Speaker 1: Sky News Center. This is Paul Murray Live. Thank you, Sharry,
Speaker 1: come on into the man Cave for another massive year
Speaker 1: here on Sky News. Thank you so much for joining
Speaker 1: us tonight and everyone who was very kind and said
Speaker 1: today over summer. Now a little bit of personal business
Speaker 1: before we get into anything else. This year, twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five marks the fifteenth anniversary of this show. Now, I've
Speaker 1: been in and around sky News for a little longer
Speaker 1: than that, but fifteen years is a long time in Telly,
Speaker 1: and that's what it used to look like. That's what
Speaker 1: I used to look like, the best part of fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago. But since then we've grown from the cleaner.
Speaker 1: Remember when the cleaner used to be in the back
Speaker 1: of the shod all the time. We've gone from there
Speaker 1: all the way through to the pub tests, which mean
Speaker 1: we've been able to actually they yeah, that was me
Speaker 1: in two thousand and four. That's really the first time
Speaker 1: I ever appeared here on Sky News. So I've been
Speaker 1: around for a little while here, and I've been so
Speaker 1: lucky to do what we do and to be here
Speaker 1: each and every night. And we're done the pub tests
Speaker 1: for state elections and federal elections. We'll do more of
Speaker 1: those this year. We've been overseas, of course, to say
Speaker 1: fairwell to the Queen the United States a couple of times.
Speaker 1: We even went to the borders, of course, where we
Speaker 1: fought for common sense. We met a president, we saw
Speaker 1: a president come back to life. We've met plenty of
Speaker 1: cool people along the way, like Tom Jones. Sharing a
Speaker 1: stage with Tom Jones was a pretty massive highlight for me.
Speaker 1: The Great Marks Escafe of course in Supercars World as
Speaker 1: a lifelong holding fan. Awesome to be able to meet him.
Speaker 1: Daryll Braithwaye was on the show. Part of the Ourtowns
Speaker 1: it used to have. Remember that the music is part
Speaker 1: of them, Jehan Cord van dam just because you know
Speaker 1: why not eighties nineties action here. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: list everyone who's been on the show, but you can
Speaker 1: see lots of people have been over the show, and
Speaker 1: they're not just politics. It's music, it's fun, it's wrestling,
Speaker 1: it's all sorts of stuff. Without doubt, the highlight is
Speaker 1: our town where over the past fifteen years and for
Speaker 1: now a good chunk like at more than a third
Speaker 1: of our time on are we have gone from city
Speaker 1: to city to city to city to state to state
Speaker 1: to state, the region to region to region. Those shows
Speaker 1: are huge to put together and a real honor to
Speaker 1: be part of. They are also an opportunity for me
Speaker 1: to have some fun like letting off fireworks in Darwin,
Speaker 1: or trying to ride a bike in Bendigo for some reason,
Speaker 1: spraying Champagne on a private island in cans and so
Speaker 1: many other things. We've done some incredible and very cool things.
Speaker 1: At fifteen years of this show and we're just getting started.
Speaker 1: We're going to be around for a long time. Sky
Speaker 1: News is going to be around for a long time.
Speaker 1: And this is a computer image of what I will
Speaker 1: look like fifteen years from now. Before we celebrate thirty
Speaker 1: years together. I want to thank everyone who has been
Speaker 1: on the show, guests. I want to thank everyone who's
Speaker 1: helped make the show here at sky News. I want
Speaker 1: to thank everyone in management who's supported us all the
Speaker 1: way through from the very early days to where I
Speaker 1: said today. Most importantly, I want to thank you for
Speaker 1: bringing me into your joint eachin, every night, and above all,
Speaker 1: I of course want to thank my beautiful wife Sean
Speaker 1: and daughters Asher and Zadia. A wonderful summer with them.
Speaker 1: But now time to get back to work. And one
Speaker 1: thing twenty twenty five absolutely is, and that is an
Speaker 1: election year, another fork in the road for us to
Speaker 1: make a decision about which way we are going to
Speaker 1: go with our country. The two leaders, well, they think
Speaker 1: that they've got some sort of secret source to be
Speaker 1: able to push the Australian people to either give them
Speaker 1: more power for three more, in my view, ineffective years,
Speaker 1: or an attempt to put the country back on track.
Speaker 1: So I thought, before we get involved, too difficult in
Speaker 1: too much of what happened over summer, and who said what,
Speaker 1: I want to have a look at the game. I
Speaker 1: want you to see the state of play right now
Speaker 1: when it comes to politics in Australia. Now, to give
Speaker 1: you an idea of where the primary vote is for
Speaker 1: both of the political parties, that's important to note here.
Speaker 1: The Labor Party is now at twenty seven and a
Speaker 1: bit percent according to the Resolve poll. That's down some
Speaker 1: five and a half percent from the number that they
Speaker 1: just scraped into power with in twenty twenty two. For
Speaker 1: the coalition, they've been able to move things back to
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty and two party preferred because of a
Speaker 1: five point increase in their vote since the last election. Now,
Speaker 1: because that vote does not have a four in front
Speaker 1: of it, you can't start to know what's going to
Speaker 1: happen with this election. We start this year as we
Speaker 1: ended last year, with all of the caveats that while
Speaker 1: a minority government seems inevitable, who forms That is where
Speaker 1: the debate will be in the next sort of while
Speaker 1: if it's starting, it's a herculean effort and a massive
Speaker 1: rejection of the current Prime minister. If it's the Prime Minister,
Speaker 1: of course, he will have one hand time behind his back,
Speaker 1: and it will be his right arm because it will
Speaker 1: be nothing but left wing policies that, among others like
Speaker 1: the Greens, the Teels and others, will force him to
Speaker 1: put in place over the next three years. So your
Speaker 1: vote matters, it always matters, But your preference also matters.
Speaker 1: And while Somemer may be over for me, I know
Speaker 1: it's not for most people watching right now, and I
Speaker 1: know the vibe is not exactly peak Australia at the moment.
Speaker 1: We've still got our holiday brains and we're still probably
Speaker 1: watching wearing shorts and a T shirt. Great awesome, keep
Speaker 1: that vibe going for as long as possible. But as
Speaker 1: we start to have the conversations about who, so who
Speaker 1: are going to vote for? What do you think of this?
Speaker 1: What do you think of that? It's not just what
Speaker 1: you do with preference number one, it's also what you
Speaker 1: do with preference number two. You see in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: what people did with their preference number two help defeat
Speaker 1: Bill Shorten by making a choice for a government in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen to reject Bill Shorten. That's how the Libs
Speaker 1: won last time. When it's bugg of them all, put
Speaker 1: them all last. Well, guess what happens when your preferences
Speaker 1: go for a long road trip. They don't go back
Speaker 1: to a party that will end up forming government, and
Speaker 1: we end up with the one that we currently have
Speaker 1: for another three years and a Prime minister who wants
Speaker 1: to yet again change the constitution, this time to make
Speaker 1: sure that he could remain in power for a fixed
Speaker 1: four I don't like the idea of it in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form. Politicians love it because it's guaranteed power
Speaker 1: and pay for them, but for everyone else not quite so.
