WEBVTT - Credlin | 22 July 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:06.720 Peter Krandland live on Sky News Australia. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.319 Thank you, gentlemen, good evening, welcome to the program. Here's 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:13.160 what's coming up tonight on Kredline. Doctor g Hard that's 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.200 the name given to the Australian man who joined ISIS 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.960 long thought dead. Well apparently he's alive, potentially set to 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.840 leave an Iraqi prison and return here to Australia. Plenty 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.159 to get across with this one, including the risk that 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:31.479 such a prominent figure will pose if he returns. The 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.199 worst decade for living standards since World War One, at 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:39.000 least that's how we're tracking as GDP growth per person 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.960 remains near stagnant, no one to trust in labor, and 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.080 cost of living is below a quarter of a percent 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:50.640 in a recent poll. Even Union Luminary Labour's Bill Kelty 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.080 is speaking out. Plus we'll go live to Glasgow Victorian's 0:00:55.400 --> 0:01:01.160 weather laughing stock Glaswegians standing there with the multi million 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:05.960 dollar mock checks, mocking us as our incompetence, state government 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:11.120 funds their party and Commonwealth games and the usual scripted 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:16.480 lines today from Labor about returning ISIS linked Australians, But 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:17.920 no one's buying that anymore. 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:23.960 ISIS is a brutal organization and anyone who has been 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:26.440 part of it and has been offshore as part of 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.200 it should not be coming back to our country. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.280 We will stay with this issue because it was always 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.840 going to happen like this, wasn't it. In fact, this 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:39.920 is probably how they've been planning it all the way along. First, 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.360 you know, rebrand the Islamic State women as dumb, naive 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:49.080 sort of brides, make everyone fick their benign canvas, sympathy 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.600 for them and their children, the so called cubs of 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.600 the Caliphate. And even though eventually they've alleged crimes will 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.800 be revealed, charges of slavery and terror offenses, by then 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:04.760 too late, they'll already be back in our country. Once 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:06.520 saw the women in a back well, then it's going 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.239 to be time for the men. And with the men, 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:14.560 a similar sympathy soft cell will be deployed. They'll start 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.960 with the doctor. He's not really a terrorist, is just 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.480 a dumb idiot who was duped into going abroad and 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.640 ended up working with ISIS. That'll be the line. That 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:28.519 is some sort of misguided humanitarian And once he's back 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.560 in the country, more men will be on the way. 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.880 When asked the Prime Minister. Well, he'll just repeat this 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.320 little mantra that it's nothing at all to do with 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.320 him or his government that these men, he'll say, won't 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:46.760 be given any assistance or what utter clap trap that is, 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:51.840 because there's no greater assistance than any government can give 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:56.560 these Islamic state types than a passport without which they 0:02:56.600 --> 0:03:01.400 could not board a plane to Australia. Already this morning 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.079 Labour was out with their spin. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.440 We do not facilitate are the return of ISIS fighters 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.040 or bridees. We have no sympathy for anyone who's participated 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:13.040 in ISIS. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.440 We won't be providing any assistance to this individual or 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.880 that cohort, just as we haven't provided assistance to women 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:21.920 and children who've returned recently. 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.920 For temporary exclusion orders. I have a high threshold under 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.320 the low We have to operate under the Constitution and 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.639 the High Court, and the Minister the minute he receives 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:34.040 advice to issue such an order from the security agencies, 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.560 has done so and will do so. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.640 This is all just blatherer from the government. Let's remind 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.720 ourselves who this doctor g Hard really is. Here he 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.240 is before he went off and joined Islamic State and 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:53.720 then images later circulated by the terror group as part 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.800 of their propaganda campaign. Forty one year old Perth born 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:03.200 man Tarek Kamler, an Australian trained medical doctor, a pediatrician, 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.360 previously thought to being killed in Raka. This is a 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.920 city in Syria's north close to the Turkish border, doctor 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.280 g Hard where we now know he's alive, locked up 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.640 in an Iraqi prison and, as reported today in an 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:22.000 exclusive by The Australian, currently owned thegoing interrogation by counter 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:28.240 terrorism authorities now. When asked for comment about these revelations 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:33.160 involving doctor g Hart, incredibly, Tony Burk's Home Affairs department 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:38.960 declined to provide any media comment, but the Iraqi officials, well, 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:43.279 they were more forthcoming, telling reporter Mohammad al Pharez that 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:48.120 potential repatriation of Tarak Kamla back to Australia remained I 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:54.120 quote an open yet conditional pathway, confirming developments this is 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:58.160 the iraqis again not something our own Home Affairs department 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:02.640 would do. Kie officials. A Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.920 issued a statement regarding