Speaker 1: From the Skying Center. This is Paul Murray Live. Hello.
Speaker 1: I couldn't be feeling better. I had a long weekend.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much to James Morrow for filling in
Speaker 1: on Thursday night.
Speaker 2: I'm mighty excited because the mighty West Tiger's won just
Speaker 2: keep them at like, can't keep them there. The victories
Speaker 2: will keep piling up, and the poles are turning the
Speaker 2: way of common sense. But most importantly, I'm here, we're chatting.
Speaker 2: That's my favorite place to be. So let's get straight
Speaker 2: into it now. The air cover that has been coming
Speaker 2: for the Prime Minister and his cause has been not
Speaker 2: very subtle in the past couple of weeks. In fact,
Speaker 2: in just one newspaper outlet alone, these are the types
Speaker 2: of cartoons which have been running against Peter Dutton.
Speaker 1: Remember when all else fails, Get Doteon, Get Dotteon, Get Dotton.
Speaker 2: Now, of course they moved through everything to do with
Speaker 2: the Paris stuff, and then they just come right out
Speaker 2: and say, Ozzie Trump. I've been talking about this for
Speaker 2: some time. The narrative, not the news. It doesn't matter
Speaker 2: what's actually going on. It's about trying to create anything
Speaker 2: but the existing power structure. As a threat to democracy.
Speaker 2: Extreme two extreme, you know all of that stuff, right.
Speaker 2: These are the people who said that the Liberal Party
Speaker 2: did the wrong thing when it came to not backing
Speaker 2: the voice ended up being where.
Speaker 1: The people are.
Speaker 2: It's been in the wrong place when it comes to
Speaker 2: talking about immigration instead, that's where the people have been.
Speaker 1: It's in the wrong place.
Speaker 2: Going after that, idiot Andrew Giles will guess what more
Speaker 2: proof in the right place.
Speaker 1: But last week or the damn walls had broken.
Speaker 2: Remember the great detail we went in last week about
Speaker 2: the Labor Party inventing the idea that the Liberal Party
Speaker 2: was going to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord.
Speaker 2: Now was the week rolled on? Yes, the opposition came
Speaker 2: out and said we're not going to lock ourselves into
Speaker 2: the targets that the Labor Party said that we didn't
Speaker 2: vote for, and if Australia makes us the government, we
Speaker 2: wouldn't have to honor. You know, crazy stuff, right, But
Speaker 2: goodness me, the political establishment clutching at their pearls they
Speaker 2: have been.
Speaker 3: But what about the investment opportunity aspective? It is like the
Speaker 3: hard reality is if you had this confusion and the
Speaker 3: companies that are putting the money into different types of energy.
Speaker 3: What happens for them in this period.
Speaker 4: Create more problems about the level of investment that is
Speaker 4: going ahead and more confusion. And it's certainly not going
Speaker 4: to improve prices.
Speaker 5: To be really clear, our nation has no hope of
Speaker 5: hitting that zero by twenty fifty if we do not
Speaker 5: have interim targets. And the people of North Sydney are
Speaker 5: incredibly pragmatic. They understand that.
Speaker 2: Oh more about these soon to be former MP for
Speaker 2: North Sydney in a moment or two is time now.
Speaker 1: I won't lie.
Speaker 2: When I sat here a week ago and I had
Speaker 2: read the headlines all day, I'd started to think, well,
Speaker 2: hang on, we know that climate change a very definite
Speaker 2: view of that under the age of fifty, there are
Speaker 2: more voters under the age of fifty than over.
Speaker 1: How does this work?
Speaker 2: And then I've got to say, Matt Canavan, put me right,
Speaker 2: just like you did with that Greens person by the way,
Speaker 2: put me right by saying, well, hang, it's just about
Speaker 2: right or wrong, don't overcomplicate it.
Speaker 1: That's what their view is.
Speaker 2: Well, what about this the set of stones that it
Speaker 2: takes for the Labor Party to now come out and
Speaker 2: say that the Liberal policy of not going renewables exclusively
Speaker 2: will there'll be too much of a cost in that transition,
Speaker 2: the same cost of transition that they wouldn't earn up
Speaker 2: to in twenty nineteen, and they lost an election that
Speaker 2: they lied about in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: And now Australians are noticing.
Speaker 2: That all of these extra targets they end up costing
Speaker 2: you and I to build the relevant infrastructure instead, they
Speaker 2: imagine it's already already been built for hundreds of billions
Speaker 2: of dollars, almost to trillion dollars, if you will. But
Speaker 2: we've already chosen that path and that's the way that
Speaker 2: it goes. So Penny Wong today is out and about
Speaker 2: saying Peter Dutton will increase your power bills. Yes, seriously,
Speaker 2: the Labour Party is now arguing that the the other
Speaker 2: guy is going to raise your power bills, when they
Speaker 2: of course have seen power bills go up by hundreds
Speaker 2: and hundreds and hundreds of dollars. The too little, too
Speaker 2: late that they offer in the budget was about three
Speaker 2: hundred dollars or twenty five dollars a month as a
Speaker 2: credit only for twelve months. Well, the cost of transition
Speaker 2: plays on. Yep, that's what Penny Wong's trying to get
Speaker 2: people to believe today.
Speaker 1: This won't fly. This won't fly. But here we go.
Speaker 4: Mister Dutton's walking away from climate action again is a
Speaker 4: recipe for higher energy bills in Australia. And I'll come
Speaker 4: back to that. It is also him yet again abandoning
Speaker 4: the field in the Pacific. You know, I still get
Speaker 4: when I move around the Pacific people remembering him joking
Speaker 4: about climate change by talking about water lapping at the
Speaker 4: door of Pacific nations. People still remember that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But when the Chinese premiere is in town, as
Speaker 2: he is right now starting in at making his way
Speaker 2: towards Canberra, the Reagan Australia is going to mention at
Speaker 2: all that. As we've shown to you how many times
Speaker 2: austraightly one percent of the world's problem, China about thirty
Speaker 2: percent of the world's problem. We're meaning those Pacific island
Speaker 2: nations are not actually being swamped by Australia. They are
Speaker 2: being swamped by the climate outputs of China, among other
Speaker 2: nations that will continue to pollute however much they want
Speaker 2: till twenty thirty. Now again, all of this is about
Speaker 2: appealing to apparently everyone under age of fifty who doesn't
Speaker 2: believe in God.
Speaker 1: But does believe in Gaya, who believe that we.
Speaker 2: Must ruin the earth with solar panels and wind farms to.
Speaker 1: Save the atmosphere.
Speaker 2: We're having a debate, as we had all last week,
Speaker 2: about what percent of one percent of the world's climate emissions?
Speaker 1: Oh no, but what about per capita? Yeah, that's not
Speaker 1: how they're measured.
Speaker 2: It's not measured off population, it's measured off how much
Speaker 2: is up there in Australia, one China thirty times. For
Speaker 2: his part, Peter Dutton says that while the destination remigns
Speaker 2: the same, Ne's zero twenty fifty.
Speaker 1: Now the Labor Party.
