WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 2 February 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.000 From the Skying Center. 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:05.080 This is Paul Murray Live. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.160 Thank you, gang, Welcome to Sunday Night here on pul 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.200 Murray Live. One for the hard Cause, one where we 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:11.800 are going to get. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:12.600 Right into it Tonight. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:14.480 Sunday Nights is where we have a look at the 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:15.080 state of the race. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:17.840 Now obviously the election ain't called, but we have to 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.239 look at what's going around. In a moment or two, 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:22.640 I'm going to give you some real insight into who 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.319 is playing the strongest hand when it comes to the 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.840 online world. But tonight, as always, we have Kossa Marris 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:30.200 will join us from Redbridge. 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:30.319 There. 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:32.440 The people have got lots of data behind the data 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.320 and the great Michael Kroger also no sook snow lefties. 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.639 So we're just firing up. So thank you so much 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.320 for watching. All right, obviously, let's keep an eye on 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.600 what's happening with our mates in North Queensland, because tropical 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.160 North Queensland is copying a bathering. I told you last 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:50.520 week about how that region had actually already received on 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:55.960 one day in some areas, one entire meter of water 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:57.960 in the past twenty four hours. Let's have a look here. 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.680 The darker it gets, the heavy the rain. Unsurprisingly, Townsville 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.880 a little higher, a little lower. That's where it is 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.039 all whacking away as we speak. That's more than one 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.200 hundred mills in the past sort of nine am to 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.280 nine am. So obviously the numbers for today are going 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.880 to be terrible. Lots of people having to deal with this. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.440 I've got family in Townsville. You know how often we've 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:19.360 done shows from there, So strength and love to everyone 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:20.800 who's dealing with this again. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:23.880 Let's hope that everyone's. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:27.080 Following the advice of the sees, all the different volunteers, 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.920 Emergency Services Council, all the rest of it. Here in 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:31.520 a moment or two, we're going to have a chat 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.080 to a reporter who is there, because I want you 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.640 to know what's going on and whom needs to be 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.720 leaving their hosts a house and for those what the 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:40.080 next of the wall is going to be. But here's 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.440 the latest that we've heard today from the Queensland Police. 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.240 There will be impacts to critical infrastructures such as power, 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:52.200 water and water treatment. If you are being asked to 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.880 leave your premise in Townsville, please do so because it 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:00.760 is really dangerous for you, your family and the emergency services 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.160 if we need to come back and rescue you very much. 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.120 So for the people that are doing the hard graft, 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.680 the many thousands of people who have had this experience 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.760 before when it was different water coming from different places, 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.440 but tropical weather. We know this to be part of summer, 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.040 but for it to be a big hit like this, 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.639 I mean a meter's worth of rain in one day, 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.280 that is the expectation of these twenty four hours, on 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.880 top of the ones that had been there prior. This 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:29.959 is some of their reaction to what they're going through 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.840 right now. Now Again, we know it's a Townsville, a 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.320 little further north, little further south, little touch in and 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.120 around Kansas well, So while the focus might be for 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.680 us in Townsville, I get it. You know, an hour 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.000 ring over in Charters towers, all sorts of stuff is 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.480 happening around this part of our beautiful country, and you 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:46.360 know how much I love it. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.480 Two young children, we've got a third on the way, 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.520 and it's just more about protecting the kids. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:53.200 So we've decided to take them over to your mother 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:53.680 in law's house. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.320 Just a bit disappointing thinking here it was only five 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.120 years ago and here we are again doing it all 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:04.320 over again exactly max in intermational But I'm just hoping 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.880 for the best guys again. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.799 Strength and love to everyone again the family that will 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:10.600 hear this message. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.040 All the best to you guys for the next little while. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:12.400 As world. 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.440 We'll check all in on you again during the day tomorrow. 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.720 Scott on his weather. We'll now explain exactly what is 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.560 going on. Yes, it's summer, Yes there's tropical rain, Yes 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:22.400 there's wet seasons. 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.680 But why is this so much right now? 