its investigation into him. They call 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:13.120 him Abo Yusuf l Astrali this is an alias that 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.839 he was using overseas, saying that he was arrested in 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.279 twenty nineteen when he was moving through the front lines 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:25.120 of the then Caliphate. According to evidence provided to courts 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:29.680 to accord in Baghdad, doctor Jihad did not die in 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:35.000 the final Raka siege as previously thought. Instead, he retreated 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.880 with hard core remnants of Islamic State, and yes, their 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:43.200 statement uses that term hardcore through various territories it held 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.320 until he was captured, says the Iraqis. During this time 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:51.200 he was working as a field doctor. Now presumably as 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:55.560 field medics do. This meant he was patching up terrorist 0:05:55.640 --> 0:06:00.479 fighters so that they could resume their battlefield brutality. Now, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.800 the report on the front page of The Australian makes 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:08.279 for shocking reading. Shocking, but not surprising, at least not 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.960 surprising to me. I have known all about these men 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.760 and women for many years, and I'm privy to a 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.279 whole lot of intelligence about them that I can never 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:23.320 make public. Suffice to say, individuals that joined Islamic State 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:27.919 ended up some of the most inhumane and depraved people 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.560 on the face of the earth. What they did, what 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:35.039 they saw what they allowed to happen, all of it, 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:40.000 the worst of the worst. Here is comments last night 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.880 regarding this week's bail of an ISIS linked woman by 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.080 former Prime Minister Tony Abbott. 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:54.440 Too many people are in out of misguided politeness. Seemed 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:59.120 to think that you cannot call out Islamism and you 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.280 cannot call all out Islamists. 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.640 Now the truth is everyone. 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:08.080 In Australia, to use a phrase I've used a lot, 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:12.200 has got to join Team Australia now. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.440 Today as we know, it's the women and the children 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.200 who have returned here. Soon it'll be the men mark 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:23.480 my words. As revealed via the newspaper, some thirteen Australian 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:27.000 men suspected of being is As fighters are already under 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:32.280 investigation by officials to determine whether or not they work combatants. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.320 Now that's to say thirteen are being investigated by the 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:42.800 Raticis alone. Now is Australia involved here? Is our government 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.240 or are our officials any part of this? Are they 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:52.920 across it? Are they being briefed? Again? No comment from 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:57.400 Home Affairs. But knowing what I do about how Canberra works, 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:02.400 not for one minute do I believe that Australian authorities 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.720 are out of the loop on any of this. Not 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.120 for one minute do I think that this front page 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.840 of the newspaper today was a surprise to Tony Burke 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.280 or his Home Affairs department. I just don't buy that. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:22.960 I suspect that's precisely why Home Affairs refused to make 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:23.480 a comment. 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:24.840 Now. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.760 Doctor g Hard studied medicine at the University of Adelaide. 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.080 He was known as a playboy, says the reports today, 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:37.560 A sleeze ball was one quote. It's also revealed that 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:42.240 he took multiple wives while overseas, including we're told a 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:46.800 convert to Islam from the United States quote an extremist. 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:53.079 Now incredibly reports the Australian doctor g Hard's children are 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:57.920 eligible for repatriation to Australia. And it's this critical line 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:59.440 in the reports today that I want to read to 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.240 you tonight. It says born in Perth in nineteen eighty 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:08.000 five to a Palestinian father and a German Catholic convert mother, 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.960 Kamler was raised as an only child, meaning that unless 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.360 someone can tell me otherwise, unless he's got some sort 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:21.720 of other citizenship claim via his foreign born father or mother, 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:27.280 than miss doctor g Hard Tarek Kamla remains an Australian 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:32.600 citizen and that is shocking, isn't it. As a country 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:37.040 we owe this man nothing, absolutely nothing, And so if 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.920 the Prime Minister says we can't stop him coming back 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.599 because he's an Australian citizen, then surely we change the 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:47.360 law or we deploy an exclusion order to keep him 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.360 locked up in Iraq or whatever other avenue we need 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.840 to keep this man out of our country. Here is 0:09:55.920 --> 0:10:00.240 former soldier our coalition MP Field Thompson and also One 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.200 Nation's Barnaby Joyce demanding action. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.880 There are temporary exclusion orders which the Coalition put in 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.440 place in twenty nineteen that can prevent this person and 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.360 others like what should have happened with those so called 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:15.320 Isis brides. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.959 And if they don't have the laws, then whistles down 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.400 back down to Canberra and we can change the laws, 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.760 so you can say we can stop them. 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:24.040 Now. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:28.360 What can't happen, what must not happen, is it we 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.800 let Albaneze and Burg get away with this game that 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.960 there's nothing they can do to keep these people out. 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:36.040 Here. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:40.360 Beyond this, the women were their test case, but it 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:44.439 was always about the men as well. So now it starts. 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.960 We won't help them, says the PM. We won't give 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:49.560 them any assistance. 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:55.839 We are not repatriating people and we're not providing assistance. 0:10:55.920 --> 0:11:01.560 The government is providing no support for the creation of 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.760 these people, and. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:08.720 Yet they come back. Here is Opposition leader Angus Taylor today. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:13.640 We've seen an ISIS terrorist who's living offshore wanting to 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:18.160 come back to our country. The Labor Party needs to 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:22.520 commit to preventing that from happening. They have many leavers 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.440 at their disposal. They can ensure that this person does 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:30.880 not get a passport. They can use temporary exclusion orders. 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.280 It's not up to just the Opposition now to fight this. 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.440 Every Australian's got to call out this lie that there's 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.120 nothing that Labor can do to keep these men out. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.800 There is and they must do it because, trust me, 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.560 you saw what happened at Bondai. It's bad enough that 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.200 the women are back, you do not want to see 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:59.000 the men these men back here in our country as well. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.200 All right, let's get the headlines now. From Canberraskyi's political 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:07.800 reporter Aspen. 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:12.080 Bloomfield, thirteen Australian men linked to the Islamic state are 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:16.360 hoping to return home, including Perth born pediatrician and Islamic 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.760 State operative Tourek Kamla, presumed dead by family and authorities 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:25.319 in twenty seventeen, the Australian reports Iraqi Supreme Court documents 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.040 show he is being interrogated in a Baghdad prison. The 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.880 Opposition is calling on the Department of Home Affairs to 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:32.800 block his return. 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:38.040 The Labor Party needs to commit to preventing that from happening. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.880 They have many leavers at their disposal. I can ensure 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.199 that this person does not get a passport. 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.760 In Adelaide, several groups are pushing for a gas export 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.719 tax and tied to gambling regulation. Ahead of Labour's fiftieth 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.280 national conference. One union wants to see the Union Jack 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.400 and colonial statues removed from public life. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.040 Are you up for changing the flat I'm here in 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.800 Adelaide for Labour's national conference. 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.440 Would you be up for changing it? Claire? Look, and 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.400 that's just not what the conference is about. Yes or no? 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.080 Claire again? 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.600 Nat, Sorry, it's not something that I've had a moment 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:14.160 to think about. 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.320 Yes or no, I'm changing the Union Jack. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.960 I'm telling you, as Housing Minister, I don't spend my 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:20.679 time thinking about the national flag. 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.840 I've been in the paper today. You've got a head start, 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:24.480 yes or. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.560 No, genuinely haven't given it a second's thought. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.520 The Liberal Party, attempting to see off a challenge from 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.079 one nation, has unveiled its economic plan. 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.960 While Labor are busy talking about themselves at their conference, 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.200 Angus Taylor and I are talking to small businesses and families. 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.480 We're talking to ordinary Australians every day, Australians about the 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.920 issues that are important to them, and that's what's outlining 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:45.360 this plan. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.880 The document includes an instant asset right off and tax 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:49.920 back guarantee. 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.079 Right off the back of all of that, there was 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.960 a poll yesterday showing one Nature was just one point 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.480 off Labor when it came to dealing with cost of living. Now, 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.360 it's also reported today that we're heading for the weakest 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:07.439 decade in living standards since World War One. GDP growth 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.560 per person has ritten only four percent so far, which 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.360 puts us on track, as I say, for the weakest 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:17.120 period over one in one hundred years. Joining me now 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.720 Skinny's reporter Caroenn Marcus and Skyney's contributor and a woman 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:22.800 who did a mighty job while I was on leave. 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.040 Jamie Rodgers, great to see you both. I'll get into 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.280 this cost of living stuff, but to both of you 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.440 just quickly, it's not that hard to give an answer 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:37.480 for any senior politician. Jamie Rodgers about the flag, Peter. 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.440 I watched that and I was cringing because I just said, 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:41.400 answer the question. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:42.800 It's either yes or no. 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:44.480 Do you want to remove the union? 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.080 Jack, And let's not forget this is also the government 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.320 that is selling off our defense assets, so it doesn't 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.760 really say a lot about how they feel about Australia. 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:54.120 Caro. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.600 Like me, you've just been overseas. Everywhere I went in 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.560 the country I was in, I saw them proudly fly 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:04.680 there fag and we've got this cringe about our history 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.760 and our flag. We've got a PM in front of 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.040 three of them, and now we've got a union that 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.120 wants to dump but we've got Cricket Australia who was 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.600 scared of even seeing the anthem on our national day. 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.400 I me an artistic, it's humiliating. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:18.240 It is, it's pathetic. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:18.680 Really. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.720 I was just in Singapore and you're right, it's actually 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:22.760 going to be their national day next month and there 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.920 were flags everywhere and it was only the Singapore flag. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.320 No one was flying other flags. Maybe not allowed to that, 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.760 but I don't think people want to. I don't think 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.760 people want to. We only have this shame, this guilt 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:40.720 around patriotism here in Australia. And the fact is, if clara' 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.160 neil didn't want to change the flag, I think she 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.320 would just say it. I think she would say I 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:49.200 don't want to. But I think her silence over at 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.840 her refusal to answer the question speaks volumes she is 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.320 open to changing it. And that's why she didn't want 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:57.960 to admit it, because it would not be. 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.680 A popular answer. But it right her answer. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.520 Let's go to those decline, the standards, the decline in 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.680 our living standard, the numbers out today. You've got a 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.160 Reserve Bank governor telling us how bad it is, when 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.480 we know how bad it is. But you've even got 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:19.840 a labor stallward in an EXACTU Boss Bill Kelty putting 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.320 in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry and he says, quote, 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.960 something is really wrong with our economy. He's worried that 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.600 living standards are falling at the same time that commodity 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:33.560 prices are booming. Now. When Kelty says that labor can't 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.360 bury their head in the sand anymore, can they? 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:40.000 Jamie, No, you would hope that the government does stop 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.960 and listen, because Peter, we have a fundamental economic problem 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.200 in this country. The fact that we're about to have 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.640 the worst decade in living standards in more than a 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.480 century says it all. And this is off the back 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.520 of that OECD report that came out earlier this month 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.360 as well that said our living standards and our real 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.920 wages had all gone back by five percent over the 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.280 past five years in comparison to other nations where they 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.639 had risen by five percent. We need to start seeing 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:11.199 and taking this really seriously because businesses are closing, families 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.240 are tightening their belts. We need Australia to be a 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:18.160 place where you invest. Businesses want to expand they want 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:19.960 to come and open here, and they want to hire 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:24.200 people and increase their productivity. And unfortunately we've got new 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.159 taxes in place that is making that incredibly difficult and 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.240 making us not a very enticing place to come. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:31.080 And do some business. 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.600 And that's exactly what we need here is to try 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.439 and entice more and more people and RBA will the 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:40.000 former RBA governor in Philip Low, and he said that 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.399 the business investment hasn't kept pace with population growth. I 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.520 think that also says a lot. This government has a 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.600 lot to answer for, and I really hope that they're 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.719 listening to a labor store wark like Bill Kelty so 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.800 that we can get some serious economic changes. 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.960 Well, let's go to their big promises on housing, because 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:00.840 it was a centerpiece of their election campaign. I suspect 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.400 that they'll want it to be something they can put 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.240 up in lights at the next election. They put ten 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.199 billion dollars on the table for housing. They've had a 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:13.400 whole lot of promises. But revelations today Caro that Treasury 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.760 warned them nine months before they put together the scheme 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:21.200 that the target they had was just not achievable, right, 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.959 just not achievable. And as of April this year, well 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:27.960 Treasury is right. They've met less than five percent of 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.760 their target. The target was forty thousand YEW homes. Less 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.159 than five percent. That's shocking. And then in the reports 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.400 there are various reports about this today there's been audits 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.760 to the staff and the turnover and that's making things worse. 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.440 There was a brew haha with the CEO, and you 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.080 know all of this, but I still can't get past 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.880 ten billion dollars and there are only five percent in 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.560 to a target. This is claroneal again, I might. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:56.720 Add, yeah, exactly. 