Speaker 1: From the skying setter. This is Paul Murray live like
Speaker 1: an evening, happy Sunday. We're ever be happy to be
Speaker 1: This is our look back at one think of a year.
Speaker 1: But i't like most of the lookbacks, which let's be honest.
Speaker 1: This team won the footy and Larry him the won
Speaker 1: the gold and Trump won and that's it. We're going
Speaker 1: to go deep die, you know, that's the way that
Speaker 1: we like to do it on this show. And think
Speaker 1: of this more so as a rather than you and review,
Speaker 1: more like a performance review. And I'm playing the role
Speaker 1: of the hr manager. That's shaky for everyone. Now let
Speaker 1: us break this down into some Australian politics, some general news,
Speaker 1: and obviously everything that happened in the United States. Now,
Speaker 1: about this time last year, the Prime Minister was down
Speaker 1: in the polls, down in his luck, and it looked
Speaker 1: like he wasn't going to be able to change the subject.
Speaker 1: In fact, the media was so down on him. At
Speaker 1: the end of twenty twenty three, one full year ago,
Speaker 1: they were writing headlines like this, the promises to Australia
Speaker 1: that Anthony how Albanesi has broken his year in review.
Speaker 1: Anthony Alberanesi facing calls to resign as the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: after the voice had failed, and Newspoll two months ago
Speaker 1: said that Anthony Aberesi was a drag on Labour's recovery. Then,
Speaker 1: of course summer happens, and that gives the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: great hope and pep in his step that somehow everything
Speaker 1: will be different this year. According to the Guardian newspaper,
Speaker 1: they said that last year had brought the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: back to worth, but twoy twenty four, what's it going
Speaker 1: to hold for Dutton or Alberanzi. Now, Interestingly, the person
Speaker 1: who had actually written that thesis about whether it was
Speaker 1: going to be a good year for Albow and a
Speaker 1: bad year for Dutton was Murferu, otherwise known as the
Speaker 1: chief political correspondent for The Guardian, somebody who was, of
Speaker 1: course such an independent journalist that she could not be
Speaker 1: accused of picking a side until she picked aside. She
Speaker 1: literally left the Guardian to work for Anthony alban Easy.
Speaker 1: But back to what was going on at the start
Speaker 1: of this year, where the Prime Minister was telling anyone
Speaker 1: who listened that it's time for a reset. We're going
Speaker 1: to get our game back. The Prime minister two point
Speaker 1: zero can a reboot of Albanese's office insure victory. People
Speaker 1: were rather excited, Well they weren't. They just were people
Speaker 1: in the press that have been desperate to breathe life
Speaker 1: into this prime ministership year after year after year, and
Speaker 1: it's only two to three years old. This was also
Speaker 1: because cost of living has been the python that has
Speaker 1: hurt this prime minister, exposed this government and has pushed
Speaker 1: voters further away from labor than even at the last
Speaker 1: election when they had their lowest primary in more than
Speaker 1: one hundred years. The polling going into this great reset
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four, oh so long ago and they're
Speaker 1: going to need on another one soon was that more
Speaker 1: than eighty percent of Australians believed that the government has
Speaker 1: failed to tackle cost of living crisis. That was at
Speaker 1: the start of this year. So a special game changer
Speaker 1: was brought in the Prime Minister who was going to
Speaker 1: reset his fortunes this year by offering two little too
Speaker 1: late tax cuts. This hasn't changed.
Speaker 2: So it's very clear when it comes to the stage
Speaker 2: three tax cuts, our position hasn't changed.
Speaker 3: We haven't changed our position on that. Well, we haven't
Speaker 3: changed our position on that mark, we haven't changed our
Speaker 3: position on the stage three tax cuts at all.
Speaker 1: Oh did I say that they were going to do
Speaker 1: a tax cut change? No, no, No, that was them
Speaker 1: promising they were definitely not going to do one. But then,
Speaker 1: of course, as you know, they did one. The Prime
Speaker 1: Minister goes to the ultimate home game for labor politicians,
Speaker 1: the National Press Club. We're basically the same people who
Speaker 1: are lickys Boots at the Parliament lickys Boots, but this
Speaker 1: time at theom Mother Hill a.
Speaker 3: I announce that from the first of July this year,
Speaker 3: our government will deliberate tax cut for every single Australian taxpayer,
Speaker 3: all thirteen point six million taxpayers, not just some Everyone
Speaker 3: who works and who pays tax will benefit.
Speaker 1: But with Poles saying that eighty percent of people did
Speaker 1: not believe that the government had actually done anything to
Speaker 1: make their financial life better, the polls in a place
Speaker 1: where the Prime Minister needed to take a big swing
Speaker 1: like this. It was his mates in the media who
Speaker 1: were ready to pack a whack of this bloke back
Speaker 1: to political life, and they were using the biggest possible
Speaker 1: numbers to make it seem like Christmas had come twice
Speaker 1: in just a few weeks.
Speaker 4: Eleven point five million will be better off, two million
Speaker 4: worse off for the government, more than doubling tax cuts
Speaker 4: for most bossie workers by harving them for the country's
Speaker 4: highest earners the biggest winners. Everyone earning less than one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty k, he'll be better off.
Speaker 5: The biggest is to keep the thirty seven percent tax bracket,
Speaker 5: but raise the threshold for it from one hundred and
Speaker 5: twenty to one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars. Modeling
Speaker 5: by A and You economists Ben Phillips estimates that more
Speaker 5: than six million households will be better off from the changes,
Speaker 5: with just over a million worse off.