Speaker 1: The issue, of course, is not just about the parties,
Speaker 1: but it's about the people that are in our living
Speaker 1: rooms each and every night and are all over the
Speaker 1: news all day every day. Both of them have already
Speaker 1: heard too much of it. It's just what the first
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of January. But it is essentially a
Speaker 1: choice between who you want the prime Minister of the
Speaker 1: country to be, be it Anthony Abernesi or of course
Speaker 1: Peter Dutton. Now Anthony Abernezi has fallen and fallen hard
Speaker 1: since his election three years ago and it is all
Speaker 1: in my view as a result of his own doing.
Speaker 1: Australians don't turn on first term prime ministers, but they
Speaker 1: certainly have on this blog to give you an idea
Speaker 1: again the resolve of political monitor This is in the
Speaker 1: Channel nine newspapers. Anthony Aarberesi's first poll after the election
Speaker 1: was fifty five percent of people who said he was
Speaker 1: the preferred prime minister. Twenty of those points have now disappeared.
Speaker 1: Most of them's gone straight across the road to Peter Dutton.
Speaker 1: Some have gone into the don't know category. But still
Speaker 1: with the scenario of thirty five versus thirty five, there
Speaker 1: is about thirty percent of people who are still up
Speaker 1: for grabs. Those thirty percent of people will determine the election.
Speaker 1: Those thirty percent of people will decide which way the
Speaker 1: country is going to go. More of the same which
Speaker 1: has made you poorer, our country weaker, or someone who
Speaker 1: shares your values. Now, this is the show which, just
Speaker 1: in case you haven't been watching over the past fifteen years,
Speaker 1: and if it is your first night, welcome aboard the bandwagon.
Speaker 1: Treats everyone with respect of you here on day one
Speaker 1: or tonight's your first night. This is an opinion show,
Speaker 1: a strong opinion show, but an opinion show that tries
Speaker 1: to show you data and facts from neutral sources and
Speaker 1: then yes, to interpret and add a lot of opinion
Speaker 1: on top of it. But to give you an idea
Speaker 1: about my opinion about Anthony Abernezi. This bloke is headed
Speaker 1: for trouble at the upcoming election. Now there's either historic
Speaker 1: trouble of losing the prime ministership seemingly unlikely, or being
Speaker 1: pushed into that minority government. And put simply, if Anthony
Speaker 1: aberze can make the election about Peter Dunton, he might survive.
Speaker 1: If Peter Dutton can make the election about Anthony Aberneese,
Speaker 1: Anthony Abernezi will be cooked. Why because again I'm using
Speaker 1: the Channel nine newspapers of the City Morning Herald, the Age,
Speaker 1: Camper Times, Not Camper Times, the Brisbane Times. When it
Speaker 1: comes to the effectiveness of the Prime Minister, there are
Speaker 1: now some what fifty seven percent of people who believe
Speaker 1: that the Prime Minister is either doing a poor or
Speaker 1: a very poor job. At the start of an election year,
Speaker 1: then let's be honest, isn't an election year. Longest case
Speaker 1: scenario for the government is May. Generally speaking, January gets
Speaker 1: put in the bin. In February people start to get
Speaker 1: back to work. Then we'd have an election campaign in
Speaker 1: March or April, and not much is going to change
Speaker 1: in people's circumstances. The primes the things he'll be able
Speaker 1: to change the subject. Most of the media, who do
Speaker 1: not want a d government will try to do everything
Speaker 1: they can to amplify that change in subject. But I
Speaker 1: think Australians that take a pick are one of the
Speaker 1: three million people that are this close to homelessness. The
Speaker 1: three and a bit million people who don't know where
Speaker 1: the next meal is going to come from. The people
Speaker 1: who have had to cut back and cut back and
Speaker 1: cut back and cut back because the one thing they'll
Speaker 1: ever own of any consequence in their life. Their home
Speaker 1: has seen twelve interest rate rises, let alone, the cost
Speaker 1: of insurance let alone, the skyrocket of petrol let alone,
Speaker 1: the amount of tax that the government takes out of
Speaker 1: a schooner, a beer or a glass of wine, let alone,
Speaker 1: the rules that they put in place to always make
Speaker 1: their life better with pay rises for politicians and public servants.
Speaker 1: But of course your dollar is worth less than it
Speaker 1: was ten years ago. Australians, as you know, have been
Speaker 1: living not just a cost of living crisis, but essentially
Speaker 1: we have been living in a recession for now seven
Speaker 1: quarters in a row. That's almost the best part of
Speaker 1: two years where you have been going backwards and you
Speaker 1: know it. I believe the Prime Minister well and truly
Speaker 1: know it. Between now the next pole, the next pole,
Speaker 1: the next pole, and then that eventual pole which will
Speaker 1: come our way towards well the starting parts of this year,
Speaker 1: I promise you in the same way that unlike most
Speaker 1: other things on television, we go out and about, we
Speaker 1: don't go out and about and do a vox pop
Speaker 1: where we go and quickly talk to three people and
Speaker 1: pretend that that means we've been amongst normal people. We
Speaker 1: do the pub tests where remember we've got about one
Speaker 1: hundred seats, and when there's a political leader there, it's
Speaker 1: the first one hundred people who write to us who
Speaker 1: get the seats. There's no ideological check about whether you
Speaker 1: get to come in or not. So it's the best
Speaker 1: we can do in an unscientific way of trying to
Speaker 1: get normal people into a room to ask questions of
Speaker 1: people in power. That will happen again in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Will also go around the country doing all sorts of
Speaker 1: special shows like Our Town, which again thanks to the
Speaker 1: great people of Harvey Norman, has become a staple of
Speaker 1: the show and one of the most beloved things that
Speaker 1: we do here at Sky News. I love going to
Speaker 1: real Australia, but the suburbs that I grew up in
Speaker 1: or the place where you live will do all of
Speaker 1: that again in twenty twenty five. But I wanted to
Speaker 1: turn my attention to the two ways that this government
Speaker 1: is going to try to hold onto itself, or that
Speaker 1: there is about to be a change of government, about
Speaker 1: Peter Dutton here and about whether how Peter Dutton plans
Speaker 1: to beat Anthony Aberneze. So today he made a major speech.
Speaker 1: That major speech yesterday was interesting to watch. It was
Speaker 1: of course one to the party faithful, and that means
Speaker 1: it's not really about convincing anyone outside of that room.
Speaker 1: But let's have a look at the key ways that
Speaker 1: Peter Dutton thinks that he's going to be able to
Speaker 1: win this election. As the headline's right that Peter Dutton
Speaker 1: made a pitch for values based election and Dutton pictures
Speaker 1: suburban battler roots and calls for an education not indoctrination.
