simply in Parliament House, every MP, every senator has got 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:47.560 three pay rises in this term. Every public servant has 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:51.159 got the biggest pay rise in a decade. They live 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.800 in very rarefied era and good luck to you if 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.000 you're on the gravy train. But it is as far away. 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.200 From the real world as you can imagine. 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.960 Because in the suburbs, and it doesn't matter if we're 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:07.480 talking about the suburbs of Perth, Dubbo, Darwin, Lonnie. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.240 Or you pick it where you are, the struggle, the 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:13.240 struggle is real. 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.840 And I'm going to show you this every night because 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.560 I want this to be as clear as day as 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.160 the Prime Minister tries to pretend I was a burning 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.920 binfire and then we put the burning binfire out and 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.640 thanks to the hard work of Australians. We've all got 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.360 through this together. There's not just light at the end 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.120 of the tunnel. We're out on the other side and 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:38.480 the open fields. The reality in February of twenty and 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:44.000 twenty five, after this first term of this awful government, 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:50.240 it's lying must be called out because the reality of 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:55.280 life under labor is as follows. Thirty percent of homes 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:59.240 are in mortgage stress, fifty eight percent of low income 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:03.400 households are in rental stress. Twelve interest rate rises have 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:09.080 resulted in fourteen thousand, four hundred dollars extra in repayments 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.280 for every five hundred thousand dollars that you have borrowed. 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.040 So double it to twenty eight if you've got a million, 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:16.960 and go from there. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.640 Those numbers again, not from some far right wing think tank. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:22.680 I've got the receipts. 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.760 I can gladly send them to anyone who wishes to 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:29.440 dispute them. Twenty one months, the average Australian has been 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:33.000 in a recession, while the government barely keeps itself alive 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.320 by borrowing money from China and just hurling it into 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:41.200 the air by, among other things, hiring more public servants. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.200 And giving them high pay rises. 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.040 So in the real world, it's the lowest living standards 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.880 since nineteen fifty nine. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.040 Twenty seven. Five hundred and eighty businesses have gone bust 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:56.480 since Alberanzi was elected. Three million people are this close 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:01.360 to homelessness. Three point seven million go hungry every single week. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.240 Yet despite all of those problems, let's bring in another 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:08.960 one point three million people to add to the ever 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:14.560 growing issues. And just a reminder to the Prime Minister 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.600 and the people who seek to give him a free 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:20.000 pass between now and the election because they like the 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.680 arrangements as they currently are, as opposed to a government 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.880 who promised to make it better being punished because they 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:27.560 failed to do so. 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:28.520 In fact, it got worse. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.320 There was an interesting piece of research which came out 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:36.320 today about just how little money the average Australian has 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:41.840 in the bank. Now think about this. According to Finder Today, 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:47.440 one in five Australians have less than one hundred dollars 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.320 in the bank, not five hundred, not one thousand, one hundred. 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:53.960 Now you think about where that. 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.559 Hundred dollars is supposed to stretch until the next time 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.880 they get a payment, either from the government via welfare 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:02.880 or maybe it's the fifteenth of the month when it 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.719 comes to work. If they're casuals, maybe it's each and 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:10.440 every week. That statistic is an indictment on the government 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.720 because it shows the reality of a society where more 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.800 people are having double jobs to make ends meet, yet 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:22.200 still one in five have less than one hundred dollars 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.760 in the bank. These are the people who are frightened 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.200 if something happens to the fridge. These are the people 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.719 who are frightened if the head gasket in the car 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.600 that they already fixed last year is going to go again. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:41.360 These are the people who will simply go without in 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.120 order to make it through to the next day. Supposedly 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.200 the people that the bloke from the housing commissioned stock 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.160 would remember, but of course he does not. He just 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.280 uses those people as a prop, those people as a 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.480 prop to say, I am of this flock. But in 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.760 terms of how he lives his life he of course 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.040 six hundred thousand dollars. Of course the Prime Minister should 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.040 be paid a significant amount of money that as an 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:09.040 example of the life lived. Come on the taxpayer funded mansion. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:13.200 The staff everywhere, let alone the people that, as I say, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.000 every person in the Parliament. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:17.720 The life of upgrade Elbow is. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:21.840 A very very long way away from the story of 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:22.559 which he. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.319 Was most famous for. Good luck to him. 