WEBVTT - The Bolt Report | 30 September 0:00:11.450 --> 0:00:13.490 This is the Vault Report. 0:00:14.500 --> 0:00:16.380 Well, good evening and welcome to The Bolt Report. I'm 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.299 James McPherson. Here's what's coming up tonight. How is it 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.040 that an Islamic preacher who said Muslims should take up 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:25.599 arms against Jews and Christians seems to have gotten away 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.640 with it? Pauline Hanson is determined not to let that 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.630 one go, and she'll join me in a moment. Everyone 0:00:31.650 --> 0:00:34.269 knows things are bad in Victoria, but it's even worse 0:00:34.290 --> 0:00:37.730 than you think. Victoria's just been ranked the worst managed 0:00:37.890 --> 0:00:41.610 state in the Western world. Leith Van Onselen will join 0:00:41.630 --> 0:00:44.190 me later to explain why. And why are so many 0:00:44.250 --> 0:00:47.709 Australian schools erasing the name of European settlers from their 0:00:47.750 --> 0:00:52.920 sporting houses, replacing them with Indigenous names for plants and animals? 0:00:53.380 --> 0:00:55.460 My panel will get into that shortly. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.340 But first, Senator David Shoebridge has been voted in as 0:00:59.380 --> 0:01:02.720 the new leader of the Australian Greens. Faced with the 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:09.060 choice of far-left Sarah Hansen-Young, extreme-left David Shoebridge and intergalactic-left 0:01:09.180 --> 0:01:13.390 Maureen Faruqi, the Greens opted for the sensible centre. 0:01:14.350 --> 0:01:19.550 For the ballot of leader, the three nominees were David Shoebridge, 0:01:19.650 --> 0:01:23.809 Merrin Faruqi and Sarah Hansen-Young. The results on primary votes 0:01:24.010 --> 0:01:29.230 were David Shoebridge, six votes, Merrin Faruqi, three votes, Sarah Hansen-Young, 0:01:29.650 --> 0:01:32.800 two votes. David Shoebridge has been elected as the new 0:01:32.860 --> 0:01:34.080 leader of the Australian Greens. 0:01:35.300 --> 0:01:39.240 The deputy position was filled by little-known Victorian Steph Hodgson's May. 0:01:39.830 --> 0:01:42.250 It was an extraordinary ballot in which more than half 0:01:42.350 --> 0:01:46.850 the Greens party room members put themselves forward for leadership roles. 0:01:46.910 --> 0:01:49.240 I'm not sure what to make of that. Does it 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.680 demonstrate just how much talent they have? 0:01:52.580 --> 0:01:55.620 Probably, if you're in the market for a champagne socialist, 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.640 you'd find no better one-stop shop than the Greens' recently 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:02.010 renovated $ 2. 2 million parliamentary meeting room. 0:02:02.690 --> 0:02:05.550 Well, maybe it demonstrates how bereft they are of talent. 0:02:05.690 --> 0:02:09.739 There simply wasn't an obvious standout candidate. It was less 0:02:09.820 --> 0:02:12.680 a leadership election than a battle of musical chairs where 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:17.020 literally everybody bought their own chair. Maureen Faruqi, she believed 0:02:17.139 --> 0:02:22.060 she was the obvious standout, despite attracting only three primary votes, 0:02:22.139 --> 0:02:25.700 one of which would have been herself. Never one to complain, though, 0:02:25.740 --> 0:02:27.780 she immediately congratulated the new leader. 0:02:28.690 --> 0:02:33.019 Yes, I have experienced racism in the Greens. The level 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.280 of racism that is directed at you, though, when you 0:02:36.540 --> 0:02:39.250 are a public figure, a person of color and a woman, 0:02:39.990 --> 0:02:44.000 where the intersections of sexism and racism become really visceral 0:02:44.380 --> 0:02:45.600 is just another level. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.000 Sorry, that was Maureen Faruqi complaining about racism in the 0:02:50.020 --> 0:02:54.660 Greens back in 2023. Here's the gracious statement she posted 0:02:54.710 --> 0:02:58.630 today on Instagram saying, this morning I stepped down as 0:02:58.690 --> 0:03:00.930 deputy leader of the Greens to put my hand up 0:03:01.030 --> 0:03:04.690 for leader. Of course, I'm disappointed the party room chose 0:03:04.810 --> 0:03:08.190 another direction and I know many others will feel the 0:03:08.250 --> 0:03:12.740 same way. I'm sure many others do, just none of 0:03:12.780 --> 0:03:17.440 her colleagues. Her statement continued, I've long advocated publicly that 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:21.060 Greens leaders should be elected by members with enough time 0:03:21.100 --> 0:03:24.800 for thoughtful deliberation on who is best to grow our party. 0:03:25.300 --> 0:03:29.060 I share members' frustration that the opposite happened this week, 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.060 which is, I think, her way of saying, congratulations, David Shoebridge, 0:03:33.260 --> 0:03:36.420 you have my full support. Oh, hang on, the statement 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.460 continued with this. I believe I can best play my 0:03:39.500 --> 0:03:43.160 part outside the constraints of the leadership team. 0:03:44.410 --> 0:03:46.830 And that was it, which may be part. 0:03:46.670 --> 0:03:48.590 Of the reason why all but two of her colleagues 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:53.140 declined to vote for her. Just on Marine Faruqi, we 0:03:53.180 --> 0:03:56.280 know what she's been like as deputy leader. Can you 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.100 imagine what she'll be like without quote unquote constraints? 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:02.020 Start the popcorn. 0:04:02.540 --> 0:04:05.410 While Marine Faruqi, who hates Donald Trump, was complaining the 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:10.410 election was unfair, newly elected leader David Shoebridge was gently 0:04:10.470 --> 0:04:13.530 reminding Anthony Albanese that the Greens still exist. 0:04:14.500 --> 0:04:17.480 We are not here to make the Labor Party any better. 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:19.979 The Greens are here to replace them. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:21.600 That's right. 0:04:21.700 --> 0:04:24.200 The Greens are now promising to do to Labor what 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:28.100 One Nation are doing to the Coalition, which hilariously prompted 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.500 this response from Treasurer Jim Chalmers. 0:04:31.390 --> 0:04:35.450 I'm told that he was particularly focused on the Labor 0:04:35.470 --> 0:04:39.690 Party in his introductory remarks. I think it's really important. 0:04:40.940 --> 0:04:44.540 that we focus on the risks posed to workers and 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.640 to our economy by One Nation, the Liberal Party and 0:04:47.660 --> 0:04:48.419 the National Party. 0:04:49.500 --> 0:04:52.190 I say that's hilarious because Jim Chalmers is sounding a 0:04:52.210 --> 0:04:54.990 little like his colleagues in the Coalition who've been urging 0:04:55.089 --> 0:04:55.850 One Nation to. 0:04:55.850 --> 0:04:56.729 Focus on Labor. 0:04:57.410 --> 0:05:00.810 Apparently nobody likes having their own medicine prescribed back to them. 0:05:01.410 --> 0:05:04.250 David Shoebridge continued with his attack on Labor, although I 0:05:04.310 --> 0:05:07.800 thought this... Far be it from me to defend Anthony Albanese, 0:05:07.820 --> 0:05:09.940 but I did think this bit was a little unfair. 0:05:10.860 --> 0:05:13.310 This is the moment for the Greens to fill the 0:05:13.350 --> 0:05:16.520 vacuum that has been left by the Labor Party rushing 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:17.000 to the right. 0:05:18.339 --> 0:05:21.020 I'm not sure anyone could accuse the Albanese government of 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.260 rushing to the right, but perhaps that shows just how 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.200 far left the Greens really are. When you think that 0:05:27.260 --> 0:05:30.960 pretending to care about immigration, defence and government spending is 0:05:31.380 --> 0:05:35.230 rushing to the right, well, you're so far left, you've 0:05:35.270 --> 0:05:36.150 broken the compass. 