WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 16 January 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.960 From the Sky News Center. This is Paul Murray Live. 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:07.160 Happy Thursday. 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:09.479 Welcome to the nan Kid, Come on in, take a seat. Now, 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.040 about the lady you've just seen on television, You know 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.000 how much I admire her personally well professionally. Now as 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:19.239 well as always, Shari's reporting that she brought you at 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.200 the start of the show an hour ago led the 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.800 world all right, literally as you would imagine here at 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.720 Sky News Banker Televisions, all the different news channels around 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.080 the world, the only one that was reporting the delay 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.199 this one why because of Shari's reporting, So congratulations to 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.040 her and her team. The rest of the world now 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.559 follows the breaking news that was supposed to be the 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.519 beginning of a light at the end of the tunnel, 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.120 which may well be delayed because of the behavior of Hamas. 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.600 The Israeli government was apparently going to be meeting in 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.920 the past hour or so to start to ratify a 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.960 process that would eventually lead to hostages being released. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:57.240 But as Shari. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.920 First brought you that information, it is currently laid fingers 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:02.960 cross things get back on track sooner rather than later. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.000 But all of this incredibly precarious world under Sherry and 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.160 her team more details at skynews dot com dot au 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.840 now tonight. On this lit'll Telly show lots to get to, 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:16.360 including Albo rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic or 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:20.160 refreshing his government for the next phase of its awesomeness. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:21.920 I think you can tell which way I'm going to 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.319 go on this. And and Banta's leader of the Greens 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:29.839 is now begging, begging Australia to give the Abaneze government 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.680 a minority, which would mean he gets more power. 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:33.520 What will he do with it? 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:37.760 Well, not to stop Dunton, but kill off Conservatism. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:39.160 We'll get to that in the second. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.560 And the one of Omegan Kelly on fire for the 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:43.720 first time in twenty twenty five Yady Place. 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:45.600 You see her right here every. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:49.040 Week, so he goes there because he's like, well, I'm 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.800 royalty and everyone loves me. I make people feel better 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.800 when they see me. The mere sight of me makes 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.040 people feel But you're in the wrong country, son, go home. 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.240 First bit of whild weather, not just what happened in Sidy. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.240 In fact, as we speak about twenty thousand homes in 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.640 and around the southeast of Queensland currently in a world 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.800 of pain with actually no power whatsoever. The Qurey Males 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.320 front page referring to what was a tornado or something 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.480 similar to it? Now obviously that's people's descriptions of it, 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.480 not an official readout from the Weather Bureau, but a 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.880 huge changing temperature today meant that there was a big 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.160 storm as we speak. Plenty of people are just double 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.000 checking the damage. But at the very least this is 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.519 the latest that we got from the authorities in Queensland. 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.800 Very much indicative of a very energetic atmosphere as well, 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:40.720 fuel by very unstable conditions are on the Darling Downs especially, 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.680 and even parts of the Salt Burnett could see some 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.360 severe storms this afternoon. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.000 Needing I mentioned when we were on the air last night, 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:49.880 but what about that storm in Sydney. If you happen 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.000 to live through it, like millions of people, did you 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.080 know how frightening it was for everyone else? You can 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.960 have a look at the pictures lightning strikes, one of 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:03.240 seventy three thousand that took place in and around New 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:07.120 South Wales as that storm was rolling its way from 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.359 west to east. As I told you, a person has 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.040 died as a result of a tree falling on their 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.680 car in Cowra about one hundred thousand people ending up 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.320 without power at some point in time in the past 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.600 twenty four hours. But I want you to see again 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:26.600 that's seventy three thousand lightning strikes. This was I think 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.240 from the weather Zone people and it was up on 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.480 the Herald's website, but worth showing you. Seventy three thousand 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.600 lightning strikes bang bang bang, bang bang in and around 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:37.760 all of Sydney. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:37.960 Now. 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.040 I double checked with the Rural Fire Service about whether 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.280 any of these resulted in fires that would have obviously 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.880 been instantly put out when it comes to rain in 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.040 some parts. But as we know, lightning can start fires 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:51.240 and with strong winds all the. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:51.560 Rest of it. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.400 At this moment, there is no sign of anything other 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.320 than what has passed in the past twenty four hours. 