Speaker 1: From the Sky News Center. This is Paul Murray Live, Goodday,
Speaker 1: good Evening, Happy Sunday. Lots to get to and what
Speaker 1: will be our final week on the air for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. Next year is of course an election year,
Speaker 1: and that is when we are firing on all cylinders
Speaker 1: everywhere here at Sky News, and no more so than
Speaker 1: writing each and every night.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Obviously this week there's a lot of cricket, sport, lots
Speaker 1: of other things that are around in the world. So
Speaker 1: do me a favor. If you can't watch us live,
Speaker 1: make sure that your series link or of course you
Speaker 1: get the highlights at skynews dot com dot au. I
Speaker 1: want you to be across what they are doing to
Speaker 1: try to well put some of the garbage out before
Speaker 1: the end of the year, and also at times to
Speaker 1: be able to pull the wall over our eyes. But
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons, I want to get to a couple
Speaker 1: of things, including a very deep dive into some data.
Speaker 1: You know, when it comes to this show, let's all
Speaker 1: say it together. The data are the bricks the opinion, well,
Speaker 1: that is of course the mortar that builds the wall,
Speaker 1: the wall of which that we have against the madness,
Speaker 1: particularly of the left. Now, I've got to start with
Speaker 1: the obvious here, which is of course what took place
Speaker 1: on Friday, the fire bombing of the synagogue in Melbourne. Now,
Speaker 1: there's not much more I can add to people who
Speaker 1: are more directly affected by it. But there are moments
Speaker 1: in any country at any one time, there are moments
Speaker 1: that are big or small where we know instantly whether
Speaker 1: the person who is leading, either our organization or in
Speaker 1: this case the country is up to it. And unsurprisingly,
Speaker 1: when the rising tide of anti Semitism that has been
Speaker 1: building since October more than a year ago now has
Speaker 1: essentially been fifty to fiftied by the Prime Minister, fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty by the industrial left turning around and saying
Speaker 1: that it's just as important as we go after Islamophobia
Speaker 1: as antisemitism. Police. All right, any attack on any place
Speaker 1: of worship, be it Muslim, je Hindu, Christian, whatever, is
Speaker 1: of course a disgrace. The idea that people didn't die,
Speaker 1: so therefore was is it really as big as part? Yes?
Speaker 1: The whole point is that we are able to have
Speaker 1: the conversation about the places in our community that are
Speaker 1: important to us, but thankfully not having to deal with
Speaker 1: the horrible situations like of course that Moss shouting which
Speaker 1: took place in New Zealand. Now this Prime minister because
Speaker 1: he is caught. He's not just caught in terms of
Speaker 1: left and right, he's not just blind to right and wrong,
Speaker 1: but he is so in his DNA, a person who
Speaker 1: has come up and kissed the ring all the way
Speaker 1: through of the left, from education to staffer, all the
Speaker 1: way through to becoming an MP, a minister, a shadow minister,
Speaker 1: an Opposition leader and then a Prime minister. But of course,
Speaker 1: unlike people on television, unlike the people who write or
Speaker 1: storm your office, you are the person who is the
Speaker 1: representative of the country. And every time they turn around
Speaker 1: and tell us, regardless of whether it's Team redal team Blue,
Speaker 1: I will govern for all Australians. Well, how many times
Speaker 1: have we seen over the past two in a bit
Speaker 1: almost three years that that, of course, like so many
Speaker 1: other things, is a lie. They have a certain hierarchy
Speaker 1: of Australians, a certain set of people who are their priorities,
Speaker 1: who are their focus, And when it comes to matters
Speaker 1: to do with the Middle East, there is a numbers
Speaker 1: game here. Apart from philosophically and everything else. And there
Speaker 1: are more labor seats that have got significant Islamic populations,
Speaker 1: and there are labor seats with Jewish populations, just like
Speaker 1: there are more labor party seats in the city or
Speaker 1: the suburb than there are in regional Australia. So when
Speaker 1: they have their choice about a policy like say neewable energy,
Speaker 1: they go great, this is amazing. Everyone in the city
Speaker 1: loves it. Not a single person will be inconvenienced at
Speaker 1: the local doggy park in a teal seat. Instead, all
Speaker 1: those people who don't vote for us already, you're going
Speaker 1: to get twenty thousand solar panels Ada between now and
Speaker 1: twenty thirty Why because we want to say that we
Speaker 1: have cut forty three percent of one percent of the
Speaker 1: world's emissions. While China, of course, as we all know,
Speaker 1: under the Paris Agreement that Australia signs, they refer to
Speaker 1: themselves as a developing nation despite the fact that they
Speaker 1: have a space station. We don't. They've held two Olympic
Speaker 1: Games this century. We haven't yet. God love you Brisbane
Speaker 1: in twenty thirty two, however, because they have a scenario
Speaker 1: where they keep people in poverty they're able to refer
Speaker 1: to themselves as a developing nation. So you end up
Speaker 1: in this scenario where the hierarchy of things becomes directly
Speaker 1: linked to what will impress or annoy enough people to
Speaker 1: get us to seventy six seats in the Parliament. If
Speaker 1: we get to seventy six, that's a majority. Bang, we're fine.
Speaker 1: Everyone who disagrees whether us, you can go jump. And
Speaker 1: that's why you got the response that you got out
Speaker 1: of this Prime minister. Now, I just like everything about
Speaker 1: his public utterances. You clearly know I wouldn't vote for him,
Speaker 1: But I do not think he's a nasty or evil man.
Speaker 1: I just think that in his worldview, there are these
Speaker 1: moments when the little light goes off and the emotional
Speaker 1: response is proportionate too, just how bright or how frequent
Speaker 1: or how loud the siren is that's going off. And
Speaker 1: I want to show you why this Prime Minister was
Speaker 1: in two places on one issue. Now you saw the
Speaker 1: fire bombing, you saw how serious it was. It is
Speaker 1: a line that has now been crossed that someone was
Speaker 1: wanting to destroy a holy site to another group of Australians.
Speaker 1: If Australians were in that building, there may well have
Speaker 1: been serious injuries or of course death. This was the
Speaker 1: Prime Minister when talking about it first, when it wasn't
Speaker 1: quite clear to him how to respond. This is what
Speaker 1: he said.
Speaker 3: There's no place in Australia for an outrage such as this.
Speaker 3: To attack a place of worship is an attack on
Speaker 3: Australian values. To attack a synagogue is an act of
Speaker 3: anti Semitism.
