WEBVTT - Sharri | 1 May 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:05.200 Live on Sky News. This is Sharry. 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:07.960 Good Evening Tonight. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:13.280 Albanez he can't rule out raising taxes if he wins. Meanwhile, 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:16.079 his plans for death duties scare off voters. 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:17.720 The full details in a moment. 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:21.000 Plus I'll give you my verdict on who's best to 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.959 govern the nation a head of the election, and my 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.840 prediction of how many seats Labor and the Coalition will 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.800 each win. Also on the show, nine reported Nick McKenzie 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:36.040 admits to unlawful conduct in pursuit of a story. This 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.320 admission in court after Ben Robert Smith won his bid 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.360 to have the secret recording hurt Well how this all 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:47.239 unfolded a little later, Another massive show tonight with just 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:51.199 Into nabag Imper Price, Basil zemplus James Willis, Adam Crichton 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:58.280 and Moore. Now newspapers publish editorials right before elections, pointing 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.480 readers in the direction they. 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.280 Believe serves the nation best. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:07.080 The nine mass Heeads will almost certainly endorse Alvin Easy, 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.039 while the Australian and News Court Metros couldn't in all 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:15.080 good conscience do that. The Sunday Telly has already backed 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:19.280 in Peter Dutton. Well tonight, for the first time in 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.480 my journalistic career, I'm going to offer a pre election 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:28.360 editorial endorsing one side of politics, not out of partisanship, 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.800 but out of necessity. This election matters more than any 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:38.240 in recent memory. At stake is our national security, social cohesion, 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:43.240 prosperity and the very capacity to feed our families and 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:48.320 save for retirement. With our values under threat from enemies 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:53.720 at home and abroad, our country needs strong leadership, a 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.960 prime minister prepared to defend what we stand for as 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:03.160 a nation and govern with conviction. Well, Anthony Albinezi is 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.520 not that prime minister. After three years in office, he 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:13.760 has proven himself unfit to govern. His character, judgment and 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:19.600 instincts are fundamentally unsuited to leadership. His far left ideology 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:24.240 is out of step with mainstream Australia. Not only has 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:28.560 he failed to deliver, but his government has weakened our nation. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.760 Ronald Reagan famously posed this question in the ninety eighty 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.600 presidential debate against Jimmy Carter. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.839 Next Tuesday, olive, you will go to the polls, will 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.560 stand there in the polling place and make a decision. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:47.560 I think when you make that decision, it might be 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:51.160 well if you would ask yourself, are you better off 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:56.040 than you were four years ago? Is it easier for 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.000 you to go and buy things in the stores than 0:02:58.040 --> 0:02:59.040 it was four years ago? 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.200 That question are you better off? 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:08.639 Help deliver Reagan a landslide victory For most Australians who 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:13.600 ask themselves this now the answer is a resounding no. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.760 So let's look at how Australia has fared under Albanezi 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:22.480 at the kitchen table, at the national level and globally, 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.600 and everything I'm about to tell you is factual. 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:28.440 Across the country. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.760 Families are worse off as a direct result of the 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.320 alban Easy government. We've been in a per capita recession. 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.960 Energy bills are up thirty three percent, food has surged 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.280 by fourteen percent, and a typical mortgage is now fifty 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:49.640 thousand dollars more. Families are taking on multiple jobs to 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:55.200 make ends meet, but their purchasing power is diminishing. Financial 0:03:55.240 --> 0:04:03.720 stress flows through to children and affects marriages. Can't afford toys, clothes, holidays, 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:09.240 even healthcare. It's all pervasive. Charities are turning away parents 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:14.040 who can't put food on the table, school students open 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:18.360 empty lunchboxes, and families who've always had a roof over 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:22.880 their heads find themselves homeless or living in cars or 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:27.720 tents on the side of a highway. Albanize has repeatedly 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:32.159 failed to show that he truly understands these devastating real 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:37.440 world pressures. And how could he As he jets around 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.000 in his private plane that he calls Toto I after 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:45.559 his dog. With nearly thirty years on the public teat, 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.200 he prefers to fly, then take long car trips. He 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.159 says this is because of his bad back, yet then 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:58.680 dares to argue against petrol tax relief. Now that's the 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.520 picture at the family life, at the kitchen table. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.280 Then at the national level, our. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:08.880 Nation's piggybank is in its worst ever shape. Taxes have 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:13.000 reached a record high under the Albanezy government, with workers 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:18.640 paying three hundred and thirty one billion dollars last financial year. 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.479 And here's another record that Australia will break under the 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.839 Albanezy government, debt. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.120 Reaching a trillion dollars next year. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:33.760 Now, to reiterate that point, never before have Australians paid 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.080 so much tax. 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.760 And instead of using this wisely, the. 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:44.880 Albaneze government is spending more than ever before ratings Agency 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:50.200 Standards and Poor is so concerned about structural and hidden 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:55.120 off budget spending that the agency has warned the Albanezy 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.400 government that it's now at risk of losing our Triple 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:03.279 A credit rating. And despite promising not to touch Stage 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.320 three tax cuts, which were intended to correct bracket creep, 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:13.160 Albertezi broke his word, leaving hard working Australians shouldering the 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:18.560 tax burden of Labour's big spending agenda. Worse still, Labor 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:25.039 plans to tax unrealized capital gains, money people haven't even received, 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:27.400 and there are new taxes too. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.160 On cars. The price of a Forward Ranger will go up. 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:36.880 By around fourteen thousand dollars, and death duties or an 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:42.200 inheritance tax even looks likely under the next term. 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.040 Now, turning to Australia's position. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.919 In the world, we are at our most vulnerable in 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:50.080 the post war period. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:51.240 Now. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:55.320 It is true the Albereneze government has re established trading 0:06:55.360 --> 0:07:00.120 relationships with China, but at what cost. The Albanize the 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.560 government has shown weakness in the face of Chinese aggression, 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:09.120 even when our defense personnel were injured, off threatened, and 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:13.680 China threatens our sovereignty with live firing exercises off our coast, 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:19.080 and there's almost no pushback from the Prime Minister. His 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:24.840 weakness was epitomized by this cartoon of Johannes Leeks showing 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.960 him on a leash held by Shijing Ping, and Albanesi 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:33.760 was so infuriated by this cartoon that he carried it 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:39.040 around with him in his pocket to unfurl and complain about. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.120 It's always the truth. 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:46.000 That hurts the most, because on foreign policy, Albanesi has 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:51.400 been diabolical. He's deliberately blurred the lines between our allies 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.360 and adversaries to such an extent that he can't say 0:07:55.960 --> 0:08:00.520 the United States is a closer friend than China. 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:04.320 Who are we better friends with China or America both? 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.880 He underestimates the democratic values that bind us to America, 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:16.240 values that our soldiers sacrifice their lives to defend, and 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:21.360 he ignores the authoritarian practices, including the imprisonment of Cheng Lei, 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.200 the murder of whistleblowers, and the suppression of free speech, 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:31.080 that make China fundamentally incompatible with our beliefs. And likewise, 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:35.960 his failure to stand firmly beside Israel, a democracy fighting 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:42.800 terrorists who slaughtered and still hold hostages captive is inexplicable 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:52.360 and alarming. His equivocation isn't diplomacy, it's moral cowardice. Threats 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:57.760 in our region are escalating, from Russia to China. It 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.480 would be prudent to prepare for the future by investing 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:01.840 more heavily in defense. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.320 Yet Albanesi has failed to do this. He has also. 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.200 Failed to establish the most basic level of communication with 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:13.400 the President of the United States, our most critical ally, 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.520 and this, in large part is in direct consequence of 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:22.040 his own misjudgment in appointing his mate Kevin Rudd to 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:26.160 the post of ambassador in Washington, a move, by the way, 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:31.560 he told Australians he wouldn't make in yet another broken promise. 