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.119 The person who can't even answer a simple question about 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.880 whether she supports the flag. I mean, it's not hard 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.200 to see that she can't oversee this very important portfolio 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.000 and Housing Australia. I mean, it's closer to four percent 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.880 actually what they've delivered, and this is just three years 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.479 away that they're supposed to have forty thousand social and 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:22.960 affordable housing thing that projects delivered homes for people. 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:24.040 They're down. 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.800 It's about fourteen hundred and it's three years off. But 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.200 you know they've had they've been plagued. 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:31.439 With all sorts of internal issues. 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.760 Also out today a report that they've axed an independent 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:39.760 committee which was overseeing the decisions that they were making, 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:43.040 so there's basically no one to make sure that the 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:44.359 spending in this. 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.480 In this agency is defensible. 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.960 That they now are marking their own homeworks, so it's 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:55.320 bound to get even worse. They said in Senate estimates 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.439 last year that they'd laid off a quarter more than 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:03.200 a quarter of their staff. So I fear like blind 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.399 Freddy can see this is never going to happen. But 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:07.520 the government's going to stick to it because it's its 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:09.800 main promise and we're just going to see more waste 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:11.400 and nothing delivered. 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.320 Well, maybe they're paying the Ghetto tax. I mean, maybe 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:18.200 that's the problem. The Gatto tax on construction out of 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.520 Victoria has gone national. Just just listen to this. This 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:25.920 is nine journalist Nick McKenzie on radio this morning about 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:27.879 Victoria's so called Gatto tax. 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.720 Gato's working for a hell of a lot of builders 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:36.840 in the high rise housing apartment market, effectively adding what 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.120 we call people in the industry and what we're calling 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:40.399 the article a Gatto tax. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:44.880 Now this is millions and millions of dollars added onto 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:49.240 the cost of building, allegedly related to organized crime, a 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.840 whole lot of stuff in relation to the CFMU and 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:56.320 fifteen billion dollars of taxpayers money, Jamie and Victoria that's 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.919 gone missing, and yet the Premiere just Interallen is still 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:03.959 refusing to have a Royal Commission. 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:07.879 Speaks volumes, doesn't it, Peter. And this news of the 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:11.320 Gatto tax has come out just months after Premier Justinter 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.320 Allen had said that she had managed to remove the 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.960 corruption and gangland involvement within the construction industry, and now 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:21.520 this story has come out, but it is also off 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:24.640 the back of her push to build all of these 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.520 apartments as a way to solve the cost of living 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.080 and housing crisis in Victoria. But when you hear things 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:34.359 like apartment buildings that the plastering costs are adding around 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:37.960 that six percent more to these buildings, and a CFMAU 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:41.960 boss had said that ninety percent of the plastering invoices 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:44.040 were around some sort of alleged corruption. 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:45.760 It just shows. 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:50.400 Though that the just Into Allen has fundamentally failed Victorians 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.760 to be able to remove this alleged gangland involvement within 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:57.760 the construction industry and ultimately Peter, it's Victorians that are 0:21:57.760 --> 0:21:59.720 paying the price for this. They are now paying the 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:03.359 gas tax on buildings and apartments that they're trying to 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:07.080 buy into. So it's Victorians yet again, that being the 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:08.080 ones that are impacted. 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:11.560 And I will say to the rest of the country 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:16.399 Victoria fails, unfortunately you'll be bailing them out. So this 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.399 is a fight. I think that every Australian, fair minded 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:21.600 Australian's got to get behind in terms of turfing out 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:24.639 a bad government. Come though, Vember Caro. The ALP conference 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:28.040 kicks off tomorrow. This one's interesting, right, So the Services 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:31.199 Union is threatening a brawl on the floor of the 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:34.600 conference if changes aren't made to the national platform and 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:38.280 remind people it's binding on labor MPs because they don't 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:41.680 want to see private companies who get government contracts make 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:47.720 any profit from services to support rape and domestic violence victims. 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:50.280 You know somehow that you can't make a profit out 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:52.840 of a government contract. Well, I'll tell you what. There's 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:57.000 a lot of private companies in childcare. They make massive profits. 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:01.000 We spend sixteen billion dollars per annu and of course 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:05.159 we've got tax payers now funding the pay increases of 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:09.760 unionized staff in private childcare centers. So if you don't 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:13.000 want it for DV and rape services, how about we 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:15.680 not make profit over here in childcare, or better yet, 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:18.800 how about we give them money to the parents to 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:22.160 put the childcare in place that best suits their family. 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:24.399