WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 13 January 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:06.600 Sky News Center. This is Paul Murray Live. Thank you, Sharry, 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.160 come on into the man Cave for another massive year 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:12.360 here on Sky News. Thank you so much for joining 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:14.480 us tonight and everyone who was very kind and said 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.680 today over summer. Now a little bit of personal business 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.640 before we get into anything else. This year, twenty twenty 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:26.640 five marks the fifteenth anniversary of this show. Now, I've 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:28.520 been in and around sky News for a little longer 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:32.680 than that, but fifteen years is a long time in Telly, 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:34.839 and that's what it used to look like. That's what 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.919 I used to look like, the best part of fifteen 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.080 years ago. But since then we've grown from the cleaner. 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:42.559 Remember when the cleaner used to be in the back 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.840 of the shod all the time. We've gone from there 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:46.800 all the way through to the pub tests, which mean 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:48.760 we've been able to actually they yeah, that was me 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.440 in two thousand and four. That's really the first time 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.120 I ever appeared here on Sky News. So I've been 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:55.800 around for a little while here, and I've been so 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:58.600 lucky to do what we do and to be here 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.360 each and every night. And we're done the pub tests 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.760 for state elections and federal elections. We'll do more of 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.240 those this year. We've been overseas, of course, to say 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.080 fairwell to the Queen the United States a couple of times. 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.840 We even went to the borders, of course, where we 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.760 fought for common sense. We met a president, we saw 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:19.920 a president come back to life. We've met plenty of 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.920 cool people along the way, like Tom Jones. Sharing a 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.000 stage with Tom Jones was a pretty massive highlight for me. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.560 The Great Marks Escafe of course in Supercars World as 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.040 a lifelong holding fan. Awesome to be able to meet him. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.720 Daryll Braithwaye was on the show. Part of the Ourtowns 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:37.240 it used to have. Remember that the music is part 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:38.880 of them, Jehan Cord van dam just because you know 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.680 why not eighties nineties action here. I'm not going to 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:43.120 list everyone who's been on the show, but you can 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.399 see lots of people have been over the show, and 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.880 they're not just politics. It's music, it's fun, it's wrestling, 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.840 it's all sorts of stuff. Without doubt, the highlight is 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.920 our town where over the past fifteen years and for 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.640 now a good chunk like at more than a third 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.800 of our time on are we have gone from city 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:01.800 to city to city to city to state to state 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.880 to state, the region to region to region. Those shows 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.000 are huge to put together and a real honor to 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.760 be part of. They are also an opportunity for me 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.400 to have some fun like letting off fireworks in Darwin, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:18.480 or trying to ride a bike in Bendigo for some reason, 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.880 spraying Champagne on a private island in cans and so 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.800 many other things. We've done some incredible and very cool things. 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:30.639 At fifteen years of this show and we're just getting started. 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.000 We're going to be around for a long time. Sky 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:34.359 News is going to be around for a long time. 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.720 And this is a computer image of what I will 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:41.000 look like fifteen years from now. Before we celebrate thirty 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.760 years together. I want to thank everyone who has been 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.760 on the show, guests. I want to thank everyone who's 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.240 helped make the show here at sky News. I want 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.720 to thank everyone in management who's supported us all the 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.720 way through from the very early days to where I 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.560 said today. Most importantly, I want to thank you for 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.120 bringing me into your joint eachin, every night, and above all, 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:01.960 I of course want to thank my beautiful wife Sean 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.519 and daughters Asher and Zadia. A wonderful summer with them. 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.959 But now time to get back to work. And one 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.640 thing twenty twenty five absolutely is, and that is an 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:12.880 election year, another fork in the road for us to 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.400 make a decision about which way we are going to 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.079 go with our country. The two leaders, well, they think 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.040 that they've got some sort of secret source to be 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.359 able to push the Australian people to either give them 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.799 more power for three more, in my view, ineffective years, 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.960 or an attempt to put the country back on track. 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.920 So I thought, before we get involved, too difficult in 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.560 too much of what happened over summer, and who said what, 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.520 I want to have a look at the game. I 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:45.560 want you to see the state of play right now 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.280 when it comes to politics in Australia. Now, to give 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.760 you an idea of where the primary vote is for 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.480 both of the political parties, that's important to note here. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.080 The Labor Party is now at twenty seven and a 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.240 bit percent according to the Resolve poll. That's down some 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.280 five and a half percent from the number that they 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.400 just scraped into power with in twenty twenty two. For 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.400 the coalition, they've been able to move things back to 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.800 fifty to fifty and two party preferred because of a 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:20.039 five point increase in their vote since the last election. Now, 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.640 because that vote does not have a four in front 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.640 of it, you can't start to know what's going to 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.000 happen with this election. We start this year as we 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.520 ended last year, with all of the caveats that while 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.920 a minority government seems inevitable, who forms That is where 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:35.679 the debate will be in the next sort of while 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.720 if it's starting, it's a herculean effort and a massive 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.520 rejection of the current Prime minister. If it's the Prime Minister, 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.440 of course, he will have one hand time behind his back, 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.200 and it will be his right arm because it will 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.760 be nothing but left wing policies that, among others like 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.000 the Greens, the Teels and others, will force him to 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.880 put in place over the next three years. So your 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.600 vote matters, it always matters, But your preference also matters. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.120 And while Somemer may be over for me, I know 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.480 it's not for most people watching right now, and I 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:08.000 know the vibe is not exactly peak Australia at the moment. 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.720 We've still got our holiday brains and we're still probably 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.479 watching wearing shorts and a T shirt. Great awesome, keep 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.760 that vibe going for as long as possible. But as 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.560 we start to have the conversations about who, so who 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:19.720 are going to vote for? What do you think of this? 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:21.479 What do you think of that? It's not just what 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.000 you do with preference number one, it's also what you 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.479 do with preference number two. You see in twenty nineteen 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.120 what people did with their preference number two help defeat 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:34.599 Bill Shorten by making a choice for a government in 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:38.200 twenty nineteen to reject Bill Shorten. That's how the Libs 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.400 won last time. When it's bugg of them all, put 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.040 them all last. Well, guess what happens when your preferences 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.720 go for a long road trip. They don't go back 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.680 to a party that will end up forming government, and 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.320 we end up with the one that we currently have 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:53.279 for another three years and a Prime minister who wants 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.600 to yet again change the constitution, this time to make 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.120 sure that he could remain in power for a fixed 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.000 four I don't like the idea of it in any way, 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.560 shape or form. Politicians love it because it's guaranteed power 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:10.240 and pay for them, but for everyone else not quite so. 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.320 The issue, of course, is not just about the parties, 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:13.960 but it's about the people that are in our living 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.080 rooms each and every night and are all over the 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.880 news all day every day. Both of them have already 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.760 heard too much of it. It's just what the first 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.400 couple of weeks of January. But it is essentially a 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.240 choice between who you want the prime Minister of the 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.520 country to be, be it Anthony Abernesi or of course 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.839 Peter Dutton. Now Anthony Abernezi has fallen and fallen hard 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.120 since his election three years ago and it is all 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.320 in my view as a result of his own doing. 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.960 Australians don't turn on first term prime ministers, but they 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.240 certainly have on this blog to give you an idea 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.240 again the resolve of political monitor This is in the 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:52.159 Channel nine newspapers. Anthony Aarberesi's first poll after the election 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.039 was fifty five percent of people who said he was 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:59.240 the preferred prime minister. Twenty of those points have now disappeared. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.839 Most of them's gone straight across the road to Peter Dutton. 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.120 Some have gone into the don't know category. But still 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.800 with the scenario of thirty five versus thirty five, there 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.320 is about thirty percent of people who are still up 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.640 for grabs. Those thirty percent of people will determine the election. 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.680 Those thirty percent of people will decide which way the 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.120 country is going to go. More of the same which 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:24.240 has made you poorer, our country weaker, or someone who 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.840 shares your values. Now, this is the show which, just 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.640 in case you haven't been watching over the past fifteen years, 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.640 and if it is your first night, welcome aboard the bandwagon. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.400 Treats everyone with respect of you here on day one 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.040 or tonight's your first night. This is an opinion show, 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.280 a strong opinion show, but an opinion show that tries 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:47.120 to show you data and facts from neutral sources and 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.320 then yes, to interpret and add a lot of opinion 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.720 on top of it. But to give you an idea 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.360 about my opinion about Anthony Abernezi. This bloke is headed 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.520 for trouble at the upcoming election. Now there's either historic 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:04.200 trouble of losing the prime ministership seemingly unlikely, or being 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.920 pushed into that minority government. And put simply, if Anthony 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.920 aberze can make the election about Peter Dunton, he might survive. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.600 If Peter Dutton can make the election about Anthony Aberneese, 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:18.680 Anthony Abernezi will be cooked. Why because again I'm using 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.520 the Channel nine newspapers of the City Morning Herald, the Age, 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:26.880 Camper Times, Not Camper Times, the Brisbane Times. When it 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:31.160 comes to the effectiveness of the Prime Minister, there are 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.040 now some what fifty seven percent of people who believe 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.360 that the Prime Minister is either doing a poor or 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:41.839 a very poor job. At the start of an election year, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.800 then let's be honest, isn't an election year. Longest case 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:50.440 scenario for the government is May. Generally speaking, January gets 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.200 put in the bin. In February people start to get 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.959 back to work. Then we'd have an election campaign in 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.160 March or April, and not much is going to change 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.079 in people's circumstances. The primes the things he'll be able 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:02.959 to change the subject. Most of the media, who do 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.280 not want a d government will try to do everything 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.920 they can to amplify that change in subject. But I 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.960 think Australians that take a pick are one of the 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.440 three million people that are this close to homelessness. The 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.480 three and a bit million people who don't know where 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.160 the next meal is going to come from. The people 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.040 who have had to cut back and cut back and 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.520 cut back and cut back because the one thing they'll 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.040 ever own of any consequence in their life. Their home 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.320 has seen twelve interest rate rises, let alone, the cost 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.280 of insurance let alone, the skyrocket of petrol let alone, 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.560 the amount of tax that the government takes out of 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.520 a schooner, a beer or a glass of wine, let alone, 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.760 the rules that they put in place to always make 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.920 their life better with pay rises for politicians and public servants. 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:53.600 But of course your dollar is worth less than it 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.600 was ten years ago. Australians, as you know, have been 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.000 living not just a cost of living crisis, but essentially 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.760 we have been living in a recession for now seven 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.920 quarters in a row. That's almost the best part of 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.840 two years where you have been going backwards and you 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.520 know it. I believe the Prime Minister well and truly 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.400 know it. Between now the next pole, the next pole, 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.960 the next pole, and then that eventual pole which will 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:22.839 come our way towards well the starting parts of this year, 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.280 I promise you in the same way that unlike most 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.800 other things on television, we go out and about, we 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.720 don't go out and about and do a vox pop 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.480 where we go and quickly talk to three people and 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.320 pretend that that means we've been amongst normal people. We 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.000 do the pub tests where remember we've got about one 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.040 hundred seats, and when there's a political leader there, it's 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.520 the first one hundred people who write to us who 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.720 get the seats. There's no ideological check about whether you 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.840 get to come in or not. So it's the best 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.600 we can do in an unscientific way of trying to 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.160 get normal people into a room to ask questions of 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:58.839 people in power. That will happen again in twenty twenty five. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.319 Will also go around the country doing all sorts of 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.080 special shows like Our Town, which again thanks to the 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.280 great people of Harvey Norman, has become a staple of 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.960 the show and one of the most beloved things that 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.360 we do here at Sky News. I love going to 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.880 real Australia, but the suburbs that I grew up in 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.200 or the place where you live will do all of 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.960 that again in twenty twenty five. But I wanted to 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.080 turn my attention to the two ways that this government 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.200 is going to try to hold onto itself, or that 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:32.800 there is about to be a change of government, about 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.679 Peter Dutton here and about whether how Peter Dutton plans 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.560 to beat Anthony Aberneze. So today he made a major speech. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:44.760 That major speech yesterday was interesting to watch. It was 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.280 of course one to the party faithful, and that means 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.440 it's not really about convincing anyone outside of that room. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.079 But let's have a look at the key ways that 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:53.959 Peter Dutton thinks that he's going to be able to 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.840 win this election. As the headline's right that Peter Dutton 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:00.800 made a pitch for values based election and Dutton pictures 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:05.439 suburban battler roots and calls for an education not indoctrination. 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:07.400 Here's some of the stuff that he said in the 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.280 speech that you probably didn't see in the news last night. 