0:05:36.830 --> 0:05:38.250 The new Greens leader carried. 0:05:38.070 --> 0:05:41.029 On, saying the Albanese government was responsible for the rise 0:05:41.310 --> 0:05:42.029 of One Nation. 0:05:43.029 --> 0:05:46.740 Labor has created the circumstances for One Nation, and Labor 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.820 is not the answer. We know that One Nation didn't come, 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.660 didn't create itself. It's the classic post turtle. Sits on 0:05:53.700 --> 0:05:56.740 a post. You know it didn't get there itself. You 0:05:56.779 --> 0:05:57.740 wonder what it's doing there. 0:05:58.870 --> 0:06:02.120 I'm wondering what a post-Turtle is, but I like it. 0:06:02.150 --> 0:06:02.950 It's a good line. 0:06:03.210 --> 0:06:07.220 And what Shoebridge lacks in common-sense policies, he certainly makes 0:06:07.300 --> 0:06:10.960 up for in rhetorical flourish. And that's why Shoebridge will 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.130 at least be an improvement for the Greens on Adam Bant, 0:06:14.190 --> 0:06:18.510 whose whiny demeanour irritated the electorate no end, and Larissa Waters, who... 0:06:18.790 --> 0:06:22.010 always came across as the person elected to replace Adam 0:06:22.050 --> 0:06:24.690 Bant because, well, she was as close to a normal 0:06:24.750 --> 0:06:26.880 person as they could find in the Greens party room. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:28.920 Shoebridge would send. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:30.820 The country broke and leave us defenceless in the face 0:06:30.860 --> 0:06:33.900 of foreign adversaries, but he'll always be good with a line. 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:36.739 I tell you what, as you travel around the country, 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.700 the call I'm not hearing is, what do we want? 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:40.740 Gradual change. 0:06:40.940 --> 0:06:41.620 When do we want it? 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.309 In due course. That is the dead politics of Labor. 0:06:46.310 --> 0:06:48.000 Oh, I tell you what, it is going to be 0:06:48.070 --> 0:06:52.400 fascinating to watch the way Anthony Albanese handles this. David 0:06:52.420 --> 0:06:54.980 Shoebridge promised to step things up between now and the 0:06:54.980 --> 0:06:58.419 2028 election. And this next part of his press conference, 0:06:58.460 --> 0:07:00.540 I have to admit, did make me smile. 0:07:01.460 --> 0:07:04.400 We're going to cross the country. We're going to deliver 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.950 that sense of hope and opportunity that Australians are begging for. 0:07:08.810 --> 0:07:10.970 And we are also going to meet the climate crisis. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.200 So they're going to cross the country and meet the 0:07:15.220 --> 0:07:18.180 climate crisis. I guess they'll be crossing the country on 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.200 pushbike then. I mean, the new leader of the Greens 0:07:21.260 --> 0:07:24.020 could drive across the country, but can you imagine how 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:25.870 much of a pain that's going to be? Now he's 0:07:25.900 --> 0:07:28.790 the leader. Remember this scene from earlier in the year? 0:07:29.850 --> 0:07:31.790 I was just pulled over by police on my way 0:07:31.910 --> 0:07:33.410 into Mardi Gras at Nimbin. 0:07:33.870 --> 0:07:35.010 Have a look at this footage. 0:07:35.030 --> 0:07:38.150 Yeah, Senator David Shoebridge. 0:07:37.050 --> 0:07:38.150 Is my name. 0:07:38.250 --> 0:07:38.730 Oh, OK, yeah. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.400 Oh, now when he's pulled over and asked for his name, 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.600 he'll need to say, yeah, Senator David Shoebridge, leader of 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.220 the Australian Greens, is my name, which is quite the mouthful, 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.360 though I suspect he'll rather enjoy saying it. Who says 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.700 leaders don't have their cross to bear? Shoebridge didn't mention 0:07:54.740 --> 0:07:58.560 Palestine today, which I assume was an oversight on his part, 0:07:59.100 --> 0:08:02.040 and probably confused Greens voters who've spent the past three 0:08:02.060 --> 0:08:05.239 years thinking Greens was a reference to the Hamas flag. 