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.880 So from the kitchen table to the nation's piggybank. In 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.000 our place in the world, Albanesi. 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.319 Has left us bereft. 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:45.119 And that's not to mention the litany of broken promises 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.560 and scandals too numerous to name them all here, but 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.559 they include the release of criminal detainees, some who went 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.760 on to re offend his high immigration policy, the housing crisis, 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.240 wasting over four hundred million dollars on a device a. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.640 Voice referendum, and the crime wave in parts of the 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:09.599 country and more. Now you may be sitting. 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:13.240 There thinking, well, I'm a journalist on Sky News Australia 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:17.720 and thus you'd expect me to have this perspective. Well, 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.640 I'll tell you why this is not the case, because 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.679 I know Albanezi personally. Yes, he came on my show 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.960 in twenty eighteen, and I've interviewed him on many occasions 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.200 for The Daily Telegraph as well, but it was more 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:38.120 personal than that. I've had numerous dinners and coffees with him, 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:43.079 sometimes with an editor as well, sometimes one on one. 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.080 He's even picked me up in his car after working Canberra, 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.400 or dropped into the News Corp offices in Surry Hills 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.960 for a cup of coffee. This was one dinner in 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:58.120 twenty seventeen. Now, I respect the tradition of such meetings 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.280 being off the record, and so I wo divulge what 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:05.199 was discussed on any of those occasions. But the reason 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:09.200 I'm sharing this publicly with you tonight is to say 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:13.440 that I did get along with Albanezi personally, I enjoyed 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.760 his company, and that my comments now are not from 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.720 a position of political bias, as you know I often 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:27.680 strongly praise and endorse the centrist state labor governments of 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:33.200 Chris Mins and Peter Malanaskis, but the truth is I've 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:38.959 been deeply, deeply disappointed in Albanesi's leadership. And there's no 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.880 greater issue where this has been the case than on 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:48.360 anti Semitism. His betrayal of our Australian Jewish community for 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:55.760 political and ideological purposes has been heartbreaking and shocking. We've 0:11:55.840 --> 0:12:00.199 faced anti semitism not seen since nineteen thirties pre war Europe, 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:06.120 and it's now irreparable, and it's the Prime Minister who's 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.880 allowed it to flourish. He didn't have enough courage to 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:15.760 stand in solidarity with those unjustly demonized. He's quick to 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:20.840 condemn white supremacists, and rightly so, but he couldn't stamp 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.600 out or call out the anti semitism from the Muslim 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:29.080 community or the pro Palestinian protest movement, where it's been 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:34.040 the most prevalent. His decision to rush through nearly three 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:38.640 thousand visas to a terror controlled state without adequate security 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:44.200 checks shows how he abandoned his care for all Australians. 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:51.520 His failure of basic leadership allowed antisemitism to spread and 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:57.560 has directly jeopardized the safety of Jewish children in Australian schools. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.599 And it is not an exaggeration to say there's a 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.440 lack of safety. The AZIO Director General, Mike Burgess said 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.680 plainly that the greatest threat to life in Australia in 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:13.880 twenty twenty five is anti Semitism. This alone is unforgivable 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.520 and should disqualify Albansi. 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.199 From future leadership. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:23.480 Now, my response to his failure and anti semitism is 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:28.280 visceral as a Jew, as a mother, and as a 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:34.840 proud Australian, because this is about safety, equality and rejecting racism. 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.520 This is not the Labor Party of Bob Hawk. It 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:42.120 is a radicalized device, a version led by Albanesi and 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.960 his inner circle Petty Wog, Tony Burke, Katie Gallagher and 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:52.160 Chris Bowen. They've overseen crises in immigration, housing and social 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:57.160 cohesion and their incompetence as they've damaged down Nation has 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:02.880 only been outmatched by their arrogant I also believe that 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.480 in life, most of us try to do the right thing. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:13.200 We're honest, we apologize if we make a mistake. But 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:17.240 alban Easy's growing list of broken promises belies a personal 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:21.840 failure to abide by a moral code centered on truth 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.000 and integrity. 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.680 There's a difference between spin. 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:31.120 And outright lies, and alban Easy forgot that distinction a 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:36.520 long time ago. Now, Peter Dutton hasn't run a perfect campaign, 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:41.480 far from it, But as the Sunday Telegraphs editorial says, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:46.800 a superior campaign should not outweigh three years of pain. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.760 And it's a point Peter Dutton himself made today. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.600 A lot of families who are really doing it tough, 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.400 for a lot of small businesses who have closed over 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.960 the last three years. And this election really is a referendum, 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.080 not about the election camp, but about the last three 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.280 years of government. Are you better off today than you 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.840 were three years ago? And what will it be like 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:07.360 under three more years? 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.720 And is the entire coalition front bench ready to govern? Well, 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:17.000 perhaps not quite, but they won't further erode. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:21.320 What makes our nation great. I believe that Dutton's. 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:26.120 Instincts, his values, and his moral clarity are solid and unwavering. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:30.960 He would never compromise the safety of a community for 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:36.440 political expediency. He speaks the truth, even when it's unfashionable 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:41.800 and leads by principle not popularity. At a time of 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:46.040 global volatility and financial pressure. He offers the courageous and 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:51.640 calm leadership our country needs. His strength is the antidote 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:58.080 to the drift, weakness, and moral ambiguity we've endured under Albanezi. 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.640 Another term of Labour means means three more years of confusion, 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:09.080 division and decline. It's time to turn the page on 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:10.720 this period of stagnation. 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.200 A Dutton prime prime minister ship. 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.160 Would give our great nation the fresh start that we 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:25.480 so desperately deserve. Okay, and a bit later in the show, 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.000 I'm going to give you my election prediction, how many 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.920 seats precisely I think the Liberal Party and Labor will win. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.360 But now let's bring in our Thursday panel tonight WA 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.360 Opposition leader Liberal Leader in Wa Basil Zemplus and the 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:43.880 Daily Telegraphs journalist James Willis. Welcome to you both. Look, 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.960 I'm going to start with you, Basil. One of the 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.880 most cutting messages in this campaign has been how the 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:55.280 Prime Minister has lied on many scare and other scare 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:56.840 campaigns and seems. 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.360 To just get away with it. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.200 Do you think this is now going to become the 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.159 new normal in politics, seeing as it has been so effective. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.320 It is very unfortunate, I've got to say, and obviously 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.320 people will know this. I've just been through my own 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.080 election campaign and been on the receiving end of very 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:18.479 strong arm labor tactics. Now that's fine, we're all big kids. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.960 We have to play in the environment that we're in. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:25.800 But it has become a repeated pattern of behavior, particularly 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:30.080 from that side. And if it were in reverse, we 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.600 know the hows that we would hear, yet that we 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.119 would hear. Yet for whatever reason, it has become an 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:42.320 acceptable policy or an acceptable position for labor in election environments. 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.359 It's not what Australian people want or deserve. It's not 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.320 really playing the game fairly. Although we all know it's 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.240 a robust environment. You've got a cop, what you've got 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.480 a cop. But I think we can do far better. 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:57.280 And if they're the tactics you're resorting to, what does 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.000 it say about the people resorting to those tactics. 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.639 Indeed, and we even saw today in an interview with 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.840 Andrew Klenell, the Prime Minister couldn't rule out raising taxes 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:09.600 under the next term and office. 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.399 Have a look at this do you undertake not to 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:13.800 raise any taxes. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.240 Well, what we've got, Andrew, is our policies out there 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:20.560 for all. 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.320 To see, So you won't raise any taxes. So that 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.720 what we've got out there, Andrew, is lower taxes. 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:33.320 I mean, that's pretty appalling, James, that you know, effectively, 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.879 that's an admission we probably will have new taxes, and 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.920 they'll have to have new taxes to keep our triple 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:39.640 A credit rating. 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.399 Well, and just the other thing is because they're spending 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.560 so much money, at some point you have to find 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.720 money from elsewhere so the books don't look as disastrous 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.400 as they have been. He also was asked about whether 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.879 he could guarantee a surplus again and was unable to 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:53.199 do that. 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:55.720 But look, I think the biggest. 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.639 Missopportunity of this entire campaign has been what Labor is 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.200 planning to do if they win this election. In regards 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:06.879 to what you spoke about the unrealized capital gains and 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:10.760 the idea that this could extend beyond superannuation, there's some 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.160 stories this week that talk about it being small businesses, 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:17.760 talking about enterprise, talking about farms, and basically taxing you 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.800 on money that you haven't even received physically, and the 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.679 idea of raising seven billion dollars over ten years as 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.520 a result. Now that's a massive problem and has the 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.040 potential to hurt a lot of people that have already 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.680 paid tax their entire lives. They pay tax at the 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:33.520 petrol station, they pay text every time. 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:35.360 They know with genst and everything else. 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:39.080 They suddenly get to retirement and the super balance goes whack, 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:41.240 and the Prime Minister's saying, well, it's one in twenty 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.160 super funds by the time people retire that are young. 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:45.840 Now it's going to be a lot more people that 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:49.320 are over that threshold. And because the Greens are going 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.160 to and this cross bench could likely have a big 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:55.160 larger say that kind of policy could be far worse 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.200 than what we expect. So if I was the Liberal Party, 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.320 I would have been smashing that over the last few weeks. 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.080 I think it's really problematic. But we also know, Sherry 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.480 that the prom is to promised not to change superannuation. 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.040 He wouldn't change the Stage three tax cuts. You lied 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.760 about both those things, and they promise not to squirt 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:14.800 money around. In jin Chalmer's words, well that's what they've done. 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.000 There's been so much spending under this labor government and 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.720 money that can't actually justify results. 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.840 And the other thing that Standards and Pause is concerned 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.000 about is that it is structural spending. 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:27.479 It's built in spending. 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.480 It it's not like it was during the COVID pandemic, 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:33.359 when it lasts a couple of years, it's stimulus relief 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:34.080 and then it comes off. 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:35.760 This is all built in spending. 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:38.560 Bazilo want to ask you about what James just spoke 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:42.800 about Labour's policy, and they've got draft legislation on this 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:48.080 to tax unrealized capital gains and potentially there's also talk 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.560 that they might even have to introduce some sort of 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.200 inheritance tax or death duties. 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.760 That if Labor are resorting to these tactics, they seem 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:05.560 to be getting away with them and are not held 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.080 to account. That tells us I think a little something 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:12.439 about the broader environment. But on those particular taxation raising 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:17.080 areas that they may be going to exploit, there is 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.719 no clarity, there is no truth in delivery there, and 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:24.199 yet they are very very quick to point the finger 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.840 the other way. For me, one of the issues again 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:29.800 is why is it that they seem to be able 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:31.520 to get away with it. What is it about the 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:34.879 environment that we are in that they are not called 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.760 out successfully on some of these mythstruths that they have 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:40.440 told well. 