Speaker 2: Thinks they can do it with windmills, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: says we can do it with nuclear power. Both will
Speaker 2: cost money to build, but one will ultimately be a
Speaker 2: more reliable source of energy. And this entire week that
Speaker 2: has gone and we went in chapter and verse and
Speaker 2: we showed you how. It was a couple of lines
Speaker 2: in an interview in the Australian newspaper last week that
Speaker 2: got whipped up into the Paris stuff, which was apparently
Speaker 2: a giant distraction from the government who for months has
Speaker 2: been on the back foot, and they thought that last
Speaker 2: week we were on the front.
Speaker 1: Foard and we're kicking backside.
Speaker 2: But Peter Dutton has nailed the fundamental issue that has
Speaker 2: constantly been in polling in and around climate change in
Speaker 2: Australia since it became a mainstream political issue in two
Speaker 2: thousand and seven, ten, thirteen, sixteen, nineteen and twenty two elections,
Speaker 2: is that Australians would like some action on climate change,
Speaker 2: but we're not willing to pay for it, and we're
Speaker 2: currently paying for.
Speaker 6: It and we're fully signed up to zero by twenty fifty.
Speaker 6: But if you think it's a linear progression, they will
Speaker 6: cripple the economy. So I think we have a look
Speaker 6: at all of that information and if there are settings
Speaker 6: that we need to change, then we were changing. But
Speaker 6: if it means helping families with the cost of living
Speaker 6: crisis that labor has created.
Speaker 2: So all week hair on fire, the media bubble inside
Speaker 2: the bubble, clutching its pearls, the media trying to give
Speaker 2: cover to the Prime Minister who is constantly failing on
Speaker 2: his central promise of doing anything about cost of living.
Speaker 2: And finally, Peter Dutton gave them the opportunity to get
Speaker 2: into what they were going to. Only problem was, guess what.
Speaker 2: The Australian public always has a way of bursting the
Speaker 2: camera bubble, and that bubble is burst tonight. The City
Speaker 2: Morning Herald, the Age of the Brisbane Times, as well
Speaker 2: as their Channel nine newspapers, well their version of an
Speaker 2: opinion poll is called the Resolve Political Monitor. It was
Speaker 2: put in place after the failures of polling in the
Speaker 2: twenty and nineteen election that didn't quite see what you
Speaker 2: and I saw coming at the time. So they don't
Speaker 2: give us two party preferred, but they do go deep
Speaker 2: on all sorts of other issues, and tonight the headline
Speaker 2: is that Peter Dutton, not Anthony Albanezi, is leading right
Speaker 2: now as preferred prime minister.
Speaker 1: Now again, one poll, not an election.
Speaker 2: An awful lot of people in the middle would still
Speaker 2: trying to make their mind up. But you would think
Speaker 2: the unelectable politician who has just come up with the
Speaker 2: most insane idea Australia's ever heard, would be going backwards.
Speaker 2: And I know that's the Prime minister who's going backwards.
Speaker 2: This poll was in the field from Tuesday of last
Speaker 2: week till Saturday of this weekend, meaning it was there
Speaker 2: for the entire time and guess what happened. Labour's vote
Speaker 2: went down dramatically, so they are now sitting at just
Speaker 2: twenty eight percent primary. Now, the last election they were
Speaker 2: able to get about thirty two percent from memory, but
Speaker 2: that number of twenty eight percent is the lowest number
Speaker 2: since this pole was put in place for the Labour Party.
Speaker 2: Now again it's one pole, but as part of a trend.
Speaker 2: Remember Newspoll told us that things were fifty fifty. This
Speaker 2: would clearly be two party preferred in favor of the
Speaker 2: Liberal Party. But who knows, of course, with teals and
Speaker 2: their seats and all the rest of it. But this
Speaker 2: should be the kick in the backside the Prime Minister needs,
Speaker 2: firstly to sack the idiot Immigration Minister. Secondly to actually
Speaker 2: start to understand that his cost of his transition for
Speaker 2: his target that he passed through the Parliament with the
Speaker 2: Greens is not working with the Australian public. Because the
Speaker 2: Australian public is always worried about our own back pocket
Speaker 2: and our kids' chances of ever owning a house, and
Speaker 2: this government, while yap yap is not actually interested in
Speaker 2: those things, and I can prove it to you again
Speaker 2: issue by issue. Let's have a look here on economic management.
Speaker 2: During this term Labour was in front of the coalition.
Speaker 2: The coalition is now well and truly in front forty
Speaker 2: to just twenty four percent significant number of people. In fact,
Speaker 2: the equal number of undecideds are there as well as
Speaker 2: the government. Now, what this pole seems to have shown
Speaker 2: is that they've stepped back from the government rather than
Speaker 2: jumped to the opposition. But on economic management, Oh but
Speaker 2: role Gold greatest ever? Are two surpluses in a row?
Speaker 2: Jim Chalmers's best ever? Yeah, well, guess what polling not working?
Speaker 2: Which party do you think performs the best when it
Speaker 2: comes to national security? In defense forty two to twenty three.
Speaker 2: Which party do you think performs the best when it
Speaker 2: comes to managing the finances the Liberals forty one to
Speaker 2: twenty six for the Labor Party. Which party do you
Speaker 2: think performs the best when it comes to immigration? Jesus
Speaker 2: is there a surprise there that it is thirty eight
Speaker 2: to twenty one. The only place where the Labour Party
Speaker 2: has and advantage, but not a particularly big one. Despite
Speaker 2: the fact there was a week of extreme reactions. So
Speaker 2: the destination is the same NED zero twenty fifty. But
Speaker 2: how we get there and how fast.
Speaker 1: We get there?
Speaker 2: Well, Labor is two points in front of the Liberal Party.
Speaker 2: Someone else other than the other two presumably is Greens
Speaker 2: or teals, and undecided is the biggest number in the bowl. See,
Speaker 2: I've sat here for long enough, and you have sat
Speaker 2: there with me that every pole, every time.
Speaker 1: Tells us would we like some climate change action?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be nice, But Australians know that we're not't
Speaker 2: a going to vacuum. Well, we are a very significant continent,
Speaker 2: one percent of the world's problems, China thirty percent of
Speaker 2: the world's problems. Now, by the way, despite the fact
Speaker 2: that is the cold, hardcore data, what I've just said
Speaker 2: to you is referred to as misinformation by climate groups
Speaker 2: because they go for the per capita number, not the
Speaker 2: how much.
Speaker 1: Do you put in the sky?
Speaker 7: Some of the.
Speaker 2: Comments in this pole again is the wake up call
Speaker 2: for the Prime Minister, the kick in the backside that
Speaker 2: he should have got a.
Speaker 1: Long time ago.
Speaker 2: But this is the same blow who decided that an
Speaker 2: entire year of Australian political discourse should be spent on
Speaker 2: a yes no vote that went from sixty forty yes
Speaker 2: to sixty forty no.
Speaker 1: He spent four.
Speaker 2: Hundred and fifty million dollars on it, and even after
Speaker 2: it happened to the next day trup nothing to see here, misinformation, misinformation,
Speaker 2: let's try to censor the internet. Something he still hasn't
Speaker 2: been able to get through the Parliament and hopefully won't.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Interestingly, the people behind the pole the result of political
Speaker 2: monitor people. They say two very important things. One, as
Speaker 2: I said before, that's the lowest number for the Labor
Speaker 2: Party since this thing has ever been published since twenty nineteen. Secondly,
Speaker 2: they ask comments of people while they are also taking
Speaker 2: their overall views on issues, and they say that the
Speaker 2: attitudes when it comes to cost of living, job security
Speaker 2: and housing affordability is now turning from distrust to anger,
Speaker 2: meaning people can see what we have seen a long time.