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.690 Of course, Greens is supposed to be a reference to 0:08:07.700 --> 0:08:11.420 the environment and David Shoebridge briefly remembered in his press 0:08:11.460 --> 0:08:14.990 conference today to warn voters that this summer could potentially, 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.170 I dare say hopefully for the Greens, be the mother 0:08:18.190 --> 0:08:19.070 of all disasters. 0:08:20.130 --> 0:08:24.110 This summer could potentially be the mother of all El Ninos, 0:08:24.730 --> 0:08:27.690 with floods and the disaster that that happens. And the 0:08:27.730 --> 0:08:29.670 person I want to work with in a leadership team 0:08:29.690 --> 0:08:32.580 to face down that climate crisis, to keep coal and 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.699 gas in the ground, is my dear colleague Steph Hodgins-May. 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.910 The mother of all El Ninos, we can only hope. 0:08:39.450 --> 0:08:41.970 You've probably never heard of Steph Hodgson's May, and to 0:08:41.990 --> 0:08:44.349 be fair, the former Greenpeace activist has only been in 0:08:44.370 --> 0:08:45.550 the Parliament for two years. 0:08:46.650 --> 0:08:48.810 I am part of a generation who has grown up 0:08:49.050 --> 0:08:51.569 not having the sorts of opportunities to live a good 0:08:51.610 --> 0:08:52.850 life that we deserve. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:09:02.260 A 41-year-old federal senator on a base salary of $ 239, 000 0:08:59.460 --> 0:09:03.640 a year complaining she's never had the opportunities to live 0:09:03.660 --> 0:09:06.359 the good life that she deserved. She may be new, 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.120 but she'll go far in the Greens. Although I think 0:09:09.140 --> 0:09:12.160 she should work on not smiling so much when warning 0:09:12.210 --> 0:09:15.070 us we're staring down the barrel of impending climate doom. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.069 I am looking forward to working with David to bring 0:09:18.110 --> 0:09:22.829 a bold vision to confront the impending climate crisis that 0:09:23.210 --> 0:09:26.150 is here now. As David said, we have the biggest 0:09:26.210 --> 0:09:28.130 El Nino coming down the barrel. 0:09:29.210 --> 0:09:31.809 So the Greens now have a new leader and David 0:09:31.870 --> 0:09:34.340 Shoebridge now has two years to take his party from 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.559 the political wilderness to the promised land. Judging by today's speech, 0:09:38.620 --> 0:09:40.520 he's planning to get there on a bicycle during an 0:09:40.580 --> 0:09:43.840 El Nino. The interesting part, we'll be watching how Anthony 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:50.980 Albanese responds. Well, joining me now is One Nation leader, 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.830 Pauline Hanson, or should I say turtle on a post? 0:09:54.330 --> 0:09:59.109 Pauline, welcome to the program. I want to talk about David. Thanks, James. 0:10:00.179 --> 0:10:02.300 David Shoebridge in a moment, but I want to ask 0:10:02.340 --> 0:10:05.569 you first what you thought about Maureen Faruqi's dummy spit 0:10:05.730 --> 0:10:06.890 after losing the vote. 0:10:08.750 --> 0:10:12.290 It doesn't surprise me. She would be scathing. of having 0:10:12.330 --> 0:10:17.950 a white, privileged, colonialist male take this position as leader 0:10:17.970 --> 0:10:21.689 of the Greens. Here's, you know, over a coloured woman. 0:10:21.970 --> 0:10:25.429 My God, how dare they do that? So I can 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.470 just imagine her, that's why she's angry about it. And 0:10:28.710 --> 0:10:30.630 if she'd won it, she wouldn't be saying, oh, the 0:10:30.650 --> 0:10:33.390 membership should be actually having their say in this. So anyway, 0:10:33.650 --> 0:10:38.940 her colleagues didn't clearly want her. Three votes, one would 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.460 have been her own. So anyway, you know, to listen 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.699 to all the rhetoric that's coming out of Shoebridge's mouth 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.640 now is what I hear in the floor of parliament. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.260 They have nothing to offer the people of Australia. They 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.309 want to open up the floodgates to mass migration, you know, 0:10:53.429 --> 0:10:56.230 and then you've got the climate change debacle that's going on, the. 0:10:56.190 --> 0:10:56.849 Great Barrier Reef. 0:10:56.870 --> 0:10:59.970 The Great Barrier Reef is so pristine now. It's all 0:10:59.990 --> 0:11:03.090 the fear-mongering that goes on all the time. And they 0:11:03.110 --> 0:11:06.510 don't care about Australia. I rarely ever hear them standing up, 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.600 fighting for the ordinary average Australian out there. And it's 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.660 a real shame. But anyway, I think they'll fall into 0:11:12.700 --> 0:11:14.460 a heap. The people are waking up to them. 0:11:15.230 --> 0:11:17.710 I saw you laughing when I introduced you as a 0:11:17.809 --> 0:11:20.110 turtle on a post, and I know you'd be familiar 0:11:20.150 --> 0:11:22.170 with what David Shoebridge said. 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:27.420 What is a turtle on a post, Pauline Hanson? 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:29.920 Well, actually, you'll have to explain it to me, because 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.969 I'm going to ask you for a please explain there, 0:11:32.410 --> 0:11:36.230 because I don't know. How will you refer to me 0:11:36.290 --> 0:11:39.809 as a turtle on a post? So anyway... Do you know? 0:11:39.830 --> 0:11:42.850 I don't. I don't understand it either. 0:11:42.910 --> 0:11:44.890 Although he did allude to the fact that he believes 0:11:44.970 --> 0:11:48.770 if it wasn't for Labor's poor performance, there would be 0:11:48.830 --> 0:11:49.650 no One Nation. 0:11:49.670 --> 0:11:50.670 Does he have a point there? 0:11:53.420 --> 0:11:57.420 Look, I think it's been poor performance by both the 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.560 major political parties and the National Party over... you know, 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.329 a couple of the last decades, that people have actually 0:12:03.350 --> 0:12:06.170 had a gutful of them and they don't see that 0:12:06.210 --> 0:12:08.470 they've got the interests of the country or the people 0:12:08.510 --> 0:12:12.230 at heart. And people are crying out for change. I 0:12:12.309 --> 0:12:14.350 stopped in Laidley today for a couple of hours and 0:12:14.429 --> 0:12:16.460 Toowoomba as well and I spoke to locals that actually 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.660 came up to me and they're really hurting, James, they 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.000 really are. They want change. They said, no more, we're 0:12:22.020 --> 0:12:24.160 fed up with the major political parties. A lot of 0:12:24.179 --> 0:12:27.640 people are also saying, we voted for Liberals no more. 0:12:27.740 --> 0:12:31.040 They don't stand for anything. And they say, with you, 0:12:31.100 --> 0:12:33.800 you're consistent. We know where we stand with you. And 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:38.060 they also say that we know you have the country 0:12:38.100 --> 0:12:40.660 at heart and you really care about the country and 0:12:40.700 --> 0:12:44.079 you care about us. And that's what they're learning from me, 0:12:44.300 --> 0:12:46.429 is that I do care. It's going to be tough. 0:12:46.730 --> 0:12:49.809 To turn it around is going to be very, very tough. 0:12:50.309 --> 0:12:52.590 But you know what? The people have had to pull 0:12:52.650 --> 0:12:54.790 in their belts. And what I'll say to people now, 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.280 If we actually have an opportunity to be government or 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.160 in a position to have balanced power in that parliament, 0:13:01.690 --> 0:13:03.090 you know who's going to be pulling the belts in? 0:13:03.370 --> 0:13:06.610 The government. We are going to ensure that happens. You 0:13:06.670 --> 0:13:09.570 can't do it anymore, but the government will have to 0:13:09.650 --> 0:13:12.030 start pulling their belts and you show by example. 