WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 1 April 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.080 From the sky News Center. This is Paul Murray Live. 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:08.479 Thank you, Cherry, you're the best. Of course, it was 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:10.080 a big night last night. Thank you to everyone who 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:12.520 turned up, everyone who watched. And don't forget we've got 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.000 that big announcement today that the leaders will be going 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:17.520 head to head on this channel first place during the election. 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.360 I'm telling you, sky News it always delivers during an election, 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.320 always lifts. This is what we do best. We've got 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:25.040 lots to get to tonight. You can always set me 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:26.640 an m up alot sky News dot com, dot you. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:28.560 But I want to focus, as always the start of 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.319 the show on what should be a little bit higher 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:32.720 in the news, but it isn't because there's not as 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:34.280 many people who live there. But there will be a 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.800 consequence to the economy. But more importantly, there are our 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.600 fellow Australians that are suffering right now. These floods that 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.479 are in and around Queensland. They are mega, they are 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:48.000 absolutely mega. The area of this thing is now apparently 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:52.919 the best part of three thousand kilometers. It is the 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:57.480 size of Victoria and then some. This thing is huge 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.000 and there are huge communities in the trees that are 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.800 being affected. As we speak. Here's the latest from sky 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:05.800 News Weather Now. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.360 Major flood warnings are current for the river catchments shaded 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.959 in red. This still includes the Baku, Thompson and Cooper 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.360 Creek river catchments, the Blu River, and the Paru River. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.200 There are concerns of overnight major flooding occurring along the 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:20.480 Thompson River at the long Reach. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.360 As for the locals, here's the mayor, a. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.200 Lot of helicopters in the area and they're trying to 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:32.319 assess stock losses. We have fodder available to drop, but 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.280 you have to find a dry area, you know, to 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.640 drop the fodder for the stock. So it's very difficult. 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.560 And about that about one hundred thousand head may well 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.680 have been drowned or are missing right now as a 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.800 result of these floods. There is a serious consequence to 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.680 our food supply when that mini die or go missing. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.960 This thing is absolutely huge. A local vet was talking 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.640 to us a bit earlier today about this. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.800 Very We think that there's been at least ten thousand 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.360 cattle lost. Individual farms we think have losses anywhere from 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.320 fifty to ninety percent. The occasional farm has lost every 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.520 single animal on their place, all cattle and horses. 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:19.200 Are gone, absolutely terrible. This is not just about those livestock, 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.560 but is of course about their businesses, their farms. People 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:24.799 may well have been just holding on to be wiped 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.880 out like this. It is a massive, massive story and 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.680 there's a huge number of Australians who really are doing 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.360 it tough right now. The information that we are getting 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.400 is sadly more rain to come over the next couple 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.760 of days. Why because of course the former extropical cyclone, 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.840 well it was coming in from the east. This one 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:43.000 is coming in from the west. 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.720 Widespread rain of accumulations over the next twenty four hours 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.280 look to broadly exceed at twenty five to fifty millimeters, 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.520 so this could result in some renewed river rises in 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.839 the state's west. There are growing concerns though, that other 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.600 areas could see flooding. Therefore, flood watches are now current 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.320 for southern Inland and southeast coastal rivers of Queensland. 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.480 Now, as I love to say, humans are awesome and 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.560 there are stories of incredible things that have taken place 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:13.960 as a result of this as people to help each 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.640 other out. Now there is an organization that we actually 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.840 spend some time with on Saturday in Toowoomba, and that 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.320 is Life Flight. These are people who go deep into 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.679 the bush to pick people up off the side of 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:27.919 the roads to bring people in from their properties. It's 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.880 basically sort of like a floating emergency room and they 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.600 had been involved in many a rescue, including this one 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.320 that was in the newspapers today that a man was 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.640 lost for two days in floodwater in western Queensland. His 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.800 four wheel drive became bogged and he's been dramatically rescued 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.120 after building himself a makeshift shelter and he wrote the 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.280 word help in the mud with a stick. Think about that. 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.720 He was found after walking sixty kilometers by cattle and 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.480 goat farmers who were checking their stock and their fences. 