WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 30 October 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:05.160 From the Sky New Center. This is Paul Murray Live. 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.280 Thank you, Showy Gooday, good evening, A last show and 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:09.719 the man Cave for a couple of weeks. We're off 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:13.080 to the United States tomorrow. Our shows start on Sunday night. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.000 Now I make you this promise. Obviously that's the biggest 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.720 story in the world. But will continue talking about news 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.240 in Australia, including Parliament coming back and talking about upgrade Elbow. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.759 So we'll be across it all over there and here. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:27.120 I can't wait for you to join me Sunday Night 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:29.240 from the United States. But first let's deal with what 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:31.920 is happening here, and that is that a family's heart 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.040 has been broken. A community needs all of our strength 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:36.680 and love right now. You may have heard the news 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:42.600 yesterday that there was a car accident that involved four 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:46.280 little kids at a primary school. We learned today that 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.680 an eleven year old little boy has died. And we 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.960 learned today about the little boy's name. His name is 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.720 Jack Davy and he was the victim of the crash 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.720 of the Auburn South School. Look at that beautiful face. 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:04.600 Strength and love to his family. Just before we got 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.040 into all the bells and whistles and all the rest 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.399 of it about politics. Today, there's a family, there's a 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:11.360 school community, and not to mention the other kids that 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.200 were hurting all of this, but our strength and love. 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.440 Lucy is a family friend and she has started up 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.560 a gofund me for the family. But she's speaking on 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.080 the behalf of those who knew this little man. 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.640 I have no words, to be honest with you. 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.679 They're the most beautiful family. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.319 The local butcher and the veggie shop down the road. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.440 They could see parents just running because all we saw 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:42.560 was you know, police cars, ambulances everything today. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:48.280 His mum and dad and sisters attended the school and 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:49.800 out the front of it there was all sorts of 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:54.120 floral tributes. He was apparently quite a basketball fan. He 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.360 was a football player. In fact, he was on the 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:01.400 Australian team, the undertwelves team. A massive loss for that community. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.120 If you would like to support the family, because of 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.880 course things are tough, difficult, as no emotion is going 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.240 to fix anything here or no money fixes anything. But 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.919 if you'd like to please donate by the GoFundMe website. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.200 Simply support the Davy family, I think is the way. 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.560 The actual title of it is, but support the Davy 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:22.960 dave Y family. Look for a tribute to little eleven 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.440 year old Jack. Strength and love to the family. Bloody 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:31.040 ell that's awful, all right, to the rest of the 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:35.200 day's stuff. And Carmala Harris cannot get out of the 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.160 shadow of Joe Biden, so much so that it is 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:39.680 going to be pretty difficult for her to win the 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.239 American election because despite all of her attempts to pretend 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:44.280 she's different, she of course has been the co pilot 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:46.480 of the plan that has got so badly of course, 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.400 over the past four years. In fact, latest polling shows 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.160 that on the right Track Wrong Track question, sixty four 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.760 percent of Americans believe the country's headed in the wrong direction. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.680 That's a thirty six point difference between those who think 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.440 things are headed in the right the wrong direction. We 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.280 have learned this week that Joe Biden has offered to 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.200 stand side by side with Kamala Harris. But Kamala Harris, 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.440 knowing that the stench of political death is in and 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:14.800 around this blow that she's just ignoring the calls, he 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.160 will not be by her side. But he found a 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.160 way to get in the news today and it may 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:23.720 well cost her the election, Tony garbage ac flowed down. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:29.080 There is his supporters. Sorry you thought basket of deplorables 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.400 was bad? That's just straight out right and attacking. Now, 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:33.840 of course he didn't mean it, and he gets a 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.760 do over because he's a lefty. But that's what he said. Oh, 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.640 everyone will write it off because you know he doesn't 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.360 know what he's saying. I'm sorry, that's what he said. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.240 He says the quiet part out loud. And we all 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:44.880 know that the most passionate stuff that we've seen in 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.560 the American election has been the hating on Trump and now, 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.320 of course the hating on the supporter is because the 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:54.560 supporters deny them ongoing power, that being Biden or Harris. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.040 Harris gave a big speech today in Washington, d C. 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:00.400 I'll give some details on that no moment of his time, 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.400 but surprise, surprise, the headlines read that the speech was 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:07.840 overshadowed by the bloke who says that the other half 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.240 of the country are garbage. May well be a problem. 