Speaker 1: I know it's a serious subject, but do you even
Speaker 1: have to sound that board with it? Anyway? The numbers
Speaker 1: were huge. The headline set things like most taxpayers will
Speaker 1: get eight hundred and four dollars back when it comes
Speaker 1: to the tax cuts. But guess what this little TV
Speaker 1: show was able to work out straight away? Too little,
Speaker 1: too late, four fifths bugger all. In fact, the reality
Speaker 1: of the breakdown, as we showed you over and over
Speaker 1: and over again, is that the great Reset, which was
Speaker 1: going to re build the prime minister wasn't really much
Speaker 1: at all. In fact, if you earned about forty five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, you were going to get the best part
Speaker 1: of what fourteen dollars a week. You see, that's how
Speaker 1: people actually pay their tax. They pay it like they
Speaker 1: earn their money. They do it week by week, or
Speaker 1: fortnightly by fortnightly or monthly bi monthly. The idea that
Speaker 1: you only have to pay tax once a year and
Speaker 1: therefore the reduction is eight hundred dollars. It was all garbage,
Speaker 1: and we knew it at the time. The camera bubble
Speaker 1: tried to pretend nothing to see here in their Jedi
Speaker 1: mind trick way of trying to start twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: because twenty twenty three had ended so poorly, But we
Speaker 1: knew that people weren't going to connect, and slowly but
Speaker 1: surely the poll started to prove that theory. Right. This
Speaker 1: was from the Turmbul Times. This was after the tax
Speaker 1: cuts had been announced, had been rammed down everyone's throats politically,
Speaker 1: where fifty three percent of people had hardly heard anything
Speaker 1: or nothing at all about the tax cuts even when
Speaker 1: you broke it down female voters. And isn't it the
Speaker 1: Liberal party that has the problem with women. Well, in fact,
Speaker 1: the best part there of sixty three percent of them,
Speaker 1: sixty three percent of them had not heard of what
Speaker 1: had happened here. And when you broke it down by
Speaker 1: men and women, more than sixty percent, if my mats
Speaker 1: are right, yeah, more than sixty percent of women had
Speaker 1: not heard anything or much at all about the tax cards.
Speaker 1: So the Prime minister's first big swing at a big
Speaker 1: reset to put himself back on top was a miss.
Speaker 1: But he had a new excuse to say everything's okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to win the next election, and it was
Speaker 1: that he has never lost a news poll. In fact,
Speaker 1: this was said how many times polls whole poles poll. Well,
Speaker 1: of course, polls when it comes to Australian politics, it
Speaker 1: is the gold standard of whether we keep a leader
Speaker 1: or not. Now, polls aren't elections, but as we know,
Speaker 1: when it came to Tony Abbott or Malcolm Turnbull or
Speaker 1: Julie Gillard, news poll kind of mattered. So even though
Speaker 1: there were other poles that were showing that the Labor
Speaker 1: Party's vote was starting to go into the toot, including
Speaker 1: thirty percent primary vote, according to the Essential poll, there
Speaker 1: was thirty four percent according to the Resolve Political Monitor.
Speaker 1: According to the Financial Review, the primary vote was at
Speaker 1: thirty one percent. He said, don't worry because all of
Speaker 1: those don't matter. There's only one pole that matters, and
Speaker 1: it is Newspole.
Speaker 3: We haven't lost to go back to Nemesis, we haven't
Speaker 3: lost a news poll since I've been Prime minister.
Speaker 1: But guess what also happened in twenty twenty four and
Speaker 1: the Abenz and the Labor Party lost their first news poll.
Speaker 1: But of course didn't he say. One of the reasons
Speaker 1: why he was awesome is because he didn't lose a
Speaker 1: news poll. So how does each way Albo explain losing
Speaker 1: a news poll?
Speaker 3: And when people focus in the election on what the
Speaker 3: choices are, I'm very confident that they'll continue to support
Speaker 3: the federal Labor government that understand the pressures say people
Speaker 3: are under, and that is doing something to assist them.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that was then, But what about the end
Speaker 1: of the year where news poll really matters. Well, as
Speaker 1: you can see, what was a clear run for the
Speaker 1: Labor Party on top is now becoming a clear lead
Speaker 1: for the coalition. And even then, when the preferred prime
Speaker 1: minister in February, was the Prime Minister on thirty nine
Speaker 1: percent unelectable. Dutton was on thirty two we end the
Speaker 1: year dead level thirty seven thirty seven And when asked
Speaker 1: how would you rate Anthony Aberneici's performance as Prime Minister
Speaker 1: in the past few weeks, A staggering fifty one percent
Speaker 1: of Australians at the end of two thousand and twenty
Speaker 1: four think what they did at the end of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, and that is more than half say poor
Speaker 1: or very poor. As for Peter Dutton, who, remember the
Speaker 1: press gallery believed is absolutely unelectable, how's he ending up
Speaker 1: this year? According to Newspot, Peter Dutton surges as the
Speaker 1: Coalition maintains a lead over Anthony Albernezi and labor that
Speaker 1: the Prime Minister hits a new personal know while Dutton's
Speaker 1: stocks rise. Nothing to see here, of course, Well, ok,
Speaker 1: that's just the book is, that's just the polls. What
Speaker 1: about the book is? Well, according to them. Right now,
Speaker 1: the current odds for the federal election are on sports
Speaker 1: Bet that the Libs are going to win the next election,
Speaker 1: on lad Brokes that the Libs are going to win
Speaker 1: the next election, on points Bet that the Libs are
Speaker 1: going to win the next election. On tab that the
Speaker 1: Libs are going to win the next election, that many
Speaker 1: all in one place at one time, they must know
Speaker 1: something that we don't. And remember those pollsters much better
Speaker 1: at predicting what happened in the United States? Are they
Speaker 1: going to be better about what is being predicted here?
Speaker 1: The simple thing is that the Prime Minister was in
Speaker 1: a world of trouble at the end of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Despite all that effort, all that money, all that spin,
Speaker 1: all that bs, all that project, all that gaslighting, He's
Speaker 1: in an even worse place at the end of twenty
Speaker 1: and twenty four. So it's no giant surprise that the
Speaker 1: Prime Minister is now going after gambling advertising. Well, eventually,
Speaker 1: in one way or another, he would want those results
Speaker 1: to never be known, right, I'll mention them for free.