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:03.240 They saw his scrawled plea and an arrow pointing rescuers 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.160 in his direction on a muddy road at the end 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.840 of their driveway. Life Flight Rescue helicopter service, which was 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.240 on standby in Charlaville for flood evacuations, then launched a 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.120 search and rescue mission for the man after he failed 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.200 to arrive home last Friday night. This was by the 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.400 way that structure that he was under for a couple 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:26.479 of days sixty kilometers worth of walking that he had 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:30.559 done very weak, and thankfully because of that aerial support, 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.760 and thankfully because the farmers were out checking their own land. 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.320 He is alive and with us today. Good stuff. Now 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.400 I've got to call out a prime minister. The Prime 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.240 Minister today spent a bit of time in Perth, spent 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.479 a bit of time in South Australia. Couldn't be bothered 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.560 going to any of these communities. It is a disgrace 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.280 that the so called leader of the nation, whom windlows 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.160 or draw will stand there on election night and say 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.919 I've been a Prime minister for all Australians is ignoring 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.640 the very people who are in the middle of this situation. 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.359 More rain in some parts has been recorded as a 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:05.880 result of this flood event than the one that he 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.240 was running around in that being tropical Cyclone Alfred. You 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.840 can't help but conclude that the reason that it is 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.160 nowhere near it is because there's no votes in it, 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.640 because there's no rolling coverage like there was when it 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.240 was a more populous area in the southeast of Queensland. 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.599 But he is the prime minister. He has the biggest 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.919 microphone in the country and he has a traveling press 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.040 pack with him. Prime Minister, if you truly seek to 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.520 be a leader for all Australians, get off your ass 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.960 and go to this part of Queensland. I know the 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.000 plan is to pretend that it doesn't exist because it's 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:42.440 good old fashioned National or LNP or Catta country, but 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.320 it's all Australia. This will have way more of an 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.640 effect on a federal budget than what happened in the southeast. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.640 But of course all of that was just a way 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.960 of changing the subject and I've got plenty more to 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:53.840 say about that. But it's a disgrace that he has 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.440 not been there yet. If it was any other Prime minister, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.559 and this sort of situation was happening a little closer 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.040 to town where we all know how the usual suspects will 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.400 be going ballistic. Thankfully, Peter Dudden, he went yesterday thirty 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.479 two days to go until Australia gets the chance to 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.640 choose its next government. Do we get more of the 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.560 same or is it time to get the joint back 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.560 on track? As the opposition leader would say, that is 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.600 thirty two days to go, twenty one days until the 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:23.080 very first votes are cast, three weeks away. From early voting. 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.320 This is of course, where more than half of all 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.600 people will vote. So essentially there are two campaigns. There's 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.320 the one before and then the one that leads up 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:37.520 to election day. Today. Peter Dudden fresh from that pub 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.120 test last night, and you could see that he was 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.440 pumped up not just by his family but by people 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.120 who were keen for him to defeat one of the 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.599 worst prime ministers of all time. He's got a pretty 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.400 simple message to those that are doubting what his future 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.680 is in the next five weeks. Well, I don't think 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:52.520 you've said anything yet. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.080 I think wait until we get into this campaign and 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:56.680 you see more of what we've got to offer. 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:00.640 Albo, more of the same, the money can going off. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.920 These are all the promises money wise he's made since January. 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:09.480 A seven point two billion dollar announcement today five million dollars, 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:13.280 ten million dollars, two hundred million dollars, three billion dollars, 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:16.559 three hundred and fifty million dollars, two billion dollars, thirty 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.720 seven million dollars, eight hundred and forty two million dollar, 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.600 two point four billion dollars, eight point five billion dollar, 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:27.320 four point eight billion dollar, one billion dollars three point 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:31.480 four billion dollars, two point eight billion dollars, two hundred 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.760 million dollar, one hundred and fifty million dollars. 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.119 Now, this bloke's getting cocky. He thinks that everything's rolling 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.840 his way. He thinks the budget was amazing. I'll burst 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.080 that bubble for him in a second. And here he 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:46.440 was dialing it up to eleven with the press today. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:51.920 Seamless segue from global politics to the suburban roller. People 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.200 will vote in an election, all right. 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.000 Longer version of State of the Race with a special 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.800 guest with us tonight, Stephen Conroy, Michael Kroger. They won't 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.600 hold back, no gloves, no politeness. They'll go as hard 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.080 as possible. Team Read versus Team Blue. A little bit 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.600 later in the night, now, I want to tell you 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.440 something that's a bit of a behind the scene. It's 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.400 about what took place last night. And again I think 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.560 the opposition leader for being there. I thank all of 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.760 those people for turning up, I thank everyone for watching. 