WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 17 November 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:06.760 From the Skying In Center. This is Paul Murray Live. Hello, 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:09.119 and welcome to the show. You just had a big weekend, 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:12.600 mostly in the backyard, and it've had fantastic Oh you 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.560 got the head strimmer out, I've got the blower. I've 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.880 got three different blowers. Why not just get it all done? 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.079 And then a storm rolls in and it doesn't really matter. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.239 But also if I seem a little depleted tonight, it's 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.840 because I cried so many dad years this weekend. Oh 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.600 my goodness, my two little girls at a beautiful little 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:33.320 concert put on by the music group that they work with. 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.120 And shout out to Kylie and Rodger, who I know 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.680 watch us each and every night they put it together. 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:39.640 I'll show you some photos tomorrow night. But oh, when 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:43.440 you see your kids sing and dance, unbelievable, right and 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.559 just yet, just a beautiful experience. So I hope you 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:47.440 had a wonderful weekend as well. Let's get on with 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.839 the news that we need to know about here, including 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.560 strength and love to everyone dealing with bushfires right now, 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.560 it's only a fringe of bushfires, and they were in 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:59.680 the sort of outskirts in Victoria. But again, as always 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:03.200 were all disasters comen, doesn't matter whether it's the height 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.000 of summer or the depths of winter. We talk about 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:06.720 it and we lead our show because we have maximum 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:08.920 sympathy for the people whose lives are turned upside down 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.479 by this stuff. Here's the CFA talking about it today 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:15.200 in Victoria. If you haven't prepared for summer, now is 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:15.840 the time. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.280 To do so, because, as we saw yesterday, when fires 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.080 do start and spread quite rapidly, they can do so 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.000 with minimum morning in time. 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.560 Now, obviously the weather's been a little while. Some places 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.240 have been a little hotter than usual, most places have 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:31.880 been nowhere near it. What are we a couple of 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.679 weeks away from the formal start of summer and there 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.800 are no real signs of it coming yet, So exactly 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.000 when is it going to start to make the turn 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.199 towards being warmer. I don't just say that in relation 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.000 to bushfires. I just said in the relation to all 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.280 of us packing away the long pants, pulling out the 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.800 flip flops, or the slides in my case after losing 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.480 a toe when I was a very little boy. Well, 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.440 we get some information from the Bureau, and the Bureau 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.640 has put forward a couple of little insights into what 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.480 might be happening in the next little while. Well, Channel 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.840 Line this one up, so I'm taking from their information 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:03.680 here is that the good news is that the temperatures 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:05.680 are expected to be nice and warm. The bad though, 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.440 is there'll be plenty of rain. This is what we 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.160 know about the summer forecast. Now much of the country, 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:15.280 including the entire East Coast, Victoria's South Coast, Tasmania, the 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.800 West Coast and Darwin surround, so pretty much all of 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.200 Australia have a greater than seventy percent chance of hitting 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.520 above median maximum temperatures. Now, that does not mean it's 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.720 going to be any fifty degrees everywhere. It just means 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.720 it's going to be a little warmer. When it is 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:33.720 particularly warmer, I have a look at the map here. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:35.960 The rhetoric gets the more likely it is that you're 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:39.000 going to be above average. Now, remember median is not 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.920 the same as average. Median is literally the number between 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.600 the coldest day and the hottest day, and the median 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.520 being that middle number. Whether the middle number is going 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.799 to be higher or grossly higher. Now, obviously the rhetoric 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.840 gets the greater the chances of that median number being 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:58.360 warmer than it was last summer. Another one here though, 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:02.520 which is about fifty percent. There's actually less than fifty 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:06.639 percent chance of maximums hitting most of the country. So yeah, 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.960 it's going to be warm, but don't expect super warm 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:13.880 for super long. We'll get an official indication about the 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:15.760 summer forecast in a couple of weeks time, but I 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:17.639 just wanted to give you a little idea. And also 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.600 when it comes to rain, you should know that rainfall 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.160 is sixty to eighty percent likely. It's said to be 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.400 above average for much of Eastern Australia, particularly in and 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:30.360 around Sydney, Central Coast, South Coast and maybe into the 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.760 mid North and North Coast there. But basically you can 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.040 see on the map there that well, the darker the green, 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.840 the more chance of rain. Surprise, surprise, the closer you 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.040 get towards the equator, it is going to be a 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.640 wet summer, so warmth is on its way. It will 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:47.040 not be a scorching summer. There will be rain like 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.520 