Speaker 1: It is the performance review part of the Year in Review,
Speaker 1: where we're reviewing the performance of the greatest Prime Minister
Speaker 1: of all time, Anthony Abernezi. How did he do on
Speaker 1: the cost of living in twenty and twenty four? You know,
Speaker 1: it's not like that's the only thing people talk about,
Speaker 1: the number one thing, And don't forget the thing that
Speaker 1: he promised, of course, to do better at than the
Speaker 1: previous government. Remember Labor was going to do lower. Let's
Speaker 1: go back to albert at the start of the year
Speaker 1: at the National Press Club. Now, remember he said, over
Speaker 1: and over and over again, what was that one thing
Speaker 1: that was the total focus of his government.
Speaker 3: This is a part of easing the cost of living
Speaker 3: for Australians. We've done that whilst we provide cost of
Speaker 3: living relief for people. At the same time, we're looking
Speaker 3: after people where we can on cost of living pressures.
Speaker 3: Consistently in the Parliament we have spoken about cost of
Speaker 3: living pressures that people are feeling.
Speaker 1: But the tax thing didn't really work. So the next
Speaker 1: rabbit to be pulled out of the hat was just
Speaker 1: as dead as the other ones that they've been pulling out.
Speaker 1: At the Federal budget, the Prime Minister, his Finance Minister
Speaker 1: and the Treasurer they thought they had finally worked something out.
Speaker 1: It's if Australians are winging about their power prices, let's
Speaker 1: pretend their power prices are coming down.
Speaker 6: Speak of this government and this budget delivers for every
Speaker 6: Australian a tax cut for every taxpayer, wages growing in
Speaker 6: every industry, a better deal for every working parent, fair
Speaker 6: ago at every checkout, new help with energy bills for
Speaker 6: every household and for small business.
Speaker 1: Okay, so while he's patting himself on the back, we
Speaker 1: did the numbers. Seventy five dollars a quarter equals three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a year, but most people sometimes get their
Speaker 1: bills monthly. What this works out is twenty five dollars
Speaker 1: a month, seventy five dollars a quarter. That's it now.
Speaker 1: Of course, if you're somebody who's been living in the
Speaker 1: real world, not like a labor MP or somebody who's
Speaker 1: writing favorably about the Labor Party in the media, you
Speaker 1: may will have noticed that your bills have gone up
Speaker 1: a little more than that since they came to power.
Speaker 7: And that's the message that the Australian people got, that
Speaker 7: they should expect a fundamental recalibration of their electricity bills.
Speaker 7: And what we know now is they're paying one thousand
Speaker 7: dollars more a year on average.
Speaker 1: Power, and is twenty five dollars a month what they
Speaker 1: promised over and over and over and over over and over.
Speaker 3: And two hundred and seventy five dollars two hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy five dollars, two hundred and seventy five dollars, two
Speaker 3: hundred and seventy five dollars, two hundred and seventy five,
Speaker 3: two hundred and seventy five, two hundred and seventy five,
Speaker 3: two hundred and seventy five dollars.
Speaker 1: No, because according to the Treasurer, that promise doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 2: The number you're referring to was a forecast in twenty
Speaker 2: one about an outcome in twenty five. We're providing energy
Speaker 2: bill relief in the here and now. We did in
Speaker 2: the last budget, we are again in the next budget.
Speaker 2: But there'll be more relief for more people in this budget.
Speaker 1: Hello, you know we watch you when you talk, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not just talking about me and the show.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the people watching this show. Who saw
Speaker 1: you promise it? How many times? Oh? No, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter anymore. Imagine if Tony Abbott had taken that
Speaker 1: position when it came to stopping the boats. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: but the modeling, he'd be out on his ear. And
Speaker 1: there's a very good chance that the labor Party may
Speaker 1: will be heading in the same direction. So at the
Speaker 1: end of two thousand and twenty three, eighty percent of
Speaker 1: people had said that the government really hadn't helped them
Speaker 1: when it came to cost of living. Too little. Tax
Speaker 1: cuts didn't really help because they were too little, too late,
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a month when it comes to a
Speaker 1: power bill despite the fact that they've gone up to
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars and you promise me to seventy five.
Speaker 1: That didn't work either. So at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: how do people feel about the government's achievements when it
Speaker 1: comes to cost of living? Seventy three percent of people
Speaker 1: can't name a single thing that the government has done
Speaker 1: to make their life better off. Oh and if you
Speaker 1: think this is just heavily weighted in one particular area,
Speaker 1: even people who voted for the Labor Party at the
Speaker 1: last election, in fact, sixty four percent of them can't
Speaker 1: name a single thing the government has done to make
Speaker 1: them better off financially. On top of that, the reality
Speaker 1: is that almost three million people are this close to homelessness.
Speaker 1: Yet this Prime Minister wants to pretend nothing to see here.
Speaker 1: I've never lost a newspoll until I've lost a newspoll
Speaker 1: and we've got you back and we so we've got
Speaker 1: another idea how to save ourselves, and that was censoring
Speaker 1: the Internet. What an idea this was in twenty twenty four. Now,
Speaker 1: as you know, the Prime Minister wanted to seal his
Speaker 1: place in Australian history by changing the Constitution to guarantee
Speaker 1: that a powerless sort of version of a parliament would
Speaker 1: give advice to a parliament about indigenous issues, but it
Speaker 1: would change something in the constitution, So yay for him, right, Well,
Speaker 1: of course Australians went yet don't like the idea, and
Speaker 1: he had a special response as long as other labor
Speaker 1: MPs as to what truly had stopped them claiming their
Speaker 1: spot on top of the Mount Kosiosco. Misinformation, misinformation, misinformation.
Speaker 8: The misinformation?
Speaker 9: Which is there some misinformation?
Speaker 1: Ooh? Misinformation? Do I see a new thing for the
Speaker 1: government to waste a lot of time on? Yes, you see.