Speaker 1: Now. I take no victory LA because it's one pole.
Speaker 1: It's one pole months out from an election.
Speaker 2: If the election is about climate change, where we know
Speaker 2: the government's going to be on sure a footing, but
Speaker 2: if it's about cost of living, it's going to be
Speaker 2: in trouble. Now they have desperately wanted interest rates to fall,
Speaker 2: but in their budgets they keep spending money. They just
Speaker 2: tell you it's not inflationary. Well, if it wasn't inflationary,
Speaker 2: of course the economy could afford, if you, interest rate cuts.
Speaker 2: But no, that hasn't happened by every prediction, it won't
Speaker 2: happen until maybe maybe end of this year, probably mid next.
Speaker 1: Year, after a federal election.
Speaker 2: Some of the people responding to the Pole sale, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of talk about palisine and immigration. I'm not
Speaker 2: happy with either. Interstrates are high, prices are high. I
Speaker 2: think it's their fault. That's really important. Labour focused on
Speaker 2: minority groups and not everyone, as any government should be important.
Speaker 2: The current government's handling of the economy has been terrible. Again,
Speaker 2: these are not your fellow viewers of this program. These
Speaker 2: are people responding to a poll in the Sydney Morning Here,
Speaker 2: all the Age and the Brisbane Times. I don't think
Speaker 2: Labour has done a good job on immigration or housing.
Speaker 2: What were they thinking. I've traditionally voted labor, but I
Speaker 2: think they're going to bankrupt us because the number one
Speaker 2: issue in Australia is the issue that they promised to solve,
Speaker 2: but they knew they couldn't. It's cost a living. Now,
Speaker 2: there was plenty of global effects that come after the
Speaker 2: way the world handled or mishandled the COVID nineteen pandemic.
Speaker 2: But they decided to make a campaign to become the
Speaker 2: governor of the country by pretending everything in the economy
Speaker 2: was Scott Morrison's fault. Well, guess what now it's Jim
Speaker 2: chalmers responsibility and in my view, Jim Charmer's fault, Albanesi's responsibility,
Speaker 2: Albanese's fault. Let's play them on their game. In the
Speaker 2: Australian newspaper, they have a look this weekend at a
Speaker 2: pole that underlines the point that I've been trying to
Speaker 2: make public approval for Labour's handling of cost of living.
Speaker 2: Housing initial straits has dropped ten points since the election,
Speaker 2: Concerns about cost of living up fifteen points since the
Speaker 2: election since the election. The importance of environment and climate change,
Speaker 2: you know, that whole thing they were scared about last week,
Speaker 2: has dropped ten points.
Speaker 1: It's the bottom of the top five issues now.
Speaker 2: Since the election, cost living has extended its lead dramatically
Speaker 2: as the most important issue, going from sixty five points
Speaker 2: at the election when we had to change the government,
Speaker 2: to now eighty points where the government's going to try
Speaker 2: to get hired again for another three years. The importance
Speaker 2: of the environment has gone down by ten points, just
Speaker 2: twenty nine, and as I.
Speaker 1: Say, is the bottom of all of the issues that
Speaker 1: people care about one pole.
Speaker 2: One pole does not mean that we have hit the
Speaker 2: final line that it's all over for the government. The
Speaker 2: media is utterly invested in pretending there are no problems
Speaker 2: with this government. They're the ones who told you, oh,
Speaker 2: no one cares about Andrew Giles. Well, the newspaper came
Speaker 2: out and said fifty to fifty oh cost of living. Really,
Speaker 2: you know, government's nailed that with two little too late
Speaker 2: tax cuts of or twenty six bucks a week, or
Speaker 2: they've solved energy bills because of twenty five dollars a month.
Speaker 2: Sorry it was thirty six bucks, just in case the
Speaker 2: fact checkers get involved. But we knew instinctively it's not enough.
Speaker 2: They're going to pretend that it's enough. And because everyone
Speaker 2: inside the bubble gets paid oh so well, and they
Speaker 2: don't really feel the same pressures that you do, they
Speaker 2: just want to move on to something else, like let's
Speaker 2: have a chat about the climate wars when the actual
Speaker 2: casualties are about an economy that this government has made
Speaker 2: worse per capita recession for six quarters in a row.
Speaker 2: Interest rates the highest they have been in a generation.
Speaker 2: They've gone up twelve times under this government. Oh but
Speaker 2: if it comes down ever so slightly, then everyone will
Speaker 2: say the government's doing a great job. No they won't.
Speaker 2: You know it, I know it. The media will pretend
Speaker 2: it is otherwise. So, just like the voice when all
Speaker 2: the media was all one way, the public will end
Speaker 2: up somewhere else. They'll all wake up shocked and surprised.
Speaker 2: Let's all wait and see how the next few weeks going.
Speaker 2: Now again, one of the reasons why these people are
Speaker 2: off with the ferries is because of the institution itself. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm going to get in trouble for this little part
Speaker 2: of the editorial. But let's see Parliament House in Canberra
Speaker 2: and all of the people who feed into it, right,
Speaker 2: they all love spending other people's money because literally they
Speaker 2: don't make anything. They just clip the ticket, have clipped
Speaker 2: the ticket the ticket. There is no ticket lift. It's
Speaker 2: all just stub holes. There's all whole punches through the ticket.
Speaker 2: Now the MP's they got their biggest pay rise in
Speaker 2: a decadd So do they feel the pain.
Speaker 1: In your feeling? No, all of them are on two
Speaker 1: hundred or more.
Speaker 2: But then what about this bloke the Attorney General seen
Speaker 2: here yelling at a female reporter. But remember that doesn't
Speaker 2: matter because it's a labor guy. Well, he's decided to
Speaker 2: give a twenty percent pay rise to one of the
Speaker 2: nation's key public servants. The Director of Public Prosecutions at
Speaker 2: the federal level is now going to be paid seven
Speaker 2: hundred and ten thousand dollars. That's about two hundred grand
Speaker 2: more than the Prime Minister. It's almost three hundred grand
Speaker 2: more than the minister is paid the current salary five
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety two thousand dollars, just above the Prime Minister. Instead,
Speaker 2: this goes up now to seven hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: She got the hike after the Attorney General, Mark Dravis
Speaker 2: wrote to the Independent Renuneration Tribunal because you know it's
Speaker 2: independent right to assist in its pay review, Meaning the
Speaker 2: senior public servants almost earned double what a cabinet minister
Speaker 2: is paid.
Speaker 1: Lost the plot.
Speaker 2: The elected officials who are already paid very well, are
Speaker 2: having the people who give them advice or supposedly the
Speaker 2: people who are accountable to the ministers are ruining twice
Speaker 2: as much and they're therefore way longer than any politician.
Speaker 2: So they just know, in rugby league parlance, how to
Speaker 2: slow play the ball, literally weight them out. Certainly, if
Speaker 2: it's a conservative you actively stand in their way. But
Speaker 2: if it's a labor person you like what they do,
Speaker 2: you wave it through. Otherwise you slow plow the ball. Now,
Speaker 2: this is the same government, by the way, think of this.
