WEBVTT - Credlin | 19 October 0:00:08.330 --> 0:00:10.810 Good evening. Welcome to the program. Here's what's coming up 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.500 on Credlin. Tonight, Europe on its knees as violent riots 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:18.299 erupt across major cities and political leaders again calling for calm. 0:00:18.900 --> 0:00:21.450 But most are willfully blind as to the real cause 0:00:21.570 --> 0:00:24.650 of the chaos. I'll have the latest for you shortly. 0:00:25.350 --> 0:00:28.670 The Albanese government comes unstuck as it's revealed that ministers 0:00:28.690 --> 0:00:32.030 knew about the ATO credit ban months before they told 0:00:32.090 --> 0:00:36.370 you and small business. As left-leaning think tank the Grattan 0:00:36.409 --> 0:00:40.610 Institute joins Josh Frydenberg in arguing for an increase to 0:00:40.630 --> 0:00:44.880 the GST. From Mao's communist China to the world stage, 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:49.290 the extraordinary Li Shunzhen joins me tonight. For the next 0:00:49.630 --> 0:00:53.530 remarkable chapter in his story, this is the sequel to 0:00:53.570 --> 0:00:59.350 that much-loved bestseller, Mal's Last Dancer. And Victoria, the billion-dollar 0:00:59.410 --> 0:01:02.810 basket case says the true extent of the state's debt 0:01:03.090 --> 0:01:07.200 is revealed. The opposition leader joins me on her plans 0:01:07.260 --> 0:01:10.810 to turn the state around. We'll also discuss her tough 0:01:10.930 --> 0:01:16.160 comments today not to fund mosques or preachers that spew hate. 0:01:16.860 --> 0:01:19.300 And under a government I lead, there will be no 0:01:19.380 --> 0:01:23.620 taxpayer money that goes to organisations where hate preachers are 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.100 saying it is OK to rape and beat your wife. 0:01:29.860 --> 0:01:32.340 Jess Wilson joins me shortly, but first to those violent 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.320 scenes that we witnessed over the weekend in Paris, Marseille, 0:01:36.340 --> 0:01:41.310 Le Mange, right across France. in Milan and Bologna, in 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:45.429 northern Italy as well. Now, it's hard to overstate the 0:01:45.470 --> 0:01:48.990 significance of these events, not just to Europe, but the 0:01:49.050 --> 0:01:53.730 wider Western world. These were not scenes of democratic protests 0:01:53.810 --> 0:01:59.080 or demonstrations of justifiable grievance. They were riots, violent riots, 0:01:59.140 --> 0:02:02.100 pure and simple, and there is a difference. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:26.930 APPLAUSE Stop! Stop! Stop! Freeze! Freeze! 0:02:41.090 --> 0:02:44.230 Although whether or not you were told the truth depended 0:02:44.270 --> 0:02:48.010 very much on who you read or listened to, like this. 0:02:48.770 --> 0:02:54.510 Last night's lead news story on the taxpayer-funded SBS in Australia. Well, 0:02:54.690 --> 0:02:59.410 to SBS, these riots were just mere protests about cost 0:02:59.470 --> 0:03:02.180 of living and general student anger. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:07.079 At least 1,200 people were arrested. It follows three weeks 0:03:07.180 --> 0:03:11.560 of student-led protests... now broadened into action over soaring cost 0:03:11.620 --> 0:03:16.149 of living and declining public services. And widespread political discontent 0:03:16.230 --> 0:03:19.230 is spreading across Europe, where hundreds of thousands of people 0:03:19.310 --> 0:03:22.730 have protested against the rising cost of living and calling 0:03:22.750 --> 0:03:24.109 for the toppling of their leaders. 