Speaker 1: Here's some of the stuff that he said in the
Speaker 1: speech that you probably didn't see in the news last night.
Speaker 1: Why because most people in the media, whether they will
Speaker 1: ever admit it or not, will do everything they can
Speaker 1: to stop Dutton denying Albo his spot in the history books.
Speaker 2: I believe that family is the most important unit in society,
Speaker 2: and I believe in my heart that we must preserve
Speaker 2: the innocence of childhood and nurture young minds in a
Speaker 2: responsible way. I believe in egalitarianism, in judging people by
Speaker 2: the content of their character, and in pushing back on
Speaker 2: identity politics. I believe in individual freedom as you do,
Speaker 2: and the rule of law. And I believe that the
Speaker 2: main sources of enterprise and wealth creation are businesses.
Speaker 1: And industries, not governments.
Speaker 2: Australians are best served by smaller government, which gets off
Speaker 2: their back, supports.
Speaker 1: Free enterprise and rips up regulation.
Speaker 2: But it means seeing children taught the basics, reading, writing
Speaker 2: and maths through explicit instruction across our primary education system,
Speaker 2: that we send our children to school for an education,
Speaker 2: not for an indoctrination. By nurturing pride in our country,
Speaker 2: celebrating the achievement of modern Australia, standing up for our
Speaker 2: values and coming together under one flag.
Speaker 1: Now lefties hate this stuff because they think that it's
Speaker 1: a culture war. But as we have learnt over the years,
Speaker 1: and you know in your heart of hearts, that just
Speaker 1: defending the status quo is not a culture war. It's
Speaker 1: only a war to the people who are attempting to
Speaker 1: undermine it or change it, to the people who are
Speaker 1: trying to pretend that up is down, that black is white,
Speaker 1: that left is right, all of that garbage, the Jedi
Speaker 1: mind trick where abi Wan Canobi famously in that documentary
Speaker 1: Star Wars. Of course, these are not the droids you're
Speaker 1: looking for, and the weak minded stormtroopers fall for it
Speaker 1: or we're not. We're not weak minded. And citizens that
Speaker 1: have come here in the last couple of years or
Speaker 1: have been lucky enough to win life's lotto and be
Speaker 1: born here for generations know that many of what that
Speaker 1: bloke just said is what makes us great, what makes
Speaker 1: us different at a time when there's war, fires, famine
Speaker 1: and all the rest of it that happened across the world.
Speaker 1: We've got a pretty good in Australia, but we can
Speaker 1: always have it better. And you have to look back
Speaker 1: over the past three years about whether this joint is
Speaker 1: better because of its leadership or the core values that
Speaker 1: have just been explained are the ones that voters will
Speaker 1: move towards between now and the election. And a free
Speaker 1: piece of advice to Peter Dutton or anyone in and
Speaker 1: around him, can we all just agree that no one
Speaker 1: cares about the daily announcement. Now, the Prime Minister and
Speaker 1: I'll get to him in a second, loves this where
Speaker 1: each and every day we're going to spend X million
Speaker 1: dollars or billion dollars as it was today to improve this,
Speaker 1: that or the other. Now, that doesn't mean that there
Speaker 1: aren't millions and billions of dollars that need to be
Speaker 1: spent improving things. But does anyone remember what the key
Speaker 1: thing was on day seven of the election campaign in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. No, Instead, I guarantee though both sides
Speaker 1: of politics stood up, made a speech, promised to spend
Speaker 1: more money, but didn't talk about the core values. Now
Speaker 1: Australia does have to be about detail. We do require
Speaker 1: things to be costed and ideas, but we don't need
Speaker 1: every single day of our politics between now when the
Speaker 1: election comes to be someone telling us how they're going
Speaker 1: to spend more money. Because of course you know and
Speaker 1: I know that it's not their money, it's ours. The
Speaker 1: number one source of revenue in the Australian federal government
Speaker 1: is not the GST, it is not petrol taxes, it
Speaker 1: is not even company tax. It's the average man, woman
Speaker 1: and teenager who is paying as they go income tax
Speaker 1: number one source. More income tax being collected than ever
Speaker 1: before by this government. Oh but they gave it everyone
Speaker 1: a too little, too late tax cut. Yeah, because they
Speaker 1: knew that because of the fiddle of the system, most
Speaker 1: people will slightly as life rolls on, roll into the
Speaker 1: next bracket, which means they have to pay more and
Speaker 1: more and more and more. Peter Dutton has an opportunity
Speaker 1: to not just get into the fight, but to take
Speaker 1: this thing right up to the Prime minister by speaking
Speaker 1: about those values, by not being distracted by the media
Speaker 1: expectations of an announcement each and every day, focusing on
Speaker 1: the core values, and dare I say, showing examples of
Speaker 1: how those core values would be available to people if
Speaker 1: he was made prime minister. For example, if Parliament does
Speaker 1: come back between now and the election, and depending on timings,
Speaker 1: February is when Parliament may well come back for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. And I know how some people on
Speaker 1: the Internet are going to respond to this suggestion, but
Speaker 1: I reckon what Peter Dutton should do is move emotion.