Speaker 2: The Director of Public Prosecutions, the person who is on
Speaker 2: the behalf of the Commonwealth government. Whenever the Commonwealth Government
Speaker 2: takes somebody to court, they of course the person who
Speaker 2: is bringing the charges against people. Significant job, right, But
Speaker 2: let's have a look at the scale of moneies that
Speaker 2: are being spent by this government. A speechwriter has been
Speaker 2: hired for just two years. Six hundred thousand dollars is
Speaker 2: what they are going.
Speaker 1: To get paid.
Speaker 2: Six hundred thousand dollars. That's for two years. This public
Speaker 2: servant seven hundred and ten thousand dollars, up from almost
Speaker 2: six hundred thousand this year. It's not the only one
Speaker 2: the chair of the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority. I'm sure
Speaker 2: a vital job gets paid a million dollars. Sorry, nine
Speaker 2: hundred and forty seven, five hundred and ninety if you
Speaker 2: want to go and complain to the ghost. The Australian
Speaker 2: Public Service Commissioner is paid eight hundred and seventy nine
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. The chair of the a trip will see,
Speaker 2: you know, the ones who were supposedly there to tell us,
Speaker 2: you know, we're going to bang heads together and bring
Speaker 2: down prices because you know, the supermarkets, the petrol companies,
Speaker 2: but of course nothing ever changes.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: The Chief Executive of Services Australia, the people who, among
Speaker 2: other things, take care of the welfare system. Seven hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety nine thousand dollars. The Police Commissioner at the
Speaker 2: federal level. Seven hundred and sixty nine thousand dollars. The
Speaker 2: Anti Corruption Commissioner who seems to let an awful lot
Speaker 2: of people off the hook, but clearly also doesn't do
Speaker 2: much of his work in public. That's a brand new job.
Speaker 2: Seven hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars. The boss a
Speaker 2: Border Force six hundred and eighty seven thousand dollars, the
Speaker 2: same as the Director General of the Australian Submarine Agency,
Speaker 2: which has paid more than the Productivity Commission, which is
Speaker 2: paid more than the Prime Minister, which has paid more
Speaker 2: than the ministers and the deputy.
Speaker 1: By the way, at the a Triple C.
Speaker 2: Don't feel too bad for them because while their boss
Speaker 2: is earning a big chunk, so's the deputy.
Speaker 1: The whole point is.
Speaker 2: Is that the people in the system, in the public service, say, oh,
Speaker 2: we've got to have money so we can we can
Speaker 2: compete with the public with the private sector. Well, the
Speaker 2: private sector now can't compete with the government. It's about
Speaker 2: putting the government at the heart of everything. A system
Speaker 2: where even the ministers, who supposedly outrank all of these people.
Speaker 1: Paid half of what the bureaucrats are.
Speaker 2: Remember the PM, the Prime Minister, the a one in
Speaker 2: the country five hundred grand and these are just some
Speaker 2: of the numbers that we know about the tippy top,
Speaker 2: let alone all of the money all of the time,
Speaker 2: which is why we don't believe them when they turn
Speaker 2: around and say twenty five dollars a month for your
Speaker 2: power bills, please vote for us because we care about you.
Speaker 2: Here's two little too late tax cuts. I have a
Speaker 2: dog called Turto, and remember I grew up in Housing Commission.
Speaker 1: I feel your pain.
Speaker 2: But then also in the financial world, in private companies
Speaker 2: and private business can pay anyone whatever they want to
Speaker 2: pay them. But part of the frustration that the left
Speaker 2: of Australian politics makes the most out of, particularly the
Speaker 2: far left, say the Greens, are things like this, which
Speaker 2: is why it's running in the Turmbul Times. Chief executive
Speaker 2: salaries rose by an average of fourteen percent in the
Speaker 2: past financial year. Managing directors received an eleven percent pay rise.
Speaker 2: The Institute's survey found the general staff, however, working for
Speaker 2: those companies got about five percent. Now, settle down, I'm
Speaker 2: not turning lefty. I'm not turning on the chief executives
Speaker 2: of Australia. I'm not having a crack at managing directors.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is is that there is a class
Speaker 2: of people in our public service and in our private
Speaker 2: companies who have got big responsibilities. But the numbers just
Speaker 2: keep going up and up and up and up and
Speaker 2: up and up and up and.
Speaker 1: Up and up and up and up and up.
Speaker 7: And up and up and up and up.
Speaker 2: But the average person in Australia is not going up
Speaker 2: and up and up and up and up. So when
Speaker 2: we get told we feel your pain, we know they
Speaker 2: don't global factors. Trust me, I'm the genius. Now, the
Speaker 2: Prime Minister won't like me telling you about this, but
Speaker 2: I'm going to you know how.
Speaker 1: His nickname is.
Speaker 2: Airbus Albow and all the lefties hated because well, why
Speaker 2: don't you compare it to other progners, say the most
Speaker 2: recent problems, and according to per capita he travels less
Speaker 2: than the premier.
Speaker 1: It's different.
Speaker 2: Of course, the reality is because of cost of living,
Speaker 2: because Australians are doing it tough because three point seven
Speaker 2: million people in Australia don't know where their food's coming from.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we think the overseas travel thing not entirely urgent.
Speaker 2: When the Prime Minister tells us all day every day
Speaker 2: he's about focusing on this issue, Well guess.
Speaker 1: What he's going overseas again? Now. He was at the
Speaker 1: White House for State dinner late last year. All very exciting, but.
Speaker 2: It's now going to be the fourth time since he
Speaker 2: became the Prime Minister that he's going to be going
Speaker 2: to the White House, and this announcement was not made
Speaker 2: by the Prime Minister's office because of course they want
Speaker 2: to pretend nothing to see it.
Speaker 1: He doesn't travel that much, apart from the fact that
Speaker 1: he needs two brand new private jets. Oh yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: media Watch.
Speaker 2: They were ordered by Scott Morrison, but they weren't canceled
Speaker 2: under this prime minister. So yeah, he's fine with them
Speaker 2: having two new private jets for him to fly around
Speaker 2: the world. Well, according to Daily Telegraph, it was the
Speaker 2: American government that's actually told us where our prime minister
Speaker 2: is going. Before the Prime Minister tells us where he
Speaker 2: is going, whether he will or won't have the new
Speaker 2: private jet, I just don't know. While mister Albernese's office
Speaker 2: is yet to confirm the trip. So I wonder why
Speaker 2: the US Secretary, the Deputy US Secretary of State, Kurt
Speaker 2: Campbell as let's slip that the White House was expecting
Speaker 2: him to come to Washington. It'll be his fourth visit
Speaker 2: to the US. He'll be there for the NATO seventy
Speaker 2: fifth anniversary, which is very important because he will be
Speaker 2: there along with Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, isn't
Speaker 2: actually a NATO nation, but should no, Wry Abber, he's
Speaker 2: there to basically be a photoh op for Joe Biden
Speaker 2: during an election campaign.
Speaker 1: That look at all these world leaders who agree with me.
Speaker 1: More about him in a second.
Speaker 2: But also it'll be interesting to know whether Anthony Abernezi
Speaker 2: would like to lock future governments into foreign policy decisions
Speaker 2: like his mate Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Why do I say this, Well, we.