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.520 The cleanup job pretty massive. 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.560 Here in Beecroft. The rain had still been marketing and 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.600 down this morning. STS crews hard at work working to 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.400 clear one of more than two thousand and two hundred 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.120 jobs that have been called in across the states. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.080 So summer, you may say, but what specifically this summer 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:18.720 is causing? 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:19.320 What happens? 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.200 The joy of this network is that we've got to 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:25.520 Weather Channel who can tell us that rainfall is just 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.279 going to continue thanks to that low pressure system offshore, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.520 and we will continue to see those storms. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.560 Throughout Friday, Saturday and even into Sunday. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:40.480 But something is really fascinating at times like this. As always, 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.080 we admire the professional people that are involved in the 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.880 emergency services in every part of this country. But I 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:52.080 also admire the many thousands more who are part of 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:56.960 our response to storms big and small, to fires big 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.839 and small, to car accidents, to all sorts of things. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:04.000 The volunteers who work for the state emergency services or 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.599 the rural Fire Service or the country Fire or whatever 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:11.159 the version is in your particular state. Now, these people, 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.440 on top of their normal life, where they've got their 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.640 families and they've got their jobs and they've got everything else. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.839 In the middle of the night, phone goes off, Bang, 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:24.560 they jump, they go to no financial return. It is 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.320 only when there are extreme events, and this happens every 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.520 few years, where an awful lot goes on for an 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.120 awful lot of days, and sadly a lot of people 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.080 lose their lives, that there's some sort of parade in 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.960 the street or major thank you. But I want to 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:42.600 be very clear that we think every day the people 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.640 who volunteer their time or work professionally to go towards 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:51.600 people in a time of need. Now, these are all 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.839 statements of fact, all obvious things to mention, all things 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:56.719 that we know. And there's a very good chunk that 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.080 quite a few people watching us right now, either currently 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.400 or at some point in their life life, knows somebody 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.800 or were the somebody who has been doing the volunteering, 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.159 working the hoses, working the chainsaws, all. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:08.520 The rest of it. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.120 But there are other people in the media who seemingly 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:18.280 forget about this volunteer spirit. Now there's a lefty who 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.320 writes in the Turbul Times, otherwise known as The Guardian, 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.640 and she has moved to a regional area and apparently 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.680 there was a little bit of a spot fire and 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.559 of course quite a panic where she lives. I'm glad 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.560 the fire is out. Everyone's okay. This is not a 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.440 nan nah about that. But it's what she wrote about 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.640 this experience of a community coming to her aid that 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.120 kind of made me think, what. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:44.200 World do you live in? 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:49.599 Mate? She says that after the fire had been there, 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.400 all these people sort of came out of the woodwork. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:57.720 So many people materialized as if by matter transporter, sort 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.520 of like being beamed in Star Trek style. They arrived 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.919 and the utes on the back of trucks. They seemed 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.360 to appear out of the scrub. I really don't know 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.800 how They worked, spraying water on the flames and wedged 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.640 as wedge tail eagles rose above the paddocks to pick 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:16.200 off the wildlife fleeing. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.000 From the melee. That's how it went. 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.080 Hour after hour they came and went from the road, 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.480 working with chainsaws, in bulldozers, on fire trucks, in their 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.400 own utes, the volunteers, and a whole collection of people 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.880 who had obviously focused in in and around the paddock 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:37.960 where it was all taking place. How is this a 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.360 surprise to anyone? How is this a surprise to anyone 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:47.560 whose job it is, in part to comment on regional Australia. 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.880 This is what happens, This is what has forever happened 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:57.040 in Australia. Now, while many publications want to talk about 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.280 what the cause of the intensity is or how can 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.840 be done to potentially avoid those intensities, that reality is 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.480 that as long as there has been humans in Australia, 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:11.920 they have gathered together to try to manage the land 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.000 of most recent years, when our tools have got better 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.720 and our capacity to get to a fire faster. As 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.400 soon as you see smoke in a regional area, if 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.520 you're safe, if your property safe, you head to the 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.360 place where it is, because you can help put it out, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.840 because you don't want anyone to go through the travesty 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.360 that is a fire. But again, I get back to 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.160 this worldview of this person writing for the Guardian, who 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.480 you know, a very florid writer. I'm sure is a 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.920 lovely person, and I'm glad that they're okay, okay, But 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.319 what about this bit in the end. The whole week 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.640 reminded me that though the world may be a challenging 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.600 place in twenty twenty five, none of those people cared 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.720 how we voted. They just turned up, leaving their families 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.000 behind on a public holiday to give hours and days 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.240 of their lives to put the fire out at someone 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.000 else's place. There But for the grace of God, et cetera. 