Speaker 1: Correct, but it's also an act of terrorism. Now, we
Speaker 1: don't have to get complicated about what does terrorism mean,
Speaker 1: because it's very obvious when somebody commits an act of
Speaker 1: violence that is about attempting to stop someone following their
Speaker 1: faith or their political freedoms, or being able to carry
Speaker 1: out their freedoms in a country. That's terrorism. It would
Speaker 1: be exactly the same if it was an attack on
Speaker 1: a mosque. But it isn't an attack on a mosque.
Speaker 1: It was an attack on a synagogue. So let's stop
Speaker 1: the fifty to fifties. Understandably, people believe that the Prime
Speaker 1: minister's first response did not match the moment that yet
Speaker 1: again he failed that leadership test of being somebody who
Speaker 1: gets it, who knows how to muster all of the
Speaker 1: words that they've learnt put them in the right combination
Speaker 1: to connect with the people who most importantly at the
Speaker 1: absolute nucleus of it. But also a message which is
Speaker 1: sent from Cape York to Lonceston, from Broom to Darwin
Speaker 1: Ki and everything else in between, that he gets it,
Speaker 1: which is why he copped it and rightly so. After
Speaker 1: that first statement, the.
Speaker 4: First thing the Prime Minister needs to do is he
Speaker 4: and his government need to declare yesterday's attack at the
Speaker 4: Adas Synagogue a terrorist event, totally unacceptable in our country,
Speaker 4: and the Prime Minister needs to stand up for our values.
Speaker 5: And there's a hate crime that has been committed, and
Speaker 5: one that is designed to intimidate people, a one that
Speaker 5: is designed to destroy property and attack people on the
Speaker 5: basis of their religion. When the crime is designed to
Speaker 5: strike fear into the hearts of Laura Biding Australians, it
Speaker 5: is an act of terrorism.
Speaker 1: Now, wherever the Prime Minister was on Friday, where he
Speaker 1: should have been today is Melbourne. Where he should have
Speaker 1: been in Melbourne today was of course at the synagogue.
Speaker 1: He should have been looking people in the eye and
Speaker 1: he should have been responding to their emotional need right now,
Speaker 1: But of course he was nowhere near Melbourne today. Oh,
Speaker 1: the Prime Minister. The bloke's got his own plane. We
Speaker 1: all know that he's got his own plate, all right.
Speaker 1: He's even got a nickname which is named after his puppy,
Speaker 1: all right. So if he wanted to Toto one could
Speaker 1: have turned around, shump straight off. The Melbourne doesn't have
Speaker 1: to do a red eye like people that are booking
Speaker 1: the Virgin or anything else. So he could have made
Speaker 1: it back, but he didn't. Instead he stayed in Perth
Speaker 1: because he had really important work to do today. Today
Speaker 1: he announced one point five million dollars of taxpayers money
Speaker 1: for the federal bailout of Sculpture by the Sea in
Speaker 1: Western Australia. Oh what a priority I mean. He couldn't
Speaker 1: have done this in a press release. He couldn't have
Speaker 1: waited until next week. He couldn't possibly have held off
Speaker 1: until the next time that he's there. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: It was more important that he was the savior of
Speaker 1: Sculpture by the Sea than he was going to a
Speaker 1: site of an event that showed that Australia had crossed
Speaker 1: a new line. But he wanted to send a message
Speaker 1: and one that was He even noted today by normally
Speaker 1: the scribes for the TV news who often give him
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt, but didn't this time, where
Speaker 1: they noted and they even said it in their six
Speaker 1: pm news. These comments were stronger. But they weren't in Melbourne,
Speaker 1: they weren't in Victoria. They were in Perth, in part
Speaker 1: as he was saving sculpture by the sea.
Speaker 3: If you want my personal view, Quite clearly, terrorism is
Speaker 3: something that is aimed at creating fear in the community,
Speaker 3: and the atrocities that occurred at the synagogue in Melbourne
Speaker 3: clearly were designed to create fear in the community and therefore,
Speaker 3: from my personal perspective, certainly fulfill that definition of terrorism.
Speaker 1: Now you've seen this blow, you've seen him look pissed off.
Speaker 1: Remember when he couldn't get the housing bill through the
Speaker 1: first time, the second time whatever, Right, he was annoyed.
Speaker 1: Something had happened, and he was despite the fact I'm
Speaker 1: the Prime Minister. I can't fix this. I'd love to
Speaker 1: be able to magic want I can't. Instead, not stable
Speaker 1: monotone because again the flashing red light didn't go off
Speaker 1: for him to show that this was But if it
Speaker 1: was an attack somewhere else, we all know what the
Speaker 1: response would be he'd be there as soon as the
Speaker 1: fire trucks had left. Now I don't know whether the
Speaker 1: community would even want him there. But the point is,
Speaker 1: as the Prime Minister of this country, he should be
Speaker 1: able to walk anywhere in this country. As the leader
Speaker 1: of our nation, he should have the stones to be
Speaker 1: able to look anyone in the eye, even the people
Speaker 1: who vehemently disagree with him, and have the confidence that
Speaker 1: he is the representative of the nation. Instead, he's three
Speaker 1: thousand kilometers away and dragged to saying the right thing
Speaker 1: with the giant eye roll that could be heard on
Speaker 1: the East Coast. I want you to compare and contrast
Speaker 1: you to Peter Dutton, the alternative Prime Minister, and I
Speaker 1: want you to imagine if he was the Prime minister,
Speaker 1: what set of values would be triggering for him to
Speaker 1: react to this moment that Australia should not be living
Speaker 1: in Rolton.
Speaker 4: This is an act of terrorism, pure and simple, and
Speaker 4: I think the Prime Minister's deliberate decision to seek political
Speaker 4: advantage over the course of last twelve months on this
Speaker 4: issue and play to a domestic audience of Green voters,
Speaker 4: I think has been deplorable and one of the worst
Speaker 4: things I've ever seen in public life.
Speaker 1: Prime Minister took a.
Speaker 4: Deliberate decision thirteen months ago to play down the level
Speaker 4: of anti Semitism in the community, and the government's policies
Speaker 4: right up to this very day have made it less
Speaker 4: safe for people of Jewish faith in our country.
Speaker 1: And before you think, oh there he is paulled as
Speaker 1: Team Blue, team read what about an example of someone
Speaker 1: with the stones and the conviction and the heart and
Speaker 1: the capacity to focus from Team Red. He's the new
Speaker 1: so Wales Premier Chris Mins. This didn't happen in his state,
Speaker 1: but he is responding on the behalf of those that
Speaker 1: are afraid. One day.
Speaker 6: It may whether it's a synagogue, whether it's a church,
Speaker 6: whether it's a mosque in the state. We cannot have
Speaker 6: a situation where it's lawfully protected to exercise your religion,
Speaker 6: to practice your religion, but somebody else has decided to
Speaker 6: stop that from happening.