Speaker 1: One sentence piece of legislation Australia's National Days January twenty
Speaker 1: sixth and all celebrations will and must be held on
Speaker 1: that day. Watch how the government votes for or against that,
Speaker 1: which way do the teals run around? Will the green
Speaker 1: set them hair on fire? And then on the second day,
Speaker 1: another one line piece of legislations, Australians have a right
Speaker 1: within the bounds of the law to free speech. Let's
Speaker 1: watch the teals tie themselves in knots, the Green set
Speaker 1: themself on fire, or the Prime Minister there, I say,
Speaker 1: falling into his old habit of each way. But of
Speaker 1: course these are culture wars because whenever you stand up
Speaker 1: for what you believe in, it's a cultural war. Whenever
Speaker 1: they change what you believe and know to be the truth,
Speaker 1: it's progress. Yeah, no things. As for the Prime minister,
Speaker 1: how does he think he's going to be able to
Speaker 1: get another three years in power, potentially change a constitution.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be a fun referendum Australians would run towards
Speaker 1: more power and pay for politicians. I don't think so,
Speaker 1: and potentially end up with four years in power. Is
Speaker 1: that he thinks he's going to be able to follow
Speaker 1: the old method of spend his way to your heart
Speaker 1: despite the fact that your pockets have never been shallower,
Speaker 1: your wallet has never been lighter, and your to do
Speaker 1: list has never been longer because it's too expensive to
Speaker 1: do many of those things on the to do list,
Speaker 1: not the bucket list, the to do list, or the
Speaker 1: Prime Minister thinks promises about never never times and never
Speaker 1: never money somehow will win him the day and if
Speaker 1: he wins a day here, and he wins a week there,
Speaker 1: and he wins a month there. Then suddenly fifty seven
Speaker 1: percent of people saying poor or very poor, miraculously will
Speaker 1: become fifty to fifty. And at fifty to fifty, well,
Speaker 1: he backs himself always. The Prime Minister today, of course,
Speaker 1: announcing that he is going to promise that the Federal
Speaker 1: government you will spend billions of more dollars on the NBN. Now,
Speaker 1: the NBN, once built or half built or three quarters
Speaker 1: built or whatever the heck, it is now doing a
Speaker 1: pretty good job. The idea that there's billions of dollars
Speaker 1: more that need to be spent on it, I'm not
Speaker 1: entirely sure, but don't forget this is a prime minister
Speaker 1: who just last week was also spending seven billion dollars
Speaker 1: on the Bruce Highway. And how dare the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: come out like he did last week while promising this
Speaker 1: money and invoke that in the past twelve months x
Speaker 1: number of people had died on the road. Will you've
Speaker 1: been prime minister for the past twelve months and the
Speaker 1: twelve before that and the twelve before that. If you
Speaker 1: really wanted to save lives, you would have made not
Speaker 1: an announcement, you would have made a decision because we
Speaker 1: know if you want to pull three billion dollars out
Speaker 1: of your backside, you'll do it to help try and
Speaker 1: remove some student debt, to get lefties to stop voting
Speaker 1: for the Greens. We know that if he wants to,
Speaker 1: he'll spend four hundred and fifty million dollars on a
Speaker 1: referendum because it's an issue that he believes needs to
Speaker 1: be dealt with. So while I won't look a gift
Speaker 1: horse in the mouth and billions of dollars for a
Speaker 1: road that desperately needs to be fixed, it is a
Speaker 1: disgrace to the country. It is a dog track. The
Speaker 1: idea that the Prime Minister last week a billion here,
Speaker 1: this week a billion there, thinks he's going to turn
Speaker 1: the world around. And there's more of these announcements they've
Speaker 1: been having all summer long about more matters to spend
Speaker 1: when it comes to housing and infrastructure in Queensland again
Speaker 1: in Western Australia two hundred million dollars for regional housing pitch.
Speaker 1: But the truth is that the real way that Anthony
Speaker 1: Aberaneze thinks he's going to be able to turn fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty into albow winds again is to go very
Speaker 1: hard on Peter Dutton. Well, remember this is the bloke
Speaker 1: who after the Voice was defeated. And the only reason
Speaker 1: I keep bringing it up is because it is instructive
Speaker 1: of the thinking of these people, not because I want
Speaker 1: to keep re litigating two years ago. As I said
Speaker 1: at the start of the show, we're always looking forward,
Speaker 1: always looking forward. The past will tell us some things,
Speaker 1: but you always got to look forward. You got to
Speaker 1: look to that future always, because in the same way
Speaker 1: that the right does not own strength, the left does
Speaker 1: not own compassion. The future is not something that is
Speaker 1: exclusively for the progressives. It's for the common sense normal
Speaker 1: people to want to embrace because they want the better
Speaker 1: future for their kids and for their grandkids, and yes
Speaker 1: even for themselves, because they've worked hard enough and they
Speaker 1: deserve to have the best possible future in the back
Speaker 1: nine of their lives. But the Prime Minister thinks that
Speaker 1: there is something secretly still inside Australians that the same
Speaker 1: group of people who reduced the last government to an
Speaker 1: opposition have no plans on returning the Liberal Party back
Speaker 1: anywhere near power. The Prime Minister, as I said, he
Speaker 1: started up a dirt unit specifically to dig up garbage
Speaker 1: on Dutton. He did so straight after the Voice had
Speaker 1: been defeated. He has spin doctors who are paid an
Speaker 1: awful lot of money by you and me to talk
Speaker 1: to their mates and the rest of the media to
Speaker 1: try to carry that message. We've shown you who some
Speaker 1: of these people are in many many media organizations around
Speaker 1: the country, the ones who will always give the benefit
Speaker 1: of the doubt of the Prime Minister. But it's all
Speaker 1: about get Dutton. Here's some examples about how Anthony Alberinezi
Speaker 1: thinks that if he can somehow turn Peter Dutton into
Speaker 1: Ossie Orange Man, the result will be different than the
Speaker 1: Orange Man. Yeah, that's right, he won again, didn't he.
Speaker 3: We need leadership with a heart. Peter Dutton represents a
Speaker 3: cold hearted, mean spirit. It's sometimes just plain nasty. Peter
Speaker 3: Dutton will continue as he did yesterday to look for
Speaker 3: areas of division.
Speaker 1: No wonder that the co.
Speaker 3: Chose to Alex Scott Morris above above Peter Dutton because
Speaker 3: there were too many in their ranks were concerned about
Speaker 3: his political agenda.
Speaker 1: Seriously. Now, of course, the catnip for the lefties is
Speaker 1: to pretend that somehow Peter Dutton represents conservatism. And while
Speaker 1: generally speaking I don't bathe in that particular term because
Speaker 1: little old school for me. But the concept of being
Speaker 1: a conservative, being a traditionalist, being somebody who has core
Speaker 1: Australian values, whichever way you want to put it, this
Speaker 1: is a important insight into the insults they think they
Speaker 1: will be able to put on Peter Dutton. But the
Speaker 1: reality is that the Peter Dutton insults about him being
Speaker 1: weak is provable. It's provable by how many stories last year,
Speaker 1: how many articles. We literally did hundreds of shows last year.
Speaker 1: And while I don't suggest that you go and buy
Speaker 1: the DVD collection, is there one you'd be able to
Speaker 1: pretty much know. But we didn't make things up about them.
Speaker 1: We called them out about their many and endless failure
Speaker 1: which lead to the perception of weakness. But there's one
Speaker 1: other thing about the Prime Minister I need to focus on.
Speaker 1: When he was at his press conference today announcing yet
Speaker 1: again billions of dollars but you have to vote for
Speaker 1: me first for the NBN to become the true technology
Speaker 1: that it should be. There was a little twist here
Speaker 1: about how the Prime Minister views spending your money because
Speaker 1: he knows that a government that spends too much money
Speaker 1: is one normally Australian stone like get ready for a
Speaker 1: new word to replace spending.
Speaker 4: Yesterday Peter dunn't spoke a lot about government spending, and
Speaker 4: today you're announcing a three billion dollar injection into the NBN,
Speaker 4: a publicly owned infrastructure network. I can foresee a future
Speaker 4: in which this is also criticized substantial public spending. Do
Speaker 4: you think that this is the vision from the election
Speaker 4: going forward? A big, big pop expending on one side
Speaker 4: and cutstop expending on the other.
Speaker 3: Well, this is an investment. This is an investment that
Speaker 3: will produce a return.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's an investment because you see, the clever little
Speaker 1: game they play about investing money is that if it's
Speaker 1: an investment, then they can put it off the budget books.