0:13:12.820 --> 0:13:13.240 Well, you're right. 0:13:13.260 --> 0:13:15.300 There's certainly going to be a lot of work to do. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.380 The latest inflation figures released today don't make for happy reading. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.950 Headline inflation has surged from 3.5% to 4% last month, 0:13:22.990 --> 0:13:25.930 which is well and truly outside the Reserve Bank's target 0:13:25.950 --> 0:13:29.089 of 2% to 3%, all of which means we're probably 0:13:29.130 --> 0:13:31.550 looking at another rate rise in November. Do you think 0:13:31.590 --> 0:13:34.400 Jim Chalmers, and I mean this as a serious question, 0:13:34.420 --> 0:13:35.780 do you think he knows what he's doing? 0:13:38.410 --> 0:13:41.110 I don't believe he does. And I blame his colleagues 0:13:41.170 --> 0:13:44.010 as well. And I blame Albanese as well. You know, 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.220 they are a team. They should be looking at this. 0:13:46.940 --> 0:13:50.819 If they don't bring down the inflation rate, well, interest 0:13:50.860 --> 0:13:53.020 rates have to go up. Or if they don't curtail 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.360 their spending, stop the spending, then you have to balance 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.540 it out and you have high unemployment in the country. 0:13:58.620 --> 0:14:00.900 You've either got companies spending back or you have high 0:14:00.940 --> 0:14:04.980 immigration to control the inflation that's happening in Australia. Productivity 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.349 is way down. compared to a lot of other countries. 0:14:08.710 --> 0:14:12.290 So this is poor governance that's happened over the years, 0:14:12.350 --> 0:14:15.530 over the period of time. So, like I said, if 0:14:15.550 --> 0:14:17.670 you're actually going to spend the money, you don't spend 0:14:17.730 --> 0:14:21.440 it in giving it to multicultural organisations of over $ 325 million. 0:14:21.460 --> 0:14:25.650 You don't give $ 60 million to Ukraine. You don't give 0:14:25.650 --> 0:14:30.530 $ 67 million to these media outlets. You stop wasting the money. 0:14:30.910 --> 0:14:35.540 And you stop, you know, hiring all these bureaucrats and 0:14:35.580 --> 0:14:38.060 paying them exorbitant wages. And I'll tell you another thing 0:14:38.260 --> 0:14:42.040 that I'll be looking at. No bureaucrat will earn more 0:14:42.260 --> 0:14:45.680 than what the Prime Minister does. That'll be reigned right 0:14:45.860 --> 0:14:47.920 in under a one-nation government. 0:14:48.790 --> 0:14:51.080 So that's not just a thought bubble. That will be 0:14:51.100 --> 0:14:51.720 your policy. 0:14:51.780 --> 0:14:53.920 No bureaucrat will earn more than the PM, which is, 0:14:53.940 --> 0:14:55.460 what does the PM earn these days? 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:00.380 He's on about $ 650, 000. Some of these bureaucrats on head 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:04.400 of the ABC and some of these vice chancellors, they're 0:15:04.450 --> 0:15:07.130 on a million dollars plus. So a lot of these 0:15:07.210 --> 0:15:13.290 heads of these departments are on well over $ 700, 000, $ 800, 000. 0:15:11.690 --> 0:15:12.550 It's ridiculous. 0:15:13.030 --> 0:15:15.200 And they shouldn't be getting this sort of money. This 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:20.680 government has blown out the bureaucracy by about 40,000. 80% 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.160 of employment in this country has come through the bureaucracy, 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.760 government jobs. So I'm hearing people also, they're putting on 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.530 migrants into these positions, not Australians, they're putting on more 0:15:31.550 --> 0:15:34.810 migrants into these positions so they don't end up on 0:15:34.830 --> 0:15:40.510 the welfare system. So the whole system has rotten and 0:15:40.530 --> 0:15:43.960 it's from the head down. So we need to get 0:15:44.010 --> 0:15:47.500 rid of it. and we need to clean up this 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.560 country and get rid of the duplication that we're seeing 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.160 in these government departments. So it'll be a natural attrition. 