0:03:25.810 --> 0:03:29.430 Cost of living? Cost of living? Nothing screams cost of 0:03:29.490 --> 0:03:35.880 living more than balaclava-wearing pro-Palestinian thugs looting high-end stores like 0:03:35.900 --> 0:03:39.720 Christian Dior and Hermes. At the time, the riots began 0:03:39.810 --> 0:03:42.650 on Saturday night. Emmanuel Macron and his wife, well, they 0:03:42.670 --> 0:03:45.690 were on the balcony to watch Celine Dion's last concert 0:03:45.770 --> 0:03:48.650 in Paris. And I can't be the only one struck 0:03:48.710 --> 0:03:53.910 by his complete detachment from the cultural implosion playing out 0:03:54.030 --> 0:03:57.850 across the French capital. In the morning, amidst the smouldering rubble, 0:03:57.890 --> 0:04:00.310 Macron spoke to the French people for the first time. 0:04:00.750 --> 0:04:03.810 And while saying he would not tolerate the violence, he 0:04:03.850 --> 0:04:06.720 said he understood the grievance of the students and and 0:04:06.750 --> 0:04:09.860 wanted people to know that they only lashed out because 0:04:09.900 --> 0:04:12.339 they were so fearful about their future. 0:04:13.140 --> 0:04:16.880 Nothing can justify their actions, nothing can explain their actions 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:17.620 and nothing. 0:04:17.690 --> 0:04:19.850 Will excuse their actions. 0:04:20.170 --> 0:04:23.770 We all tonight feel angry, we feel shame as well, 0:04:24.029 --> 0:04:28.380 seeing the disasters that have unfolded in our streets. We 0:04:28.420 --> 0:04:33.510 should never mix up those People, those men and women 0:04:33.550 --> 0:04:37.710 who protested peacefully with looters and rioters, the youth of 0:04:37.750 --> 0:04:42.730 our nation are expressing great anguish and concern about the future, 0:04:43.610 --> 0:04:48.050 the conditions of where their careers will take them. 0:04:50.250 --> 0:04:52.760 Well, the reality is a long way from Macron's spin. 0:04:53.420 --> 0:04:55.240 By and large, the people out on the streets of 0:04:55.260 --> 0:04:58.410 France over the weekend were anarchists. They were activists. They 0:04:58.450 --> 0:05:01.420 were looters and they were Islamists, far more than they 0:05:01.450 --> 0:05:05.719 were upset students. An entire population that's now in France 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.680 who quite literally want to burn the country down. Shops 0:05:09.740 --> 0:05:12.500 were sacked, cobblestones were dug up from roads and thrown 0:05:12.540 --> 0:05:17.520 at police and buildings, reports of synagogues trashed, statues defaced 0:05:18.060 --> 0:05:22.190 and the Palestinian flag flown from monuments across France and 0:05:22.250 --> 0:05:26.980 across Europe. And the anger and dismay of Parisians, well, 0:05:27.260 --> 0:05:29.900 come Sunday morning, that was palpable. 0:05:30.940 --> 0:05:36.010 Like always, always similar situations, you know. 0:05:37.110 --> 0:05:39.850 It's the people who pay the cost, all the costs. 0:05:41.130 --> 0:05:45.570 I think Macron lost totally his trail, really. 0:05:47.190 --> 0:05:48.070 Have no idea. 0:05:49.820 --> 0:05:52.800 Weak Macron's only himself to blame because he's long failed 0:05:52.820 --> 0:05:56.560 to tackle decades of unrest amongst Muslim migrants from the 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:01.000 former French colonies in North Africa that have metastasised behind 0:06:01.020 --> 0:06:04.400 the pro-Palestinian cause into the sort of mobs we saw 0:06:04.490 --> 0:06:08.289 on the weekend. Now, this is not just Macron's fault. 0:06:08.930 --> 0:06:12.010 It goes back decades in France, but he has made 0:06:12.050 --> 0:06:16.370 it so much worse than ever before. In recent years, 0:06:16.430 --> 0:06:20.620 there have been Christian churches burned down across France Priests 0:06:20.700 --> 0:06:25.000 beheaded while saying mass. In 2020, we had the French 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:29.810 teacher Samuel Patti beheaded outside a school near Paris by 0:06:29.850 --> 0:06:34.970 an 18-year-old Islamist radical. And who can ever forget the 0:06:34.970 --> 0:06:39.100 200 people killed in those two Islamist attacks in Paris 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.860 and Nice in 2015 and 2016, respectively. It was only 0:06:43.900 --> 0:06:46.430 a mere decade ago that French citizens took to the 0:06:46.490 --> 0:06:50.470 street chanting Je suis Charlie in solidarity with the murdered 0:06:50.490 --> 0:06:54.770 journalists who worked for the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. 