Speaker 1: And there are tens of billions of dollars that we
Speaker 1: will not see when the Prime Minister or the treasurers
Speaker 1: stand up and talk about their federal budget. And despite
Speaker 1: the fact that their spending has gone up in that area,
Speaker 1: the real measure of just how much tippy top and
Speaker 1: out of your TV screen is because they hide it
Speaker 1: all off budget it's an accounting trick. Another thing about
Speaker 1: this Prime Minister. Listen to a question where he is
Speaker 1: asked very clearly about Australia Day, and about put simply,
Speaker 1: is our national day January twenty sixth, and should all
Speaker 1: celebrate commemorations and citizenship ceremonies happen on that day. This
Speaker 1: is the question.
Speaker 5: You could ask about petted up this commitment today around
Speaker 5: councils holding Citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day. He says, if
Speaker 5: he's elected, he would force councilors to hold it on
Speaker 5: January twenty six, not on the three days either side
Speaker 5: as the rules currently allow. In your view, is there
Speaker 5: any good reason why accouncils shouldn't hold it on Australia Day.
Speaker 1: Good question, straight line and length. All right, How does
Speaker 1: the Prime Minister respond? Well, see, he has this really
Speaker 1: annoying verbal tick that somehow he thinks that a little
Speaker 1: bit like Remberlhen you used to write an essay in
Speaker 1: high school and you just sort of pad it out
Speaker 1: with extra words and loin news keep going, and then
Speaker 1: eventually you change the point and you start answering a
Speaker 1: completely different question, because somehow you think that is going
Speaker 1: to make you look good, because even if you don't
Speaker 1: really answer the question, they're going to admire the way
Speaker 1: you answer the question. This is the Prime Minister giving
Speaker 1: what I call a beauty queen's answer. I'll explain why
Speaker 1: in a second.
Speaker 3: My council holds them on Australia Day, and on Australia Day,
Speaker 3: I'll be here in Canberra at the national event. I
Speaker 3: encourage Peter Dutton to come to the National Event. I
Speaker 3: always did when I.
Speaker 1: Was Opposition leader.
Speaker 3: It's a great event on the foreshores of Lake Burley
Speaker 3: Griffin here and I think it's appropriate that the Prime
Speaker 3: Minister and the Leader of the Opposition both be there.
Speaker 3: I ensured I was there every year that I was
Speaker 3: Leader of the Opposition, as well as every year as
Speaker 3: Prime Minister. And I'd also encourage mister Dutton to attend
Speaker 3: the Australia Day Awards. It's a celebration of the best
Speaker 3: of Australia, the Volunteer of the Year, the Young Australian
Speaker 3: of the Year, the Senior Australian of the Year, and
Speaker 3: the Australian of the Year. It's fantastic that that occurs
Speaker 3: the first year.
Speaker 1: I wasn't invited.
Speaker 3: As leader of the opposition, I requested and invite and
Speaker 3: I've been there every year since. And I hope that
Speaker 3: there's a bipartisan show of support.
Speaker 1: Then for sure back but still who cares. Now, Look,
Speaker 1: we may not like many, if not all, of the
Speaker 1: decisions that are made, but surely he's smarter than that,
Speaker 1: because I've got to say when I was listening to
Speaker 1: that answer, which was about a straighted day and about
Speaker 1: January twenty sixth, but it ends up with oh, the
Speaker 1: volunteer of the year, and when I was Opposition leader,
Speaker 1: I got invited to the Just what a surprise albo
Speaker 1: can wrangle and invite to something he wants to go to.
Speaker 1: What a giant surprise that is. We're aware of upgrade
Speaker 1: elbow and don't worry, we will not forget to get
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. But that nothing answer kind of
Speaker 1: reminded me of this famous moment from the internet. I
Speaker 1: think from two thousand and seven.
Speaker 6: Recent pause have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate
Speaker 6: the US on a world map.
Speaker 7: Why do you think this is?
Speaker 6: Personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so
Speaker 6: because some people out there in our nation don't have thats.
Speaker 6: And I believe that our education like such as South
Speaker 6: Africa and Iraq everywhere such as and I believe that
Speaker 6: they should. Our education over here in the US should
Speaker 6: help the US, or should help South Africa, it should
Speaker 6: help Iraq in the Asian countries, so we will be
Speaker 6: able to build up our future.
Speaker 1: For so, Prime Minister about the NBA. Now, of course,
Speaker 1: speaking of the United States, hock Can, we're not seeing
Speaker 1: endless strength and love to everyone affected by what's happening
Speaker 1: in southern California, in and around of course Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: in and around Malibu, if you particularly know that part
Speaker 1: all of the United States. I love the people there.
Speaker 1: I love the countryside. Every chance I've been able to
Speaker 1: go to the States, I always head over to Malibu
Speaker 1: and see a couple of mites that are there. And
Speaker 1: it's just been heartbreaking to see, hasn't it. So many
Speaker 1: homes just gone. It's like literally you know, and all
Speaker 1: the people say, wars, Yeah, that looks like a bomb
Speaker 1: went off, unbelievable. Well, we're starting to learn now about
Speaker 1: what may well be have been the start of the
Speaker 1: fire that caused all of that trouble in and around
Speaker 1: New Years. Washington Post has been doing some deep diving, which,
Speaker 1: among other things, has been able to work out that
Speaker 1: there was a fire on New Year's Eve. It went
Speaker 1: off because people were setting fireworks off. Now, the fire
Speaker 1: had apparently been put out, but the winds may well
Speaker 1: have breathed life back into the fire. The Washington Post
Speaker 1: again continues to go on here to say that residents
Speaker 1: told the Post that investigators on the scene that firefighters
Speaker 1: were also slow to respond Tuesday of last week, slower
Speaker 1: than they were when there was something burning in that
Speaker 1: area on New Year's Eve. They've also been able to
Speaker 1: confirm that by listening to all the different radio calls.
Speaker 1: Pretty amazing, right. Despite this and the warnings of intense
Speaker 1: and dangerous wind events last week, Los Angeles Fire Department
Speaker 1: spokesperson has told The Post has been the Washington Post
Speaker 1: that it was not the department's practice to maintain patrols
Speaker 1: over past fire sites. Meeting, nobody went back and double
Speaker 1: checked that it was definitely one hundred percent out, And
Speaker 1: of course is that an unrealistic expectation, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But if the suggestion is that this was the ember
Speaker 1: that fired things back up, we're in a world of trouble.
Speaker 1: Here we know that fires rekindle and a transition from
Speaker 1: smoldering to flaming. This is a professor of mechanical engineering
Speaker 1: at the University of California in Berkeley. It's certainly possible
Speaker 1: that something from a previous fire within a week had
Speaker 1: rekindled and caused the ignition. Now a couple of other
Speaker 1: quick observations from the other side of the wall, But
Speaker 1: a person who absolutely loves the United States, Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 1: the governor of California, clearly a blow coups. Presidential ambitions
Speaker 1: look like they may have been over before they even began.