0:15:54.500 --> 0:15:58.330 These ones that leave the bureaucracy, public servants, they won't 0:15:58.370 --> 0:16:03.070 be replaced. They will actually... And not this big payout 0:16:03.090 --> 0:16:06.250 of redundancy. So you won't be getting that at taxpayers' expense. 0:16:06.610 --> 0:16:08.310 So it'll be a natural attrition. 0:16:09.410 --> 0:16:14.010 After the inflation figures were released yesterday, Jim Chalmers reasserted 0:16:14.030 --> 0:16:15.570 that the war in the Middle East was the main 0:16:15.630 --> 0:16:16.730 reason behind the spike. 0:16:16.750 --> 0:16:17.850 Here's some of what he had to say. 0:16:18.730 --> 0:16:23.010 The main reason why inflation in annual headline terms went 0:16:23.110 --> 0:16:26.610 from the middle threes to four is because of the 0:16:26.710 --> 0:16:29.630 extra pressure from the re-escalation of the war in the 0:16:29.670 --> 0:16:30.150 Middle East. 0:16:31.110 --> 0:16:32.910 But, of course, that's very different to what the Reserve 0:16:32.990 --> 0:16:34.730 Bank Governor told us yesterday. 0:16:34.790 --> 0:16:36.030 Here was her comment. 0:16:37.070 --> 0:16:39.810 Inflation is too high and has been driven by domestic 0:16:39.850 --> 0:16:40.770 capacity pressures. 0:16:41.700 --> 0:16:44.660 The inflation impulse from the Middle East conflict is in 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:45.479 addition to this. 0:16:46.380 --> 0:16:48.340 And then the Prime Minister was asked who was right, 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.810 his Treasurer or the Reserve Bank Governor, and Elbow said both. 0:16:52.070 --> 0:16:52.530 Take a look. 0:16:53.630 --> 0:16:54.630 Who do you agree with? 0:16:54.870 --> 0:16:58.310 I agree with both of them because they are not 0:16:58.390 --> 0:17:02.610 saying contradictory things at all. Pauline, is the Prime Minister 0:17:02.670 --> 0:17:03.670 right that everyone's right? 0:17:06.350 --> 0:17:06.890 No, he's not. 0:17:07.230 --> 0:17:07.490 You see. 0:17:08.250 --> 0:17:11.230 The pair of them won't take responsibility for their poor 0:17:11.270 --> 0:17:15.390 governance of this nation. We had high inflation rates even 0:17:15.430 --> 0:17:18.820 last year before the war started. So it's not helping 0:17:18.940 --> 0:17:23.000 by no means. But like the governor has said, Bullock said, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.500 going back, you know, a year, a couple of years ago, 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.280 that the government needs to rein in their spending. So 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.090 we've had 16 interest rate hikes. We're going to have 0:17:31.130 --> 0:17:34.710 another one, looks like, in November and possibly more next year. 0:17:35.290 --> 0:17:37.540 So I feel for the people out there because a 0:17:37.580 --> 0:17:40.240 lot of people are going to lose their homes. A 0:17:40.300 --> 0:17:41.780 lot of people are going to lose the roof over 0:17:41.820 --> 0:17:44.659 their heads. And that's due to this government. So if 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.369 you think about voting Labor again, you really want to 0:17:47.410 --> 0:17:51.010 have a good look at it and understand the future 0:17:51.350 --> 0:17:53.770 that you may be facing because you're going to be 0:17:53.830 --> 0:17:56.260 living in poverty. And that's exactly where they want you. 0:17:56.590 --> 0:17:59.260 This is a socialist government who wants to take the 0:17:59.340 --> 0:18:03.159 wealth away from people in this nation. Business people are 0:18:03.180 --> 0:18:07.700 screaming out. They've just about had a gutful. We're losing industries, manufacturing, 0:18:07.740 --> 0:18:11.310 small businesses going under. This is because of this government. 0:18:11.369 --> 0:18:14.609 We've never been in this mess as what we are today. 