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.640 As for the lefties, they are going full passive aggressive. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.680 He was one having a go at a Republican today 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:20.320 on CNN. He has his own campaign agenda. It is 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:21.680 not Project twenty twenty five. 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:23.800 No, it's a tender forty seven, which is exactly the 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:25.640 same as Project twenty twenty five. And you can see 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.200 that as many times as you want, Scott, but it's 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.280 not true. So just to stay here and say I've 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.039 said this a million times and it's not his plan. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.200 His plans are that's a very smug way to look 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.279 at me, my friend. The thing is is that what 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:36.960 we're doing is we're talking. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.719 About a little more before we are done. One week 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.280 to go, before we are standing there in Washington, DC 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.000 bringing the results live all day next Wednesday here on 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:49.919 scot News. Upgrade our by what a world of pain 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.880 he is in tonight he may have gone into media 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.560 hiding today. Well I'll give you the tip. This thing 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:59.080 is a world of pain and the story changes by 0:04:59.279 --> 0:04:59.880 the hour. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:01.279 You know. 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.680 The heart of this is not just too close a 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.600 relationship between Anthony Ebernezi and the former CEO of Quantus, 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.960 but of course an over reliance of the relationship and 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:16.120 what free stuff I upgrades can come the way of 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.280 the now Prime Minister, but in this case more importantly 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:24.920 former Transport minister. Now, remember we told you last night 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:29.520 in chapter and verse that the issue is not whether 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.560 he picked up the phone and spoke to Joyce directly 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:37.640 or texted him, or sent smoke signals or sent carrier pigeons, 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.960 whether he spoke to the cleaner or he got his 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:45.120 cleaner to talk to Joyce's cleaner. The point is the 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.320 ministerial code of conduct couldn't be clearer, which is that 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:53.640 you cannot ask for gifts and tens of thousands of 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.640 dollars worth of upgrades would well and truly be that 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.159 well Tonight major news at skynews dot com dot au 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.080 as the Prime Minister tries to kick up some dust here, 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.880 remember it's about him asking for the upgrades for the 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.880 Prime Minister. Anthony Abernese's office has released a cryptic message 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:14.800 to the media denying that he called. Now remember yesterday 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.159 in his press conference he sort of was well, maybe 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:22.440 te but that he never called the courtis CEO. He 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.800 danced around all of this yesterday in a series of 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.360 press conferences, and a spokesperson for the Prime Minister has 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.919 now publicly denied the question outright about whether or not 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:35.520 mister Alberzi had called the former airline's boss. However, I'm 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.479 reading from skyonies dot com that are you here? The 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.159 cryptic message failed to confirm whether Alberanzi had used other 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.080 forms of communication to solicit free upgrades from mister Joyce, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.560 or whether his officer had made representations to the then 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.640 COURTUS CEO. The statement we got the Prime Minister did 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.960 not ever call Alan Joyce seeking an upgrade. You see 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:55.520 the Prime Minister's office think therefore he is off the 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:59.160 hook because he did not directly contact the CEO. Or 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.600 we'll wait and see the claims of the book, which 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.039 presumably have gone through all of the lawyers, suggest that 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:08.200 there was direct contact. All travel has been appropriately declared 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.120 and matter of the public record. Now there's a problem 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.200 here because the Prime Minister wants the story to be 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:19.440 about who contacted who. No, no, no, I repeat, it 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:24.520 is about him contacting quantus at all at a time 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.000 when he was the Transport Minister. It also comes on 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:32.880 top of more stories about more upgrades. Again skynews dot 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.200 com dot A you make it your homepage. They're right 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.080 on top of all of this. Now they add to 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.760 the claims that have already been discussed via this book 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.280 of five different examples of him putting his hand out 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.200 for the upgrade, that being two thousand and nine, from 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:51.680 Sydney to Los Angeles, return in April of twenty ten, 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.320 from Sydney to Rome, return, a trip apparently to Europe 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:59.040 in twenty eleven, from Honolulu and the United States to 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.920 Sydney in December the twenty twelve, and a trip to 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:07.200 Dubai in March of twenty thirteen. Again, while they wanted 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.520 to be about who called who, it ain't about that. 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.560 Did he ask in any way, shape or form for 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.760 the upgrade? Did he ask Joyce directly? Did he ask 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.840 the cleaner? Did he send a smoke signal? If he 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.559 asked for it, then he's in breach of at least 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.160 one of those two sections of the Ministerial Code of 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.280 Conduct that we showed you last night. The simple question 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.040 for the Prime Minister that he will have to answer 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.000 next week in Parliament is do you believe that ministers 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.560 should abide by the Ministerial Code of Conduct? Yes or no? 