0:06:54.790 --> 0:06:56.970 Je suis Charlie! 0:06:57.210 --> 0:07:02.120 Je suis Charlie! Je suis Charlie! Je suis Charlie! 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:03.720 Nous sommes Charlie! 0:07:03.980 --> 0:07:05.520 Nous sommes Charlie! 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:07.120 Nous sommes Charlie! 0:07:07.380 --> 0:07:08.940 Nous sommes Charlie! 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.690 Eleven years ago, And yet look where France is now, 0:07:14.810 --> 0:07:19.570 gangs of violent thugs, mainly men, dressed in black, wearing balaclavas, 0:07:20.050 --> 0:07:24.830 determined to tear down any symbol of French civilisation. How 0:07:24.970 --> 0:07:29.230 quickly a country can turn on itself. Much of what 0:07:29.290 --> 0:07:32.950 we are watching play out in Paris. was sadly predicted 0:07:32.990 --> 0:07:37.120 by the journalist and author Douglas Murray in his 2017 book, 0:07:37.340 --> 0:07:41.960 The Strange Death of Europe. A deep analytical book, Murray 0:07:42.020 --> 0:07:45.900 chronicled the issues of immigration, identity and Islam across the 0:07:45.940 --> 0:07:49.080 countries of Europe. And if you haven't read this book, 0:07:49.620 --> 0:07:53.220 I urge you, get a copy. Because if you think 0:07:53.420 --> 0:07:56.740 Islam as terror and loss of cultural identity is just 0:07:56.780 --> 0:08:00.239 a problem for Europe, then think again. as the events 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:04.480 of Bondi last year show us all too well. In 0:08:04.540 --> 0:08:08.490 six months time, France will hold its presidential elections and 0:08:08.530 --> 0:08:13.450 Macron is term limited. meaning he can't run again. Without 0:08:13.470 --> 0:08:15.830 a doubt, the events of the weekend will make an 0:08:15.930 --> 0:08:21.030 already tinderbox election race ignite. And as we've seen already 0:08:21.070 --> 0:08:26.070 in recent German elections with the elevation of AFD, polarisation 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.390 of politics between the far left and the far right 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:33.980 will continue now at pace. Many years ago, our geography 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.000 here was seen as a problem. That famous line, the 0:08:37.059 --> 0:08:40.219 tyranny of distance, left many fearing we would be a 0:08:40.460 --> 0:08:44.750 cultural backwater. But for many decades, this in fact was 0:08:44.830 --> 0:08:49.270 our salvation. It meant that the troubles elsewhere either never 0:08:49.309 --> 0:08:52.190 made it to Australia, or when they did, we had 0:08:52.270 --> 0:08:55.410 sufficient time and notice to avoid the worst of them. 0:08:56.070 --> 0:09:00.930 Not so anymore, given the huge unfettered immigration numbers allowed 0:09:01.090 --> 0:09:05.590 in under the Albanese government. Four years now of record 0:09:05.630 --> 0:09:09.940 high immigration from areas of the world where our values 0:09:10.140 --> 0:09:14.080 are not shared. Again, it's staggering that Australia took in 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:19.780 over 3,000 people from war-torn Gaza with scarcely any security vetting, 0:09:20.300 --> 0:09:23.220 with the vast bulk of them having never returned despite 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.760 the war ending. Worse still, the government reports now that 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.520 the majority of them have lodged refugee applications to stay 0:09:30.620 --> 0:09:35.490 in Australia permanently. Whistleblowers are now telling me that the 0:09:35.570 --> 0:09:41.010 Albanese government's rapidly approving citizenship in many cases, within 12 0:09:41.010 --> 0:09:45.080 to 18 months. The city committee says this has nothing 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.980 to do with good process and everything to do with 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.260 trying to lock in a new pro-Labour voter base before 0:09:51.380 --> 0:09:55.929 the next federal election. Whatever it takes is the Labor motto. 