it was a few years ago. But as I mentioned before, 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.080 while I took great fun cleaning up the yard this weekend, 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.160 police do so when it comes to your gutters because 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.160 we know Ember attack, all the rest of it. Do 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.520 everything you can to make your joint safe so that 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.960 on the off chance something crazy happens, your house will 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.000 not be one we'll be talking about in the weeks 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:09.160 and months to come. But let's get to politics, which 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.920 is always red hot. Prime Minister is overseas again. This 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.680 time he's at the APEC summit. The ye well and' 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.880 do you like that? Oh that's quite funny. Sorry, where 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.720 they were wearing the crazy shirts. They just had a 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.280 crazy scarf this time. As you know, the Prime Minister 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.160 gave an interview Andrew Clonell today where he kind of 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.159 dropped himself in it. The election will be at the 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.400 very last minute, which would be May of next year. 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:39.120 We have a budget scheduled for March and the election 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:44.360 will be in May. The speculation may well, that's when 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:48.120 it's due. It could be beforehand, but that will be 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:52.520 a matter for me to make in conjunction with my 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:53.640 cabinet colleagues. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.560 Geez, you'd love to play poker with display, wouldn't he. 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:02.320 I'd love to even play uno with him? Or oh May, 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:06.040 oh no, no, no, not May not May. But this Prime 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.280 Minister is in a world of trouble. Now, there's lots 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:09.440 of ways to look at it. You can look at 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.440 his approval rating, which is lower than it was when he, 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.960 of course took over, and it is now beneath where 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.640 Peter Dutton is. Right now, Australia seems like on multiple 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.839 poles they're ready to make a change after just three 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.480 years of this government. But just as it was in 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.480 the United States when people were surprised by the margin 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.680 by which Donald Trump was able to win, it's not 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.080 really a surprise that the most unpopular vice president lost 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.479 in a condition where seventy five percent of people said 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.480 the country was headed in the wrong direction. Now Australia 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.680 is not in that dramatic position, but the majority of 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.600 Australians think the joint is headed in the wrong direction. 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.440 Two poles, the Morgan pole and the Essential pole, both 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.200 show more than fifty percent, almost sixty percent in the 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.200 Morgan pole. Soy, we're headed in the wrong direction or 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.720 we're headed on the wrong track. But guess what number 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:56.719 they have exactly the same, not even a third of 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.880 the country, just thirty percent think that we are headed 0:05:59.920 --> 0:06:03.120 in the right direction. Now, a government wanting to go 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:06.839 for reelection is in an awful position when it is 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.440 fighting with less than a third of people behind them 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.800 going into that election. And it really doesn't matter what 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.880 happens between now and May. In many ways, things may 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:21.080 be starting to be baked in now the Prime minister, 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.400 who we know is going to hold on to Kevin Rudd. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.240 More on that in a second, But he was hardly 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.680 trying to move away from people who were either proven 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.360 losers or are assumed to be losers in a wave 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.760 of change that is making its way around the world. 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.960 Lots of cuddles for Joe Biden and even Justin Trudeau. 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.160 Anyone paying attention to Canadian politics knows how unpopular he 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.520 is at the moment. But big cuddles. Let's all pretend 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.720 nothing's changed. Let's all pretend the politics of four years 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.080 ago is the same politics as today. And we know 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:55.480 that this prime minister's political fortunes well, they completely took 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.760 a tumble when he decided to spend the best part 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.880 of half a billion dollars on the Voice campaign, where 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.640 he was distracted for an entire year trying to earn 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.880 a spot in history and to buff up his Wikipedia page. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:10.360 But we all know what this country said and it 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.160 was sixty percent. No, he has never recovered since. And 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.920 just give you an idea about again the priorities of 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:18.800 a bloke who I don't think is either match fit 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.520 for an election or is making his case that he 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.880 has either learnt the lessons of the failure of his 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.600 term in office or try to meet the people where 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.720 they are. Australia looks like we are set for another distraction. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.080 The federal government is going to work in tandem with 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.400 the South Australian government to try to bid for a 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:39.200 United Nations climate conference, the same ones that are playing 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.520 out right now on the other side of the world. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.080 The suggestion is that Adelaide would be the place where 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.200 they would like it to be. Turkey is trying to bid, 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.160 just like it's for the Olympics, but just like a 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.800 Sydney denied Istanbul all those years ago the two thousand 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.560 Olympic Games. The hope would be that we will somehow 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.880 beat Turkey for the chance to invite a collection of 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:04.280 Turkeys to Australia Adelaide, specifically to talk about how terrible 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.160 the planet is now. Of course, Australia is one percent 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:11.000 of global emissions, yet according to the Global conferences which 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.120 have taken place. This government has signed us up to 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:19.960 paying millions of dollars to developing countries, Developing countries like China. 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:26.160 China alone thirty three percent of global emissions. China, of course, 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.440 had their handout last week saying that they deserve part 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.920 of one point eight t for trillion dollars from the 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:37.000 Western world advanced countries, polluting countries like Australia while they 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.120 pollute far more for far longer, and even under the 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.400 Paris Agreement, which now is worthless because we know Trump 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.880 will tear it up as he did between his time 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.560 in office last time, he will do it again for 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:51.200 the next four years. That China doesn't have to do 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.640 anything about its pollution until twenty thirty. Remember, they can 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.319 continue at thirty three percent of global emissions. They can 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.360 make it fifty percent if they want, and it's only 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.480 at that March that they will be marked against before 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.440 they have to start moving things down. Oh yeah, and 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.240 twenty fifty doesn't apply to them because they're a developing country. 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.240 You know, with the space station and plans to set 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:15.760 up a moon base, they are able to have a 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.080 twenty sixty net zero target, not a twenty fifty like 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:23.080 countries like Australia, the United States, the UK, New Zealand 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.000 and Canada have to look at So what does it 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.600 tell you about the priorities of this government that spent 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.760 a year distracting us with the issues to do with 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.520 the voice that they are planning and the lead up 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.360 to the next election, to be distracting us again when 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.920 it comes to climate change and suggesting that Australia should 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.559 be hosting a global conference, a global conference that, by 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:47.080 the way, the Prime Minister didn't attend this year and 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.440 didn't attend last year. So if it's a conference that's 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.080 so important that we should host it, could somebody explain 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.920 what the Prime Minister hasn't been to the last two 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:01.240 of three that have happened on his watch. It's all 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.240 about priorities and we know this bloke is nowhere near 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:08.000 where Middle Australia is. Which brings us to the number 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.079 one issue, that of course is always cost of living, 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.520 has been for the best part of three years. For 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.520 those who remember the ups and downs of the twenty 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.280 twenty two election campaign that brought this government to power, 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.120 it was all about cost of living. Remember the promise 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.319 that a labor government would lower the cost of living. 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.400 This was their promise the best part of three years ago, 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.120 and of course they have failed on every measure. Everything 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.559 in the supermarket costs more than before they came to office. 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.600 Your power bills are worth way more, despite the fact 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.400 that they promised that it would be fixed by now 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.760 and we'd be making our way towards two hundred and 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:47.120 seventy five dollars off, not not at one off, totally 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:51.320 off your power bills. The cost of insurance and petrol 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:55.800 has gone up by huge amounts since they came to power, 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.040 not to mention twelve interest rate rises which had made 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.440 it so possible for people to hold on to properties, 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.160 and they've had to cut back in any number of areas. 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.440 Don't forget this is also the government while all of 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:13.520 that was happening, decided to increase taxes on ten million people. 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.240 Before they came to power, you could get an automatic 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:20.520 fifteen hundred dollars tax return, and more than thirty five 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.920 percent of Australians rely upon their tax return to be 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:24.960 able to pay some of the big bills that they 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:29.440 have accrued in the previous year. Remember fifteen hundred dollars 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:33.920 gone this government made that decision. But apparently the Labor 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.560 Party has worked out who to blame for everything that 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.240 has gone wrong on their watch despite promising for everything 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:44.760 to get better on their watch. Peter Dutton, you may 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.520 well have heard today that again there is about to 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.600 be a new scare campaign auga booga music, black and 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:54.600 white photos with the suggestion that you'll be worse off 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.800 under Dutton. Now this is their sort of cleverer version 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:00.640 of it won't be easy under our easy, but the 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:05.280 reality was that that claim was correct in twenty twenty two, 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.400 and then pretending that if you vote for Dutton then 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.680 a whole series of things are going to increase. While supermarkets, food, 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:16.000 power bills, cars, petrol, insurance and paying off a house 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.360 or renting one is way more than it was since 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.240 they came to power, then