Speaker 1: Albot, there is a way to do it, but either
Speaker 1: you don't want to or you're not up to it.
Speaker 1: Either way, we're all watching, we all see, and we
Speaker 1: all see yet another failure. Now it does seem like
Speaker 1: a very long time doesn't it. And of course it's
Speaker 1: only two in a bit years ago since this prime
Speaker 1: minister came to power, and of course it wasn't swept
Speaker 1: to power. It was the lowest primary vote the Labor
Speaker 1: Party had since what nineteen oh something. They got what
Speaker 1: a one two seat majority. That's the sort of stuff
Speaker 1: you get when you're going for term three, not term one.
Speaker 2: What it?
Speaker 1: Because we know Tony Abbott ninety plus seats, Kevin Rudd
Speaker 1: big back bench to burn this bloke again turnbull like
Speaker 1: in terms of just how little margin there actually was,
Speaker 1: and ever since he it's gone backwards. Yeah, okay, the
Speaker 1: first few months you're able to blame Scott Morrison for everything,
Speaker 1: and let's have an inquiry that confirms, yeah, Scott Morrison's
Speaker 1: to blame for everything. And then slowly, maturely, the promises
Speaker 1: that you make, like we're going to do something about
Speaker 1: cost of living and it all gets worse. People turn
Speaker 1: around and they start marking you harshly. Then, of course,
Speaker 1: the absolutely most important thing the country had to do,
Speaker 1: because he wanted the little update in his Wikipedia about
Speaker 1: how amazing he is as a leader, is that we
Speaker 1: had to have a national conversation about whether or not
Speaker 1: we were going to change the constitution now again on day one.
Speaker 1: If he wanted to, he could have put the voice
Speaker 1: in place. He could have passed it as his first
Speaker 1: piece of legislation if that was his priority. But instead, no,
Speaker 1: don't know. Four hundred and fifty million bucks and the
Speaker 1: bloke's all over the shop at the same time as
Speaker 1: cost of living is getting worse, and at the same
Speaker 1: time that his own government took fifteen one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: of ten million workers. Oh, but we're still in it
Speaker 1: for you, please. Well, at the end of the second
Speaker 1: full year of the Aarbanezi government, on the lead up
Speaker 1: to a federal election, there is another pole and it
Speaker 1: is terrible for the Prime Minister. Now, he thinks as
Speaker 1: he swaggers around the office. Oh, I'm fine as long
Speaker 1: as the teals stick around. And I've been peddling in
Speaker 1: the pockets of the cross bench for years and years,
Speaker 1: so don't worry. I'll be fine. Even if we're a minority.
Speaker 1: It'll be sweet. How look at this, the Labour Party's
Speaker 1: primary vote, according to the Resolve Pole in the Channel
Speaker 1: Line papers, right, hardly hardcore right wing stuff. It's down
Speaker 1: to twenty seven percent. At the last federal election it
Speaker 1: was about one in thirty three. The Liberal Party now
Speaker 1: very close to forty. Remember, if there's a four in
Speaker 1: front of it, they're going to win an election. At
Speaker 1: thirty eight, you start to look at the ability of
Speaker 1: things like so the one nation seven percent, most of
Speaker 1: those preferences most likely would go against Albanezi for the LNP,
Speaker 1: and then depending on what the United Australian Party do.
Speaker 1: So you can see just that the grafts there again
Speaker 1: on the right hand side of your screen of the
Speaker 1: Blue which had fallen away post election and now is
Speaker 1: starting to absolutely get on top of the Labor Party.
Speaker 1: But let's dig into this because twelve months ago, so
Speaker 1: right now it's twenty seven thirty eight, twelve months ago,
Speaker 1: thirty five thirty four. Just in case anyone's wondering, look
Speaker 1: at a scoreboard. Look at it. Yeah, that's the scoreboard.
Speaker 1: A tied game is now turning into one where they
Speaker 1: are losing. And yes, everyone can come back, and nothing's inevitable,
Speaker 1: and all the caveats and all the rest of it,
Speaker 1: and the asterisks and all of that don't run off
Speaker 1: to the ghost to complain. But they're in a world
Speaker 1: of pain. But have a look at this. We've got
Speaker 1: a bit more data, and I really appreciate this. That
Speaker 1: is publicly available data. It's breakdown data from the resolved
Speaker 1: Political Monitor. Part of again that Channel nine thing. Do
Speaker 1: the two party preferred thing, because that might mean they
Speaker 1: are held accountable for what happens at an election. But still,
Speaker 1: let's look at the data. Okay, now, okay, a little
Speaker 1: bit of movement here, a little bit of movement there.
Speaker 1: But have a look at this. The Labour party's national
Speaker 1: vote at twenty seven percent, as I said, the best
Speaker 1: part of five points down on the federal election, thirty
Speaker 1: eight percent up for the coalition. The question and the
Speaker 1: big draw card is independent other. Other can be United
Speaker 1: Australian Party. Other can be Teals, other can be dily right.
Speaker 1: So I don't know exactly whether that means left or right,
Speaker 1: but obviously other Greens, Labor you get to fifty percent,
Speaker 1: but other is not all of that. Have a look
Speaker 1: in New South Wales twenty seven percent, thirty eight percent.
Speaker 1: Have a look in Victoria. The Labor vote is lower
Speaker 1: in Victoria tonight than it is in New South Wales.
Speaker 1: That is extraordinary for a place that's got what a
Speaker 1: full time government. Look at those numbers there are incredible
Speaker 1: about what has changed. And this is only compared to
Speaker 1: the most recent surveys. Have a look at Queensland where
Speaker 1: the Labour Party's vote again is down one but how
Speaker 1: strong thirty eight National thirty eight, New South Wales thirty eight,
Speaker 1: Victoria thirty eight Queensland for the LNP Labor down down,
Speaker 1: prices are down all over the shop. Now remember, of course,
Speaker 1: when the Labour Party vote falls, then they're into this
Speaker 1: pitch battle with the Greens because you see, the way
Speaker 1: it's always worked for them is that they can get
Speaker 1: their vote to hear the Greens can get their vote
Speaker 1: to here, and then they can bind their vote to
Speaker 1: go past fifty percent. But in some parts of Brisbane,
Speaker 1: now this didn't quite play out at the state election.