0:18:14.910 --> 0:18:17.449 So people really need to start thinking about it. And 0:18:17.470 --> 0:18:19.909 if you're on a welfare payment... Is that why you're 0:18:19.930 --> 0:18:22.649 voting for Labor? Because you want your neighbour or your 0:18:22.730 --> 0:18:25.610 family to pay for your welfare payment? That comes from 0:18:25.730 --> 0:18:29.390 taxpayers working hard and going without so you can have 0:18:29.430 --> 0:18:32.750 your lifestyle, sit around doing nothing. Too many people out 0:18:32.810 --> 0:18:37.230 there are unemployed and collect happily, collect their unemployment benefits. 0:18:37.530 --> 0:18:41.290 And I'll quickly say this. A tradie put in an 0:18:41.430 --> 0:18:44.230 ad for someone who wants to put on an apprentice. 0:18:44.850 --> 0:18:47.649 And guess what? 300 applications. He rang all of them. 0:18:47.710 --> 0:18:48.190 Guess what? 0:18:48.790 --> 0:18:51.710 Weren't interested in the job. It was a process they 0:18:51.750 --> 0:18:53.490 have to go through that they've applied for. 0:18:54.070 --> 0:18:55.229 That is not on. 0:18:55.890 --> 0:18:58.380 So I say to the people out there, wake up yourselves, 0:18:58.450 --> 0:19:01.700 take responsibility, put your own roof over your own head 0:19:02.020 --> 0:19:04.860 and not leaving off possibly your family or your parents 0:19:04.940 --> 0:19:08.500 or everyone else and feeding off your friends or your 0:19:08.540 --> 0:19:11.100 neighbours or your family that are paying you away to 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.879 sit around and do nothing because you want your lifestyle. 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:15.379 It has to change, James. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:17.820 All right, just before I let you go, there's a 0:19:17.859 --> 0:19:20.120 couple of things I want to quickly get your thoughts on. First, 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.609 the Islamic preacher in Melbourne who posted a sermon on 0:19:22.660 --> 0:19:26.570 Instagram calling for Muslims to take up arms against Jews 0:19:26.710 --> 0:19:27.330 and Christians. 0:19:27.390 --> 0:19:29.350 As a reminder, here's what he said. 0:19:29.390 --> 0:19:31.810 He said, for the sake of Allah, it includes the 0:19:31.930 --> 0:19:36.070 obligation to declare enmity for his sake, opposition for the 0:19:36.109 --> 0:19:38.679 sake of Allah. It is to declare opposition indeed to 0:19:38.740 --> 0:19:41.159 take up arms against his enemies, to shun them and 0:19:41.180 --> 0:19:43.439 to stay far away from them, both in word and. 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:44.860 Indeed. 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:48.230 Are you surprised he seems to have essentially gotten away 0:19:48.290 --> 0:19:49.970 spewing that kind of hate? 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:56.859 I'm disgusted that nothing has happened by the Premier of 0:19:56.980 --> 0:20:00.500 the state of Victoria or the police themselves to actually 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.600 go and arrest this man. We just recently passed the 0:20:03.619 --> 0:20:08.960 hate extremism legislation in Parliament. Under that legislation, even though 0:20:09.060 --> 0:20:12.720 you say something that could be reckless and cause, create violence, 0:20:12.980 --> 0:20:15.280 you can be charged on that. He hasn't been charged. 0:20:15.460 --> 0:20:18.350 I want to know why. And also, although he was 0:20:18.869 --> 0:20:21.670 reading from a Quran, the first passed about the Jews 0:20:21.730 --> 0:20:23.870 and the Christians, but he was reading from a book, 0:20:24.230 --> 0:20:28.350 that is still under the legislation reckless. Regardless of whether 0:20:28.369 --> 0:20:32.080 it's in print or out of a scripture, if that 0:20:32.380 --> 0:20:35.649 could cause hatred, which it's shown, he should be charged. 0:20:35.970 --> 0:20:39.810 So the Premier of Victoria or the Police Commissioner of Victoria, 0:20:40.150 --> 0:20:43.399 why hasn't this man been charged? I'm sick and tired 0:20:43.420 --> 0:20:45.679 of one rule for some people in this country and 0:20:45.740 --> 0:20:46.859 another rule for others. 0:20:47.470 --> 0:20:48.410 I think you're absolutely right. 0:20:48.430 --> 0:20:50.370 A lot of Australians would also say we would like 0:20:50.410 --> 0:20:52.770 an explanation to what the heck is going on there. 0:20:53.090 --> 0:20:56.470