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.280 It's a huge amount of rain, three to six months 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.639 worth for this time of year, even for the wet 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.120 tropics of Queensland. In it the wet season. Now the 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.520 forecast from Sunday night into Monday shows the monsoon trough. 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.320 This is that white dash line and the winds coming 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.680 it together. So this is leading it to a very 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.240 slow moving region of persistent heavy rain. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.680 All right, so hold on tight, we'll give you more information. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:49.680 We'll go live to Townsville in a moment or two 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:51.440 time as well as have we got the state of 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:55.400 the race. So cute little games being played by the 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.440 man who thinks he can slip through his way to 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.280 another term in parliament. Why because all those tea going 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.040 to be in place, nobody's going to change their mind. 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.480 I'm the one with more people who love me on 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.760 the internet. More on that in the moment now the 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:11.120 Prime Minister is playing a ridiculous game where a piece 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:16.440 of legislation which was introduced by his government based off 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:21.839 a report which was compiled for his government, is trying 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.719 now to pretend that the nature positive mess. That would 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:31.160 be something like the Heritage Orders in Western Australia, where 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.680 indigenous heritage meant you had to get somebody else to 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.279 double check whether you could do the smallest or the 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:40.320 biggest thing to the place of which you own. This time, 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:45.200 rather than indigenous heritage, it would be all around environmental impacts. Well, 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:50.320 they say that, oh, this piece of legislation is apparently gone, 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.680 but is it. The Premiere of Western Australia has made 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.520 it very clear he does not want this anywhere near 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:01.400 what looks to be a re elected labor government in 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:02.080 Western Australia. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:03.120 I don't say that because I like it. 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:03.400 You know. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.680 My thoughts on Roger Cook, particularly his performance during the pandemic, 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.039 that poor little girl who died in the hospitals. The 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.400 idea that he gets rewarded in any way. Not a fan, 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.719 but it is where it is in the book. He 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.240 seemed to believe that they're going to remain in government, 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.360 but something as bad as the heritage laws which they 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.720 introduced by the way at the State Parliament, that they 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.120 pulled because of its potential effects not just on the 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.480 government but also on the Voice a couple of years ago. 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:32.360 They don't want this thing anywhere near Western Australia. In fact, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.320 they've referred to the lat sippers that are pushing this thing. 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.960 These are the Greens or the Labour people who should 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:42.560 be Greens who want a stronger environmental cop Now we've 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.279 seen in places like Queensland the absurdity of things like 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:47.520 land clearing laws. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:48.880 I remember being in. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.280 Rockhampton for beef work a few years ago and people 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:52.039 were red hot. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.400 This is their land. They know how best to take 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:55.719 care of. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:06:00.000 It because breaking news, breaking news to the sharehouse kids. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.440 If they ruin their land, they ruin their business. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.840 So they want to take care of their land by 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.960 maybe clearing a tree here, clearing a tree there, because 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.160 either it's so close to the house that if there's 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.279 a storm it'll crush their house, or they. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:16.400 Want to get rid of the crap so they can 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:17.480 expand a paddock. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:22.320 I know, crazy stuff, crazy stuff, but a new Environmental 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.320 Protection Authority which always sounds. 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.760 Lovely and you think about you know, clean air and clean. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.280 Water, but all of those rules already exist. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:33.960 Instead a federal level of bureaucracy that is so red 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:38.479 hot that even a labor premier themselves say not on 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:42.440 our watch. Business groups have joined the same call. Over 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.240 the past couple of days. The Business Council of Australia 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.200 has said, shell this thing, get rid of it, don't 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.919 go back, don't touch it. In fact, the boss of 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.719 the BCA, brand Black, I think we've got a photo 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:53.200 of him here. 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:54.760 This is what he. 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.560 Said to The Australian this weekend, that they urge the 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.240 government to shelve the legislation after the election, then work 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.960 with all the stakeholders to undertake a holistic reform of 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:09.200 the Environmental Protection Act in line with the review which 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.880 had been put in place. Now that's relatively soft criticism 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:16.400 compared to what was happening with the Western Australian premiere. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.680 But I'm talking about this because guess what each way 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.960 albow saying one thing before an election and most likely 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.600 you will get something very different after don't wake up 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.360 and winge, don't tell me in two years. Jeez, I 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.400 wish we knew about We've been banging on about this 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.920 for months, months, and no matter their attempt to change 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.200 the subject. If the Greens are the tale that wags 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.000 the dog due to preferences and the cross bench, this 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:41.960 comes back. 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:43.360 In fact, have a. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.000 Look at this, despite the fact that the spin today 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:51.040 from Taxpayer Media was that Labor has shelved its contentious 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:55.800 nature positive laws, suggesting that in any interview with The 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.760 Conversation's Politics podcast, the Prime Minister has conceded he couldn't 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:03.160 seek to path the success for the reform, so at 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.480 this stage I can say we won't be proceeding with 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.960 it in this term, adding the Government. 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.360 Would continue to discuss the issue during the. 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:14.720 Next term of parliament. So is everyone paying attention? The 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:20.040 law is not dead. It isn't really even in deep freeze. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.320 The Prime Minister is simply removing it from the West 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.960 Australian election right now, removing it from the federal election 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:33.360 right now, with an absolute plan to reintroduce it with 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:36.200 what he believes will be more favorable numbers in the Senate, 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.240 or if he's in a minority government, there'll be a 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:43.960 wilder version of it because potentially Victorian Teals and certainly 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:47.120 the Greens where they will want it to be even bigger, 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:47.840 even louder. 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:48.559 Pay attention. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.520 How you vote matters, you know that, But where your 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.920 preferences go also matter. If preferences are the same way 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:59.360 they were back in twenty nineteen, then surprise result may 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.000 be on the carts. If it's bugging them all and 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.440 you want to send the preference out for a long wander, 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.600 then guess what you're most likely going to end up with, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.600 either the government we currently have or a reduced version 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.040 of it at the next election. We'll talk plenty more 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.800 about this, and others will pretend that they have always 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:20.920 fought the fight. You know how long we've been talking 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:22.920 about it. I look forward to talking about it, specifically 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.680 with James Ashby, who was the first to talk about 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:27.800 it here on Paul Murray Live, many. 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:33.040 Many, many, many, many many months ago. The first ads 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.360 of the election year are up and running. 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.240 Now. Most of these will end up on the Internet, 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:38.840 but we show them to you just in case they 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.200 pop up on your television. Here is the first ad 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:42.120 from the Libs. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.800 The right decisions aren't always popular, but I'm not interested 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.920 in taking me as you pass because we live in 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.520 the best country in the world and I'm determined to 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:54.959 get Australia back on track. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.240 And today the first ads from the Labor Party, and 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.000 they are going full time. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:06.280 Every little bit helps. But look who was opposed to 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.400 every single. 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:10.079 One of them. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.559 Whichever way you look at it, you'll be worse off 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:14.960 under done. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:17.120 This makes my blood boil. 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.080 And because they're in first, then any attempt to use 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.320 any form of that language will be considered copycat. The 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.640 idea don't vote for the other guy because it's going 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.000 to be worse. Right now, we remember this was a 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.480 failing way of running an election three years ago with 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:32.960 not easy under alb and easy. 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.440 But things have got worse on his watch. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.440 Oh well, potentially they're ever so slightly better, mate. 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:41.920 Look at a scoreboard. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:48.000 Okay, twelve interest rate rises on their watch, living standards 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:54.160 that are back to the nineteen forties nineteen forty nine, specifically, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:59.960 the value of the Australian dollar in trouble, three point 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.440 four million people who don't know where their food is 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.840 coming from, each and every week. That's food insecurity, not 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.800 to mention record homelessness. Throw on top of that, how 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.040 expensive the rental market is, how few properties there are 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.760 in the rental market. Yet this government is the one 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.320 who has decided to bring in more than a million 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:24.120 people to every single one of those lines. What absolute 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.839 garbage for the government to be arguing that despite the 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:28.760 fact that their promise was and. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.520 I love have it, no one's going to have a 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.480 hold on a littleccount for this I will. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.840 Their promise was twenty twenty two cost of living lower 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.000 under a labor government. That was their promise, that's before 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:39.960 they came in. 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:41.200 Instead, all of it worse. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.959 Oh but don't get rid of us because the other 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:47.360 guy will make it even worse. What a bizarre sort 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:52.040 of Jedi mind trick attempt at trying to gaslight the 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.719 Australian people. The reason I show you those ads is 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.319 because obviously in a couple of minutes we're gonna have 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.080 a chat with the lads to have a. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:00.640 Look at the state of the race, the state of 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:01.120 the ads. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.559 What message is potentially out there to move the people 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.920 that are kind of soft, the undecideds, which depending on 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:09.599 a poll could be five percent, or it could be 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:10.240 thirty percent. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:11.840 All of that up for grabs. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.280 But the reality is that Australia as a federal government, 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.560 despite the fact that it is taking on more revenue 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:19.720 than it's ever taken on before. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:21.199 Number one source of that revenue. 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.520 You You the person who is the payers. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:25.439 You go taxpayer. 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.920 They pay collectively more than the entirety of company tax, 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.719 the multiples of the entirety of the amount of money 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:36.240 out of the GST. And as a result of decisions 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.520 that have been made by this government, they have locked 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.640 in a deal where they will be spending more than 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:42.920 the money that they will. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.760 Be taking in. And it's not me making it up. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.480 It's their own document, its generational Report released a couple 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:52.240 of years ago by the Treasurer. I think that was 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.600 the same budget where they took fifteen hundred dollars as 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.800 the load of middle income tax offset of ten million voters. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.520 Oh you know, cost living, total focus. 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:05.640 That's the one where budget deficits from now for the 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.280 next forty years. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:12.200 Say look the next forty years. That is the expectation. 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.280 Oh it, it's ever so slightly better, and then it 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.280 gets really bad. You know, the deal here right, there's 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:18.880 only so many times you can put money into the 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.120 never never. Well, this is the never never, kids, and 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.120 this is the stuff that's just in the budget, little one, 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:27.280 the tens of billion dollars that's being invested off budget. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.920 So there is pressure on the opposition not just to 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.920 make the most of this politically, and they are generally 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:36.840 hovering around the right spot, which is they need to 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.160 rain in how much money is being spent by the 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.280 federal government. Now, of course this will be instantly interpreted 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.840 in the way the Labor Party always does, which is, look, 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:46.200 I'm going to give you a dollar now, but I 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.800 promise to give you ten in five years time. And 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.280 then the loops come in and say, okay, you can 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:51.599 keep your dollar, but we're not going to give you 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.880 ten in five years time. Cut nine dollar cut is 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.560 on its way to money you've never got. 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.000 It's just a made up promise from apology into the neven. 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:01.199 Ever. 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.959 Well, Peter Dutton, talking about spending, did so today again 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:07.080 on taxpayer. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:11.840 Telling if we find wasteful spending, our intent is to 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.160 cut it and that will result in obviously an overall 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.880 reduction in government expenditure. And if you're saving twenty four 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.000 billion dollars plus over the forward estimates with. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:21.880 The public servants. 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:23.960 That's money that you can either use to pay off 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.960 debt or you can use to put downward pressure on inflation. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.360 Now that's it those of us that would like this 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.640 fight to be as close as possible. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.720 Coming down to the last counting on the night in 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.840 Western Australia to decide exactly what type of government we're 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:41.800 going to get. Is it going to be Team Read 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.000 with a majority, Team Read with a minority, Team Blue 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.240 with a minority, Team Blue with a majority. There are 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.320 predictions out there for all of those options. The bookies 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.040 think that that will end up going a Team Blue's way. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:57.320 But they decided to not name a huge amount of 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.040 specifics about the areas that they are going to pull 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.240 back on. Why because they want will avoid this cut 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.920 cut cut cut cut staff that the Labor Party is 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:08.520 expecting to launch as its attack on the alternative Prime minister. 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.280 The problem is when you say this. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.560 We need to sit down and look through an erc process, 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:17.280 which would. 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:18.800 Be the normal course of things. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:20.760 Will do that in government. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.880 Everything will be interpreted by the Labor Party as being 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.920 on the table. Remember the nonsense they did with medi scare. 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:31.960 The entire actual factual basis of medi scare was that 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.440 an option had been written down on paper by the 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:43.240 bureaucrats about some back office staff and efficiencies that's privatizing. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.360 They had a whole election campaign about it. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.640 Imagine what they might be able to do with a 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:52.560 verbal blank check that's being suggested there. Now, I know 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.920 that Peter Dutton, when laser like and when on message, 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:55.480 he wins. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.880 Why did you see what happened with the voice. 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:03.640 Australians believe always that when their personal circumstances are as 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.920 difficult as they are right now, that the government should 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.720 be feeling the same sort of difficult financial circumstances that 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:13.760 they are. So there is absolute strong area here and 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.680 just sit in amper gymper price. It is her job, 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.520 of course, to be across all of this and to 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:23.120 start serving up some examples. Serve up some examples. Do 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.080 one a week, do three a week, But just keep 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.480 pounding away, because if you have lots and lots of 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.480 those little examples, well it's going to help narrow the picture. 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.520 And that, of course is what we will be discussing 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.240 a little later tonight. Lots of data details and all 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.640 the rest of it will be following. But let's get two. 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.400 What is happening right now in North Queensland. And Lauren 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.360 Forbes joins us now from mighty Townsville, which is yet 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.120 again copying it, this time with almost a meter. 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:48.800 Worth of rain. 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.640 She is safely away from it right now, but looking 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.360 like she's in one of the main drags there right now, Lauren, 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.320 give us an idea of how the town's holding up 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.440 and what may be happening tonight. 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.960 Well, Paul, roads have turned into rivers and floodwaters have 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:11.119 swallowed streets, cutting off entire communities at some points today 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.920 now here in Townsville, it seems like waters have begun 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:19.840 receding this afternoon, but it's giving a sense of false relief. 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.320 The danger still remains. There's more relentless rain on the 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.200 way in the coming days, and we could see rain 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:31.280 totals of up to a meter all the way until Wednesday. Now, 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:36.000 that's why at least six areas, six local communities in 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.360 low lying areas here in Townsville have been put under 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.920 an evacuation order that's in place as of midday. Now 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.280 we'll get those areas up on the screen. It includes Cludon, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:52.320 Hermit Park, Idailya and Nunabar Railway Estate and ross Lee. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.479 Now as we go to Air Paul, I just received 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.399 a text message from the emergency management team that's been 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.640 run out of the city Council says that we shouldn't 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.440 return to the area, which suggests that some people may 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.640 be considering that as they see these waters slowly received 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.560 but it is low tide typically at nighttime here in 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:15.240 North Queensland. Now police have spent the couple few days 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:19.720 door knocking the area warning residents of these potentially life 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:24.000 threatening floods. Now up to one thousand and seven hundred 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:28.080 homes could potentially be inundated and go under these waters. 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.359 Now further north here from Townhill in Ingham, that's where 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:38.320 tragedy really unfolded this morning an Sees vessel it went 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.879 under with us. At least six passengers on board. Five 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:46.080 were located safe, but tragically a woman has died. Now 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:50.120 Premier David chris of fully has expressed his deepest condolences 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:54.000 and obviously they're that tight community. That tight community is 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.000 also raveling from this tragedy. 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:02.000 There has been the loss of life in floodwaters in 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:06.560 Ingham and that's a really tight knit community and our 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:08.720 thoughts and prayers are with the family. 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.199 Now, as you mentioned before, Paul, some areas have copped 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:18.479 up to eight hundred millimeters of rain, that is nearly 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.919 a meter of rain. Now it's not just impacting the 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:27.240 floodwaters here at supermarkets across towns Will Supermarket at the 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:31.720 shelves in supermarkets are empty. More than eight thousand propies 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:35.400 are also impacted. They're left without power and as well 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:39.120 as Townsville Airport it's been closed down earlier today around midday. 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:43.840 Now that's stopping inbound and outbound flights today and tomorrow. Now, 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.959