Speaker 1: At the last federal election, the Greens were able to
Speaker 1: get themselves just in front of the Labor Party, which
Speaker 1: meant it was the Labor Party that gave its preferences
Speaker 1: to the Greens and rocket them past fifty percent to
Speaker 1: win seats. If they are sitting in a scenario where
Speaker 1: in Queensland they are just a quarter of the vote
Speaker 1: there will be seats closer you get to the city
Speaker 1: that will end up if this is right, propelling more
Speaker 1: Greens to Parliament outside of Newsiwal's Queensland and Victoria, South Australia,
Speaker 1: Western Australia, Tazzi. But where they take this sample, I
Speaker 1: don't know, a little worse for the coalition. So maybe
Speaker 1: that's why the Prime Minister is spending more time saving
Speaker 1: sculpture by the sea than he is the synagogue situation
Speaker 1: in Victoria. But you can see a pretty bad scenario.
Speaker 1: Well guess what, kids, the news gets even worse for
Speaker 1: the Prime minister personally. You see, like all politicians and
Speaker 1: I've seen this, I've seen it up close, and I've
Speaker 1: seen plenty of all stripes for a long time. They
Speaker 1: think the ultimate solution to all problems is you know
Speaker 1: what this needs? More me, like more cow bell and
Speaker 1: the old Saturday Night Live sketch, more me, more Olbow.
Speaker 1: There's more railbow than everyone will fall back in love
Speaker 1: with me, will power. It ain't gonna work. Twelve months ago,
Speaker 1: same Pahl preferred Prime minister thirty five to thirty five, meaning,
Speaker 1: of course about thirty percent of people are sitting around
Speaker 1: going as what that's what it was. Okay, sorry, it
Speaker 1: was forty two to twenty eight. That's what it used
Speaker 1: to be. I've got this the wrong way around and
Speaker 1: I've given away my punchline now thirty five a piece.
Speaker 1: So the party's going backwards, the leaders going backwards, and
Speaker 1: people have had enough. These are some of the people
Speaker 1: who gave comments to the pollsters about why they were
Speaker 1: saying that they were going to move their vote away
Speaker 1: from the Prime Minister. Interest rates, high insurance through the roof,
Speaker 1: food price is not regulated properly. Now it does seem
Speaker 1: when you read all of these that everyone watches this show.
Speaker 1: But I know I'll get the numbers every day. Not
Speaker 1: everyone watches the show, okay, But the message we are
Speaker 1: right over the target. So why they hate us, why
Speaker 1: they want to shut us down misinformation Bill. We are
Speaker 1: right on top of where things are. I wouldn't vote
Speaker 1: for Albineasy again. He only cares about himself. Labor are
Speaker 1: rushing things through without thinking, like the social media band
Speaker 1: vote for change. They promise everything, they deliver nothing. The
Speaker 1: wave of crime that's hitting Australians there are stabbings all
Speaker 1: the time. Labor is governing from the minorities, Green's dividers further,
Speaker 1: it's got to stop. I don't think labor for the
Speaker 1: workers anymore. It's difficult not to feel betrayed. So now
Speaker 1: I'm going to be paying off somebody else's UNI debt.
Speaker 1: You're joking. It's always interesting in politics what connects with
Speaker 1: people Like it's pretty obvious that upgrade albow not good
Speaker 1: for him. The four and a bit million dollar house
Speaker 1: not good for him. But I've got to say, is
Speaker 1: somebody who talks about this all day every day. I
Speaker 1: had to just reach a little bit back into the
Speaker 1: memory recesses to go the UNI thing. Oh that's right,
Speaker 1: that three billion dollar decision. Do you want to also
Speaker 1: know another little punchline in all of this, Do you
Speaker 1: know how much it costs the federal budget to give
Speaker 1: ten million workers? They're fifteen hundred dollar automatic tax return,
Speaker 1: which is what they pull away from us at the
Speaker 1: height of cost of living last year. The exact amount
Speaker 1: of money that they're going to be spending on in
Speaker 1: part paying off of writing off some of the student
Speaker 1: union student university debt. And remember we worked out at
Speaker 1: Scottys dot com. That are you that there's a very
Speaker 1: significant number of those people that have already bugged off
Speaker 1: overseas and have no plans whatsoever on paying it back
Speaker 1: government priorities, you see, because they're in the arm wrestled
Speaker 1: with the Greens. That's where the money's got to go.
Speaker 1: That's where the focus has got to go. You in
Speaker 1: the suburbs, you'll be fine being told that there's a
Speaker 1: drop in your power prices. You know it ain't happening.
Speaker 1: And then, of course the Camper Press Gallery, who we
Speaker 1: know love left wing governments. Apart from the fact that
Speaker 1: they play better with the media, they generally speaking, are
Speaker 1: in the same world. Of course, many and most are
Speaker 1: way off further out to the left, and they're knowing
Speaker 1: you the mainstream let alone where you and I sit
Speaker 1: here at the front of the fight each and every night. Well,
Speaker 1: they were very impressed that Anthony Abernezi had come up
Speaker 1: with a new way to somehow convince Australians that down
Speaker 1: was up and up was down and left was right
Speaker 1: and they were apparently going great when it comes to
Speaker 1: cost of living.
Speaker 3: We've got your back, is our message.
Speaker 1: Fifty six percent of people say, no, you don't this pole.
Speaker 7: This is what a pole punch punch, punch, whack, whack, whack.
Speaker 1: Fifty six percent of people total disagree with the concept
Speaker 1: of does labor have your back? Fifty nine percent of
Speaker 1: people are you better or worse off than you were
Speaker 1: at the last election? Again putting the tails to one side.
Speaker 1: That's game over. You can't bs your way out of
Speaker 1: that hole. And that's where they are right now, in
Speaker 1: a world of trouble that they will say is cyclical
Speaker 1: and has something to do with wars on the other
Speaker 1: side of the world, their own decisions. The United States,
Speaker 1: which booted Biden, has a lower invation rate than we
Speaker 1: do in the United States where they booted Biden. They've
Speaker 1: started dropping interest rates here not going to happen this year,
Speaker 1: and who knows exactly when it may may happen next year.
Speaker 1: The Reserve Bank is telling us openly that things like
Speaker 1: inflation may will still be a problem all the way
Speaker 1: through twenty five and into twenty six. And you know
Speaker 1: how many times you heard cost of living, costs living,
Speaker 1: cost of all that stuff, right, And the reason I
Speaker 1: am focused on this is firstly because I know that
Speaker 1: it's what's really happening in your life. Secondly, there are
Speaker 1: three million people this goes to homelessness, and it is
Speaker 1: irresponsible if we do not talk about that as the
Speaker 1: national emergency that it is. And third, because they promised
Speaker 1: to do better, which meant they aligned just like on
Speaker 1: power prices and about their priorities. Oh but there's money
Speaker 1: for sculpture by the sea in Western Australia. Now let's
Speaker 1: go into national for a second. Fabe for me to
Speaker 1: be a bog and trying to explain how the world works,
Speaker 1: but let's all try and work it out together. A
Speaker 1: lot happening in Syria. You've heard and seen a lot
Speaker 1: of news out of Syria in the past couple of days. Now,
Speaker 1: essentially the rebels in Syria have pushed out the government.