this is a pretty pretty 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:25.640 wild swing they're going to take while simultaneously distracting you 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.480 that despite the fact that climate change is not the 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:33.280 top order political issue in the most recent American election, remember, 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.120 less than three percent of people said that it was 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.680 their number one issue. I know that plenty of people 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.120 will say that it should always remain the top issue, 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.520 but it just isn't. It just isn't for people right now, 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.240 especially when we're one percent of the world's problem. China's 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.160 thirty three percent of the world's problem. And their solution is, oh, 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.360 weish you have a big talk fest in this country 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.079 that the Prime Minister has deemed not important enough to 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.319 attend this year or last year he went the year before, 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.240 because of course he wasn't Scott Morrison. But there is 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:03.480 also a wiyh that people are already starting to explain 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.520 the economy that should be better by now about why 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.120 it isn't and if it gets worse, it's definitely not 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.720 their responsibility. Multiple news organizations this week have been running 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.560 the scare campaign that Donald Trump is the reason why 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.679 your home loan, which has gone up by thousands of 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.440 dollars twelve interrastraight rises could still stay high, the reason 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.240 that everything in the shops will still stay high. It's 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.280 all going to be Trump's fault. What a convenient little excuse. Now, 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.760 remember this government has also said that war in the 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.760 Middle East was a reason why inflation was high, but 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.240 of course war in the Middle East, if that was 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.920 the case, would explain why America's inflation is lower than ours, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.320 the UK's is lower than ours. No, of course not. 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.560 It's all just about changing the subject. This government on 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.480 every front, every time finds someone else to blame. There 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.600 is a point in time when the Australian public will 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.640 just not buy it. And while the big caveat that 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.280 I always say about this not being a one term 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.560 government is how many of the teals will hold on 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.120 to their seats If this wasn't nor more election than yeah, 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.320 you probably would be talking about a one term government. 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.960 The number one issue Australians believe this government has not 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.520 done enough action on the press Gallery doesn't want to 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:18.520 talk about their decision to increase taxes by fifteen hundred 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:22.920 dollars on ten million workers. They think that if there's 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.040 one interest rate reduction somehow that will make you forget 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:30.400 about the twelve ones that went up before one comes 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:35.440 ever so slightly down. Just like the American population didn't 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.960 care when they were being told that everything is awesome 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.520 because there is a number coming out of Washington, I'm 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.120 not sure that people are going to feel the same. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.480 Are not going to feel any different in this country 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.960 when they keep being told by people in Canberra that 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.680 everything is awesome and everything is better. But speaking of 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.240 miss priorities, Parliament's back this week and guess what they're 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:57.120 going to be talking about as Parliament returns for the 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.160 next two weeks, the final two weeks of the years. 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:00.400 She's going to be good to be aup Pont logician. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.840 Isn't it three pay rises that they have got during 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:07.360 this term of parliament and their work effectively ends before 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:12.440 December starts. Now, last time Parliament was there and they 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.480 were trying to distract from the upgrade elbow scandal, which 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.200 still hurts the Prime Minister even though he flies on 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.360 one of two brand new private jets, but of course 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.200 they were ordered under the previous government, so they couldn't 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:26.200 possibly cancel. It was that they passed a law to 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:30.440 guarantee that the NBN would never be sold. It was 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.440 never for sale, no one was planning to buy it. 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:35.480 But of course they turned around and this was a 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.960 way of distracting everyone for twenty four hours. And guess what, 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.240 you've even forgotten the distraction, which means that distraction wasn't 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.080 particularly effective. It just was their attempt to not talk 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:47.640 about upgrade albow in question time for a couple of days. Well, 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.120 still in the communications field. The big priority for the 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:52.960 next two weeks is not going to be doing anything 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.800 about cost of living, it said, it's going to be 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.800 about censoring the Internet. Now, you know, I've been banging 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.760 on about this for the best part now a couple 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.320 of years, because you know what the consequences of this 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:08.560 are the federal government deciding what is or isn't allowed 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.880 for you to be able to post on social media, 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.880 and then effectively the pester power of these social media 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.520 companies being fined for what the government believes to be 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:22.400 misinformation as defined by far left wing fact checkers, as 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.520 policed by an e Safety commissioner who of course was 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:30.160 trying to tell Elon Musk that videos that were seen 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.600 around the world could not be seen in Australia. This 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.440 is again a distraction. You see what I love here 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.080 is that the federal government that's going to turn around 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:39.920 and say that the next election could be lost because 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.320 of lies on the internet was completely fine when those 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.400 lies were being spread by the Labor Party many years ago. 