0:09:55.960 --> 0:10:00.040 And with increasing pressure from Muslim political groups like Muslim 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.459 Votes Matter and Muslim Voice in key seats in Melbourne 0:10:03.500 --> 0:10:08.520 and Sydney, capitulation and appeasement now appears to be the 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:12.910 Labor way. And yet when I speak to Muslim leaders overseas, 0:10:12.970 --> 0:10:17.730 their message is precisely the opposite. It's one of warning, 0:10:18.309 --> 0:10:21.670 not appeasement. as it was in June when I sat 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:27.520 down with Amjad Tahir, an expert in Middle Eastern politics 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:32.920 and strategy, a Muslim man based in the United Arab Emirates. 0:10:33.620 --> 0:10:34.360 This is a problem. 0:10:34.460 --> 0:10:38.050 Some people in Australia, they're trying to be more Muslim 0:10:38.090 --> 0:10:40.630 than I. You will not be more Arab than I. 0:10:40.690 --> 0:10:43.030 You will not be more Muslim than me. And I'm 0:10:43.070 --> 0:10:44.790 telling you, ban the Muslim Brotherhood. 0:10:45.190 --> 0:10:48.470 So is the long game to take over these Western countries, 0:10:48.630 --> 0:10:50.910 is that the long game? for the Muslim Brotherhood? 0:10:51.210 --> 0:10:55.330 Yes, there will come a point right now where I 0:10:55.370 --> 0:10:57.950 believe we're going to be in the time of action. 0:10:58.350 --> 0:11:01.790 The next step is action, which means they're already recruited, 0:11:01.820 --> 0:11:05.079 especially after the 7th of October. He gave them enough 0:11:05.620 --> 0:11:09.220 place to recruit people and use that emotion and grab 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:09.559 on them. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.160 And then they went through the education system also. 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.590 So now they have enough fund in terms of the 0:11:16.620 --> 0:11:19.809 charities that they use and the umbrella of the charities. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.960 And they have enough imams, and they have enough recruitments. 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.220 The next is action. They will carry terrorist attacks. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.730 More terrorist attacks are coming to Australia, more coming to 0:11:29.750 --> 0:11:34.210 the United Kingdom. There will be terrorist attack. And you 0:11:34.230 --> 0:11:37.370 will go back into this interview that we're having to 0:11:37.410 --> 0:11:41.230 remind people, we did warn about this. It's not because 0:11:41.250 --> 0:11:43.730 we're very smart and clever about this, and we have, 0:11:44.170 --> 0:11:48.580 it's because the Middle East understand that these terrorists. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:49.000 Because we suffer. 0:11:49.220 --> 0:11:51.880 What's your message to Australia? 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.100 Ban the Muslim Brotherhood. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:59.860 Do not tolerate people who do not tolerate you. And 0:11:59.960 --> 0:12:01.720 treat your country like your home. 0:12:02.260 --> 0:12:05.860 And treat the citizens like your children. Care about them. 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.880 Future is really dark if you're going to allow these 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.690 guys to be the elites, the Muslim Brotherhood to be 0:12:11.710 --> 0:12:13.130 the elites of your society. 0:12:13.809 --> 0:12:16.270 You have a great history. Protect your civilization. 