Speaker 1: The expectation is that the president Assad has flown out
Speaker 1: of the country. His family apparently went yesterday and apparently
Speaker 1: the suggestion is there somewhere near Russia. Why Because I'll
Speaker 1: explain in a second. They have been fighting a war,
Speaker 1: but they've had Russia by their side. He's part of
Speaker 1: what happened today as the rebels were able to take
Speaker 1: control of major cities and eventually their country.
Speaker 8: That regime regime which has taken thousands upon thousands of lives,
Speaker 8: including over the past thirteen years of civil war, appears
Speaker 8: to be coming to an end today. The latest we
Speaker 8: have is that those Syrian rebel forces are now in
Speaker 8: the very heart of Damascus. The speed of their advance
Speaker 8: has taken almost everyone within the international community by surprise.
Speaker 8: It is less than two weeks since this current offensive began.
Speaker 8: Just over a week ago, they took Aleppo, Syria's second city.
Speaker 8: Just hours ago, they took the key strategic city of Homes.
Speaker 8: They are now on the brink of taking Damascus, if
Speaker 8: they haven't already. President Basha Ala Sad nowhere to be found.
Speaker 8: The latest we have is that he appears to have
Speaker 8: bordered a plane to depart Damascus, but his whereabouts not
Speaker 8: yet known.
Speaker 1: Now this is good that a regime that in the
Speaker 1: past has dropped chemical whip on its people has now
Speaker 1: been broken. And again, whenever somebody tries to explain how
Speaker 1: things are going in the Middle East, you know you're
Speaker 1: not going to be able to quite nail the goldilocks
Speaker 1: of all of this. But let's try send your complaints
Speaker 1: to somebody else. I'm just trying to help normal people going.
Speaker 1: Why is this in the news? So Syria is a
Speaker 1: country where it has again been one that ended up
Speaker 1: being backed up by Russia and Hezbollah and Iran. Right,
Speaker 1: we're in the sort of the Sunni Shia stuff. Okay,
Speaker 1: the rebels backed in by countries like Jordan and Turkey,
Speaker 1: the United States, A little money here, a little money there.
Speaker 1: At one point Donald Trump, okay, with a Sad and
Speaker 1: then Asad again turned on his people, he says, bugger
Speaker 1: this and then threw it all in with those that
Speaker 1: were trying to get rid of him. Now we pick
Speaker 1: up the story back in the Barrio Obama days. But
Speaker 1: again you can see here the connections between Iran backing
Speaker 1: in Assadussia backing in THESSAD, Gulf States, the United States
Speaker 1: backing in the rebels. The rebels then split in half
Speaker 1: or a significant section where some of the rebels ended
Speaker 1: up becoming isis why, because they wanted to fight local
Speaker 1: Kurts and Syrian Kurts following along with the bouncing wall.
Speaker 1: The whole point here is that for Assad to have
Speaker 1: fled the country and gone to Russia is a major
Speaker 1: defeat for both Iran and Russia. Doesn't mean whatever is
Speaker 1: going to replace it's going to be better for human
Speaker 1: rights all the rest of it. I'll be honest, probably
Speaker 1: not look at countries like Libya and lots of the
Speaker 1: rest of it, right, But that's why it's in the
Speaker 1: news because rather than fighting World War three, there are
Speaker 1: lots of proxy wars like Ukraine Russia, which of course
Speaker 1: is the United States backing Ukraine. If the United States
Speaker 1: doesn't back Ukraine, does Russia just roll over the top?
Speaker 1: All right? That's why these things are so important, apart
Speaker 1: from all of the human lives. And again, anyone connected
Speaker 1: with family here in Australia and there always is. That's
Speaker 1: the way that it works these days. Strength and love
Speaker 1: and I hope that your family is okay in all
Speaker 1: of this. And that's an attempt to tell you what's
Speaker 1: happening there now. For something completely different. Do you like mullets, Well,
Speaker 1: I can tell you that there was a celebration of
Speaker 1: one of the great Australian hairstyles, one that I won't
Speaker 1: lie I've been thinking about for a while and it
Speaker 1: is as culturally important as say the Sydney Festival, where
Speaker 1: it's just so wonderful because it's just about confronting people
Speaker 1: with ideas and challenging norms and the Melbourne Ratist Festival,
Speaker 1: where they basically are the same people just paid to
Speaker 1: say the same thing somewhere else. Well, just as confronting
Speaker 1: to some people is of course the mullet and today
Speaker 1: Mullet Fest. How good is this? Well done to everyone
Speaker 1: organizing it. They're clearly taking on a piece and I
Speaker 1: love everything about this. I love it. Can we do
Speaker 1: an outdown from there next year? Put it on, put
Speaker 1: it on the diary if we can. All right, I
Speaker 1: want let's the chat, don't pencil pen Mullet Fest. I
Speaker 1: can't grow it, but I'll gladly judge. Thank you to
Speaker 1: the Guardian. Did I say it? Yeah? I did. It's Christmas.
Speaker 1: Thank you to the Turnbull Times because they decided to
Speaker 1: send a photographer down to have a look at this.
Speaker 1: Have every one of these photos I want to frame.
Speaker 1: Look at this for just.
Speaker 7: Photo after the photo after photo of super Australians, Super
Speaker 7: Australians rocking the mullet, sending their message that you know what,
Speaker 7: I don't care what you think.
Speaker 1: I'm up for it. I'm bang up for it. I'm
Speaker 1: down for it. I am ready to play throw on
Speaker 1: top a little bit. Some of that's action with people
Speaker 1: ripping up the tires and you've got a perfect Australian event. Wow,
Speaker 1: single man, because otherwise top of the chart. Look at
Speaker 1: this Australia, Australia, Australia. I don't know whether they're taking
Speaker 1: them anyway, I love it, Mullet Fest. Congratulations through everyone involved.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you win for it, but look
Speaker 1: at just drink it in Australia. Drink it in and
Speaker 1: a quick reminder compulsory voting part of the system or
Speaker 1: a quick breakback when more pleasure to talk about including
Speaker 1: we're just going to talk about winners and losers of
Speaker 1: the week. We're going to start to move into looking
Speaker 1: back at twenty twenty four around the corner of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Thank you for all your support. You've
Speaker 1: been amazing this year. Please keep listening to us at
Speaker 1: skynews dot com dot au. Make sure you get all
Speaker 1: the podcasts through the Nova player. But more importantly, sit there.