Speaker 1: Take the sunglasses off. I know it's a California thing,
Speaker 1: but please, no one thinks you're we're looking at the fire.
Speaker 1: When the failure of people like yourself to be prepared
Speaker 1: for these things, you won't call no more power. As
Speaker 1: for Donald Trump, look if he wants to ever turn
Speaker 1: California red, help out right. I get all the problems
Speaker 1: with the lefties and some of them, you know, but
Speaker 1: they don't deserve to lose the houses because they didn't
Speaker 1: vote for you. I think there'll be a massive upside
Speaker 1: for Trump if he can actually get involved and try
Speaker 1: to rebuild part of this area as soon as possible,
Speaker 1: rather than just saying, yeah, it's California thing, don't worry
Speaker 1: about it. As for the Mayor of Los Angeles, you
Speaker 1: should resign. You aren't up to it. You cut the
Speaker 1: budget of the firefighters, which brings me to, of course,
Speaker 1: the chief of the Los Angeles Fire Bureau, who seems
Speaker 1: to have placed more attention on DEI than actually preparing
Speaker 1: yourself for an emergency, She too should resign. I don't
Speaker 1: know who their deputies are, but I'll take them, or
Speaker 1: even the person who answers the TRIPLEO calls over the
Speaker 1: mayor or the person in charge of those fires meantime
Speaker 1: after the flames and they're still going on, of course,
Speaker 1: but after the flames have passed in some areas, there
Speaker 1: are tens of thousands of people that have tried to
Speaker 1: find somewhere to sleep. Thankfully, hotel rooms and mates and
Speaker 1: all the rest of it, and even free abmbs are
Speaker 1: currently available. But there's an awful lot of people who
Speaker 1: need things like food, and there's all sorts of shelters
Speaker 1: which are popping up, and it's a really cool thing
Speaker 1: that normal people do in response to natural disasters, we
Speaker 1: do our bit to help somebody else. And then there
Speaker 1: are flogs like Harry and Meghan who decide to go
Speaker 1: to one of these places to show off that they
Speaker 1: were at one of these places, no doubt, tipping off
Speaker 1: the cameras. Oh there just happens to be one there
Speaker 1: right next to me, and I've got my la hat
Speaker 1: on and all the rest of it. Now. Justine Bateman, yes,
Speaker 1: the sister of Jason, well known actor but also an
Speaker 1: activist in and around the Writers Guild and producers guiled.
Speaker 1: She's a very plugged in person in the United States.
Speaker 1: She's basically told them to bug her off. Why she wrote,
Speaker 1: what are a pulsive photo op that they achieved that
Speaker 1: they are touring the damage. They're not politicians, they don't
Speaker 1: live here. They're tourists, disaster tourists. But of course, why
Speaker 1: would there be a reason why Meghan wanted to somehow
Speaker 1: get maximum publicity. Was there a chance that, Oh that's right.
Speaker 1: On the fifteenth of January, we were supposed to see
Speaker 1: her latest effort from Netflix. Here's the trailer. Hold down
Speaker 1: your dinner if you can.
Speaker 8: I'm going to share some little tips and tricks I
Speaker 8: see what color I gravitate to, and everything goes from there,
Speaker 8: and how you incorporate these practices every day.
Speaker 1: But now, of course, out of sensitivity to the fires,
Speaker 1: it has now been delayed for a couple of months,
Speaker 1: so let's think of the real victims. Here plenty more
Speaker 1: to fire up about in this our fifteenth year. I'm
Speaker 1: so glad you hear. Whether you hear from day one
Speaker 1: or tonight's the first night, I'm glad you hear. We've
Speaker 1: got a lot of telly to go. You're on palm
Speaker 1: ra How good to have people back in the Man Cave,
Speaker 1: James Mora, you can read them in the Daily Telegraph,
Speaker 1: seem on Outsiders and lots of other places. The US
Speaker 1: report back of course this week, great man, how are
Speaker 1: you great to be here? Paul Oh, Matt Canavan, let's
Speaker 1: get him in here too, all right? House Queensland in summer, mate,
Speaker 1: it's great.
Speaker 9: I've actually just been in India though the past week,
Speaker 9: so it's good to be back home and see the
Speaker 9: beautiful Queensland. Sun fell out on your face and I
Speaker 9: wish I could be down there with you. It's always
Speaker 9: better in the Man Cave.
Speaker 1: Or bloody oath it is somebody make a T shirt quick,
Speaker 1: let's get it done, all right, Australia. We are lots
Speaker 1: of news around that for obvious reasons. As we run
Speaker 1: into it. James, you had the story this morning which
Speaker 1: was the IPA and its pole, these dudent of public affairs.
Speaker 1: Sixty nine percent of people fine with it the way
Speaker 1: it currently is, yep, fourteen percent of people they want
Speaker 1: the whole change eighteen percent. Yeah.
Speaker 10: And the interesting thing about this is two things. Number one,
Speaker 10: that's sixty nine percent. That's up off sixty three percent
Speaker 10: overall last year. Here's the other really interesting thing. Now,
Speaker 10: the majority have tipped in favor of Australia being January
Speaker 10: twenty six in the eighteen to twenty four age bracket.
Speaker 10: And I think, Paul, there's something really interesting happening here.
Speaker 10: And you know that is that the anti Australia Day
Speaker 10: position has become the absolute uncool establishment position. You know, like,
Speaker 10: if this is the political position of the Woolworths, you know,
Speaker 10: executive floor, if this is the you know, official position
Speaker 10: of university administrators, it's not cool. And it's interesting because
Speaker 10: I think there's this broader vibe shift that's happening right now.
Speaker 10: And people always say it takes a little while for
Speaker 10: Australia to catch up with these things. I think it's
Speaker 10: happening right now. I think this is putting the wind
Speaker 10: very much in Peter Dunton's sales right now. But people
Speaker 10: are genuinely over all of this nonsense.
Speaker 1: And also, let's be.
Speaker 11: Really clear, just you know, first night back in cases
Speaker 11: anyone else thinking and wont's a run off to the umpire?
Speaker 11: No one in modern Australia in twenty twenty five thinks
Speaker 11: Australia Day is anything other than the celebration of the
Speaker 11: country that all twenty seven million officer are in all
Speaker 11: with the United future. Okay, it's not about an ef
Speaker 11: you to the past, it's not about a yiha or
Speaker 11: all the rest of it, right, It's about a collective
Speaker 11: day to look forward, all right. But those eighteen percent
Speaker 11: of people who say it's all about looking back are
Speaker 11: now a smaller number actually, sorry, fourteen percent. That's my
Speaker 11: issue here, Matt, where we know that there are all
Speaker 11: these people who are Invasion Day all the rest of it, right,
Speaker 11: But Jesus, isn't it interesting to see how small the
Speaker 11: number is? But it's a number that is a lot
Speaker 11: louder online, and in a time when online spaces were
Speaker 11: to be feared, the pesta power of fourteen was drowning
Speaker 11: out sixty nine.