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.480 And this, a seminal speech in 2017 from the UAE's 0:12:22.540 --> 0:12:27.229 foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahan, who gave 0:12:27.270 --> 0:12:31.730 the politicians of Europe a massive wake-up call. Speaking at 0:12:31.870 --> 0:12:35.270 an event in Saudi Arabia, he predicted that Europe would 0:12:35.290 --> 0:12:39.460 eventually see a greater number of radical extremists and terrorists 0:12:40.140 --> 0:12:43.459 emerging from its own borders than from the Middle East. 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.580 And he blamed this on the lack of decisive political 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:51.370 action from Western leaders, and their obsession with political correctness, 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.830 calling out Muslim organisations in the West who he described 0:12:56.270 --> 0:13:00.550 as acting as incubators of terror. And to make sure 0:13:00.610 --> 0:13:04.230 his message was heard loud and clear, the UAE foreign 0:13:04.270 --> 0:13:09.120 minister deliberately switched from Arabic to English mid-speech so that 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:15.660 his message could be directly understood without translation drift or ambiguity. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:18.840 And let me say this in English so you can 0:13:18.900 --> 0:13:19.760 understand what I'm saying. 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:21.780 I have translation. 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.600 No, I know you have translation, but I just want 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:30.260 to make sure you get it right. There will come 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:35.679 a day that we will see far more radical extremists 0:13:36.070 --> 0:13:41.230 and terrorists coming out of Europe because of lack of 0:13:42.690 --> 0:13:49.709 decision making, trying to be politically correct, or assuming that 0:13:49.770 --> 0:13:52.670 they know the Middle East and they know Islam and 0:13:52.690 --> 0:13:56.010 they know the others far better than we do. And 0:13:56.890 --> 0:13:59.240 I'm sorry, but that's pure ignorance. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.260 There you go. That's a warning from a Muslim leader 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.900 there that could not have been any clearer. Import the 0:14:06.940 --> 0:14:10.599 third world and those values that hate who you are 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:18.739 and don't be surprised by what happens. All right, let's 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.230 head to Canberra now for tonight's political headlines with our reporter, 0:14:22.250 --> 0:14:24.170 Ken Redden. Good evening. 0:14:24.590 --> 0:14:27.830 A beef over meat exports is threatening to derail a 0:14:27.870 --> 0:14:29.410 free trade agreement with Europe. 0:14:29.590 --> 0:14:32.270 We've called this the worst trade deal ever from day one. 0:14:32.620 --> 0:14:36.340 The agreement was inked in March after eight years of negotiation. 0:14:36.500 --> 0:14:39.450 But to take effect, it has to first pass the parliament. 0:14:39.750 --> 0:14:43.910 We get one opportunity to reach an agreement with the Europeans. 0:14:44.070 --> 0:14:44.510 This is it. 0:14:44.790 --> 0:14:48.710 The nationals are withholding support, arguing it's a dud deal 0:14:48.790 --> 0:14:49.470 for farmers. 0:14:49.910 --> 0:14:53.740 In particular, dairy industry will face massively unfair competition from 0:14:53.780 --> 0:14:54.860 European cheesemakers. 0:14:54.900 --> 0:14:57.820 It's not perfect. But we don't think there's a reason 0:14:57.880 --> 0:14:59.920 there to say that this should be held back. We 0:14:59.960 --> 0:15:01.930 want the parliament to get behind it. 0:15:02.220 --> 0:15:05.440 One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is refusing to apologise for 0:15:05.460 --> 0:15:09.240 the latest cartoon controversy, this time for an episode mocking 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.620 the private health battles of independent Senator Jackie Lambie. 0:15:12.940 --> 0:15:16.740 Decent leaders don't stir up hatred, pushing us towards bloody anarchy, 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:18.540 because that's exactly what she's doing. 