Speaker 1: An awful lot of people get their news in lots
Speaker 1: of different ways. I'm glad that you're watching us on
Speaker 1: Telly right now, but there's a good chance you might
Speaker 1: be watching this as a video somewhere later than now.
Speaker 1: There's lots of people who get their information via social media,
Speaker 1: particularly so the sky news dot com do are U
Speaker 1: either website or to the many many millions of people
Speaker 1: who interact with us via YouTube. So of course this
Speaker 1: government would like to crack down on that sort of
Speaker 1: information because we point out things like to little too
Speaker 1: late tax cuts twenty five dollars a month when it
Speaker 1: comes to power bills, not to mention all the other
Speaker 1: stuff that I've been talking about tonight. That's not quite
Speaker 1: as good as they'd like to make it out. So
Speaker 1: the announcement was made that it was time to censor
Speaker 1: the Internet, to go after misinformation, to find the big
Speaker 1: tech companies if they kept allowing people like you to
Speaker 1: post information the government did not believe to be true.
Speaker 9: The point here is that we're talking about a high
Speaker 9: threshold of serious harms where misinformation, for example, causes people
Speaker 9: to tear down mobile phone towers in regional areas. That
Speaker 9: can mean people can't call triple zero. That is a
Speaker 9: serious harm, and that is due to the scale, speed
Speaker 9: of spread and spread of misinformation. That is what we
Speaker 9: are attempting to deal with here, to protect the strains
Speaker 9: from harm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well this idea didn't even end up getting the
Speaker 1: support of the people who always vote for them in
Speaker 1: the Senate. For example, doormat Dave Pocock. He votes for
Speaker 1: everything this government puts up. What does he say about
Speaker 1: this piece of legislation? Will he vote for it?
Speaker 10: I've listened to the experts and to people in the set,
Speaker 10: and I'll be opposing the Combating Misinformation Distorpation Bill unless
Speaker 10: major changes are made to the legislation because as it stands,
Speaker 10: I don't believe it takes the right approach to dealing
Speaker 10: with misinformation.
Speaker 1: Former Labor MP and now Chief Fatima payment of Fatima
Speaker 1: payment political party? Will you vote for it?
Speaker 11: Freedom of speech is a pillar of our democracy and
Speaker 11: this bill threatens that. Of course, misinformation and disinformation are
Speaker 11: a problem, but this bill isn't the answer. The powers
Speaker 11: it grants could lead to over censorship, with the government
Speaker 11: deciding what does and doesn't count as the truth.
Speaker 1: Did you just make sense? What about somebody who got
Speaker 1: elected as somebody kind of liked Jackie Lamby but used
Speaker 1: to work for Jackie Lamby, So that's cool, let's make
Speaker 1: her a senator. But then she broke up with Jackie Lamby.
Speaker 1: Would she vote for this.
Speaker 12: I understand the intent behind this bill, but it's important
Speaker 12: to me that people feel free to express ideas and
Speaker 12: opinions without fear of being shutdown, having conversations that challenge
Speaker 12: our views. It's how we grow as community. And again,
Speaker 12: I'm not supporting this legislation.
Speaker 1: What about Jackie Lamby? Would she vote for it? She
Speaker 1: votes for most of the government stuff and she used
Speaker 1: to swear words about Elon Musk.
Speaker 13: This bill is not going to fix it.
Speaker 1: There are other ways to do it.
Speaker 14: Yeah, there will be other ways to do it.
Speaker 13: This is just this was turning into a mess, but
Speaker 13: it is dead in the water.
Speaker 1: Okay, Lydia thoughpe right. Surely, surely she's going to want
Speaker 1: to censor evil people who don't agree with what she
Speaker 1: has to say because it's racist.
Speaker 15: The Misinformation Bill, for example, I won't be supporting that.
Speaker 15: I've been talking to community members and stakeholders Black and
Speaker 15: brown people could be demonized as part of that process. Well,
Speaker 15: the devil in the detail in these pieces of legislation
Speaker 15: that I'm digging into and negotiating with the government. Either
Speaker 15: fix it or I won't support it.
Speaker 1: So the Resa didn't work. The tax cuts didn't work.
Speaker 1: The let's pay Everyone's power bill but not really didn't work,
Speaker 1: and censoring the Internet didn't work. So how did the
Speaker 1: other ministers do this year in twenty twenty four. Well,
Speaker 1: we've just spoken about the incredible successes of the Communications
Speaker 1: Minister failing to censor the Internet. Of course, there is
Speaker 1: the former Indigenous Affairs Minister in Linda Burney, who failed
Speaker 1: to get the voice up in time. So she of
Speaker 1: course has decided to retire and definitely not be sacked.
Speaker 16: After twenty one years as in politics, eight years in
Speaker 16: the Federal Parliament and thirteen years in the New South
Speaker 16: Wales Parliament, it's time for me to parts on the
Speaker 16: baton to the next generation. It is time for me
Speaker 16: to pass on that.
Speaker 1: What about other strong women inside the Labor Party cabinet,
Speaker 1: the ones who really put the what did you just announce?
Speaker 1: In the what did you just announce? Like Tanya Plipasek.
Speaker 1: Remember she's the one who turned around and used some
Speaker 1: local Aboriginal mysticism to deny a gold mining project that
Speaker 1: both people in the town wanted built and the Labor
Speaker 1: Party in New South Wales premier wanted built.
Speaker 17: And I've said, mister cher. I'm disappointed by the decision
Speaker 17: from the Commonwealth Government. The application was made in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 17: It's gone through the Independent Planning and Assessment Committee Commission,
Speaker 17: as well as every other government department in New South
Speaker 17: Wales and to be knocked over at the eleventh hour
Speaker 17: is disappointing in terms of mining gold and other critical
Speaker 17: minerals in New South Wales, which we desperately need because
Speaker 17: coal mining is under pressure, particularly when it comes to
Speaker 17: export markets.