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:43.240 And the answer to that is that, you know, the 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:46.480 Coalition needed to do a better job of pointing this out. 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:48.960 They needed to run much tougher. 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:52.080 Advertising campaigns highlighting the policy, and then of course the 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:54.680 media as well. But you know, where not the opposition, 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:58.040 the Coalition should have run those ads. And you know, 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:02.040 I know, James, the Coalition has just now started running 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:07.240 some pretty strong small adverts. You noticed one on X 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:09.200 if we've got that let's have a look at that ad. 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:11.600 It's coming now. 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:19.000 Are you kissing your boss? 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:26.800 Yeah? Yeah, yeah, author liberal camera, very effective ad, James. 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.040 A lot of these have come too late in the piece. Yeah. 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:32.320 We read today that Labor has spent across YouTube and 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:36.040 Facebook and meta about five million dollars compared to two 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:39.360 million I think from the Coalition. So with young voters 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:41.600 plus then you've got the Greens and you've got Climate 0:22:41.600 --> 0:22:44.840 two hundred spending money in that space. They have done 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:49.720 an excellent job at trying to create this impression that 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.080 Peter Dutton is a really bad guy. The Liberals are 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:53.960 out of date, they don't know what they're doing, they're evil, 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:56.040 they don't care about the planet. It's all those sort 0:22:56.040 --> 0:23:00.280 of key messages while spreaking their own messages around correct yeah, 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:02.200 or they're not going to give you a hex debt 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:05.200 cut and all those things that add to me. And 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:08.000 that was from a media conference the other day with 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:10.080 a Prime minister did a quick visit to a seat 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:13.479 that points to the PM's character. And this is a 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:15.600 man that says that he grew up in Housing Commission, 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:16.800 He's always been a battler. 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:17.680 He goes to. 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:21.560 South Sydney football games. That's a labor volunteer that has 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:23.359 been standing out in the rain at one of his 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:26.040 booths that says, my husband wants to say hello to you, 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:28.280 and he says yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:31.400 to go. And that moment to me was just one 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:33.879 of those ones where I thought the Liberal Party should 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:36.199 be putting that on every billboard in Australia because it 0:23:36.280 --> 0:23:38.399 goes to the Prime minister's character and how out of 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:40.720 touch he is become in this role and how as 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:43.080 you say, he's a thirty year politician. He loves the 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:46.840 com cars, loves the jet and has forgotten that grassroots 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:49.600 volunteer that says, we're here, my husband wants to meet you. 0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:50.720 No time for you. 0:23:50.800 --> 0:23:52.320 Sorry, Yeah, I agree. 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:55.600 It's appalling, and that volunteer would have been there from 0:23:55.680 --> 0:23:58.359 eight to ay in the morning when creepole opens, the 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:01.240 entire day, day and day out. She has that encounter 0:24:01.320 --> 0:24:05.600 with the Prime Minister someone presumably she idolizes and he 0:24:05.640 --> 0:24:06.640 waves her off like that. 0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:08.679 I mean she might have taken tome off work, she 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:11.120 might have whatever she's been standing out there handing out 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:13.800 so that he wins again and he goes, I don't 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:14.320 have time for you. 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:17.640 Sorry, No, I know, it's really terrible, all right. 0:24:17.680 --> 0:24:17.880 Look. 0:24:17.920 --> 0:24:20.600 One of the most egregious lies about the coalition spread 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:23.720 by the Albnesi government has been the six hundred billion 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:25.440 dollar figure on nuclear. 0:24:25.520 --> 0:24:29.240 Have a look the six hundred billion dollars that they'll 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:31.440 need for their nuclear fantasy. 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:34.840 Peter Dutton can't find the six hundred billion dollars he 0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:36.960 needs for his nuclear reactors. 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:39.520 Now basil, of course. 0:24:39.280 --> 0:24:43.399 This was from an anti nuclear lobby group. 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:48.879 Yes, and look, here's where we have to take our 0:24:48.920 --> 0:24:51.440 hats off to the Labor Party and particularly the team 0:24:51.480 --> 0:24:54.560 that have run this very effective campaign for them. They 0:24:54.600 --> 0:24:58.280 seize on these opportunities and then they repeat the message. 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:01.080 They stay disciplined, and you hear it over and over 0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:03.960 and over again. And unless you can do something to 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:07.640