0:15:18.780 --> 0:15:21.520 Have a bit of a laugh, Jackie, and lighten up. 0:15:22.090 --> 0:15:25.810 I physically can't care. It's called satire. That's what we do. 0:15:26.220 --> 0:15:28.710 Cameron Redden, News 24, Canberra. 0:15:30.870 --> 0:15:33.190 All right, let's go now to the latest controversy surrounding 0:15:33.230 --> 0:15:37.690 the Melbourne Muslim organisation, My Centre, and its leader, Samir 0:15:37.870 --> 0:15:40.990 Abu Hamza Mokhtari. We discussed this at length, as you know, 0:15:41.030 --> 0:15:44.550 last week. The Premier has today contemned the comments from 0:15:44.590 --> 0:15:49.280 this imam regarding family violence and rape. but stopped short 0:15:49.300 --> 0:15:53.020 of ruling out further community funding for the group, in 0:15:53.060 --> 0:15:58.840 particular to expand their current facilities out in Melbourne's northern suburbs. 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.380 They want, of course, to build Australia's largest Islamic centre 0:16:02.830 --> 0:16:06.150 in the Melbourne area of Mickleham. Now, a reminder here, 0:16:06.170 --> 0:16:09.510 the site in question has been promised some $ 600, 000 in 0:16:09.590 --> 0:16:12.870 funding from state governments, but when pressed on the matter, 0:16:12.930 --> 0:16:16.790 the Premier said it was McTardy's leadership that was under question... 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.550 but that the centre itself did good work. He then 0:16:20.630 --> 0:16:24.210 said that the opposition leader, Jess Wilson's comments about the issue, 0:16:24.690 --> 0:16:27.990 which included her saying that the Liberals would stop funding 0:16:28.110 --> 0:16:31.500 my centre, were, quote, loose with the truth. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:36.240 That's, again, her being very loose with the truth. 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:39.560 I caution her. 0:16:39.380 --> 0:16:44.350 To be very careful about the accusations she has made 0:16:44.620 --> 0:16:45.790 on social media today. 0:16:47.650 --> 0:16:49.010 All right, we'll get into that in a moment, but 0:16:49.050 --> 0:16:51.370 I'll bring in the opposition leader because we've got some 0:16:51.930 --> 0:16:55.050 really disturbing, worrying news just breaking now in relation to 0:16:55.130 --> 0:16:58.510 Helen Haynes, who, of course, is the independent MP in 0:16:58.530 --> 0:17:00.520 the seat at Indi, a federal seat up near sort 0:17:00.540 --> 0:17:03.520 of Wangaratta Way. Reports are this afternoon, Jess, that she 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:08.040 has been struck by a car. What we're hearing is 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.219 she may have lost a limb, lost a leg, and 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.280 there is some suggestion, unconfirmed, but a suggestion that she 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:15.220 may have been targeted. 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.650 Well, my thoughts are with Helen and her family. This 0:17:18.690 --> 0:17:23.330 sounds like an absolutely shocking incident. I cannot imagine the 0:17:23.410 --> 0:17:25.950 fear and the trauma that her family is going through 0:17:26.010 --> 0:17:26.810 right now and my. 0:17:26.750 --> 0:17:29.490 Thoughts are with her and as this incident unfolds. Yeah, 0:17:29.590 --> 0:17:32.010 I just think it's just a reminder, isn't it, that 0:17:32.109 --> 0:17:36.439 when the hurly-gurly of politics, whatever the circumstances here, you 0:17:36.500 --> 0:17:38.179 all wish each other well. Of course you do. Of 0:17:38.220 --> 0:17:38.600 course you do. 0:17:38.619 --> 0:17:40.219 We're all people at the end of the day and 0:17:40.660 --> 0:17:43.500 my best wishes are with Helen and her family right now. 0:17:44.260 --> 0:17:48.280 So the Premier says today when you speak out about 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:52.340 the sermon from Abu Hamza, the Imam, and his comments 0:17:52.380 --> 0:17:56.159 in relation to, you know, it's okay to rape a 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.520 wife in marriage, it's okay to beat your wife, provided 0:17:59.540 --> 0:18:02.560 there's no blood and no bruising. When you speak out 0:18:02.820 --> 0:18:05.220 in relation to that, you're loose with the truth. 