Speaker 1: We're not even halfway done. More ness, how going to
Speaker 1: Sunday Night with the wonderful Linda Scott and the wonderful
Speaker 1: James Ashby, who of course does not want anyone to
Speaker 1: know about your pern but it is an amazing place.
Speaker 1: It is a magnificent spot where he is. All right,
Speaker 1: let's just talk about some of the reactions to the
Speaker 1: fire bomb starf. I won't do too much on it
Speaker 1: because I know you've heard an awful lot in the past.
Speaker 1: At the while, Linda, do you think that there is
Speaker 1: a delayed response, a slightly off response, because there are
Speaker 1: members of that community that are saying there is all right,
Speaker 1: so we sort of can't say that down is up
Speaker 1: and up is down. But is the PM meeting your
Speaker 1: standard for how to react to this?
Speaker 9: Well, I don't think this is about how people respond.
Speaker 9: It's about the fact that there was a horrific crime
Speaker 9: committed and that was at a synagogue, a place of
Speaker 9: worship and a very special place for all Australians, but
Speaker 9: particularly for those of Jewish faith or background. And that's
Speaker 9: just a devastating thing to happen at any time in
Speaker 9: any place in the world, but to have it, Paul here,
Speaker 9: happen in Australia, in Victoria is just truly horrific. I mean,
Speaker 9: we've talked before. I moved when formerly I was on
Speaker 9: the City of Sydney to try and get a hate speech,
Speaker 9: you know, racist graffiti removed from the City of Sydney's
Speaker 9: streets within an hour or two. The Lord Mayor, Clovern
Speaker 9: Moore rejected that I think there is more that we
Speaker 9: can all be doing. But what I don't think we
Speaker 9: should do is make this a partisan issue. I don't
Speaker 9: think we want to see our leaders divided. Australians don't
Speaker 9: want to see Australian political leaders divided over these kinds
Speaker 9: of issues. I think we can all universally condemn hate.
Speaker 9: We can all, of course, universally condemn this crime.
Speaker 1: So James, I'm sure you will agree with parton, disagree
Speaker 1: with much, but there was one thing I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you about, which was Chris Mins. So Chrismans would
Speaker 1: like in New South Wales there to be Basically, I'm
Speaker 1: going to get this wrong to some degree, but it
Speaker 1: is where we are. There are rules around what you
Speaker 1: can and can't do out in front of an abortion clinic,
Speaker 1: and there are certain punishments that come with trying to
Speaker 1: stop people accessing protesting and something like that. Legislation is
Speaker 1: being discussed as being able to move around to significant
Speaker 1: religious sites. How would you feel about that? As the response, He.
Speaker 10: Well, look it's a start, and I commend Chris Means
Speaker 10: for at least having the gumption to come up with
Speaker 10: a better solution than our Prime minister has come up
Speaker 10: with to this point.
Speaker 2: But the problem.
Speaker 10: Remains that we are seeing these protests end up in
Speaker 10: some iconic landmark locations across our country. It doesn't matter
Speaker 10: whether it's the Opera House in Sydney or some of
Speaker 10: the more iconic places across other cities in this country.
Speaker 10: But I think what Labor have forgotten here is that
Speaker 10: twelve hundred people were massacred last October on the seventh.
Speaker 10: Twelve hundred dead, a further two hundred and fifty four
Speaker 10: abducted and held as hostages.
Speaker 2: There's still over one hundred unaccounted for.
Speaker 10: We presume some of them are still alive, but there's
Speaker 10: no guarantees. And the issue that we have here the
Speaker 10: labor government very slow to come out when this terrorism
Speaker 10: attack occurred.
Speaker 2: At the get go, you did not.
Speaker 10: See Jewish people protesting, rioting, or conducting themselves in any
Speaker 10: form of inappropriate manner. They weren't fire bombs or threats
Speaker 10: on mosques. They behave themselves Because I knew that the
Speaker 10: country of origin where this terrorism attack took place, there
Speaker 10: would be swift.
Speaker 2: Action, and that action took place.
Speaker 10: The issue that we've allowed here in this country is
Speaker 10: we have not taken a firm position as a nation
Speaker 10: on who we back here.
Speaker 2: Israel were the.
Speaker 10: Country that were attacked first, and they've defended the rights
Speaker 10: of their country to look after their own people. And yes,
Speaker 10: blood has been spilt on both sides, but it was
Speaker 10: deserved retaliation and I stand with Israel on that fact.
Speaker 10: No one can ever take away the action that that
Speaker 10: country performed. I don't want to see what's happening in
Speaker 10: this country go any further. I don't want to see
Speaker 10: if we're seeing the problems we are now with a
Speaker 10: certain religious group of his. We don't know who attacked
Speaker 10: this Mossu, but we do know there is a particular
Speaker 10: religious group they have been.
Speaker 2: Protesting the most.
Speaker 10: I don't want to end up like England, where the
Speaker 10: number one name in that country is Muhammad today. I
Speaker 10: want to remain a country that is not divided on
Speaker 10: racial or religious grounds, and that is the path we're
Speaker 10: heading down.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately in this country right now.
Speaker 1: I can add a new poll to the one that
Speaker 1: I got into great detail during the start of the program,
Speaker 1: and it is the news poll. At this stage, I
Speaker 1: can't see what the overalls are about. Two monty preferred
Speaker 1: all the rest of it year. Again, terrible result for
Speaker 1: the Prime minister. For strong and decisive leader. It's done
Speaker 1: in sixty to Albaneze's forty four, and that apparently is
Speaker 1: the lowest score that a prime minister has ever got
Speaker 1: in that category since they started asking it. In about
Speaker 1: half a dozen different categories. Again, unsurprisingly he's down. And
Speaker 1: these are all just versions of the same message about
Speaker 1: where people are right now, James Again, obviously one nation
Speaker 1: sitting at that seven percent national mark means in other
Speaker 1: places it's way higher. In some places it's way lower.
Speaker 1: It means, of course the Senate picture all of those things,
Speaker 1: and also it means preferences. But we're now getting to
Speaker 1: the stage where last year was so bad a reset
Speaker 1: was needed at the start of this year. This year
Speaker 1: is worse than last year in terms of the ending.
Speaker 1: And the reset is an election.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. Peter Dutton's got a lot of ground to
Speaker 2: make up.
Speaker 10: And while he tends to have these bursts where he
Speaker 10: does well, it's not consistent enough so close to an election,
Speaker 10: and I really want to see more out of Peter Dutton.