Speaker 2: Know the Prime minister happy to give plenty of money
Speaker 2: to Ukraine. I don't really have a problem with it,
Speaker 2: but it shouldn't be forever for obvious reasons. Now we've
Speaker 2: got a selfie out of it, and he gave him
Speaker 2: my whole bunch of cash. I think we're up to
Speaker 2: about one hundred million. Now we'll double check the number
Speaker 2: in a second. Well, Joe Biden has decided to Trump
Speaker 2: proof foreign policy, where they've signed a ten year funding arrangement.
Speaker 1: With Vladimir Zelenski.
Speaker 2: Now this is fascinating and interesting to me, because you
Speaker 2: don't govern for ten years, you governed in.
Speaker 1: Four year increments. Instead.
Speaker 2: What he's trying to do is if Trump comes in
Speaker 2: and says, no, we're not paying for that, it'll be
Speaker 2: willing on No, we've signed this piece of paper.
Speaker 1: Will the same happen with Albow? I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll all find out together, or maybe we'll just find
Speaker 2: out via the Deputy Secretary of State from the United
Speaker 2: States as opposed to our government, who would tell us
Speaker 2: where our prime minister is going and whether he's going
Speaker 2: on the old clapped out or the brand new Toto one. Now,
Speaker 2: you know, I like to get into the detail, show
Speaker 2: you the data. Well, yes, having a strong opinion, but
Speaker 2: I try to show you the source material. I don't
Speaker 2: pretend that I've come up with it all. I tell
Speaker 2: you the newspaper articles that things come from. I show
Speaker 2: you the reports then when they come from places, so
Speaker 2: we can all learn together, and if you'd like to,
Speaker 2: you can go off and read the source material yourself,
Speaker 2: because I think when you watch a show like this
Speaker 2: that you are into the detail. And while elections, yes,
Speaker 2: in the end about how many voted this way, how
Speaker 2: many voted that way, who won the most number of
Speaker 2: seats and you get to be the government. So I
Speaker 2: am completely aware that maybe you do not obsess about
Speaker 2: the boundaries under which the election fight takes place, But
Speaker 2: there are one hundred and fifty one members of the Parliament.
Speaker 2: And due to population movements, some seats disappear, some up here,
Speaker 2: and according to population, the boundary of the place where
Speaker 2: you live moves a little this way, moves a little
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 1: Well, this is the new map of the city metropolitan area.
Speaker 2: When it comes to the upcoming election, what it means
Speaker 2: is that one seat is going to disappear from New
Speaker 2: South Wales. That seat has now been to be not Sydney,
Speaker 2: former political homeland of the zimzim Man before, of course
Speaker 2: he ended up losing to the Teals, and before that,
Speaker 2: of course Joe Hockey famously as the local MP. Ted
Speaker 2: mackis an independent. Before these fake Teal party independence kicked in. Well,
Speaker 2: when the seat was seemingly abolished on Friday, I've got
Speaker 2: to say that the MP, well, didn't she put on
Speaker 2: a show? Now I think there's a very good chance
Speaker 2: she'll end up running in the seat of Bradfield. Bradfield
Speaker 2: is in the north of Sydney. It voted yes a
Speaker 2: little bit Teal curious but whether the Teals can pull
Speaker 2: it off again, well we'll all find out together. But
Speaker 2: this is what she said upon her seat disappearing. It's
Speaker 2: kind of beauty queensh isn't it.
Speaker 5: This whole experience of having an independence stand for an
Speaker 5: advocate for the seat of North Sydney was never about me,
Speaker 5: not even for a minute. It's always been about our community.
Speaker 2: It wasn't about me, of course, it was your name
Speaker 2: was on the ballot and people trusted you and they
Speaker 2: voted for you. Well, okays, a lot of preferences wach away,
Speaker 2: but still it's not about me.
Speaker 1: Then if it's not about you, don't stand.
Speaker 2: But of course it was about you, and it was
Speaker 2: about you knocking everyone else out and getting that sweet
Speaker 2: climate money from Homes of Court all the rest of it.
Speaker 2: Now it looks like again, Not Sydney disappears. Will she
Speaker 2: be part of the parliament the next time around. We'll
Speaker 2: all find out whether she's going to run in Bradfield
Speaker 2: or whether she gives.
Speaker 1: It up completely. Who knows.
Speaker 2: But I wanted to show you about some of the
Speaker 2: things that have actually happened that will kind of tell
Speaker 2: us about whether the Liberal Party gets closer to seventy six,
Speaker 2: whether the Labour Party gets to hold on to a majority.
Speaker 2: Now let's look here of the three teals which were
Speaker 2: on the northern side of the harbor. They now become
Speaker 2: two Teals. There's another Teal across the harbor, a legal
Speaker 2: spend and nothing really happens to her in Wentworth, although
Speaker 2: I'll explain that in a second ben along the former
Speaker 2: House of John Howard, it is going to become a
Speaker 2: lot more liberal with some of the hardcore Liberal votes
Speaker 2: from North Sydney falling into ben along Hughes south of Sydney,
Speaker 2: that gets a little less liberal. Labour think they can
Speaker 2: potentially win that seat. Riverena is going to become a
Speaker 2: little bit less national. So will there be a Teal
Speaker 2: effect there. I'm just pointing this out just so you
Speaker 2: hear about it here rather than learn about it all.
Speaker 1: In the Sydney Morning Herald.
Speaker 2: When they decide to do the soft promo for them,
Speaker 2: and yes, Wentworth becomes a slightly more marginal seat. Now,
Speaker 2: whether that's good for the Liberal Party or whether that
Speaker 2: is good for Labor and the areas they run, we'll
Speaker 2: all wait and see. But a couple of reactions to this,
Speaker 2: and I want to knock them on the head straight away.
Speaker 2: One somebody's saying that the bloke who is the current candidate,
Speaker 2: and this apparently people inside the Liberal Party who's currently
Speaker 2: been pre selected for Ben along that he should go
Speaker 2: because it's a more Liberal seat. No, this bloke would
Speaker 2: be great in parliament. He truly would be. I'd love
Speaker 2: to see him. I'd love to get him on the show.
Speaker 2: I hope he does very well and I think that
Speaker 2: he'll be able to get up and over the Labor Party,
Speaker 2: who only hold the seat by a couple hundred votes. Meantime,
Speaker 2: Matt Keane reckons that he'll be the one to take
Speaker 2: on the former teal from North Sydney because he'll push
Speaker 2: the current MP out of the way. Look, if that's
Speaker 2: the case, I'm all in on Paul Fletcher, and I'm
Speaker 2: not really all in on Paul Fletcher. Now in a
Speaker 2: moment's time, the dumbest story of the weekend the great
Speaker 2: Paul and Hanson cartoon, which pops up each and every week,
Speaker 2: each and every Friday. The way that you can help
Speaker 2: pay for it is to buy the rum support them
Speaker 2: on the websites. The people who put it together very clever,
Speaker 2: very funny. And you may well have heard that Robert
Speaker 2: Erwin has got a problem with this clip or at
Speaker 2: least lawyers on his behalf. So they have a problem
Speaker 2: with this clip because they've.
Speaker 1: Used his likeness.
Speaker 2: Now, what really is behind this joke is that the
Speaker 2: Queensland government is already paying Robert Erwin and Bluey to
Speaker 2: be it's statewide ambassadors. That's what they were taking the
Speaker 2: piss out of roll the clip.