Speaker 1: Well, at least for teny plitu Sex she was able
Speaker 1: to end the year by getting that deal done on
Speaker 1: brand new green legislation with the Now speaking of Tania Plebisic,
Speaker 1: of course, remember when she was the deputy Labor leader
Speaker 1: to the greatest Prime Minister we've never had, apparently Bill Shorten.
Speaker 1: Seen there with the mister and missus Chloe Shorten. Well.
Speaker 1: Bill Shorton, of course ran in twenty nineteen and kind
Speaker 1: of lost badly. Remember people not that impressed, not just
Speaker 1: with his running style which looked a little bit like
Speaker 1: t Rex arms, but what am I to have to
Speaker 1: go at somebody exercising anyway, he decided that he was
Speaker 1: going to quit this year after completely fixing the National
Speaker 1: Disability Insurance scheme and he's going to work for Camberra University.
Speaker 6: I'm excited to say that from February of next year,
Speaker 6: I've been chosen to be the vice chancellor of the
Speaker 6: University of Canberra.
Speaker 1: You know what, Good on him, Good on him Cambra University.
Speaker 1: He's getting out of politics and he's backing in academia.
Speaker 1: And you know the really cool thing is who would
Speaker 1: be his boss at Camberg University. Oh, it'd be this lady.
Speaker 1: And you know what that's really interesting because isn't that
Speaker 1: the lady who Bill Shorten got to do a review
Speaker 1: into the National Disability Insurance Scheme? And isn't that also
Speaker 1: the same lady who was his department head when he
Speaker 1: was the Employment Minister. And wasn't this I'm sure he
Speaker 1: was the best candidate. I have no question that he
Speaker 1: was the best candidate, and the media thinks that she
Speaker 1: made the right decision.
Speaker 11: The leadership potential of the then Australian Workers Union's national
Speaker 11: secretary evident even before he entered politics.
Speaker 1: Been a constant throughout two turbulent decades of Australian politics.
Speaker 8: Ending seventeen years in Parliament, A minister in three Labor governments,
Speaker 8: Labor leader for six years, he hid people's TV screens
Speaker 8: as the impressive union leader during the Beaconsfield mind disaster.
Speaker 1: Now, of course, he wasn't just the only politician who retired.
Speaker 1: First of there was Linda Bernie standing ovations. There was
Speaker 1: Bill Shorten, who somehow was able to keep his job
Speaker 1: while saying he was going on to another job. But
Speaker 1: how did the media treat say, a former prime minister,
Speaker 1: you know, the guy who actually beat Bill Shorton at
Speaker 1: a federal election in twenty nineteen, Scott Morrison formerly resigned
Speaker 1: from the Parliament after the two thousand nineteen defeat of
Speaker 1: the Labor Party. Remember he of course beat the Labor
Speaker 1: So they gave the treatment to Bill Shorten like he
Speaker 1: won the twenty nineteen election. And this is how they
Speaker 1: treated the guy who actually won the twenty nineteen election.
Speaker 18: Do you have not yet acknowledged any fault though on
Speaker 18: your part when you take this opportunity now to accept
Speaker 18: that you could have done more to heed the warnings
Speaker 18: and prepare for this.
Speaker 19: What would be the point of a Morrison government for
Speaker 19: the next three years?
Speaker 18: Cony trust instincts as leader, If your gut told you
Speaker 18: was safe to go to Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Only thinks were better Personally for the Prime Minister, he
Speaker 1: had such huge news in the past twelve months that
Speaker 1: united the nation with a giant.
Speaker 20: Anthony Alberzi is engaged.
Speaker 13: The Prime Minister has popped the.
Speaker 7: Question to Jody Hayden.
Speaker 1: Love is in the air for the Prime Minister.
Speaker 7: He's proposed to his partner of four years, Jody Hayden.
Speaker 1: On Valentine's Daid his official canber residence. The Prime Minister
Speaker 1: popped the question and then, because he wanted to remain
Speaker 1: focused on the job, that Prime Minister had more personal news.
Speaker 15: The Prime Minister will hold off on getting married until
Speaker 15: after the next election, hoping to avoid any extra stress
Speaker 15: or distractions. Anthony Albernisi and fiance Jody Hayden are now
Speaker 15: holding off their wedding until after the next election.
Speaker 1: And Australia where meah as father long term friendships the
Speaker 1: Prime Minister and of course the former boss of Cordus.
Speaker 1: We remember how chummy they were all of the time,
Speaker 1: and we learnt about not just airbus elbow, but airbus
Speaker 1: elbow became upgrade elbow. Why because even when he flew
Speaker 1: privately on private holidays, he still was asking for an
Speaker 1: upgrade as if he was flying on taxpayer dollars. That
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense because you see, he's just one of us,
Speaker 1: isn't he.
Speaker 3: I go up in public housing in Campdown, the son
Speaker 3: of a single mum.
Speaker 1: And you know what he understands what it's like because
Speaker 1: he knows there's lots of Australians that currently are doing
Speaker 1: it tough, and he knows that the best way when
Speaker 1: times are tough is to buy a brand new house.
Speaker 1: And how much is this house worth?
Speaker 7: Anthony Aberinezi is the proud new owner of a Central
Speaker 7: Coast beach house worth more than four million dollars.
Speaker 1: Anthony Albanezi and partner Jody Hayden will soon settle on
Speaker 1: this cliff top home on the New South Wales Central coast.
Speaker 7: Top point three million dollars on a Coopa Cabaner mansion
Speaker 7: in New South Wales.
Speaker 1: I am surprised this guy is not leading in the post.
Speaker 1: How has he not turned it around with all of
Speaker 1: these incredible decisions. But of course the real reason why
Speaker 1: he will probably win the next election is because remember
Speaker 1: Peter Dutton is so evil, terrible ugabooger, awful unelectable, and
Speaker 1: he's promised to do things like cut immigration.