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.800 Would you sack a minister should they breach the Ministerial 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:45.719 Code of Conduct? Yes or no? Would accepting gifts from 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.359 the biggest company in the area that you have responsibility 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.480 for be a breach of the Ministerial Code of Conduct. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.880 Yes or no? Would you seeking gifts from the biggest 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.560 company in the ministerial area that you had responsibility by 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.960 a beach of the minister or code of conduct? Yes 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.280 or no? Again, whack that necessarily Code of Conduct up 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:06.240 because people talk about it. I want you to know 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.520 the words section three point one point eight. Ministers and 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.719 their official capacity may therefore accept customary official gifts, hospitalities, 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:19.440 token of appreciation, but must not seek or encourage any 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:23.000 form of gift in their personal capacity. Well, we've got 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.160 five examples of them that are in the book, a 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.840 couple more by the reporting of Andrew Clonell and others 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.680 here at Sky News. Then there's the second bit, which 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.960 is a section three point twenty one of the Ministerial 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.160 Code of Conduct. The same words, same meaning when he 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:37.880 was working as a Minister for Rudd and as a 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:42.960 Minister for Gillard. Ministers must not seek or accept any 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:48.600 kind of benefit or valuable consideration, either for themselves or others, 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.600 in connection with performing or not performing any element of 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.840 their official duties as a minister. You can't get, let 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.840 alone ask gifts from the biggest company in the area 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:03.040 of which you supposedly a responsibility. So I mentioned one, two, three, four, 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.480 five examples of him doing it, him being caught red handed. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.200 He wants to make it about who contacted her. No, no, no, no, no, 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.719 he got them, which puts him in breach of three 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.320 point twenty one. But also I would suggest a three 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.400 point one eight, which is that you must not seek 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.320 or encourage these things. Becomes the issue again Andrew Clonell 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.800 or so other I should say, camridden with a bit 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.319 more detail here about other upgrades on top of the five. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.000 We can reveal that the Prime Minister, on one flight 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:36.000 in January the twentieth, nineteen ninety nine, received an upgrade. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:37.280 On a flight from. 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.560 Christ Church to Sydney, that is the first one that 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.640 was from economy to business class. Also received an upgrade 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.040 from economy to business return from Sydney to Hong Kong 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.280 in April of nineteen ninety nine. He can see that 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.640 one on your screen. That's a Quantus flight as well. 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.400 In February of two thousand to mister Alberinezi and his 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.040 then wife Carmel Tevertt received upgrades from economy to business 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.760 for two Quantus FLO flights for what is cited in 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.360 the declaration as a family holiday to Thailand, and then 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:09.440 in September of two thousand, mister Albanezi declares a number 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.360 of flights, three of them in total for himself and 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:16.040 Miss Tebbett. There's a one upgrade from economy to business 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.800 flying on Quantus from Sydney to Singapore. An upgrade from 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:24.160 economy to first class on a British Airways flight from 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.040 Singapore to London should be the next one, and then 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:31.360 an upgrade from economy to business class as well flying 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.520 on a Quantus flight from London to Sydney. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.840 Now, all of that exercise, apart from showing he's got 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.960 a sweep tooth for this stuff, the stuff in opposition 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.640 doesn't matter, right, It's all about whether he's a minister. 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.560 Hence the main five allegations which come out of the book. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.600 Prime Minister tries to distract with who asked who reality 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.800 is if it was asked for at all in any way, 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.720 shape or form to anyone in the organization on his 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.440 behalf or directly bang, he's on the wrong sid this. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.960 He would have to sack his own Transport Minister for 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:04.800 doing it. And presumably you can't go back to the 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.240 time machine when it comes to the former prime ministers. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.120 But he's going to be on the wrong side of 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.440 this thing. Again. Albo lets himself off the hook. But 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.840 people need to understand the double standard. They need to 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.319 understand that if his own Transport minister did this, he 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.240 be compelled to sack them. But when he did it, 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.000 he's going to say there's nothing to see here. Again, 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.040 interesting to note some of the reviews the Prime Minister's 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.080 defense here, this sort of smoke bomb strategy of pretending 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.920 it's all down to the word call versus text versus 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.720 carry a pigeon versus message in the mail or good 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:39.240 vibes in the air, Sidy morning herald upgrade Albow the 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.640 attack against his critics just makes it worse. This was 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.480 an example of that garbage from yesterday. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.560 Did you call Alan Joyce personally for these upgrades? 