Speaker 9: Well, as Paul just shows that the solent majority is there,
Speaker 9: and they're in a big way. As you say that
Speaker 9: that fourteen percent, they're the loudestrains. They're very loud online,
Speaker 9: loud in our mainstream media, loud in our academic institutions.
Speaker 9: But I agree completely with James that there is a
Speaker 9: backlash brewing here among young people. They have been force
Speaker 9: fed a diet of climate hysteria, historic they've been taught
Speaker 9: to be ashamed of their nation's history, and like most
Speaker 9: young people, they rebel against that. They rebel against what
Speaker 9: they're uncool teachers and maybe sometimes even their parents are
Speaker 9: telling them. And you're seeing that right across the world,
Speaker 9: and I think you'll increasingly see that as that generation
Speaker 9: graduate from school and start voting. So it's great to see.
Speaker 9: I wish I think what we should do because I'm
Speaker 9: sick of this debate like everyone else. So what we
Speaker 9: should do is that the next federal election is put
Speaker 9: this to a vote. We don't put it just a
Speaker 9: piece of paper. Do you think the Australia should remain
Speaker 9: on the twenty sixth of Genuary.
Speaker 1: Put it to a vote.
Speaker 9: Come on, all these people that want to change the date,
Speaker 9: have the guts that put it to the Australian people,
Speaker 9: just like we did with the Voice and let them
Speaker 9: decide once and for all. And if it comes back
Speaker 9: with a resounding yes, that we should keep that in
Speaker 9: twenty sixth of general, which I think it would, we
Speaker 9: can stop talking about this rubbish start focusing on the
Speaker 9: challenges that really face our country.
Speaker 1: I mean, James. Also what I mentioned before about how
Speaker 1: the election is going to play out the behalf of
Speaker 1: every Australian. I am so bored of the idea of
Speaker 1: both these leaders standing up and saying today I hear
Speaker 1: by announce ex million dollars for y Median print. Right, okay,
Speaker 1: there are announcements to be made. That's all important. I
Speaker 1: want to see as part of the values conversation. Why
Speaker 1: doesn't if Parliament comes back, the opposition leader stands up
Speaker 1: and puts a one line piece of paper into the
Speaker 1: Parliament and see everyone votes. A National Day's January twenty
Speaker 1: six Citizenship ceremonies and everything that should happen on that
Speaker 1: one day. Watch the teals heads explode and watch Albo
Speaker 1: try to work out how to each way that.
Speaker 10: Well. Yeah, and you know we already saw this today
Speaker 10: from Peter Dutton, because Peter Dutton today said that he
Speaker 10: was going to, if elected, undo that thing that Anthony
Speaker 10: Albanizi did, which was to divorce citizenship ceremonies from Australia Day.
Speaker 10: And this I think is a much more significant thing
Speaker 10: than people understand this. You know, yes, it's low hanging fruit.
Speaker 10: But number one, remember that Anthony Albanezy when he was elected,
Speaker 10: This was after his whole long I'm a centrist, I'm
Speaker 10: not work campaign, and then he comes in and he
Speaker 10: confirms it's a tell that his all of his instincts
Speaker 10: are with the radical left canvasaritator.
Speaker 1: So there's that.
Speaker 10: But the sinister thing about that move was that, you know,
Speaker 10: especially at a time of high migration, what he was
Speaker 10: doing was he was taking away an important ritual that
Speaker 10: would help bond new Australians right into the Australian family.
Speaker 10: And Peter Dutton undoing that I think is very important.
Speaker 10: And we're seeing other indicators that he understands that the
Speaker 10: culture and the economy are intertwined.
Speaker 1: But also it's that thing too where I think that
Speaker 1: he understands that that Australia day and what people do
Speaker 1: on the day has obviously changed over the years, but
Speaker 1: certainly in the past twenty years. The focus is about
Speaker 1: the citizenship ceremonies, right, yes, so, and about that that
Speaker 1: that that many col many many pasts, you know, one
Speaker 1: future kind of idea, Matt. I want to also talk
Speaker 1: about a couple of other things over summer, including not
Speaker 1: quite the death of DEI, but also some movements away
Speaker 1: from from things like major financial institutions and an obsession
Speaker 1: with the net zero a couple of big changes. We'll
Speaker 1: get to the DEI stuff, but you're particularly focused on
Speaker 1: JP Morgan and their net zero view.
Speaker 9: Well, look, it is a vibe shift, as James said,
Speaker 9: not just on the issues of nationalism and patriotism. There's
Speaker 9: a vibe shift against this radical climate agenda, which is
Speaker 9: doing nothing else but making industrialized countries into third world countries.
Speaker 9: We're seeing that directly in Germany right now. Their economy
Speaker 9: is in the absolute dumps because they, perhaps more than
Speaker 9: any other country advancing the net zero agenda faster. That's
Speaker 9: where Peter Sorry, that's where Chris Bowen wants to go.
Speaker 9: Chris Balen wants to go towards Germany and exactly where
Speaker 9: they're ending up.
Speaker 1: And I think the public have had.
Speaker 9: A gunfull of it, and the election of Donald Trump
Speaker 9: is obviously the greatest demonstration of that. But you're probably
Speaker 9: going to get a change of government in Canada later
Speaker 9: this year and they're running on the base of getting
Speaker 9: rid of carbon taxes there. You problem might get a
Speaker 9: change in German. It's a very complicated electoral system there,
Speaker 9: but certainly the incumbents look like they're up for an
Speaker 9: absolute thrashing. And so the world's moving against this, and
Speaker 9: the banking sector is, like always, is just following that.
Speaker 9: They followed it on the way up up the net
Speaker 9: zero Mountain and they're following it the way down. Now
Speaker 9: every major bank in the US has left the Net
Speaker 9: zero Banking Alliance. JP Morgan was the last one to
Speaker 9: do that, and that's going to make a huge difference
Speaker 9: to what is funded around the world. And our country, Australia,
Speaker 9: bet to wake up to this before we get our
Speaker 9: pants pulled down by other countries out competing.
Speaker 10: US, and you know, tell you what, we went through
Speaker 10: this really long period after the GFC, right, and you know,
Speaker 10: through that you had zero interest rates. Money was free.
Speaker 10: People could afford to do stupid stuff, and you know
Speaker 10: for people in banking and stuff like this, you know,
Speaker 10: there was all this free money around and nobody was
Speaker 10: producing anything real. But there was this whole pilon way
Speaker 10: to be made by simply tearing apart the electricity grid
Speaker 10: and rebuilding it in cash, in all the subsidies along
Speaker 10: the way. And that was a business model for all
Speaker 10: of these banks. And now suddenly that's over. They'll realize
Speaker 10: that interest rates aren't going back to zero. There's you know,
Speaker 10: things have to be productive and it's going to be
Speaker 10: a hard road the next couple of years, you know, economically,
Speaker 10: but you know we're going to be productive again. And
Speaker 10: I think that's what Trump understands. And when I go
Speaker 10: to the United States, you know there's this idea of
Speaker 10: you know, there's this sense it's gonna be this new
Speaker 10: American resister. I don't know if there is going to
Speaker 10: be that government shage in Germany, because of course in Germany,
Speaker 10: the EU will figure out a way to undermine the elections,
Speaker 10: Say no, you didn't mean to vote for those guys.