Speaker 8: Now we get to walk the beautiful Bruce Highway.
Speaker 2: Oh no, blooey cable, the podoles Bluey lucky. The State
Speaker 2: of Queensland's got a world class medical system.
Speaker 1: Back of the line, How long's the wait? Six months?
Speaker 1: Oh no, it's the juvenile delinquents again. Oh no, Bluey's
Speaker 1: being bashed. Were lucky for us.
Speaker 2: We've got an awesome premium here in the State of Queensland.
Speaker 2: Oh man, yes, the tagline being that's what's happened in
Speaker 2: the State of Queensland. Well, one nation isn't budging. The
Speaker 2: man who els right the cartoon is none other than
Speaker 2: the Great James Ashby, He joins us straight after the break.
Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere, just starting up here, fired up this
Speaker 2: Sunday night. Thanks for watching it again. Thanks to James
Speaker 2: Morrow for doing a great job on Thursday night. But
Speaker 2: we're back, re energized and ready to run as hard
Speaker 2: as we can.
Speaker 1: Happy Sunday.
Speaker 2: Let's get straight into it right now with Lisa got
Speaker 2: from a media who is in Brisbane up the road
Speaker 2: in your pun is the man who is of course
Speaker 2: running the seat of Keppel and I read some good
Speaker 2: things about that campaign this weekend of the Paper's Knowing
Speaker 2: the great James Ashby. But let's get to the cartoon.
Speaker 2: So you mark the step, mates, you all get around.
Speaker 2: You do the cartoon each and every week. It's funny.
Speaker 2: People love it. You take the pee out of a
Speaker 2: tourism campaign where the Queensland government is paying Robert Irwin
Speaker 2: and the Queensland Government, a taxpayer, is playing Bluey and
Speaker 2: you obviously point out the obvious floors of the state
Speaker 2: that won't be appearing in any of the ads.
Speaker 1: However, whose likeness has been stolen. Are you going to
Speaker 1: take the cartoon down?
Speaker 8: Hell no, no, it's staying up there, and we've gotten
Speaker 8: until tomorrow afternoon apparently to take it down.
Speaker 7: But I ain't going anywhere, Paul. You know this has
Speaker 7: now had in.
Speaker 8: Three days three million hits on a range of different
Speaker 8: social media platforms. You know, eat your heart out queens
Speaker 8: and Tourism and the state government. We paid eleven thousand
Speaker 8: dollars for this episode that we put out on Friday.
Speaker 8: We've had three million hits. How many of you had
Speaker 8: for your out across the country and how much did
Speaker 8: you pay for it? That's the big question here. Look,
Speaker 8: I don't know why Robert's upset at this. I'm quite
Speaker 8: disappointed that Robert's upset, to be quite frank, because it
Speaker 8: was never the intention. We actually set about to make
Speaker 8: Robert and Bluey the heroes in Friday's episode, and I
Speaker 8: think they were the greatest villains in this episode was
Speaker 8: the Queensland government, who after nine years, have destroyed our state.
Speaker 8: They've made a mockery of our Bruce Highway. It's a
Speaker 8: goat track. I traveled it yesterday all the way back
Speaker 8: up from Brisbane back into Yupun and it is littered
Speaker 8: with potholes that Bluey fell down. We've got a hospital
Speaker 8: system that's failing, We've got housing cues for people to
Speaker 8: try and get rentals out the wazoo, and juvenile crime
Speaker 8: which has just deteriorated over these years because the Labor
Speaker 8: Party just don't want to deal with young juvenile delinquents.
Speaker 8: And I'm sorry to think that Robert thinks that this
Speaker 8: is an attack on him.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 7: Robert.
Speaker 8: I'm happy to have dinner with you on Friday night
Speaker 8: if you want. I'll get the boss together. We'll get
Speaker 8: some good steaks, a nice wine and sit around the
Speaker 8: fire and we'll just talk this over. Leave the lawyers aside,
Speaker 8: and let's be honest here. This was a great marketing
Speaker 8: tool on behalf of one nation. And it's really it's well,
Speaker 8: it's paid dividends for us anyway.
Speaker 2: Well you and again I stand by if you want
Speaker 2: to back the thing in. You buy the run, you
Speaker 2: buy the gin, you buy all of those things, and
Speaker 2: you can keep the whole thing going. I think it's
Speaker 2: amazing what you're able to produce. You know, it's I
Speaker 2: think world world class level sort of animation stuff, and
Speaker 2: you're able to do it in a very efficient fashion.
Speaker 2: So world under step mates. Again, it's one of these
Speaker 2: things Lisa, where if you've seen the cartoon, you go, yeah,
Speaker 2: Bob's not no one's having a crack at him. No
Speaker 2: one's having a crack at Blue. It's about they're out
Speaker 2: and about selling the tourism of Queensland. But the reality
Speaker 2: is there's plenty of stuff that government wouldn't want you to.
Speaker 1: Talk about about Queensland.
Speaker 2: I was hearing somebody on the radio saying that it
Speaker 2: was that's right, Sorry, it was planning all before on
Speaker 2: the Sunday Showdown. That was a great idea because you know,
Speaker 2: no one's going to sue anyone. But he's put distance
Speaker 2: between himself and one nation. Again, seriously, did anyone need
Speaker 2: that distance to be created?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 9: No, And James, I have a question for you. Was
Speaker 9: I right in reading that people approach you wanting to
Speaker 9: be in the cartoon and that some people even offered
Speaker 9: money to be featured in this cartoon. So and put
Speaker 9: to the one side that the tourism events queens lated
Speaker 9: have paid what nine point three million I think they
Speaker 9: spent on their advertising campaign. And look, it's a great
Speaker 9: campaign that it will go around the world and no
Speaker 9: doubt would be great for tourism numbers here. But I
Speaker 9: do think that young mister Irwin is taking umbridge at
Speaker 9: something that was that was meant not targeted at.
Speaker 1: Him at all. And I have a horrible feeling.
Speaker 2: Sorry, lest I was going to say, I think my
Speaker 2: horrible feeling is. I'm not enttally sure he has any
Speaker 2: opinion about this, but some people in and around and
Speaker 2: protecting the brand and all the rest of it sort
Speaker 2: of fired something off and it just seems a little excessive,
Speaker 2: although we'll all find out if it look as I'm
Speaker 2: sure James is saying, can the controversy go for another week?
Speaker 1: Please could keep as much noise.
Speaker 2: As possible if whoever count down to the deadline, you know,
Speaker 2: all the rest of it, well, just we'll keep it going,
Speaker 2: keep it going, all right.
Speaker 1: It's up. It's up everywhere. If people do want to
Speaker 1: find it, though, James, where can you find it?
Speaker 2: Where's the easiest place each and every Friday to see
Speaker 2: these cartoons?
Speaker 1: Then start sending them around?
Speaker 8: Paul and Hanson's Facebook page, her YouTube channel. It's just
Speaker 8: please explain cartoon series. You'll find three years worth of these.
Speaker 8: I haven't been suited for three years, Paul. I don't
Speaker 8: want Robert to be the first one that gets me.
Speaker 1: All right, well, I think you look again.