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.360 Why because most people in the media, whether they will 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.440 ever admit it or not, will do everything they can 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:19.800 to stop Dutton denying Albo his spot in the history books. 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.160 I believe that family is the most important unit in society, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.400 and I believe in my heart that we must preserve 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.000 the innocence of childhood and nurture young minds in a 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:33.160 responsible way. I believe in egalitarianism, in judging people by 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.480 the content of their character, and in pushing back on 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.280 identity politics. I believe in individual freedom as you do, 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.440 and the rule of law. And I believe that the 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:47.520 main sources of enterprise and wealth creation are businesses. 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.200 And industries, not governments. 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.360 Australians are best served by smaller government, which gets off 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:53.640 their back, supports. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.440 Free enterprise and rips up regulation. 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.520 But it means seeing children taught the basics, reading, writing 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:03.000 and maths through explicit instruction across our primary education system, 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.160 that we send our children to school for an education, 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:12.240 not for an indoctrination. By nurturing pride in our country, 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.760 celebrating the achievement of modern Australia, standing up for our 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.880 values and coming together under one flag. 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:21.959 Now lefties hate this stuff because they think that it's 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.559 a culture war. But as we have learnt over the years, 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.400 and you know in your heart of hearts, that just 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:33.800 defending the status quo is not a culture war. It's 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.320 only a war to the people who are attempting to 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.800 undermine it or change it, to the people who are 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.560 trying to pretend that up is down, that black is white, 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.319 that left is right, all of that garbage, the Jedi 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:49.680 mind trick where abi Wan Canobi famously in that documentary 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:51.760 Star Wars. Of course, these are not the droids you're 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.560 looking for, and the weak minded stormtroopers fall for it 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:59.040 or we're not. We're not weak minded. And citizens that 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.840 have come here in the last couple of years or 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.120 have been lucky enough to win life's lotto and be 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:08.200 born here for generations know that many of what that 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.959 bloke just said is what makes us great, what makes 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:17.480 us different at a time when there's war, fires, famine 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.520 and all the rest of it that happened across the world. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.160 We've got a pretty good in Australia, but we can 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.240 always have it better. And you have to look back 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.400 over the past three years about whether this joint is 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.880 better because of its leadership or the core values that 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.760 have just been explained are the ones that voters will 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.600 move towards between now and the election. And a free 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.120 piece of advice to Peter Dutton or anyone in and 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:43.120 around him, can we all just agree that no one 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:47.560 cares about the daily announcement. Now, the Prime Minister and 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.360 I'll get to him in a second, loves this where 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:50.920 each and every day we're going to spend X million 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.920 dollars or billion dollars as it was today to improve this, 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.040 that or the other. Now, that doesn't mean that there 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:57.680 aren't millions and billions of dollars that need to be 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:01.200 spent improving things. But does anyone remember what the key 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.480 thing was on day seven of the election campaign in 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:09.080 twenty twenty two. No, Instead, I guarantee though both sides 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.760 of politics stood up, made a speech, promised to spend 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:16.000 more money, but didn't talk about the core values. Now 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:19.080 Australia does have to be about detail. We do require 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.760 things to be costed and ideas, but we don't need 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.200 every single day of our politics between now when the 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.120 election comes to be someone telling us how they're going 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:31.200 to spend more money. Because of course you know and 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:35.440 I know that it's not their money, it's ours. The 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.120 number one source of revenue in the Australian federal government 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:42.720 is not the GST, it is not petrol taxes, it 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:47.640 is not even company tax. It's the average man, woman 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:52.680 and teenager who is paying as they go income tax 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:56.600 number one source. More income tax being collected than ever 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.320 before by this government. Oh but they gave it everyone 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.600 a too little, too late tax cut. Yeah, because they 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.720 knew that because of the fiddle of the system, most 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.080 people will slightly as life rolls on, roll into the 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.520 next bracket, which means they have to pay more and 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:16.600 more and more and more. Peter Dutton has an opportunity 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.480 to not just get into the fight, but to take 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.320 this thing right up to the Prime minister by speaking 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.440 about those values, by not being distracted by the media 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.880 expectations of an announcement each and every day, focusing on 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.320 the core values, and dare I say, showing examples of 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:36.520 how those core values would be available to people if 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.880 he was made prime minister. For example, if Parliament does 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:44.040 come back between now and the election, and depending on timings, 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.000 February is when Parliament may well come back for a 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.560 couple of weeks. And I know how some people on 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.440 the Internet are going to respond to this suggestion, but 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:57.440 I reckon what Peter Dutton should do is move emotion. 