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.240 He's done whatever he can to get to the place 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:31.880 that he always dreamed of, that being the Lodge. But 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.800 that is about as far away from the real world 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:39.560 as possible for any Australian. And good luck having this 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:43.440 bloke and the little dab too to be able to 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.920 relate to the average Australian. When yes, he has been 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.000 able to play the system. That means he's got a 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.960 bunch of investment properties. So on top of his six 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.440 hundred thousand, on top of his lifetime pension, on top 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.920 of the two taxpayer funded mansions, his property portfolio sends 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.760 him one hundred and twenty thousand dollars in rent each 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.960 every year. So good luck telling everything that everyone that 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.360 everything is awesome, because the reality in the Urbs is 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:10.640 it ain't and it got worse under your leadership. It 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:14.320 got worse because of your leadership. And they will send 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.160 a message. And I know this because the people who 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.240 are trying to find the way to build the case 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.760 for the benefit of the doubt the people who will 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.360 gladly reprint all the stuff that you've got in the 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:28.240 dirt unit, which has produced very little, by the way, 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.880 when it comes to Peter Dutton and trying to scare 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:35.679 people with ads, even on taxpayer television. When they sent 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:40.040 a reporter out into the western suburbs of Sydney on 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.880 a field trip, presumably not many people who work for 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.040 Channel two live in this part of the world. 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.480 Maybe this bloke did, Maybe he knew the right people 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:47.960 to talk to. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.880 He went to the seat of Wherrerower where Awer in 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.040 Sydney's West is one the Labour parties held onto for 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.839 a bloody long time, but its margins have been being 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:56.520 eaten away. 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:58.680 It's now at about five percent. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.640 It would be one of the seats that statistically could 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:05.800 be up for grabs at this election. And believe it 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.120 or not, it was breaking news on four Corners last 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.000 night what I have been telling you every night and 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.319 you have been living for three years under this bloke. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:19.040 But they did tell the part of the country that 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.000 would like to think it's not a problem that it is. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:24.240 For the first time. 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.720 Four Corners reveals that in eighty two percent of seats 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:32.280 most households are in financial stress, astonishingly up from just 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:37.360 eight percent three years ago. That's where paychecks barely cover 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:43.679 basic living expenses and WHEREWA has the second highest level 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.160 of financial stress in Australia. 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:49.400 It's up to the opposition to make the case that 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.280 it is time not just to break up with the 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.640 people you've always voted for, but that there is a 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.760 better plan They will achieve or not that in the 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:58.120 next few weeks and months. 0:13:58.480 --> 0:13:59.320 But people are ready. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.240 They are ready to for the first time for the 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.280 party they have never voted for, similar to Boris Johnson, 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.920 similar to Donald Trump. May be so when it comes 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.000 to the Liberal Party and Peter Darton, here's somebody who 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.000 you presume by the way they were presented in the show, 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.160 who'd been a regular labor voter no more in where 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:19.080 or were for this lady. 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:24.320 They're seeing that, you know, crime has changed, that it's 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.840 not the same place where they grew up, where everyone 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.680 got along, and it is becoming overpopulated, but there's not 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.800 enough infrastructure and supports out there to help maintain it. 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:39.360 And there's like some very different ideas are kind of 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.960 getting all mixed together and there's no kind of unity for. 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.560 Like the Australian values. You see that that's we're. 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.720 Losing a bit of that. We're overready for the labor 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:49.360 I don't think so. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.040 Yeah, and why not. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.560 Because we want to set your change and we think 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.680 that's probably the way the way that that can happen, 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.840 and that maybe the government starts looking at our area 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.680 as an area that isn't just going to sit around 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.800 and let what's happening to it happen. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.480 They even found an academic, yes, an academic who said 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:12.480 that Western Sydney is one. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:13.760 Of the parts of Australia that might be a little 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:15.960 dut and curious. We will all find out together. 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.040 But the Prime Minister needs to change his tune if 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.800 he thinks that he's going to be able to sit 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.479 inside the camper bubble where everyone's got three pay prices 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.280 on the floor of Parliament and all the staff, all 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.920 the rest of it, good luck because the people who 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.760 are watching on and to be honest, most of them 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.800 are not white because they've had enough of this bloke. 