Speaker 9: Those guys one way till the twentieth.
Speaker 1: Week, of course, till no more Biden. And we've got
Speaker 1: plenty of chapter to eight now and then full coverage
Speaker 1: of course with the US Report on Friday night, and
Speaker 1: met'll be cheering along and we'll all reconvey next week.
Speaker 1: Thank you lads, to appreciate it all right, straight after
Speaker 1: the break, the Aussie who wants to ride to the
Speaker 1: moon for a good cause impossible, no, no, no, no, you'll
Speaker 1: find out next. Imagine a moment where the person you
Speaker 1: love the most is given a diagnosis about an illness
Speaker 1: that they don't even have a name for. What do
Speaker 1: you do? Well, as a bloke who is trying to
Speaker 1: do something for his beautiful boy Will, his name is
Speaker 1: Steue Place and he joins us now because I want
Speaker 1: you to know a bit about him, what he's doing,
Speaker 1: and of course his little man will love you to
Speaker 1: see you. Steve, thank you so much for coming on. Mate.
Speaker 1: So Will is four and tell us what's happening with
Speaker 1: him right now.
Speaker 7: Look, thanks for having me first of all, Paul, I
Speaker 7: really appreciate it. Then my little man will he suffers
Speaker 7: from a rare neurogenetic condition and as you pointed out,
Speaker 7: it has no name and has no treatment and has
Speaker 7: no cure. So you know, we're taking it upon ourselves
Speaker 7: as well as a father and as a family to
Speaker 7: you know, to secure his future because right now it
Speaker 7: doesn't look too bright unless we do something about it,
Speaker 7: and no one else is going to help us. He
Speaker 7: suffers from a severe form of epilepsy. It's life threatening
Speaker 7: if it's not under control. At the age of fourteen months,
Speaker 7: he was having up to one hundred and fifty miclonic
Speaker 7: atonic sieges a day. And you know he also suffers
Speaker 7: from intellectual disability autism. He's completely nonverbal with a bunch
Speaker 7: of other disorders. So it's a monster of a disease.
Speaker 7: He needs twenty four our care and my wife, who's
Speaker 7: basically giving up her job to care for him full time,
Speaker 7: is really the hero out of all of our family
Speaker 7: at the moment.
Speaker 1: As you say about these severe sieges on top of
Speaker 1: everything else, you know, his world's tough, but obviously mum
Speaker 1: and Dad will do anything, anything for their little boy.
Speaker 1: And you're in a process now trying to raise some
Speaker 1: money to help you deal with this, but also to
Speaker 1: better understand it, what you're going to do is you
Speaker 1: are going to well ride the equivalent distance or virtually
Speaker 1: ride the equivalent distance between here and the moon, which
Speaker 1: is fifteen and a half thousand kilometers. There you are,
Speaker 1: and if people sponsor you along the way, we can
Speaker 1: raise a huge chunk of change to help out that
Speaker 1: little man as he's watching you do the ride. So
Speaker 1: you're currently at two hundred and eighty thousand dollars, which
Speaker 1: is an incredible achievement, but clearly, and for obvious reasons,
Speaker 1: you need an awful lot more because this is forever
Speaker 1: and it is very difficult. Again, as you say, what
Speaker 1: the times are ahead? So how far are we into
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand kilometers? Mate?
Speaker 7: Look, as he pointed out, it's obviously an ambitious target,
Speaker 7: but it's also an achievable target, and we think we
Speaker 7: can still get there. I'man day forty four today that
Speaker 7: the challenge involves me. As you point out, right in
Speaker 7: to the moon and back. We can't actually get to
Speaker 7: the moon, it's a little too far, but we've found
Speaker 7: two towns, moon in Oklahoma and back in Texas. I'm
Speaker 7: on a virtual journey right now. Started on the first
Speaker 7: of December and the target date for arrival into Moon
Speaker 7: in Texas. I was sorry back in Texas is on Sunday,
Speaker 7: So day forty four today, I'm averaging around two hundred
Speaker 7: and thirty to three hundred kilometers a day and I've
Speaker 7: been doing that every day except for Christmas Day. I
Speaker 7: had a little bit of a break. But yeah, it's
Speaker 7: an important mission. We need to do this. We need
Speaker 7: to support not only of the community, but you know,
Speaker 7: we think corporate Australia can certainly get behind this and
Speaker 7: help us achieve what we need to for this rare disease,
Speaker 7: not just for Will, but for all other children suffering
Speaker 7: from SLC six A one, which is the name of
Speaker 7: the disease, unfortunately the name of its genetic ocation.
Speaker 1: Bloody Oath. Tell me what Will's like If he watches
Speaker 1: you riding? Does he like to watch you ride? Do
Speaker 1: you get signs of it? Does he's always sort of
Speaker 1: around while you're doing it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Look, he probably he probably doesn't understand what I'm
Speaker 7: doing for him, And obviously, you know, I would love
Speaker 7: for him to understand the manitude of our love and
Speaker 7: support for him. But you know, he certainly loves anything
Speaker 7: that moves in a circular motion, so my feet going
Speaker 7: around him, you know, in that pederal motion. He's he's
Speaker 7: certainly attracted to. And I've got the little flywheel on
Speaker 7: the back of my bike which you know makes a
Speaker 7: bit of noise, and I think he's he's certainly attracted
Speaker 7: to that. He's, Yeah, he loves being around me when
Speaker 7: I'm when I'm peddling, either at home or when I'm
Speaker 7: in the event side in the CBD at Flinder's Lane.
Speaker 7: He's in there most days with my oldest son and
Speaker 7: my wife too well.
Speaker 1: Strength and love to his to his brother, to will,
Speaker 1: to your wife and to your beautiful family. Mate. Will
Speaker 1: do the best that we possibly can give stars the website.
Speaker 1: I'll put the link up on my Facebook page. I
Speaker 1: just go searching for pul Murray Life as the quick
Speaker 1: easy way to link on and all the rest of it. Enjoy, mate,
Speaker 1: and all the best to you and all that beautiful boy.
Speaker 1: Will give them a cuddle from all of us, mate.
Speaker 7: Thank you, thanks you support.
Speaker 1: Get on this to you. The easiest thing we can
Speaker 1: possibly do is spread the word. That's the point, all right,
Speaker 1: That's about what we do each and every night to
Speaker 1: take care of each other, to fight for what's right,
Speaker 1: and to fire up when it matters, which is every night.
Speaker 1: See tomorrow