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.360 Because you don't don't talk about that in Agarni. Because 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.000 of them, no people or animals, buildings were lost. Those 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.959 volunteers gave me perspective, They gave me hope. Well, I'm 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.440 glad you got the hope now, but why did you 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:23.640 or anyone else need this reminder? When it floods you 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:28.640 do not care about what anyone in the vicinity of 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.920 you who you can help thinks about any issue in 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:37.080 the world. I would believe that ninety nine point nine 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.920 nine nine nine percent of people that even if they 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.480 were at war with their neighbor and something was going 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.360 on where their house was a threat, they would try 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.160 to save their neighbor, let alone the people who help 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:54.280 complete strangers. It's what we as humans and decent humans do. 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.680 But it's something in particular that our version of this 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:03.760 in Australia is nothing new, but it's breaking news to 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.640 people who write in some parts of the Australian media. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.319 Now again, I'm glad you learned the lesson. My point 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.960 here is that there should have been no lesson to learn. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.880 While people who work for The Guardian would hate every 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.680 word of anything that I say on this program for 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.320 as long as I have been on the television, that 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:30.080 would not prevent me or anyone else from trying to 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.440 put a fire out in their backyard or trying to 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.960 save their life. If I was in proximity to be 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.960 able to do so, or to save their property. I 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.000 would hope it to be vice versa. I would trust 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.920 that it is vice versa. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.199 But some people get so wrapped up. 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:49.560 In this concept of this side, that side, left versus right, 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:55.480 that somehow there's some giant emotional mote between humans that 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.080 means we won't take care of each other because of 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.679 what we believe. And yes, there are parts of the 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.880 world that have war and have sectarian none of that's 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:09.600 in Australia. None of that is in Australia. It is 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.240 in part why the conversations of the past couple of 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:16.600 years have been so focused about making sure that regardless 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.000 from where you come from, what family connections you have, 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.360 what other flag you may call your own in terms 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.000 of your past, the only one that matters is. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.679 Ours about our collective. 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:35.080 Humanity, which is on show every single day. It's on 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:39.120 show when you call trip below. It's on show if 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.439 a volunteer is the nearest person to help you, and 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:48.280 it is on show when a stranger is close enough 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.920 to be able to help. I'm glad this person learnt 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.360 their lesson. I'm sure there will be a series of 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.520 angry get squares from other people at their publication. This 0:11:56.600 --> 0:12:00.240 is not about that. It's just about someone who was 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.800 surprised that we help each other. Yeah, that's what we do. 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:11.680 We've always done it. Meantime, Prime Minister today well rearranges 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.640 the deck chairs on the Titanic. If you believe the 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.959 book is he's headed to well, the back door may 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:18.840 well be pushed not just in a minority, but out 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.920 of government and all of this because as you know, 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.720 Bill Shorten is well having the forever farewell from Australian politics. 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.360 This is after he's got a job at the University 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.400 of Canberra. One of the people who helped give him 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.720 the job was the person who he had hired to 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.800 do the review into the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Now 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.280 wonder they call it the Canberra bubble. You work for me, 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:45.000 I work for you this way, that way anyway. Well, 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.040 those that have all got the promotion are Katie Gallaher 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:54.760 and Ali Amanda Rishworth and Annaka Wells. So let's have 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.480 a look at this list of winners who get all 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:02.520 the more powerful as the Prime Minister try to change 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.600 things in the lead up to an election. Katie Gallaher, 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:09.160 Finance Minister formally of course, the Chief Minister of the 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.800 Act and anyone who's been really following along was accused 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.679 of being one of the mean girls. Now, of course 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:18.800 she gets another promotion, another job, presumably a little bit 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.160 of extra money that comes with it. Happy to be corrected. 