Speaker 10: I want to see an assertive bloke who I know
Speaker 10: he is. I know he's capable of it. But we
Speaker 10: could be weeks or months out from an election. At
Speaker 10: the rate we're going. There's words to say that we are.
Speaker 10: You know, there could be an announcement as early as
Speaker 10: Australia Day that we're going to an early election. The
Speaker 10: problem is a coalition of got fifty five seats in
Speaker 10: the lower House. They've got to get at least seventy
Speaker 10: six to govern. There's a hell of a long way
Speaker 10: to go. And labor very good tactically on the ground,
Speaker 10: and they've also made it very very comfortable for themselves
Speaker 10: in the lower House with the Teals and the Greens
Speaker 10: and some of those other cross bench members. Look at
Speaker 10: the relationship with Bob Katter and Anthony Albanezi. You just
Speaker 10: never quite know where people like Bob will go, and
Speaker 10: certainly the Teals, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Teal is a form.
Speaker 10: Of green, it's just a lighter shade of green, and
Speaker 10: you've just got to have a look at their voting pattern.
Speaker 10: Peter Dutton has got to make a very very decisive
Speaker 10: appeal to the Australian public one nation and made it
Speaker 10: very clear we're going to put labor on the Greens.
Speaker 2: Last we did it in the state and look at the.
Speaker 10: Result gave the Coalition here in Queensland, gave them majority
Speaker 10: government in their own right.
Speaker 2: We'll do the same thing in the federal sphere.
Speaker 10: All we asked the Australian people to do is vote
Speaker 10: for us, definitely in the lower House, but also in
Speaker 10: the Senate because we can rebalance things the Senate.
Speaker 2: That's the top part, because.
Speaker 10: At the present moment the Greens have got the balance
Speaker 10: of power and I'd hate to see the Coalition win
Speaker 10: government but then still have to negotiate with the Greens
Speaker 10: in the Senate to get anything past.
Speaker 2: That'd be chaotic.
Speaker 1: Linda, I'm just having a looking at the pendulum from
Speaker 1: the last election. There are ten seats that are four
Speaker 1: percent or under. Okay, so this is your marginal game.
Speaker 1: But as James just said, if you're going from fifty
Speaker 1: five to seventy six, you need a lot more than that,
Speaker 1: which of course means the hill gets higher and higher.
Speaker 1: Is that the assumption amongst labor people that it is
Speaker 1: just that the hill is just I get it. The
Speaker 1: numbers are terrible. The poles are all for this is
Speaker 1: the bad news this and bad that. And you know
Speaker 1: Paul seems very excited at night, you know, for the
Speaker 1: hate watchers, but for Labor people is the assumption that
Speaker 1: the hill is just too high and can't be climbed
Speaker 1: by opposition.
Speaker 9: No, I don't think Labor or the Prime Minister to
Speaker 9: take anything for granted. They know that this election will
Speaker 9: be challenging and that the central question that Australians will
Speaker 9: be asking themselves is who will be the best leader
Speaker 9: to take me forward, to help with my cost of
Speaker 9: living pressures, to help make good policy decisions about the
Speaker 9: future of Australia. And we know that the Coalition have
Speaker 9: put out a range of policies nuclear energy, but not
Speaker 9: really off the ground until twenty fifty. How will that
Speaker 9: believe people's cost of living? How will Peter Dutton and
Speaker 9: the Coalition make a difference to people's price pressures. We
Speaker 9: don't have any of those answers yet. Whether, of course,
Speaker 9: Labor's put so many policies on record, cheaper childcare, cheaper medicines,
Speaker 9: tax breaks, so many things that Labor have done to
Speaker 9: help ease people's cost of pressure, cost of living pressures, Paul.
Speaker 9: So really this is going to be an election about
Speaker 9: you know, who do you trust to support you, to
Speaker 9: help you with your household budget and Australians are going
Speaker 9: to have to really focus hard on that question.
Speaker 1: Because I love you, i'man not hammer home the point.
Speaker 1: But go back to the star of the show. Everyone
Speaker 1: fifty nine percent do you agree with just lobor have
Speaker 1: your back? There's a lot there potentially for a lot
Speaker 1: of people to work with. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: it advance Australia, who we know talked a big game
Speaker 1: but didn't really sort of land the punch in the
Speaker 1: Dunky by election. They of course were a little quieter,
Speaker 1: but had a big game when it came to the voice,
Speaker 1: got a major result and they've decided to absolutely go
Speaker 1: the Greens. This is part of a campaign that is up.
Speaker 1: It's up on their website if you want to go
Speaker 1: and overlook it. But more importantly I saw an ad
Speaker 1: for this on television as a pre roll and one
Speaker 1: of the on demand services earlier today. So it is
Speaker 1: not just the Internet. It is now breaking out of
Speaker 1: that and this is their attack on the Greens.
Speaker 4: The Greens Party is a party of hatred of Western civilization,
Speaker 4: which wants to destroy every tradition we've been built on.
Speaker 3: The Greens are refusing to condemn the vandalism of war memorials.
Speaker 1: Protesting painting is a form of speech. So Linda, I'm
Speaker 1: in tragued here about what they're trying to do here, right,
Speaker 1: because obviously the Tals are the ones who are standing
Speaker 1: in the way of the everyone has a right to
Speaker 1: do whatever. These are not Liberal owned seats and not
Speaker 1: one of those people. But mathematically, the Greens are not
Speaker 1: the problem for the right of politics getting where they
Speaker 1: want to go. So why is advanced going specifically in
Speaker 1: on the Greens rather than labor who is the main target.
Speaker 9: Well, look, I don't know what Advants are doing. They're
Speaker 9: not a group I tend to associated with Signal as
Speaker 9: you can imagine. But look, I mean, I think it
Speaker 9: is correct to say that the Greens are a threat
Speaker 9: to the coalition, and I you know, again raised on
Speaker 9: this show last weekend the idea that Peter Dutton is
Speaker 9: going to have to answer to many Liberal voters who
Speaker 9: will want to understand why he was opposing the government's
Speaker 9: creation of an Environmental Protection Agency, why he was standing
Speaker 9: in the way of more protection for nature, why he's
Speaker 9: opposing renewable energy projects. You know these are going to
Speaker 9: be increasingly difficult for Peter Dutton to answer Christmas week.
Speaker 1: I can't argue there's answers.
Speaker 9: For all of those, right, So I don't think it's
Speaker 9: correct to say that the Greens are not a threat
Speaker 9: just to they are a threat to both well, I.