Speaker 2: I won't push lawyer too much here, but I think
Speaker 2: things like satire and all the rest of it might
Speaker 2: be fine here. So at least let's talk about the
Speaker 2: poles now again, one pole does not everything make However,
Speaker 2: newspaper last week gold standard that was fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2: We're seeing relentlessly in the polling that'll be there everywhere
Speaker 2: from the Turnbull Times through to the Financial Review right,
Speaker 2: which is cost of living a one issue and they
Speaker 2: are now starting to correctly hold the government to account.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: I don't know what happens in the next few few weeks,
Speaker 2: but this poll was out and about while the sky
Speaker 2: was falling in because Peter Dutton wasn't going to do
Speaker 2: what the Greens want to do on climate change. Guess what,
Speaker 2: nothing happened, Lisa, In fact, quite the opposite.
Speaker 9: Gee, do you think all of the people who are
Speaker 9: pushing their trolley through Woolworths and Coals and having to
Speaker 9: do that calculation in the head about what they can
Speaker 9: afford are so worried about what the technicalities are as
Speaker 9: far as the Paris Agreement goes, or what is being
Speaker 9: done in relation to a twenty thirty or a twenty
Speaker 9: thirty five target, which Labor has not come out and
Speaker 9: said it will set anyway. But no, I think what
Speaker 9: Peter Dutton is doing, and he's doing it coming out
Speaker 9: hard on the economy, he comes out hard in its
Speaker 9: supported defense. He's hitting all of the right marks. As
Speaker 9: far as that's concerning, I think most average Australians are out.
Speaker 1: There doing it tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean again, James. The result Pole in particular
Speaker 2: is murky about things like one Nation.
Speaker 1: One Nation.
Speaker 2: However, has gone up in the polls in the places
Speaker 2: that actually are straight out and give.
Speaker 1: You an opportunity to be counted.
Speaker 2: We've seen before a couple of points here, a couple
Speaker 2: of points there, about seven percent nationally right now they
Speaker 2: put you in with other right, so as everything from
Speaker 2: the Victorian Socialists to the Teels One Nation to the
Speaker 2: Australian Democrats. However, it does seem like, well, not just
Speaker 2: gloss is gone, but people are now stepping back from
Speaker 2: openly saying I'm all in on this government. And that
Speaker 2: is the beginning of either a lesson learned by the
Speaker 2: government or the beginning of a change that, once it starts,
Speaker 2: doesn't get undone.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's a lot to be said for the path
Speaker 8: that Peter Dutton seems to be treading right now. He's
Speaker 8: going down a very distinct path where he wants to
Speaker 8: form government at the next election, and he actually has
Speaker 8: policy that is starting to resonate with the Queensland and
Speaker 8: National voters out there. The big thing for me is
Speaker 8: Peter has been very strong on the deportation of these
Speaker 8: foreign criminals who labor have allowed to stay in the country.
Speaker 8: And then he's starting to raise the big issue in
Speaker 8: this country right now, and that is cost of living
Speaker 8: under the energy prices that have been dictated.
Speaker 7: By net zero. They're unachievable.
Speaker 8: Paul, it to you like me saying to you, listen,
Speaker 8: I want you to lose fifty kilos in ten weeks
Speaker 8: on a water and let us diet. It's unsustainable. You
Speaker 8: will not lose the weight, it'll cause more harm to
Speaker 8: you than good and it's not going to achieve anything
Speaker 8: at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: So look this.
Speaker 7: Imagine. I don't want to go to there. But my
Speaker 7: point is you had to distract me. Peter Dutton has
Speaker 7: a message.
Speaker 8: The message is clear from Peter Dutton finally, and I'm
Speaker 8: glad to see the majority of the people within his
Speaker 8: own party are starting to him finally, and I think
Speaker 8: the Australian people are also starting to do it.
Speaker 7: So I think he's on a winning streak.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 7: If he keeps this up, he'll destroy.
Speaker 8: Labor at the next election, and one Nation will make
Speaker 8: sure that we put Labor and the Greens last, which
Speaker 8: will help him get across the line.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's the thing too, I mean, remember those
Speaker 2: preferences one nation, UAP, but certainly one nation and bigger size,
Speaker 2: bigger vote twenty nineteen. If two out of three end
Speaker 2: up going to the Liberal Party, then this thing gets competitive.
Speaker 2: If it goes fifty to fifty, you blame them all,
Speaker 2: bugger them all, all the rest of it. Then it's
Speaker 2: going to be a very interesting picture, I do have
Speaker 2: to say. And no doubt the people trying to dismiss
Speaker 2: this poll, I'll get in and do it for them.
Speaker 2: In New South Wales, preferred Prime Minister is thirty three
Speaker 2: thirty one, in favor of Albanezi Victoria is thirty nine
Speaker 2: thirty four, and in rest of Australia it is thirty.
Speaker 1: Seven thirty four.
Speaker 2: Queensland though forty eight percent to twenty nine percent, so
Speaker 2: clearly the average is affected by what's happening in Queensland.
Speaker 2: But what really matters in there, Lisa, is that we're
Speaker 2: being told that the Teals might be on the march
Speaker 2: around southeast Queensland.
Speaker 1: Not on those numbers.
Speaker 2: On those sorts of numbers, there are Cabinet ministers who
Speaker 2: would end up losing their seats because of what is
Speaker 2: going on in Queensland. Whether this is all linked in
Speaker 2: with the state election, who knows, but certainly Labor as
Speaker 2: a brand is on the pong there.
Speaker 1: But are you seeing a distinct.
Speaker 2: Hostility at times towards the Prime Minister in Queensland or
Speaker 2: is it about labor?
Speaker 9: I think it's more focused on what's happening here under
Speaker 9: state based political sort of circus, if you like, because,
Speaker 9: like I said, labor here people are frustrated. It's the
Speaker 9: long laundry list of everything we spoke about earlier in
Speaker 9: the program. You've got housing, you've got health, Everything that
Speaker 9: James is Bluie and Robert Irwin cartoon pointed out is
Speaker 9: what's concerning people up here. So I think what will
Speaker 9: happen is you'll see the election hit here in October
Speaker 9: and then it would be very interesting to watch what
Speaker 9: the Holing does federally in relation to what impacts Queensland
Speaker 9: will have on the federal government moving into when they
Speaker 9: call an election. I think that's what they'll be watching
Speaker 9: what happens here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, once I get into state state breakdown again,
Speaker 2: this is where one nation. I can see what's happening there. Federally,
Speaker 2: the L and P is at forty percent, labor at
Speaker 2: twenty four percent in Queensland, twenty four percent in Queensland.
Speaker 2: Now again they will all say, oh, mate, you know,
Speaker 2: it's all fine, it's all you know, nothing will change.
Speaker 2: If that happens at an election, Lily, a seat like
Speaker 2: Lily would go, There'd be a couple of others and
Speaker 2: then be a couple of ministers who would see the
Speaker 2: back of that would be magnificent.
Speaker 1: May it happen, But it's just.
Speaker 2: A pole a few months out, all right, quick break
Speaker 2: back with more bold predictions arehead and plenty more. I'll
Speaker 2: make sure that we put up the Paul and Hanson video.
Speaker 1: On the socials as well, just to when we're the
Speaker 1: left views.
Speaker 2: James ashby Lisa Goddard, both here from Queensland.