Speaker 19: I want to see Australians be able to get into
Speaker 19: housing and at the moment the Labor Party is bringing
Speaker 19: one point sixty seven million people over five years, which
Speaker 19: is just going to make the situation for housing in
Speaker 19: our country much less attainable.
Speaker 1: And thankfully there are impartial journalists that are willing to
Speaker 1: say that despite the fact that the Prime Minister made
Speaker 1: the same promise about cutting immigration yet failed to be
Speaker 1: able to achieve it. Peter Dutton is the one who's
Speaker 1: racist because you see, Australia is secretly a racist country
Speaker 1: because we fell for misinformation when it came to the referendum,
Speaker 1: and we didn't believe that too little, too late when
Speaker 1: it came to tax cuts was good enough and twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars a month when it comes to power bills
Speaker 1: is something that we should say, hooray, the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: just brought a four and a big million dollar house.
Speaker 21: We are a.
Speaker 22: Racist country in space that we always have been asprey depressing.
Speaker 22: To give license like that I find promoidly depressing and
Speaker 22: a terrible prospect for the next election.
Speaker 1: And thankfully she's got really factual, actual examples of racism
Speaker 1: to point too.
Speaker 22: For a major point to call university saying, as Nicky says,
Speaker 22: you know everything that's going roll in this country is
Speaker 22: because of my grants.
Speaker 10: And you know I had a sudden flash.
Speaker 22: Of people turning out to try to rent a property
Speaker 22: or at an auction they longed a different foreign different.
Speaker 22: Basically he has given their license.
Speaker 1: They views, yeah, give her another reward. So the performance
Speaker 1: review when it comes to the Prime Minister, the government,
Speaker 1: the media who talk about the Prime Minister and the
Speaker 1: government is better luck next year. More in a sector
Speaker 1: on Paul Murray life. Now before we get to all
Speaker 1: things Trump and or to big and meaty section, before
Speaker 1: we're done tonight, I want to go through and just
Speaker 1: take a moment to recognize the people who mattered this year.
Speaker 1: They mad it because they achieved something or their tails
Speaker 1: connected with us. Perfect example is baby Luca. Now you
Speaker 1: remember that baby Luca was attacked while he was with
Speaker 1: his mum in a Brisbane park. Hot liquid poured upon him.
Speaker 1: The burns were just absolutely horrific. His mum and dad, well,
Speaker 1: we felt for them the second they were talking about
Speaker 1: this beautiful little boy in his bad.
Speaker 5: Burns and he seems like his happy self again, which
Speaker 5: is really nice to see.
Speaker 18: Because the last few days have been really really good.
Speaker 1: Sadly, police have never been able to find the person
Speaker 1: who they believe responsible. They think that he bugged off overseas.
Speaker 1: But more importantly we got to learn as the year
Speaker 1: went on that baby Luca left the hospital, came home
Speaker 1: and the latest that we heard from his mum and
Speaker 1: dad was from Luca's mum that is healed really well
Speaker 1: and the baby skin is amazing. The synthetic skin graft
Speaker 1: that they have put on it has worked really well.
Speaker 1: Luca's father said, we are definitely optimistic at this point
Speaker 1: and he already looks better than we ever thought. Strength
Speaker 1: and love to little Luca and his family. Who else
Speaker 1: mattered this year? The next generation of Liberal leaders now
Speaker 1: David Crucifooley and Lea Fanookiaro, the people who now run
Speaker 1: the State of Queensland and the Northern Territory in the
Speaker 1: Northern Terror. They decided to change the government. Why well
Speaker 1: because of in many reasons, but particularly the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: and the Chief Minister and the Labor Party's absolute failure
Speaker 1: when it comes to youth crime in Allah Springs. It
Speaker 1: meant that the COLP, which was pushed right out of
Speaker 1: office years ago, was able to sweep with a majority
Speaker 1: and has a new face leading it.
Speaker 23: This result represents a turning point in the territory's future.
Speaker 1: Territorians have used.
Speaker 7: Their voice to stand up against Labor who have taken
Speaker 7: them for granted for.
Speaker 1: Far too long. You need seventeen seats to form a
Speaker 1: majority in the Northern Territory. The COLP was able to
Speaker 1: get there. No talk of a hung parliament, nothing like that.
Speaker 1: In fact, the Labor Party lost ten seats down to four.
Speaker 1: The cop gets its majority at seventeen up ten. The
Speaker 1: Greens sadly they got a spot, and plenty of others
Speaker 1: are there. The reason that this is a turning point,
Speaker 1: and the reason that Lea for Finukiara is the example
Speaker 1: of the next generation of Liberal leaders is when there
Speaker 1: were a bunch of protesters that were out the front
Speaker 1: of an event in Darwin trying to have a go
Speaker 1: at a gas project.
Speaker 16: This was her response and the active is standing out
Speaker 16: the front.
Speaker 7: You are wasting your time going back to Victoria or
Speaker 7: wherever else do you want to cause trouble, But you
Speaker 7: are not welcome here.
Speaker 1: She is awesome. Now, when it comes to state politics,
Speaker 1: Labor dominates in Queensland. I know that's bizarre, but let
Speaker 1: me walk you through it. Peter Beatty, well, he won
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight and it was all the way
Speaker 1: till twenty twelve when Campbell Newman had just three years
Speaker 1: before the Labour Party took over again and you ended
Speaker 1: up with Palochet and Miles. Meaning for the best part
Speaker 1: of thirty years there has only been one party rule
Speaker 1: in Queensland. But that was coming to an end because
Speaker 1: Queensland has had had enough of, among other things, an
Speaker 1: idiot as their premier replaced with another idiot as their premier,
Speaker 1: and youth crime. They had had enough. Crucifiley in the
Speaker 1: LNP smashed Labor and that's why they matted this year.
Speaker 18: I have voted for a fresh start and I have
Speaker 18: voted for a majority LMP government.