Speaker 1: Was double checking. The Greens actually did win the seat
Speaker 1: of Brisbane off the Lips, so they didn't even sort
Speaker 1: of go via. There was a straight change, all right,
Speaker 1: quick break back with more including when is the losers?
Speaker 1: Not of the week, not of the month, but of
Speaker 1: the year? Send me emails pault skuydniws dot com dot
Speaker 1: A you and this week we're deciding where we're going
Speaker 1: to go with our town next to you, so putting
Speaker 1: in a bid for your part of Australia. We've seen
Speaker 1: so many wonderful things done, incredible things. I drove a tram,
Speaker 1: all right, I've driven trams, tricks, you name it, trailers,
Speaker 1: bring your wife. You know the point, all right, Send
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Speaker 1: au here with lovely Linda Scott and James Ashby. I
Speaker 1: will give them time for a little bit of a
Speaker 1: shout out and all of that in the moment or
Speaker 1: two's time, as well as their winner and loser of
Speaker 1: the year. But firstly, just quickly, I want to get
Speaker 1: one in the year, which is some people in the
Speaker 1: restaurant game have turned around and said, look, the reason
Speaker 1: we've got to keep migration the way that it currently
Speaker 1: is is because people already in the country don't want
Speaker 1: to do the jobs that many people who come to
Speaker 1: the country are willing to do. James, is she right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, she is. I was at a restaurant last night
Speaker 2: in town here.
Speaker 10: They would be lost without their chefs that have come
Speaker 10: in from overseas. And as much as I hate saying that,
Speaker 10: it's just a fact and a reality, we've got farms
Speaker 10: across this country that will be in the same predicament.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a sad fact. Today. Unfortunately, we're at
Speaker 2: the highest.
Speaker 10: Levels of long term unemployment we've ever seen, and a
Speaker 10: lot of those people would be more than capable of
Speaker 10: doing some of these jobs, but they choose not to.
Speaker 1: All right, let us get to winners and losers of
Speaker 1: the year, lovely living Scott who stands out for you
Speaker 1: as a winner or loser of the year or both,
Speaker 1: got a little bit of time for once, it's not
Speaker 1: a rush.
Speaker 9: I want to put a marker in the ground Paul
Speaker 9: Murray and say, for twenty twenty five, I think you
Speaker 9: have the potential to be the winner of the year
Speaker 9: if you can grow with some mullets. So I want
Speaker 9: to put that marker off to mullet right in the
Speaker 9: ground right now, fair enough. But look, I do want
Speaker 9: to say it's been a tough year.
Speaker 1: I imagine the process of growing it on the one of.
Speaker 9: The lost flowing right be amazing, be amazing. And I
Speaker 9: do want to say, you know, it's been touching the
Speaker 9: cost of living. I was drawn knocking on Saturday around
Speaker 9: Sydney with my local member Tannia bleibisic cost of living
Speaker 9: very much on the front of people's minds and so
Speaker 9: I do want to give a shout out to the
Speaker 9: incredible charities. I do think they are the winners of
Speaker 9: the year in my local patch. You know Christmas Day
Speaker 9: the Wayside Chapel, Reverend Bill Cruz, he's going to be
Speaker 9: out there again on Christmas, Oz Harvest donating so much
Speaker 9: food to people. So I want to say, non politically,
Speaker 9: the winner of the year of the charity and if
Speaker 9: you've got any little spare couple of dollars this Christmas
Speaker 9: is someone a gift of support for someone else, which.
Speaker 1: Is exactly the point. Starting tomorrow night, we're going to
Speaker 1: highlight charities that you might want to give some money to.
Speaker 1: If you're a person who runs an organization, they may
Speaker 1: not be nationally famous and might really help from you.
Speaker 1: The five thousand dollars collective donations we can get out
Speaker 1: of our audience again. Send me in my portsgunews dot
Speaker 1: com dot are you any loser for you? Linda, look's
Speaker 1: I've got one, Kamala Harris.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's the end of my So I'm just going
Speaker 9: to be really diplomatic. Can I do one more shout out?
Speaker 1: Though? Don't you give me shape?
Speaker 9: Read Loon Croissant Bakery. She opened two stores in Sydney
Speaker 9: on a Saturday morning, one in Rosebury wunning mate.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll send me a box.
Speaker 9: Ques around the corner. People were queuing out there since
Speaker 9: like five point thirty in the morning to get one
Speaker 9: of her cross send the well done, can't wait to
Speaker 9: eat them.
Speaker 1: I will give the official pastry tick, but I think
Speaker 1: it's coming well recommended, all right, James Winter or Loser
Speaker 1: of the Year, and in a shoutdout if you'd like
Speaker 1: to give one before we're done.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 10: Sadly, the greatest losers have been in the Australian public
Speaker 10: because of the financial predicament this government have put them in.
Speaker 2: And it's not just this government. It hasn't happened overnight.
Speaker 2: This has been both.
Speaker 10: Major parties, but unfortunately labor have to take ownership of
Speaker 10: the financial predicament.
Speaker 2: But also to those volumes of people that have been
Speaker 2: left homeless.
Speaker 10: It's been a tragic year to see so many people
Speaker 10: left without a roof over their head. I think a
Speaker 10: major shout out should go to my family and my
Speaker 10: partner for putting up with me throughout this whole election
Speaker 10: campaign this year.
Speaker 2: I think they're all glad it's done and dusted.
Speaker 10: But in particular a big shout out to the two
Speaker 10: and a half million small business people who I think
Speaker 10: have been overlooked this entire year. I think there's been
Speaker 10: so many other distractions and the small business people who
Speaker 10: really are the backbone of this country who hire the
Speaker 10: majority of people.
Speaker 2: They've been overlooked. And I know they're going to go
Speaker 2: through a.
Speaker 10: Hell of a Christmas period because you know, there isn't
Speaker 10: that much cash around and they're the ones that go
Speaker 10: to sleep every night with a lump in their throat
Speaker 10: wondering how they're going to pay their bills in order
Speaker 10: to make sure their staff are well paid and have
Speaker 10: a nice Merry Christmas. So big shout out to small
Speaker 10: business bloody.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you guys. I do appreciate it obviously, All
Speaker 1: back next year. We'll be around for a long time
Speaker 1: to come. Sorry, haters, but we're going to be around
Speaker 1: for a long time to come. Thank you to both
Speaker 1: of you for the debates. Thank you for all the
Speaker 1: help on and off the ear. You guys are wonderful friends,
Speaker 1: beautiful people, and yeah, have a wonderful time with those
Speaker 1: that you love the most this holiday period. Merry Christmas
Speaker 1: to you, Merry Christmas to you to Linda. We'll see
Speaker 1: you both again next year. All right. That's our Shafford
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