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.960 Remember she, of course was the one who lied in parliament. 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.760 She gets a promotion. She's of course sitting around with 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.719 Jim Charmers and the Prime Minister trying to pretend that, oh, 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:34.520 we've saved the budget an awful lot of money and 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.480 it's way better than we've ever been, despite the fact 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.640 that the Financial Review says that labor is losing control 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:46.040 of a broken budget and the government spending, according to 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.200 independent analysts, is now one and billion dollars in hidden 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.439 spending because it's all off budget. So what a funny 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.160 way that your budget looks better if you're able to 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.160 move more than one hundred billion dollars off the budget. 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.800 Another person who gets a promotion today an a Lee. 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.600 Now you know Anne as a person who had been 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.520 around the media plenty. She did some deradicalization work, I 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:12.160 think the in Western Australia. She's also pretty famous since 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.600 they came to government and she was still a minister 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.720 of being sort of chief actor behind the Prime minister, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.120 you know, all the pulling faces and all the rest 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:23.920 of it. And because she's so good at pulling the faces, 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.320 well she is going to end up with the new job. 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.960 Okay, But of course she's also. 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.160 An example of how this government is getting left her 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.760 by the day. Her further elevation and getting closer to 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.200 power in Australia. Well she's now just a little bit 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.120 closer to being able to be in a position well 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.080 maybe they could move Australia day. She's one of the 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.960 ones who thinks it needs to move. And if you disagreed, 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.360 apparently it was all racist trolling that she received. What 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.680 about Amanda Rishworth, I think she's from South Australia. Now, 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.920 this is the genius who decided to follow on and 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.120 get rid of the Cashleist debit card. This was one 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.080 of the first things the Labor Party did and they 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:02.720 were proud of it. And look at me, I'm holding 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.720 up a photo when everyone on the internet who doesn't 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:09.000 read the details just sees the photo. Of course, the 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:10.880 decision of this government to get rid of the cash 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:16.400 lists debit card has created huge problems like in Suduna 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.720 in her home state, one of the areas in regional 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:24.280 Australia that have said when people have been freely able 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:30.800 to spend welfare money on things like gambling, drugs or alcohol, 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.320 they are right back in the problems that they were 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.240 before the government started to turn around and say, no, 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.840 this gift from your fellow taxpayer, this welfare, this support 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.520 is only for the things that matter, like food and 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.080 housing and things for your kids. But no, no, she 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:51.160 moves further up the pole. And interestingly today someone at 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.640 the Daily Mail reported on a pretty eagle eyed reader 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.520 of government reports because while we know the acknowledgment to 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:03.840 country is almost anything that this federal government does, apparently 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.800 there was an acknowledgment of autistic people which was also 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:12.640 delivered by this minister in a report. It was about 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.360 acknowledging autistic people their families, cares and support networks in 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.280 the same way they talk about the traditional custodians of 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:20.920 the country. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:22.880 They get woker by the day. 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:28.440 Anika Wells she moves into cabinet. Now now she's a 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.600 minister from Queensland seat of Lily One that's under attack 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.800 from both the Liberals because of cost of living and 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:38.240 the Greens because of the rental and housing situation that 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:42.720 is around. She apart from other things, is also the 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.800 Sports Minister. And remember, despite the fact the Prime Minister 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.840 said to all of his MPs as soon as they 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.800 became ministers, don't go to the Melbourne Cup, she went 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.040 to the Melbourne Cup. And she went to the Melbourne 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:57.720 Cup with a bit of corporate hospitality. She was also 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:03.400 accused of arranging taxpayers travel to just accidentally be in 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.719 Melbourne on the day before the Melbourne Cup was there 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.600 to be run. She represents one of the poorer electorates 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:14.600 in Australia, yet she has got it down pat She's 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.840 got the upgrade elbow just running. 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:18.360 Through her veins. 