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:04.280 One sentence piece of legislation Australia's National Days January twenty 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.399 sixth and all celebrations will and must be held on 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:12.439 that day. Watch how the government votes for or against that, 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.760 which way do the teals run around? Will the green 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.480 set them hair on fire? And then on the second day, 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:24.760 another one line piece of legislations, Australians have a right 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:29.680 within the bounds of the law to free speech. Let's 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:35.120 watch the teals tie themselves in knots, the Green set 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.720 themself on fire, or the Prime Minister there, I say, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.159 falling into his old habit of each way. But of 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.240 course these are culture wars because whenever you stand up 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.880 for what you believe in, it's a cultural war. Whenever 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.760 they change what you believe and know to be the truth, 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:59.280 it's progress. Yeah, no things. As for the Prime minister, 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:00.879 how does he think he's going to be able to 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.800 get another three years in power, potentially change a constitution. 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.560 Wouldn't that be a fun referendum Australians would run towards 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.240 more power and pay for politicians. I don't think so, 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.040 and potentially end up with four years in power. Is 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:14.520 that he thinks he's going to be able to follow 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:19.240 the old method of spend his way to your heart 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.520 despite the fact that your pockets have never been shallower, 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:28.399 your wallet has never been lighter, and your to do 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.159 list has never been longer because it's too expensive to 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.040 do many of those things on the to do list, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.840 not the bucket list, the to do list, or the 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:42.320 Prime Minister thinks promises about never never times and never 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.520 never money somehow will win him the day and if 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.600 he wins a day here, and he wins a week there, 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.160 and he wins a month there. Then suddenly fifty seven 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.040 percent of people saying poor or very poor, miraculously will 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.119 become fifty to fifty. And at fifty to fifty, well, 0:18:55.359 --> 0:19:00.360 he backs himself always. The Prime Minister today, of course, 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.800 announcing that he is going to promise that the Federal 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:10.280 government you will spend billions of more dollars on the NBN. Now, 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:14.680 the NBN, once built or half built or three quarters 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:16.399 built or whatever the heck, it is now doing a 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.600 pretty good job. The idea that there's billions of dollars 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:20.080 more that need to be spent on it, I'm not 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.080 entirely sure, but don't forget this is a prime minister 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:27.680 who just last week was also spending seven billion dollars 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.439 on the Bruce Highway. And how dare the Prime Minister 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.000 come out like he did last week while promising this 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:39.000 money and invoke that in the past twelve months x 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.199 number of people had died on the road. Will you've 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.159 been prime minister for the past twelve months and the 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.760 twelve before that and the twelve before that. If you 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:48.480 really wanted to save lives, you would have made not 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.439 an announcement, you would have made a decision because we 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:53.680 know if you want to pull three billion dollars out 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.000 of your backside, you'll do it to help try and 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.320 remove some student debt, to get lefties to stop voting 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.600 for the Greens. We know that if he wants to, 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:06.280 he'll spend four hundred and fifty million dollars on a 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:08.639 referendum because it's an issue that he believes needs to 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:12.440 be dealt with. So while I won't look a gift 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.040 horse in the mouth and billions of dollars for a 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.119 road that desperately needs to be fixed, it is a 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:19.359 disgrace to the country. It is a dog track. The 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:22.240 idea that the Prime Minister last week a billion here, 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.800 this week a billion there, thinks he's going to turn 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:26.920 the world around. And there's more of these announcements they've 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:31.879 been having all summer long about more matters to spend 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:37.280 when it comes to housing and infrastructure in Queensland again 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.960 in Western Australia two hundred million dollars for regional housing pitch. 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.320 But the truth is that the real way that Anthony 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.640 Aberaneze thinks he's going to be able to turn fifty 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:51.160 to fifty into albow winds again is to go very 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:53.840 hard on Peter Dutton. Well, remember this is the bloke 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:56.320 who after the Voice was defeated. And the only reason 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:58.320 I keep bringing it up is because it is instructive 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:01.040 of the thinking of these people, not because I want 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.280