Speaker 1: Now in Tasmania, when it came to their politics this
Speaker 1: year a little wonky and a little weird. Now Tasmania
Speaker 1: had a state election because the state government had essentially
Speaker 1: been whittled down to a minority that couldn't really hold
Speaker 1: itself together. The Tasmanian Premier said let's go to an election.
Speaker 1: I demand a majority, and yes, he ended up with
Speaker 1: more seats than the Labor Party. Jackie Lamby was the
Speaker 1: x factor here. How many of her firebrand candidates were
Speaker 1: she going to get elected, including the ones who openly
Speaker 1: admitted they had no policies.
Speaker 23: So definitely with the Lambian that group, it's all about values.
Speaker 23: So we haven't already got predecided policies or specific areas
Speaker 23: and that's to me, and that's true democracy here we
Speaker 23: are representing the people.
Speaker 1: Okay, they ended up breaking up with Jackie Lambi, or
Speaker 1: did Jackie Lamby break up with them? Anyway, there's still
Speaker 1: a minority government that's barely held together, which brings us
Speaker 1: to politics in the UK, where Nigel Farage was one
Speaker 1: of the big stories as the UK went off and
Speaker 1: had its election. He went from hanging out with us
Speaker 1: each and every Tuesday night to a man who said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to run for parliament.
Speaker 14: I can't let down those millions of people. I simply
Speaker 14: can't do it. It'll be wrong. But I have decided
Speaker 14: I've changed my mind, so I am going to stand
Speaker 14: in this election. I'll be launching my candidacy at midday
Speaker 14: tomorrow in the Essex Seaside town of clasons.
Speaker 1: Well. After a plenty of campaigny which went up and
Speaker 1: down the country millions of votes, he was able to
Speaker 1: declare himself Nigel Farage MP.
Speaker 2: Resolved for Farrage, not just to win, but a very
Speaker 2: clear one.
Speaker 21: I promise that I will do my absolute best as
Speaker 21: a Member of Parliament. I had twenty years as an MEP,
Speaker 21: but it's not quite the same link or same responsibility
Speaker 21: with constituents. I will do my absolute best to put
Speaker 21: Clacton on the map. I'll do my best to bring
Speaker 21: more tourists. I'll do my best to try and bring
Speaker 21: some private investment.
Speaker 1: And apart from anything else, apart from bringing a brand
Speaker 1: new broom when it comes to British politics, when protesters
Speaker 1: decided to interrupt his moment in the sun, he had
Speaker 1: the best quote of the year in politics, not for
Speaker 1: the record, Keir Starmer and the Labor Party one in
Speaker 1: the United Kingdom. We're talking here as we look back
Speaker 1: at the year about the people who mattered or stood
Speaker 1: out to me as the people who really meant something
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five or before. Of course, we get
Speaker 1: to Donald Trump and our journey along the way from
Speaker 1: the man Cave to the White House and back. One
Speaker 1: more person I wanted to mention who really mattered this year.
Speaker 1: This was a person who stood up when times were
Speaker 1: incredibly difficult. There was breaking news one Saturday afternoon out
Speaker 1: of Sydney.
Speaker 15: The breaking news out of the Westfield Shopping Center in
Speaker 15: Sydney's Bondai Junction.
Speaker 19: Police have swarmed the center.
Speaker 7: Following reports that shoppers have been stabbed.
Speaker 4: We continue with our live coverage of this mass stabbing
Speaker 4: rampage at the Bondai Junction Westfield Shopping Center on a
Speaker 4: very busy Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 1: The person who was responsible for the murders was eventually
Speaker 1: confronted and stopped by an incredible police officer, a police
Speaker 1: officer who was not part of the response. Instead was
Speaker 1: somebody who had heard the disturbance and ran to the trouble.
Speaker 1: Her name Amy Scott.
Speaker 7: At the end of the day, it came down to
Speaker 7: my training, stop the killing, stop the dying.
Speaker 1: Just some of the people who made it. In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, In a second, let's talk Trump wall to
Speaker 1: wall boom boom boom, fight fight fight story this year,
Speaker 1: of course, it's all to do with Trump. So let's
Speaker 1: just take a second and go back and go through
Speaker 1: what has been an incredible journey. Now, while it ends
Speaker 1: with Trump winning, let's go back to when Trump was
Speaker 1: not really much of any chance of even being assumed
Speaker 1: to win. Of course, when it came to January the sixth,
Speaker 1: the assumption was that's it, he's done. But he decided
Speaker 1: that he was going to run again. He did so,
Speaker 1: of course, in November of twenty twenty two. But even
Speaker 1: then people didn't think he was going to be president.
Speaker 1: Why you know, all the court cases.
Speaker 9: A Manhattan grand jury voted on Thursday to indict former
Speaker 9: president Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Racial counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a new indictment
Speaker 1: against Donald Trump.
Speaker 24: We're going to be heading some breaking news now. I
Speaker 24: want to pull up this tweet here from political This
Speaker 24: is all about former President Donald Trump. Now it is
Speaker 24: announced that he has been indicted.
Speaker 1: There was the mugshot, which of course was the mugshot
Speaker 1: heard around the world. There was all of the times
Speaker 1: he was found guilty about bookkeeping charges in New York,
Speaker 1: even though they didn't ask the bookkeeper to give evidence
Speaker 1: of the trial, and do is Donald J. Trump defended
Speaker 1: in New York versus Donald Trump found guilty on all
Speaker 1: thirty four felony.
Speaker 19: Count Former President Donald Trump found guilty on thirty four
Speaker 19: felony counts.
Speaker 1: Well, all of that didn't matter. They still nominated him
Speaker 1: to be the candidate. When it came to the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: He blew away all comers in every single direction. So
Speaker 1: we were ready for Biden versus Trump Take two, and
Speaker 1: it was over before it began.
Speaker 20: This is a.
Speaker 16: Pivotal moment between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump,
Speaker 16: and they're.