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.720 More of the people who get promoted under a government 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:30.640 whose decisions have made the country go backwards. Citizenship, let's 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.040 talk about this here because of course we welcome anyone from 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.719 lots of different parts of the world. Why because if 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.600 you're able to fit the criteria, do the tests show 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.199 your passion, you are welcome to help us write the 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.879 next chapter of our country. You leave the worst of 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.399 wherever you've come from behind and you live the best 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.760 of what happens here. Interestingly, the Herald Sun revealed a 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.679 story today that about a third of all of the 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:01.600 people who have been sitting for citizenship tests have actually 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.560 failed them. The Herald someun can reveal that more than 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.159 one hundred and eighty three citizenship tests were taken, but 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:11.879 only one hundred and twenty two thousand past, So a 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.359 third of all people who wanted to come and were 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.080 allowed to sit the test and presumably had a chance 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.480 of coming into the country where they failed the test, 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.840 meaning that the near record migration which has happened under 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.399 this government could have been even a third larger in 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:33.800 the past twelve months. Remember the ABS data that shows 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:37.560 that net permanent and long term arrivals from January September 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.159 last year was three hundred and ninety eight hundred. 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:40.679 And fifty people. 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:44.040 That's higher than the previous record, as in the most 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.359 number ever into the country, which was set by the 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:52.439 same government in twenty and twenty three. And while we 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.720 accept anyone from anywhere because they are relevant to the 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:01.119 story of the future for all Australians, the reality of 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.320 the numbers of people that this government has been pump 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.480 priming into the economy to make the federal budget look 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:09.160 good creates an awful. 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:09.640 Lot of problems. 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.280 With twenty seven million people in the country right now, 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.640 when you add another million in just a couple of years, 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:18.679 guess what happens. All of the cues get longer, the 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:22.800 cues for a rental property, the cues for a hospital bed, 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:27.719 the cues for a place at your local school. So 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:31.359 those numbers could have been even bigger by potentially a third. 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:34.560 But remember what their promise was, Oh, I don't know. 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:36.560 In twenty twenty four, they're definitely going to get to 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:38.840 on top of immigration please. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:40.359 Now. 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.159 In and around Australia Day and the endless debate around it, 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.880 there are the two views the minority of view, less 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.040 than twenty percent of people who share the Lydia thought 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:54.520 view of things. Invasion Day, Terrible Day. Somehow will keep 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.560 all of the modernity, but could you somehow hand back 0:19:57.640 --> 0:19:59.200 the keys to I don't know what the plan is 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.199 here right for a huge proportion of people, or the 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:06.040 best part of seventy percent of people, Australia Day is 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:07.200 just how good's this joint? 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:11.120 Not Wide Pride Day, not Southern Cross Tattoo Day. 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.439 It's a day where you just celebrate the awesomeness and 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.199 the peace that is our country. Yes, we're aware of 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:19.520 sins of the past, but we are aware of the 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.600 opportunities of the future. And that opinion poll which came 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:25.320 out this week showing sixty nine percent of people showing 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.160 support for Australia Day to remain on January twenty six 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.359 is not breaking news to any of us, a little 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.919 bit like the volunteer spirit has not breaking news to 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:38.800 any of us. And perhaps maybe it's something to do 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:42.439 with want to reject wokeness yet believe it or not, 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.960 this constitutional scholar writing yes even in the Channel nine 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.719 newspapers says that it's time for lefties to wake up 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:52.240 and reject wokeness. And we know what's been happening over 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:55.080 in the United States, and fingers crossed what might be 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:59.160 about to happen here in Australias. We seem to have 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:04.520 gone past peak wokeness. But I'll tell you why I. 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.040 Think things have slightly changed in the past ten years. 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:14.399 It's because, for an extremely significant number of people, Australia Day, 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:16.679 January twenty six is the day where people decide to 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:20.960 join the greatest club in the world, Australia. It's where 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.000 they decide to put up their hand to pledge to 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:27.600 honor and support everything to do with this country, and 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:31.760 they make a better life. So rather than just stabbing 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:33.639 around in the dark, I wanted to work out just 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:37.000 how many people have become Australian citizens, not over the 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:40.560 past ten years overall, but in the past ten years, 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.760 including the one that's about to come up. How many 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:48.160 people became Australian citizens on Australia Day. Well, we got 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:51.159 this number back from Home Affairs which tells us one 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:54.399 hundred and eighty two hundred and ninety eight people have 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:56.480 become Australian citizens. 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:57.960 On Australia Day. 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:02.160 That's why I think part people's attitudes toward the day 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.880