WEBVTT - Paul Murray Our Town: Newcastle 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:05.360 Live from Newcastle. This is Paul Murray live out of town. 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:11.399 Can I leaf Hello, Hello, Hello, loving to see you. 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:16.200 We are specifically a fighter world the William Town which 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.279 is just up the road. There is so much to 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.520 get to tonight, and I'll tell you what. There is 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:22.880 no better place to be in the middle of winter 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.280 than right in the middle of an airport hangar. It 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.440 is crispy in here, and by that I mean, of 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.000 course freezing. Now great night we have ahead. In a 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:32.760 moment or two's time, we'll get to Maddi John's will 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:34.760 join us live from Paris. But of course he's one 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.120 of the most famous Newcastle Knights of them all. But 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:42.760 let's start with the Olympics. Australia is winning the Olympic Games. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:47.440 Ladies and Jelema at the top of the table. Finish it. 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.200 It's over. Don't watch it anymore. Nothing better will happen 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:52.159 than night one. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:52.960 All right. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:57.920 Australia currently on top with three goals, ahead of the 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:02.480 People's Republic of China. We've beaten China. It's something for 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.360 one day, and then the US of course, and then 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:09.920 France and then the Republic of Korea. But congratulations to everyone. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.360 What a spectacular effort was but from the three Golden Girls. 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.959 Of course, Arion Tipmas a very strong part of our 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.319 team here in Australia, but also a big part of 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.039 her supporters come from our mates at Harvey Norman. She 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.800 did a spectacular job and she is going to go 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.040 round again in the next twenty four hours. And as 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:28.560 we told you on Thursday night, when you actually have 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.160 a look at all of the Olympic medals, the gray 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.800 bit in the middle is actually part of the Eiffel Tower. 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.560 My question still remains, there are hundreds and hundreds of 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.680 these things to be handed out. Which leg did they 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:43.240 cut off the Eiffel Tower to put onto those medals. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.120 We'll get to all of that, of course. The road 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.400 cycling as well. We got to gold there. I love 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.320 we did. I'm a fat bloke who did nothing, but 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.280 for seventeen days every four years we did it right. 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:58.320 Oh how good were we swimming? How good were we cycling? 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:05.840 Wait till we start doing rhythmic gymnastics. Also one of 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:07.960 my favorite things that happens every four years when it 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.200 comes to the Olympics. We are all experts on everything, 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.720 like we just know. Oh seriously, at eight point five. 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.160 You're kidding me. At best, that was a seven point two, 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.880 Like we've got any idea, but it's fun to watch, 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.440 and of course it's all happening as we speak now. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.560 Again not the artist of people, but I will give 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:32.480 the French just a little breathing room. But that opening 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.840 ceremony was kooky, right, Like all of them are a 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.200 little bit kooky, and all of them go on too long, 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.560 and all of them are a little bit cringey. Like 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:42.919 I went back and watched the Sydney two thousand ones 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.720 and I went, oh, jeez, a lot of drys a bone, 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.960 which is great, good people, but a lot of it 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.880 was there. There was Kylie on a pink thong in 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.320 the closing ceremony, so let's not pretend we nailed it right. 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:58.200 But the French with the Mary Antoinette, her head was 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.000 cut off and blood is spurnted at the top of it. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.560 I'm watching the highlights with my kids and little z eighties, 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:08.519 like Daddy, what happened to that Laney? And I don't 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.320 know that much about my history that I'm going to 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.160 go back and tell her what happened to Marie Antoinette. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.400 All I will say is something about cake and then 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:15.880 they ripped her head off, and then they made a 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.760 song about it and let the people sing. Apparently needs 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.160 to be shown that La mis arrahb every two years 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.240 at the State Theater. That's all I know. But of 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.480 course the French Revolution all the rest of it. Then 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.120 of course there was whatever the hell the dudes who 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.480 look like me with no shirt on. I'm all sort 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.000 of doing a bit about the Late Last Supper. Okay, 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.080 who knew Papa Smurf had a kink, but apparently he does. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:45.840 Now we will talk to Maddie John's about what's happening 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:47.280 in Paris, what it's like to be in Paris, And 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:48.760 of course he is, as I say, one of the 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.560 greats of the Newcastle Knights, so we'll talk to him 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.600 in a moment or two time. I reckon he is 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.600 having an awfully good time while he's there. But good 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.800 luck to everyone who's involved. Now, speaking of teams that 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.000 represent all of us. Anthony Easy, of course, not just 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.120 the greatest prime minister, but he's the greatest athlete of 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.440 all time, the greatest Olympian of all time. And like 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.160 all politicians, you know when they hey, hey, I see 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:16.120 how Newcastle votes. It ain't one hundred percent what this 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.200 room is cheering right now, but it's good to see 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:20.919 all of your votes turn up every three years. It 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.839 is good to see all right now. Of course today 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.760 he was doing his bit where he was announcing the 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.359 reshuffling of the deck chairs on the Titanic. But have 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:35.279 a look at how he compares himself and his government 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:40.200 to the Australian Olympic team. This was him today, no 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:41.679 editing press play. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:47.359 Australia is a great sporting country. We punch way above 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.279 our weight imp capita terms, and Australians will all be 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:56.200 cheering on the team tonight. I'm also very proud of 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.800 the strong team that I'm privileged to lead as your 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.680 Prime Minister. A team that is united, a team that 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:08.360 is ambitious, a team that is absolutely focused on continuing 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.520 to deliver and work for Australia. 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:17.920 Yeah, exactly the same, right, like exactly the same anyway. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.880 Another pole telling us what the reality is for the 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.960 government right now is the despite their protection racket inside 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.040 the camera bubble of the bubble, of the bubble, inside 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.719 the bubble next to the bubble with the WhatsApp that 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.440 talks to the bubble. Another pole comes out today saying 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.919 that things are not looking good right now in afflection 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.920 was held and it wouldn't be, but still the liberal 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.160 and national putty is in front, according to the Redbridge pole, 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.479 fifty one and a half percent. Now, what's fascinating to 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.200 watch here is that if you dig deeper into the numbers, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:46.920 and you know, I'm the data dude, so I won't 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.320 bore you too much with it, but literally, the people 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.520 who've got lots of money and got no money and 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.840 all in between, currently favoring the Libs. The people who 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.400 own a house, paying off a house, renting a house, 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.839 currently favoring the Libs. So think about where the politics 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.360 is supposed to be at the moment where the two 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.880 little too late tax cuts get It's almost like somebody 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:10.720 made this point a thousand times that it wasn't going 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.960 to match, and it didn't work, and it didn't sugar 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:14.840 hit and all the rest of it. Let's put it 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.440 this way. The only way Albo could quickly change his 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.080 polls whack on a wig and call himself Kamala, And 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.360 that's the way that he might get a little change, 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.520 just a little one, and then we'll see what happens 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.440 then of course that would mean Peter Dutton has to 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:32.080 pay himself Orange. Okay, bad ideas, all bad ideas, but 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:37.039 we're having a chat right now. Interestingly, this pole adds 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.120 to the wider trend. Now remember they always say, oh, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.520 this one pole doesn't count and it's only one and 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.320 the biggest polls election. All of that true, And I'm 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.039 not somebody who believes that it is going to be 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.200 at this stage most likely a one term government. But 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.600 trend is always worth noting here, and it doesn't matter 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.960 whether it is the left wing, the right wing, the 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:58.760 news Corp, the Channel nine newspaper, the freaking Guardian opinion poll. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.120 Have a look at what's been happen. This is all 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.480 current numbers on primary vote preferences. Of course, who knows 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.359 where it all ends up, but you need to have 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:12.240 a look here that at the last election the Labor 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.760 Party is about the same at thirty two percent in 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.240 Newspoll and red Bridge, but it's down four points in Resolve, 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.200 three in Essential, one in fresh Water, one in Morgan. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.640 I remember that was the lowest level they had got 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.920 in the best part of a century. If that was 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.400 to be repeated then most likely the Greens in some place. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.720 It's a couple of places the Libs. The question is 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.760 all about the Teals and what happens there. But the 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.760 Libnat vote is up two point three in News poll 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.720 five point three in red Bridge. Red Bridge, by the way, 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.400 does a lot of polling for the Teals, So let's 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.520 see what data comes out of that two point three 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:51.080 for the resolve down in the Essential Pole, which happens 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.640 to come out in the Guardian, but still fresh Water, 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.680 it's up four point three and in Morgan it's three 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.160 point eight. So despite the fact that the Poles are 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.720 where they are, the Prime Minister has had to make 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.560 a couple of changes. But it's not like we saw 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.840 these changes coming. Apart from the fact that we all 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:10.160 saw them coming. Clueless Claire O'Neill and that idiot Andrew Giles. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.200 What they did to the border, what they did to 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.680 national security was a disgrace. You could be the hardest 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.840 of hardcore labor supporters and know it will be people 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.160 who didn't vote for it and be even more aggravated. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.680 But this was the Prime Minister standing by Andrew Giles 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.960 and Claire O'Neill over and over and over again. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.920 I will be continuing in their roles. Impeter dutt in 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.840 another day, another bit of negativity. 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.440 I have no. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:40.880 Intentions of making changes imminent. 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.360 A guess who got the ass today? The very two 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.720 people who he was apparently saying, we're the best ministers 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:51.120 of all time. Time out of Home Affairs, out of immigration. 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.640 Andrew Giles now makes his way too. Sorry, the fighting 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:58.439 gents are just taking off. I don't know where they're heading, 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.520 but New Zealand make sure you get a good night's 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:05.679 sleep now choking, Relax everyone. Of course what happened was 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.120 is that Andrew Giles now goes off to skills or something, 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.920 which is more ironic because he doesn't have them. And 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:12.600 then of course Claire O'Neil is going to go off 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.840 to housing because she knows how to build them. I 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.040 don't know, it's ridiculous, right, But the person replacing them 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.720 is Tony Burke. So does anyone think Tony Burke is 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.400 going to do any better with the borders than the 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.439 other two. And my favorite detail of the reshuffle, and 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.480 again normal people could not give a tuppen th razu 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.960 about a reshuffle. But not only does he keep most 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.400 of his former ministries, he gets all these at it 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.280 on top of it, so he's simultaneously in charge of 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:46.040 Home Affairs, Immigration, but he'll remain the Minister for the Arts. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.440 How does this work, I don't understand, but anyway, so 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.840 he will be apparently tossing all of those things at 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.840 the same time. Meantime, is there about to be an 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:01.000 early election? Now? Remember the earliest that can happen August. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:02.880 For one to be called for the end of August, 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:04.800 that it have to happen now, So now we're looking 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:09.680 at earliest case scenario September, but of course September October 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:14.079 Queensland election and the US presidential election could be that 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.720 where you go for the distraction. Otherwise we'll see what happens. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.240 So most likely November December obviously, if it's to take 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.640 place this year. But I wanted to show you the 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.640 game that the Prime Minister is now going to play. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.720 And this is so infuriating because look, he calls it 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.240 when he calls it right, he calls it next week, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:34.440 next month, next year, and we're all ready. I'm pretty 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:35.800 sure you will know how to vote in the next 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.240 little while. I'm pretty sure you'll all bring a pen 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.920 with you. I know the people in this room. They're 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:46.080 bringing a pen no pencils. But the reality is is 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.920 that it's got to happen sooner rather than later. Prime 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.360 Minister started to play the game that the Camber Press 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.120 gallery loves more than anything, which is Prime Minister, Prime Minister, 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.000 will there be an election anytime soon? Well, seeing you asked, 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.840 let me announce it. No, but he leaves the door open. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:05.599 From now, I would expect that this is the team 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:10.320 that I will take to the election when it is 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.400 held sometime in the future. 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.000 And this bloke is a little high on his own supply. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:18.920 Now we all know that Albo thinks he's the best ever. 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:25.040 He's comparing himself to the Australian Olympic team. Does that 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.000 mean there's like a little Laurie Lawrence running around in 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.880 his head going go Albo, go get on your son, 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:33.040 get in there like that's how he pumps himself up 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.640 every who knows. Right, when he starts stealing Japanese flags, 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.800 there's a litt Dawn Fraser inside him. We'll all see 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.240 what happens, okay when he goes to the G seven 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:45.320 and starts taking things. But have a look at how 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.679 he spoke to a reporter today. Now again I'm no 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.360 faner the Cambra Press gallery. But how patronizing is this 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.720 leader of the country with a reporter doing a natural 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.400 follow up to the when is the election going to be? Vague? Question? 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.640 Is this a guy who is doing anything other than 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:00.440 playing games? 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.920 What's you take given the elections sort of around the corner? 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.440 How much of this light around the corner? 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.320 Although I keep reading August thirty one, which means I 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.000 need to go see the GG this afternoon. If that's 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.199 the case, you really no one out there, not necessarily. 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:19.120 What's the car, mate, see where it goes? It's the 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:20.440 one with the flag on the front. 