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.920 They are not going to fall for it. That's all 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.160 wait and see. But certainly one of the other things 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.000 that is really frustrating people is that the system under 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.560 which that we work, and by that I mean a 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.040 system that finds different ways to squeeze us all for 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.960 cash each and every day. Now, I've spoken at great 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.040 length and I try to show you that reports the data, 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:54.920 all the rest of it. Now, it doesn't mean we're perfect, 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.040 doesn't mean people are going to come for us. Absolutely, 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:58.280 if we have a swing, they're going to have a 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.000 swing back. You get how this works, right, But one 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:02.520 of the things that I've worked out that is one 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.720 of the most effective things that I can do as 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.720 a person who thinks the country is in the wrong 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.080 direction and we need to make a change. A way 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.240 is to arm you with the information to be able 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.600 to have the arguments that may well convince people or 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.440 maybe they see the video where they watch the show. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.120 Certainly I would like that. But let's talk about tax 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.200 Let's talk about where the government gets its money from. 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.320 Well, as I've told you many times, it's you. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.440 It's people working, it's the people paying as they go 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:35.720 each and every month. When it comes to taxation, all 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.480 of that has increased under this government. The dirty little 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.760 side taxes like booze and cigarettes and petrol, all of 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:49.920 those again at record highs under this government. And then 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:51.520 of course the cost of everything once you get to 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.760 a shop is nothing to do with tax, but it 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:58.160 means that what little money you have, you're very careful 0:16:58.160 --> 0:16:58.480 with it. 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:01.880 And when there is such a big part of. 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.360 Your income going to the government, you want to make 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.040 sure that they are actually taking care of people. And 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.919 if three point seven million people don't know where the 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:12.560 food's going to come from by the end of the week, 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.840 three million people are this close to homelessness. Even the 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.280 ABC telling you what, almost ninety percent of homes in 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.399 the key electorates are in financial stress. No one is 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.520 going to buy that this government has done well with 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:27.480 the money that they get. 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:28.920 Now. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:30.960 I don't know where this sits on the political spectrum, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.080 and sometimes I fail the purity test of being in 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.440 this pocket or that pocket, or singing from this song 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.440 sheet or whatever. I am who I am, And we've 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.840 been mates for a long time. And I don't know 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.199 whether this appeals to one side of politics more than 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.359 the other. But this that I'm about to show you 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.960 has to change. This is what Australians have had enough of. 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:51.080 Now. 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.639 For some that might be right wing economic populism that 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.800 they're going to be drawn to. For others, it's going 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.600 to be far left wing economic populism. But tell me 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.800 if you're okay with this system. The federal government, according 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:08.600 to Budget Paper number one, last year, it got six 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:10.560 hundred and fifty eight billion. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:14.240 Dollars in revenue. Forty seven billions dollars of that is 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.320 axis tax. Like I said, it's a beer and petrol 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:24.119 and cigarettes, even clothing and footwear. The GST eighty seven 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:28.159 billion dollars. Now that money basically is cutoff, doesn't get 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.439 hived off to the federal government, but goes back to 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:31.240 the states. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.719 And the states always are asking for more money. 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:35.600 They'd be the ones who'd love an increase in the 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.639 GST because that number would clearly go up in the 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:38.920 revenue that would come to them. But to be the 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.280 federal government that would end up copying the politics for 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.880 that quote unquote increase in tax. Of the six hundred 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.479 and fifty eight b for billion dollars the federal government 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.240 was expecting in revenue, one hundred and thirty nine billion 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:55.000 dollars of that is company tax. And the single greater 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.399 source of the three six hundred and fifty eight billion 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:03.199 dollars in revenue is personal income tax. Pay as you 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.119 go is now three hundred and twenty six B for 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.520 billion dollars. Do the sums on how many multiples that 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:13.600 is of beer and petrol, how many multiples that is 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.560 of company tax? How many multiples that is of the GST? 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:21.399 And we have a system that is broken. So when 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.360 they turn around and say, well, we deserve you know, 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.320 we deserve a pat on the back because too little, 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:30.840 too late tax cuts. Remember the overall tax cut per 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.800 week for somebody earning about forty five thousand dollars to 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:35.520 people in safe places like where are what? 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.800 Fourteen bucks? Fourteen dollars? 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.639 And when everything else was going up in prices, including 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:46.280 of course power. But it wasn't that supposed to be 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:48.560 fixed by now all of that has not just been 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:50.720 gobbled up. It was never noticed. It did not even 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:54.080 touch the middle, let alone the sides of the problem. 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.200 That in part is why the Prime Minister is where 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.560 he is. And guess what I've got even more bad 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:04.640 news for because the latest polling about the Prime Minister 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.919 and the opposition leader is fascinating to watch. As always, 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.680 I like that I go into the detail of or 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:13.880 I am able to give you the detail of the 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.320