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.000 Of course, when it was about the sale of Medicare, 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.400 or the lies in the Queensland election which were all 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:54.200 about abortion, many ads about those paid for by political 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.920 parties know what they want is for you not to 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.520 be able to see comments like this. They want to 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.160 deny you the capacity to take a link from sky 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.480 news dot com. That are you to post it on 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.000 your Facebook page, to put it out on x or 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.399 to amplify it in whatever social media platform that you 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:14.080 are because despite the fact that, as always I show 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.240 you the data and then we put our opinion on 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.280 top of the data, they won't care because they'll find 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.280 somebody else to find their homework, and a completely separate 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.760 set of data will somehow disprove everything that I have 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.399 used as the data to make my points, which are 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.120 often wild right wing think tanks like the Australian Bureau 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:35.400 of Statistics. It's why I try to quote government figures 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.080 while pointing out the lies that the politicians in the 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:43.480 government talk about. Well, this thing was pulled towards the 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:45.359 end of last year because the first version of it, 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.399 well it's stunk. Apparently the second version stinks less. But 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.800 everyone who are posed it the first time now opposes 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:53.879 it the second time. There will be a vote on 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.400 it in the Senate in the next two weeks. Now, 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.600 as it seems there is a great want to censor 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.879 the Internet. And I've said many times, don't fall for 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.720 this misinformation tag. It's about censoring the Internet, and I'm 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.720 pleased the good people who make the cartoons for Paul 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.200 Enhansen use that exact term in this week's ripper of 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:12.840 a cartoon. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:18.720 You see Adam ask government to make control over the 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.040 mainstream media for years. But oh no, everybody at start 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.960 making podcasts and youtubes and thinking for themselves. Banabo. We're 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.240 just the Australian government. How were supposed to sensor the 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:35.639 entire Internet? It's easy, Adam, meet Julie the e Safety Commissioner. 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.240 Blucked delete Julie, good news. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.400 I'm juilly teening debate and rushing through the Misinformation Bill 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.879 under everyone's nose. This congratulations. We're giving you all the 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.720 powers of the government and more said, to the Internet 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.760 and label everything we don't like it's misinformation. Got my 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:55.520 pretty go go. 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.879 It's a ripper Jay the full two minutes. But obviously 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:01.920 we've got other things to get to. I'll make sure 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:03.879 I post it on our Facebook page while we have 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:05.399 the time, or you can go and find it for 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.640 yourself on YouTube, which is of course Pullen Hanson's Please explain, Well, 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.760 it all comes down to the Senate. The Senate has 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.000 had its debate, had its inquiry, and now it's time 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.399 to have its vote. So let's get into the mats 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.600 here because in the end, that's all it's going to matter. 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.520 They need thirty nine votes to censor the Internet. If 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.119 all of the Labor Party, including the President of the 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:29.560 Senate plus the Greens vote, which they will, that's thirty six. 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:33.480 They need thirty nine. There are five left wing cross 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.000 bench votes, which means if all of them voted with 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.560 the government, this thing would pass, and pass pretty easily. 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.360 But I've got some good news for you. You can 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:46.080 start to strike some numbers off that number five. David Pocock, no, 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:57.479 Tammy Tyrell, no Fatima Payman, no, Jackie Lamby no. So 0:19:57.520 --> 0:19:59.800 that would of course mean that there are four of 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:04.200 the five that are gone, meaning this thing's dead. Right. Well, 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.480 there is a different way this could happen Lydia Thorpe 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.159 of course still up for grabs. We'll find out what 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.479 she has to say. If she says no, then this 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.240 thing is absolutely dead on arrival. But if she is 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.159 able to vote with the Greens, and that gets them 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:18.920 and the Labour Party to thirty seven? They need two more. 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:23.080 So where are the smokies? David Van is the former 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:26.480 Liberal senator who is now an independent senator. There is 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:30.080 no expectation of him being re elected. What could be 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.560 offered in exchange for his vote? And I don't suggest 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:34.720 that in a corrupt fashion. I just mean politicians always 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:36.440 want one thing, so they do a deal over here 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:39.439