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.880 How much of this ministry, particularly your senior players, some. 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:25.280 Of whom. 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.760 Seriously, this guy he just keeps hitting him, doesn't he? 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.000 And there is six and out because they keep hitting 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.680 the neighbors roof six and out six and out almost 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.800 likely the neighbor's cat. I know that was Malcolm Turnbull. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.800 Now let's talk here about another little issue which was 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:47.080 allegedly which was that Matt Thistleflake. Now he of course 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.000 was appointed to the most bizarre of the ministries when 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:51.600 now they first became the prime minister two and a 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.839 big years ago that scenario was that he was the 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:58.160 Deputy Minister for the Republic and then sixty percent of 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.439 Australia said hell no last year. So guess what disappeared today, 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:05.559 the Ministry for the Republic. But despite the facts, you 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:06.400 like it, okay? 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:06.680 Cool? 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:13.120 So despite the fact that it was his idea and 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:17.079 he named someone for the job, right, he kept them there, 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.080 did not sack them, did not move them, did not 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:23.880 anywhere else. Right. Anthony Alberanezi, when asked why did you 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.040 get rid of it now, blamed the previous leader of 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.280 the Labor Party, Bill Short and have a look for 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.000 a decision he made today. 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:33.760 I thought, you've asked. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.599 The Republic as a portfolio. 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:37.240 Why have you done that? 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.000 And he's had an admission that that was a bit 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:40.600 of an indulgence and not realistic. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:47.679 Well, the portfolio was appointed first under the previous Labor leader. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.400 It's something that I inherited. 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:59.200 What is his fault? What is his responsibility? Now? Fingers crossed. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.640 Inflation members, they stay in the line ball territory for 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.720 the Reserve Bank if they mirror what had happened last 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.800 month as opposed to the month before. When it comes 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.680 to what it will happen with June with inflation, interest 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.040 rates go up. If interest rates go up, we are 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.680 told eight hundred thousand more Australians end up going into 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.720 mortgage stress. This is on top of the millions more 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:22.560 who are finding it very difficult to pay a house off. 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.160 There's a serious worry of people right now. We've had 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.120 the money blasted against the wall of fourteen bucks a week. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.080 That didn't change anything politically. That could well have gone 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.760 into many other things, including in my view, if a 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.640 government has a surplus, they should take a couple of 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.040 billion dollars and give it straight to the charities that 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.960 are actually doing the things for the difficult times right now, 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.560 right because it helps. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:46.360 Thank you? 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:50.160 I cliche, It's just like it really gets me. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:50.480 All right. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.240 Let's quickly get to the States and the question I 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.280 will be asked right up until November the fifth. No 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.160 doubt it's Trump going to win, Paul, do you think 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.680 Trump's still going to win? What's going to happen when 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.640 it comes to Trump? Now, I've got to say well 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.080 done to the news corp sites around the country that 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:05.760 have had to come up with a slightly different way 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.960 of covering what felt like a pretty boring campaign. But 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:10.520 now that, of course, is all changed in the past 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.840 couple of weeks. It's called United Mates. This is when 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:17.480 it's a cool idea. They're going to go and visit Brisbane, Hobart, Sydney, Adelaide, 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.600 Perth and Melbourne, but not in Australia. They're going to 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.760 Brisbane in California, Hobart in Wisconsin, Sydney and Ohio, Adelaide 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:29.200 and Pennsylvania, Perth in Delaware, and Melbourne in Florida to say, hey, 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.960 what do you guys think of what is happening with 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:36.160 this election? And this is part of their series that's 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.360 up on the websites. Now it's good, well, well. 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.960 Let's go office. The country was in far better shape 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:43.360 than when we came into office. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.560 The economy was on fire. He got us involved in 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:48.160 any war. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.160 That is the scariest human being that I've ever encountered 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.160 in the United States of America. 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.440 I think he wants to be a ten. Now are 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.480 things tightening, Yes they are, but we're still not close 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.640 enough to know enough data as to whether this thing 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.800 has become fifty to fifty, has gone Harris's way, or 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.800 is staying Trump's now, remember when Biden's brain exploded before 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.320 the world one point change, when the former president's ear 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.080 exploded one point change. Whether there'll be a bigger change 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:15.720 as a result of a change of candidate will find 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.720 it together. Betting Market's fifty seven forty in favor of 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.880 Donald Trump. That has come down from the high sixty. 