Speaker 9: Rematched for the nation's highest office.
Speaker 1: Now, please welcome the forty six President of the United States,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 1: There's no one day night, there's no audience. Please appointing you.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I'm not going to drive them high.
Speaker 1: It's just going to cause countries that have been ripping
Speaker 1: us off for years, like China, and just forced them
Speaker 1: to pay.
Speaker 3: Us a lot.
Speaker 2: I missed the way, he says, China give us.
Speaker 1: It was computer lading thoughts, computer loading thoughts, inflation are.
Speaker 11: The doctor's close by, because I am worried about up
Speaker 11: under his He looks like it's.
Speaker 1: Mercy. I had fun with that. I think it's still
Speaker 1: doing pretty well for us on YouTube. Don't forget that's
Speaker 1: what we can always get the highlights of what we do here.
Speaker 1: It's gone news at dot com dot au. Well, the
Speaker 1: universal call, which wasn't just from Rider and I, was
Speaker 1: that it was time for Trump to face somebody else,
Speaker 1: In fact, Biden, Baba. We must call on him to
Speaker 1: give the ultimate sacrifice of saying that he will step aside, because.
Speaker 20: That's the best way to save our country.
Speaker 1: I just want him to appreciate at this time just
Speaker 1: how much it impacts not just his race, but all
Speaker 1: the other races coming in November. And then Trump got shot.
Speaker 20: Take a look at what happened over.
Speaker 1: And then the three coolest things you have ever seen
Speaker 1: any president, formal or future, say baby, wait wait, so
Speaker 1: game over. Stumbling Biden had to go. He's replaced with
Speaker 1: the least popular vice president in decades, Kamala Harris. Please
Speaker 1: welcome to be wildly cheered and loved by kids around
Speaker 1: the world. There's been another assassination attempt his golf course
Speaker 1: tonight at crime scene.
Speaker 3: Trump says he's safe and well after reports of gunshots
Speaker 3: described to have been fired in his vicinity.
Speaker 2: The FBI says, it is investigating what appears to be
Speaker 2: an attempted assassination attempt a former president Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris wouldn't give any interviews or make any promises,
Speaker 1: but she said this a lot, but joy cometh in
Speaker 1: the morning.
Speaker 23: That may seem hard, the work may.
Speaker 1: Seem heavy, but.
Speaker 23: Joy cometh in the morning, and church morning is on
Speaker 23: its way.
Speaker 1: When she eventually sat down and gave interviews, what happened then.
Speaker 20: You first became the nominee and and named Tim Walls
Speaker 20: as your your vice president nominee. People are calling it
Speaker 20: the vibe election. All the vibes were all good, But
Speaker 20: elections I think are one on vibes because one of
Speaker 20: the old saws is they just want somebody they can
Speaker 20: have a beer with. So would you like to have
Speaker 20: a beer with me? So I can tell people what
Speaker 20: that's like. Okay, this was now we asked ahead of time,
Speaker 20: because I can't just be given a drink to the
Speaker 20: vice president. I'd say, ask me, you asked for Miller highlight.
Speaker 20: I'm just curious.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 23: The last time I had beer was at a baseball
Speaker 23: game with Dougs.
Speaker 16: Cheers.
Speaker 20: There you go, ooh, It's like the beautiful city of mill.
Speaker 12: Walkings have done something differently than President Biden during the
Speaker 12: past four years.
Speaker 21: There is not a thing that comes to mind.
Speaker 1: For us, little lord Assies. We have the chance to
Speaker 1: go all the way over to the United States, to
Speaker 1: have a chat with the good people of the US
Speaker 1: ahead of the election, and to be there on the
Speaker 1: big day. I'm still buzzing after the result, but the
Speaker 1: lead up was awesome too. You're going to vote for
Speaker 1: trumpel Harris Trump?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 19: Why?
Speaker 1: Financial wise? I was good In the end, it all
Speaker 1: comes down to the economy. Come down to the economy.
Speaker 1: When you fight, fight fight, you fight, fight, fight, and
Speaker 1: you win. Win. Went about coming together.
Speaker 16: Now, let's let's get this.
Speaker 24: Let's get our country back to where it needs to be.
Speaker 1: And when the voting was said and done, Harris didn't
Speaker 1: win a state, he won them all. He won the
Speaker 1: popular vote. Republicans won the Senate. Donald Trump president again.
Speaker 2: The Fox News Decision Desk can now officially project that
Speaker 2: Donald Trump will become the forty seventh president of the
Speaker 2: United States.
Speaker 1: Now on this show, Megan Kelly and I we often
Speaker 1: talk about the issues when it comes to the day
Speaker 1: of the week, the month, the year, or when it
Speaker 1: comes to Donald Trump being returned as president the century Megan, Kelly, Megan,
Speaker 1: can you believe it it happened?
Speaker 13: I know, God bless him, God did bless him. Paul.
Speaker 13: I mean, there are a lot of people here who
Speaker 13: really feel like it was divine right order, that he
Speaker 13: was saved at the Butler Rally because he had something
Speaker 13: important to do, and that everything since then has been
Speaker 13: Trump fulfilling his destiny to retake this very important role
Speaker 13: and change the world, starting with our country.
Speaker 1: And even though it's been a big and complicated year,
Speaker 1: even though when it came to the American president Ancil
Speaker 1: election there was ups and downs and ins and outs
Speaker 1: and way too many polls that were wrong, and just
Speaker 1: follow the bookies next time, I think we can all
Speaker 1: agree the single most awesome thing was Trump dancing when
Speaker 1: you saw it on your door, Nash, you and that
Speaker 1: is our show for the year. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for watching. Thank you to everyone who makes it possible
Speaker 1: here for us at Sky News. To my beautiful wife
Speaker 1: and gorgeous girls. I can't wait to spend the summer
Speaker 1: with you, and most importantly, take care of yourself, Stay safe,
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