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:55.320 But the idea Cornish have a number in terms of 0:12:55.720 --> 0:13:03.760 bookings that are private bookings and in terms of the 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:09.640 only discussions that I can recall with Alan Joyce, certainly 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:14.400 we discussed not through calls. We discussed the first flight 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:19.640 from Australia to Dubai on an A three eighty. 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.320 So again Prime Minister's obvious wants to make it all 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.920 about call section three point one eight. He's on the 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.040 wrong side of it five times. Three point twenty one. 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.600 He's on the wrong side of it five times. His 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.240 ministers were out there trying to push it uphill today. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.680 I think the Prime Minister has gone out of his 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:41.000 way multiple occasions this week to answer questions about this issue. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.480 If people have got allegations to make about this, we 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.280 would invite them to make those allegations. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.680 But he is otherwise accounted for himself properly. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.880 Prime Minister has complied with all of the rules that 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.000 have been in place for many, many years. 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.600 These people, if there's any allegation to make the allegation, yeah, 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.760 it's in the book. It's been in the press conferences. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.560 We've read the examples of how he's on the wrong 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.000 side of the Ministerial Code of Conduct. I'll get to 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:10.160 the National Corruption Commission in a second here, but a 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.480 little taste of public opinion via the Daily Telegraphs website 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:17.400 in the past couple of days. Unsurprisingly, things may well 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.960 be within the rules, but it's the pub test that 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.280 ends up counting. Now, prom and Bishops on the show tonight, 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.240 Inevitably there'll be an attempt to talk about her situation. 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.680 Remember she was entitled when it came to the use 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.160 of the helicopter, but because the pub test was invoked, 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.200 she of course had to give up her job as 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.000 the speaker. The same pub test applies to the Prime minister. 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.640 Number of people that have been filling out an online 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.960 survey the Daily Telegraph's website four hundred and sixty seven 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.760 ninety five percent say the Prime Minister calling the boss 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.000 of corners for an upgrade? Does it passed the pub test? Again? 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.680 Don't get caught on this whole call not call business. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:54.040 Did he ask quantus? Not whom at quantus? Meantime social 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.880 media comments he has to go, says one commentator, while 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.760 another described Alberezi as not only astraight as worst prime minister, 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.160 but also its most accident prone. It's time for Albow 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.640 to go to call an election. Now we don't more 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.080 in any more of this labour greends rubbish. Did you 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.120 tell anyone that he grew up in Housing Commission flat? 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.680 He's certainly making up for lost time. My favorite, Darren, 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.480 this is not the spirit of Australia. And then remember 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:23.240 part of the connection between the Prime Minister and Quantas, 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.720 specifically its former leadership, was the decision to deny Qatar 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.880 Airways more opportunities to fly into Australia. That of course 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.560 would mean more opportunities to fly overseas and theoretically cheaper 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:39.000 tickets if it actually took place now. At the time, 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.680 the Labor Party said they were helping Quantus's bottom line, 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.880 and then they got a do over, and another do 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.800 over and another do over. But we remember the sticky paper. 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.960 All of this was at the time the finn said 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:53.200 Qatar Airways was surprised by Labour's decision. Well what about 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:57.440 today and the courier mail ministers gifted Countus upgrades after 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:01.920 blocking rival airline. So many of the people who were 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.440 sitting around the cabinet table if this was discussed, well 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.320 look what they suddenly got rewarded with, which, in and 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.240 of itself, I would suggest gets very close to the 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:14.600 ministerial code of conduct. Seven Labor ministers and assistant ministers 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.160 were gifted complimentary flight upgrades from Quantus in the months 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.000 after the Abeneze government blocked the rival airline from expanding 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:25.240 in Australia. Nothing to see here. The upgrades, which included 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:30.120 international trips are contained in the recent MP declarations of 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.200 Mark Butler, Bill Short and Mark Dreyfusenika Wellspad Conroy, Matt 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.560 Keo and Andrew Giles. Again they'll all say it's within 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.040 the rules, but of course there's the pub test which 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.040 is completely different than the rules. And then there's the 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.000 ministerial Code of Conduct that only now people are pulled 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.600 out of the draw and are actually realizing how often 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.640 so many of the things that are well in front 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.920 of the plane class take for granted are direct contraventions 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.680 of the very rules under which they are able to 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.360 have their jobs. Unsurprisingly, Peter Dutton's more than happy to 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.480 talk about this today, tomorrow, all the way in the 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:01.120 next week. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.280 Well, certainly on the face of reading the Gillard government 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.919 minister or a code of conduct, the Prime Minister has 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.120 breached that by his own admission, and. 