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.200 So it is a change. So we'll see what happens. 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.760 In terms of the swing states. Of the six that 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.160 are here, the Republicans would end up winning five of 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.240 them right now, that would be a pretty comfortable lead. 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.680 But the media is doing its best, including CNN to 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:40.280 tell us that Kamala Harris is Obama in a skirt 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:41.720 and Hilary with the braid. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.800 I think she is someone who comes across as very fun, 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.360 as very engaging, as very relatable. I can tell you 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.920 that's been my experience with her whenever I've interacted with her, 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.840 and she is someone who really cares about people, and 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.200 it's sort of like a cool aunt in a lot 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:58.080 of ways. 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:02.480 The cool auntie Radio now also, But then jd Vance, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.159 who is a problematic figure and I'll get to that 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.040 tomorrow night with what some of the issues are with 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.640 him as the running mate, but he's kind of mini Trump, right, 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:13.000 No apologies, double down, including having a crack at the media, 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.119 because the media are the ones who held up Biden 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:16.479 are now trying to pump up Harris. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.960 We've got some of our friends in the media back 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.240 there and after. 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:33.919 They deserve it. I don't think I look like him. 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.720 Somebody said I did. Clearly. If I look like him, 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.440 it'd be unelectable, right, Nobody this big gets to run 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.120 for vice president. All right, let's have a chat nowt 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.119 to the wonderful Maddie John's we love Maddie of course 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.240 on Fox League Legend of the Newcastle Knights Rugby League 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:51.320 football club. A wonderful man. He's got a great new 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.520 podcast up with James Madison. We'll get that in the second. 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.600 But have a look. He's got it all behind him. 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.760 The Olympics happening in the Eiffel Tower. This just screams 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:04.840 and Newcastle boy to me, yeah. 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.639 Paris what it's not exactly Sessanov, but it's okay. Poulie 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:12.040 having a great time here. It's been fantastic. Last night 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.800 when it was Arion Tipmas it was really really something special. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:19.000 But it's been fantastic here. 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.399 We went down watched the Matilda's in Marseillese beautiful city. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:24.080 It's been fantastic. 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:26.520 It was a little bit a little bit probably the 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.159 opening ceremony, it was a little mixed. They had the 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.320 It was a great idea, I thought, putting the athletes 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.240 on the boats. But yeah, it didn't really they didn't 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.400 really pull it off. Of some of the poor countries 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:45.040 weren Dinghy's. I think one bloke was on a boogie board. 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.480 Eric the Eel is still following up right now, give 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.800 us an idea. I mean that opening ceremony right again, 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:55.240 French artie, contrarian, all the rest of it. But when 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.119 I said before, when I had to explain to my 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.880 six year old why the ladies head was cut off 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.040 and blood was coming from it, it was a weird 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.040 moment I didn't expect to have a chat about when 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:06.080 it came to the Olympics. 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.440 Yeah, it didn't really scream an Olympic spirit. 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.879 No, it wasn't. Sort of I didn't sort of think, 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:19.439 you know, faster Hire further was relation to the guillotine. 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.280 But you know, perhaps that's their exhibition sport which is 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:24.080 coming up. But give us an idea. When you said 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.639 about being there with the swimmers. You know, watching it 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:28.960 on the telly, it's infectious and it didn't matter whether 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:30.120 you watched it in the middle of the night live 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.240 or saw it a thousand times to day. But I mean, 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.720 she's an amazing athlete. But the number of people there, 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.959 I mean, when a French person swimming, it's awesome. But 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.399 what I love about a swimming crowd is that it 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.320 is able to follow best in field and doesn't just 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:48.640 go silent because the person swimming isn't from their country. 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.720 Paul, you the atmosphere at all the events has been amazing. 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:59.400 I went to the rugby seven's yesterday at the Big 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.000 Stadium there and I mean it was remarkable bender Grand 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:07.080 Finals State of Origin matches, but I've never heard anything 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:09.280 like it. When the French team ran on the field, 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:13.479 it was deafening. It was amazing in your right, like 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.919 in the background. Now you wouldn't be able to hear it, 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.800 but you know you can hear the roar occasionally with 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:20.200 the beach volleyball. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.000 It's terrific. And you know you said about the swimming. 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:26.440 We spoke to the Tipmus family, Ariane's family straight after 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:28.280