Speaker 1: I'll be in Queensland soon. We've got an outstand coming
Speaker 1: up there, very very soon.
Speaker 2: Return to the spiritual home, my favorite state. Can I
Speaker 2: become the Queenslander? I say it every week.
Speaker 1: I love them. Yes, I'm even willing to trade up
Speaker 1: on the state of origin. Yes, that's what I'm willing
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: Anyway, pleenty to talk about with them, including let's talk
Speaker 2: about in Victoria. Though the Victoria Education Minister Lisa has
Speaker 2: apologized for ongoing racism in our schools.
Speaker 1: Now, I would have thought that.
Speaker 2: The gross under performance of the public education sector, particularly
Speaker 2: in places like Victoria, would be what you're apologizing for.
Speaker 2: But no, it's the ongoing racism around every corner. It's
Speaker 2: the segregated bubblers. It's you know, only kids have certain this,
Speaker 2: that and the other that are allowed to play at ours.
Speaker 2: Is this the racism that's happening in Victorian schools?
Speaker 1: Of course not. It's systemic.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the same racism where they have a welcomed a
Speaker 9: country not only on parade of a morning, but then
Speaker 9: I'm told at nearly every classroom around the state and
Speaker 9: not just Victoria, Paul, I put some calls out to
Speaker 9: nights and teachers, I know, and it's common practice to
Speaker 9: have the welcome to country on parade and then the
Speaker 9: classrooms they go and that's the next thing they do.
Speaker 9: So I came through as you would have with the
Speaker 9: Lord's prayer back in the day. But anyway, but what
Speaker 9: I find interesting more than five thousand teachers is a
Speaker 9: projected shortfall in Victoria. So perhaps the Education Minister would
Speaker 9: be better focused on that as opposed to going out
Speaker 9: there and saying sorry for somehow driving a wedge and
Speaker 9: creating basis.
Speaker 2: But then, of course, over the turbul times James, they say,
Speaker 2: apart from dealing with systemic racism, we should also have
Speaker 2: media literacy, which means, of course the children will be
Speaker 2: able to work out the difference between news and opinion.
Speaker 2: But let's be honest, it's about just saying anything that
Speaker 2: is to the center of Australian politics, let alone to
Speaker 2: the right of center, must be ignored. That's what it's
Speaker 2: really all about. It basically is if sky newses on
Speaker 2: the headline, don't.
Speaker 1: Read it.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 8: I would love to see critical thinking brought back in
Speaker 8: the classroom. That will then allow kids to determine whether
Speaker 8: they want to believe.
Speaker 7: Something or not.
Speaker 8: My dad still works in the school system, not as
Speaker 8: a teacher, thank goodness, but as a groundsman.
Speaker 7: He's sick the death of seeing the things that come
Speaker 7: out of schools. But so am I.
Speaker 8: I was a school over the weekend, and just notice
Speaker 8: some of the stuff that's up on the walls in
Speaker 8: classrooms now. Wonder so many more parents suggesting that they're
Speaker 8: looking at homeschooling their kids today. That is a growing
Speaker 8: trend across this country, and I can see why. I
Speaker 8: just remember the first thing I learned. Every morning before
Speaker 8: we went into a classroom, we had to sing the
Speaker 8: national anthem.
Speaker 7: Maybe it's about Tom we brought that back.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to start a brand new segment here.
Speaker 2: Imagine there's really fancy graphics, and we planned all of
Speaker 2: this out rather than be just coming up with it
Speaker 2: right now, which is the dumb question of the day,
Speaker 2: Where I'm going to take a new story that feels
Speaker 2: a little dumb, but let's talk about it anyway. This
Speaker 2: one comes from the New Daily, which tells us that
Speaker 2: apparently Americans they put on the subtitles to watch Stradan
Speaker 2: shows because they don't quite get the accent. Lisa, are
Speaker 2: you a person who will put the subtitles on because
Speaker 2: they speak too softly and then it's an explosion or
Speaker 2: you know, just you hold on for grim life and
Speaker 2: you forget what they're talking about, and you just will
Speaker 2: pick it up later.
Speaker 9: Well, first of all, I lived in the States for
Speaker 9: three years as a bureau chief. I can tell you
Speaker 9: that you quickly learn to ask for your water or
Speaker 9: you're the coffee in a certain way.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you to thank you.
Speaker 9: Almost have to travel with some subtitles, but no, I
Speaker 9: find it interesting. Twenty eight percent of kids under the
Speaker 9: age or people under the age of thirty have the
Speaker 9: subtitles on, and my sixteen year old is one of
Speaker 9: them here in Australia. And it's not because she doesn't
Speaker 9: understand the American language. It's that she just finds it
Speaker 9: easier to watch. And I'm like, I don't understand it
Speaker 9: annoys Jesus at a month anyway. So it's not just
Speaker 9: in America, it's here as well. So when your kids
Speaker 9: are older, watch out.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, but James, I mean, look, everything on
Speaker 2: the Internet, of course, comes with these subtitles, and I'm going,
Speaker 2: who can't hear what's being said?
Speaker 1: I'll be honest.
Speaker 2: Every now and then, if I'm in the middle of
Speaker 2: a binge and there's a bit of a drama, I
Speaker 2: might occasionally turn them on. But are you a subtitles man?
Speaker 7: No, only iTunes.
Speaker 8: I listen to my music with subtitles now because some
Speaker 8: of this more modern music I can't understand.
Speaker 7: They sort of like a lyric and so what was that?
Speaker 7: I remember?
Speaker 8: Bring back the eighties and nineties where you could actually
Speaker 8: understand the lyrics and they had meaning.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm certainly learning that these songs that had the
Speaker 2: little E next to them not appropriate for the six
Speaker 2: year old who remembers every word of every song she's
Speaker 2: ever heard, even if once. All right, bold predictions for
Speaker 2: the week ahead, Lisa, what's definitely happening?
Speaker 1: Well, here's one win.
Speaker 9: If they are watching subtitles, at least they're reading win.
Speaker 1: Good point, very good point.
Speaker 2: All right, what's your bold prediction, James, And we'll getting
Speaker 2: to Lisa in a second.
Speaker 8: I think Robert Erwin's going to pull his head in
Speaker 8: like a snapping turtle and leave us alone.
Speaker 7: After Monday.
Speaker 2: I've got a prediction more people are going to watch
Speaker 2: your video and it's a good one and it's worth it.
Speaker 2: They remember it, particularly in the seat of your poom
Speaker 2: when it comes to voting.
Speaker 1: All right, Lisa, Yes, I think crayfish.
Speaker 9: And lobsters may well be back on the table in China,
Speaker 9: if China's worried about a trade war, if Trump gets
Speaker 9: in in America and they're trying to love up and
Speaker 9: be friend Australia, who's no longer the gum under the
Speaker 9: sole of their shoe, then perhaps we'll see crayfish and
Speaker 9: lobsters back.
Speaker 1: Good to see.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys, do appreciate it, as of course they
Speaker 2: stand up for our values. Yeah right, thank you guys
Speaker 2: to appreciate it. That's our show for tonight. See you
Speaker 2: again tomorrow night for a big one. Looking forward to
Speaker 2: a big Monday. No sooks, no lefties, all of that business.
Speaker 2: If you want to be part of it, see me
Speaker 2: an email Paul. It's gonews dot com dot au.