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.480 But I want to tell you a little bit about, 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.920 as I say, the behind the scenes. Thank you again 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.720 to the Kamiski family and the Eaton's Hill Hotel. We 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.200 love that venue and we love Queensland. You know it's 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.720 my spiritual home. I thought Peter Dunton did pretty well. 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.160 Why because he wasn't getting the glaring faces of the 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:34.920 people who hate him in the rest of the media, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.280 who was looking at people, including his family, who want 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:38.120 him to do well. 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.480 The Labor Party has failed our country over the last 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.000 three years, reduced the fuel tax by twenty five cents 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.760 a leader, the Prime Minister at the moment. Why'd tell 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:49.800 you this, but the bulk billing rate in our country 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.560 is at seventy seven percent. Harry'll be embarrassed hear me 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.800 call him out. But Harry has just gone into his 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.880 second year of apprenticeship as a carpenter. He's got a 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:02.640 boost in his pay which means he can start to 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.400 pay some board at home as well. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.320 He's a good plaq. He really is his father as well. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.720 All right. There was not much media coverage of what 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:14.959 we did last night, and that's not me speaking from ego. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.160 It's just interesting because all of the media was there. 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:20.800 In fact, there was, of course the live blog which 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.160 is at Sky News. You would expect that there was 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.559 the focus on the joke about the sun that was 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:30.280 the angle Thattnews Dot com dot Au took but essentially 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.040 that was it. Now again, did I expect it to 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.080 become rolling coverage, lead news the main thing. They'd open 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:40.800 Sunrise or The Today Show with no But all of 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.719 the media organizations were at the pub last night. They 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:50.440 were there, they saw what was taking place, and an 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.040 actual fact, there was a little bit of push and 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:58.240 shove from some of those media types. Now put simply, 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.520 the pub last night was effectively our television studio. And 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.880 in the same way that I wouldn't expect if I 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.559 sat here and interviewed Peter Dutton in the man cave 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.280 for cameras for seven, nine, ten to two photographers from 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.120 The Guardian to be standing on the other side of 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.360 the camera. Just wouldn't work like that, as we wouldn't 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.560 expect the Sky News cameras to go barreling onto the 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:23.960 set of the Today Show or ABC News Breakfast. But 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.880 the decision was made by the Peter Dutton team to 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.400 make sure that those people could come and could observe. 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.160 And again I don't have a problem with them coming 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:35.760 and observing, but they decided to just well some of 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:40.360 them just gate crash parts of the event. Now, all 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.440 of the stuff was being covered by our cameras that 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.640 had been set up all day, with everything planned by 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.880 an excellent team who put together all of our outside broadcasts. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.880 But no, no, no, they wanted to get their own footage. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.600 They originally wanted to have their own cameras where we 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:55.240 all know what type of footage they'd be getting. It 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.080 wouldn't be anyone who was talking. They'd just be looking 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.439 for somebody yawning or something like that. But they set 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.880 themselves up in a sort of unplanned way to capture 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.720 the alternative Prime Minister and his family walking in. But again, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:13.079 that footage really never went anywhere. You see, the reality 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.120 of why the press was there is because they were 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:20.280 there for only two reasons. They wanted a protester or 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.800 they wanted him to stuff up, neither of which took place. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.640 One because Peter Dutton was on his game and two 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.160 because we are smarted the loons that have caused trouble 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:35.679 in the past. And amazingly, again they were there, they 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.600 watched it, and none of them decided to include his 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:42.160 performance because that would be considered positive. How dare they 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.880 show a moment of levity? But of course if it's 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.880 over on Channel two or if it's on their own networks, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:48.640 it'll be front and center. Again, I don't talk about 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.920 this because I want everyone and all eyes on me. 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:57.440 It's just every news organization was there, yet very few 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.400 decided to report on it. But I guarantee if there 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.880 was a protest, you would have seen the photo. I 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.760 guarantee if he had stuffed up or sworn, somebody had 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:06.720 yelled at him, you would have seen those grabs on TV. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.680 And it's a bit of an insight into the traveling 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.160 media pack. As you see with Anthony Albernezi, it's all 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.200 laughs and jokes because, as I've said, they like the 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.600 arrangement as it currently is. Much of the media does 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.720 not want a change in arrangements. So imagine their faces 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.520 looking back at Peter Dutton whenever he makes an announcement, 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.240 or of course, even if he makes an announcement or 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.280 has a good night like last night, quickly changed the 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:34.120 subject back to made up outrages. That's why they have 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:38.400 to go around that camera collective and come to programs 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.480 like this to speak directly to you, for you to 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.040 be able to see the videos, for you to be 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:44.440 able to share them, and all of them are up 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.960 now it's going news dot com, dot are you? And 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.080 to further drive this point home and again, part of 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.160 what I like to do during elections is not just 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.040 talk about poles and we'll get into that and state 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:54.600 of the race and team red and team blue, but 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.280 talk about media games, talk about how they can choose 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.319 to make one person look slightly better at the other 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.480 person not so good. Now. Tim Lester is a reporter 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:07.440 with Channel seven. By all reports, relatively fair, but of 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.720 course he's reporting not just for TV but doing stuff 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.840 for the internet as well, and he is what he 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.480 said today about where the Liberal Party had chosen to 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.040 do one of its media events and why it might 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:20.400 make the six pm news. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:28.800 Where's the train? It's just a still paddock. The great 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:33.000 hidden battle of the election campaign is the picture opportunity. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.719 Pictures drive news. You get more time if you're a 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:41.040 leader and you've got good pictures on the TV, news, online, 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.080 on social media, in the newspapers. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:45.600 With still pictures, you've. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:49.160 Got to get an interesting picture opportunity. Well, I reckon 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:53.120 Anthony Alberizi so far is being beaten by Peter Dutton 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.160 in terms of the picture opportunity. 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.520 Yeah, so they are looking for the pictures to tell 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.000 the story. We'll they had plenty pictures out a lot. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.320 It's not just not the ones they wanted, which were 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.560 a protester or him stuffing up. These are the little 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.000 choices that they make to go into the six pm news, 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.680 and the six pm news isn't the only thing, but 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.640 it's the big national thing that will feed into their 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.800 breakfast shows, the afternoon news, the gag shows at night, 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.280 and it's pretty obvious which way they play now. In 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.400 fairness to Tim Lester, he says that so far in 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.280 the election, pet It Dudn's been doing a better job 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.920 of providing the pictures than Anthony Abernese. Even today was 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:25.760 a chance for Anthony Aberneze to have a better day 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.000 because they were standing in a paddock. What they were 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.560 announcing was significant in that paddock. And because you probably 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.880 didn't hear what that announcement was, this is what he 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:35.480 was announcing in that paddock. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:47.320 Where's the train? It's just a still paddock. It's not 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:52.239 what we need for a picture opportunity. So Anthony Alberzi, 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.280 you're losing the battle, all right. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.920 What he was doing, of course, was announcing that he 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.000 won't be putting money in the Sabin rail link instead 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.480 biddings of dollars into our rail link which will connect 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.680 to the north and to the south of the airport 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:07.040 and back through to the city. Amazing stuff. And by 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.440 the way, over on Channel nine tonight they're exclusive that 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:13.160 they had documents that had been handed by the Labor 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:17.040 Party directly to the reporter. Now, presumably this was a 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.720 special exclusive that happened just before the news, but the 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.480 special exclusive was modeling that showed that teams of thousands 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.440 of people lose their job if nuclear power becomes the option. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.440 These are, of course the same people who used modeling 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.680 to produce this lie at the last election about how 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.720 much your power bills would be cut. 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.960 Reducing power prices by two hundred and seventy five dollars 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.200 two hundred and seventy five dollars a year. There'll be 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:48.000 reduction for households of two hundred and seventy five dollars. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.720 Now, I said out as a person who dreamt of 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:52.600 being able to one day work in the media. It 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.080 was one of very few people whoever got the chance 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.160 to do that. And I've seen it from all sides. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.360 I've been a radio reporter standing there holding the little 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.840 microphone with the logo on the end of it. I've 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:05.360 worked for FM radio, for AM Radio, I've done comedy 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.480 shows on Triple M. I've done talk shows on TUE 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.000 and TWOGB. I've seen it from lots of angles. I've 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.720 talked about it on Breakfast TV way back when over 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.080 on Channel seven, and I've spoken about it here for 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.920 fifteen years. I know the little nuances of the way 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:22.400 that they are spinning the ball, and they are going 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.440 to spin as hard as possible. Remember, for the past 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.520 two years they've been looking for a circuit breaker that 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:30.880 got Anthony Abernezi back into the fight. At every opportunity 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.400 they have given him the benefit of the doubt. And 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.000 right now they will do their absolute best to make 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.920 sure that one candidate looks better than the other. But 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:43.680 moments like the pub test one hour uninterrupted, moments like 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:48.160 the People's Forum next week one hour uninterrupted, mean you 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.560 get to see these people with your own eyes, not 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:55.520 through their lens. Now. But you didn't hear this about 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.960 Labour's budget now, believe it or not, it's just a week. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:02.240 It's just a week since the Treasurer stood up and 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.280 delivered the cost of living budget, but of course he 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.320 didn't want to. There wasn't a lot of detail. They 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.160 all expected they'd be already a couple of weeks into 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.960 the election campaign by now, but because they were definitely 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.960 not campaigning while campaigning in cycling now for it, while 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:20.400 of course ignoring what's happening right now in regional Queensland. Well, 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.320 of course they said that the focus just one week 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:27.359 ago of the event that you can't remember was cost 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.560 of living, because every pole, every time tells us it 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.200 is one, two and three in terms of priorities of people. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.840 This budget is all about helping with the cost of living, 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:38.800 cost of living. 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.800 Hell, providing cost of living relief. 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.679 The cost of living relief, cost of living relief and 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.320 further to my previous points, the media of course wanting 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.119 this to be a circuit breaker for a government that 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.480 the polls have been up and down on over the 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.840 past of the while more negative than positive over the 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.400 past two years. Well they did the spinning for the government. 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:02.040 The government will also ensure a million Australians avoid the 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:06.399 full Medicare levees by increasing the threshold at which it's paid. 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.399 It comes on top of a suite of cost of 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:10.240 living measures. 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.800 There's been an extension of the electricity subsidies, there's been 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:19.120 measures to make drug prices cheaper through the PBS, and 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.720 the increases in bolk billing. 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.280 Well a pole came at today, not published by a 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.000 far right wing think tank, but by the Turnbull Times, 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.400 the Essential People. Now they find lots of different headlines 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.439 to print, but you would think it would be somewhat 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:37.480 relevant that an extreme majority of Australians were unimpressed by 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.920 the federal budget just one week later. It's the reason 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.000 why they don't talk about it anymore. But again the 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.000 assumption of the national media is that you will be 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.119 distracted by what they tell you is the priority of 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.640 the day. We'll have a look at this. Sixty one 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:56.800 percent of people in a poll in the Guardian, so 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:02.199 that the budget won't or definitely won't substantially change or 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:06.240 make any meaningful difference to the cost of living. When 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.840 you break that down, by the way, by party supporters 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:12.880 forty eight percent of Labor voters, so that the budget 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.480 did not make a difference to cost of living, sixty 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:19.080 seven of the Libs fifty two. But have a look 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:22.280 at that number of everyone from the Victorian socialists, through 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.600 the Tiffany Teels all the way to the Trumpeter patriots 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:30.080 and our mates of one nation. Eighty percent. Now this 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.800 is where apparently the majority of undecided voters are parking 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:36.280 their vote in a poll. Eighty percent say the budget 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:41.520 didn't make a difference. But of course you remember that 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.560 the government says it and says it and says it, 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.439 and then the media turns around and reports it and 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:49.159 reports it and reports it. But just as it was 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:52.280 after the last budget, is it is after this budget. 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.359 What I told you on this show a week ago 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.520 was bang on, which is not a way of polishing 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:03.280 my own credentials, but saying, ignore the Canbra collective. The 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.320 Camebra collective plays for one game, and one game only, 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:09.000 and that's access. And if they think that there's a 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:10.720 chance that the current mob is going to hold on, 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.919 they won't rock the boat. If they think the current 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.040 mob is on its way out, they do everything they 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:19.479 can to throw them under the bus. So the Prime Minister, 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:21.960 the Treasurer and all the rest of them might go 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.640 on and on and on, and the media might repeat 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:26.120 it over and over and over. 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.640 Jim Chalmers says these changes will mean that by midnext year, 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:36.159