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.040 Then you'll love this bit as you know whether or 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.359 not this makes us well Question time next week and 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.000 then off to the National Corruption Commission, which is where 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:18.760 Peter Dutton may well end up sending it. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.320 I think it's a matter that should be referred by 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.360 the Prime Minister. I think the Prime Minister should take 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.960 the initiative to refer this matter to the Integrity Commission, 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.400 because I think there are lots of questions about mister 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:35.600 Albinez's credibility and his integrity in relation to the Katar decision. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:40.080 Guess who's got the quantas chairman's club treatment as well 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:44.800 the very people who run the National Anti Corruption Commission. Again, 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:49.120 great reporting today, Andrew Clenell, Well what about this? 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:53.399 I mean, Peter Darton Karen he wants Anthony Albinese to 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.240 refer himself to the National Anti Corruption Commission over his 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:00.560 flight upgrades and his relationship with Quanas. Turns out the 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.439 people who'd be adjudicating on that themselves are members of 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.040 the Chairman's lounge. If Joe Aston's book didn't tell you, 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.679 this has reached into every section of the bureaucracy, society, 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.680 politics and business in Australia. This little example does. 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.399 How does somebody who sits in judgment of other people 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:23.639 about corruption put themselves in a position to accept the 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:27.119 soft power of the biggest company in an area that 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.720 is being administered by the government the areas of the 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.920 transport sector. And well done again to the Financial Review 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:35.440 and one of their reporters who was able to work 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.960 out where are the teals better standards in Parliament all 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:40.399 the rest of it? Or are they just lining up 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.240 for their own upgrades? And because they're not ministers, there's 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.480 no such thing as a code of conduct. And of 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:48.400 course they wouldn't go to the pub for a pub test. 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:53.960 That's too beneath them. Apperol splits somewhere else. As for inflation, 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.560 today we got another example of grim Jim charmers trying 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.040 to put on the smile to pretend that everything is awesome, 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.840 everything is fine, everything is okay. Now, this idiot last week, 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.359 remember he's not an economist, He's a person whose doctorate 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.800 is about how the spinning of Paul Keenning's economy went. 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.679 He told us last week that a Middle East ceasefire 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:16.440 would help bring down inflation fed income. Well, he got 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.919 some news today, which is they have been able to, 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.800 via the decisions in the federal budget to well pay 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.480 off the power companies bribe their way to a headline, 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:26.760 a headline dutifully reported by mates in the media. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.080 Flation has fallen to its lowest level in three years. 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.000 The treasure of banking the win. 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.040 Inflation is back in the band. 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:38.080 Ice pressures are continuing to ease, with the latest starter 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.480 showing Australia's annual inflation rate has fallen to two point 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.000 eight percent, broadly in line with expectation. 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.679 I'm sorry, that's the grab. The grab Wood chose was 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:50.960 the guy who was walking into camera. Look, I get 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.520 it. It happens live everywhere else. Good on her for following 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:55.280 the autoqure. I don't have one here. It's all off 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:56.760 the top of the head, which I think they will 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:00.520 be obvious after the best part of fifteen years anywhere 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:04.160 we're paying for it. We'll talk about a potential cultural 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:07.000 reform of the ABC in a moment or two. Time Again, 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.880 as for Jim Chalmers, everything's awesome. Everything's great now. Remember 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.120 when we talk about inflation coming down, prices are still 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:15.359 going up. It's just they used to go up like 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:19.240 this and now they're only going up like this. But 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:21.760 still put it all together, and they have gone up. 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.800 They have gone up by a huge amount since this 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:26.040 mob came to power. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:31.600 Today's numbers show that we are on track for a 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:35.359 soft landing in our economy. We are confident, but not 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:39.560 complacent about the substantial progress that we are making as 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.440 a country. Inflation is back in the band. 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:45.800 Now, as I told you, they've spent one hundreds of 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:48.920 millions of dollars of your money to pay the power company, 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.359 so they don't hand on the price increases of the 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.440 government's policies to you. But even then it's three hundred dollars, 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:56.520 it's twenty five dollars a month, it's seventy five dollars 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:58.800 a quarter. It doesn't really touch the sides, but it 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.240 certainly is able to stop when it comes to the 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.119 increases that are being felt by people at the retail level. 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:06.320 If you think this is me just making it up, 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.600 here's the Australian Bureau Statistics today. The statement is still 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.360 on their website where they talk about the Energy bill 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:15.679 rebates that these rebates had the effect of reducing electricity 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:18.320