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.250 I think it is appalling by the Premier, his comments today. 0:18:09.900 --> 0:18:12.950 This man, this hate preacher, to your point, has said 0:18:13.010 --> 0:18:16.210 that it's OK to rape your wife or to beat 0:18:16.450 --> 0:18:22.149 your wife in Victoria. That is disgusting behaviour. And I 0:18:22.190 --> 0:18:25.070 will call that out, Peter. I will always call that out. 0:18:25.550 --> 0:18:29.090 And to see Victorian taxpayer money go and fund this 0:18:29.150 --> 0:18:33.609 centre where this man is the preacher is unacceptable. And 0:18:33.650 --> 0:18:36.250 I will be direct. I will not allow that to 0:18:36.290 --> 0:18:39.460 happen under my leadership. I will not allow there to 0:18:39.500 --> 0:18:42.459 be further permit approvals when it comes to the expansion 0:18:42.580 --> 0:18:45.720 of this site because I will always ensure that we 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.439 are putting people's safety first and we are standing up 0:18:48.619 --> 0:18:49.910 for our Australian values. 0:18:50.190 --> 0:18:54.030 So these comments were made I think in about 2003, 0:18:54.030 --> 0:18:58.470 but they resurfaced in 2007. They drew the attention of 0:18:58.530 --> 0:19:00.910 Kevin Rudd. He was Prime Minister at the time. Plenty 0:19:00.950 --> 0:19:03.840 of headlines. You go from 2007 to a whole series 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:10.800 of payments made by to this organisation and organisations connected 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.940 to Samir Moqtadi, after he says that. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.220 How does that happen? How does that happen? And this 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.020 was raised with the government. We have raised this in 0:19:20.060 --> 0:19:24.960 the parliament here, our concerns about this organisation and this 0:19:25.020 --> 0:19:29.469 individual receiving taxpayer funding. And yet the government has continued 0:19:29.510 --> 0:19:32.209 to allow it to happen. And I think Victorians have 0:19:32.290 --> 0:19:35.450 had enough of this. They've had enough of the Premier 0:19:35.790 --> 0:19:38.689 standing up and saying one thing, but then continuing to 0:19:38.770 --> 0:19:42.540 see taxpayer dollars fund this, funding this type of behaviour, 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:43.619 and it is unacceptable. 0:19:44.090 --> 0:19:47.860 Okay, he wants to build, my centre has an offshoot 0:19:47.900 --> 0:19:51.340 called My College, he wants to build a largest ever 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:56.459 Islamic centre. There'll be a huge mosque, primary schools for 0:19:56.500 --> 0:20:00.180 girls and boys, primary schools, high schools for boys and girls, 0:20:00.260 --> 0:20:04.930 all segregated, of course. And he wants to do this 0:20:06.580 --> 0:20:10.639 There's about $ 11 million already raised by the organisation. He 0:20:10.660 --> 0:20:13.290 put an application in earlier this year, Jess. It is 0:20:13.570 --> 0:20:18.090 on the desk of Sonia Kilkenny, the Planning Minister. We've 0:20:18.130 --> 0:20:21.860 got an election, what, a month away now. How does 0:20:21.900 --> 0:20:25.600 that get stopped or do you inherit that? this Islamic 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:27.379 centre involving this man? 0:20:27.810 --> 0:20:31.910 Well, we say to the planning minister, do not approve 0:20:32.030 --> 0:20:35.150 this planning permit. Do not do so before the election. 0:20:35.470 --> 0:20:37.950 We have an election in 40 days. There is no 0:20:38.030 --> 0:20:41.109 need to approve this now. But as I said this morning, 0:20:41.369 --> 0:20:43.910 and I will be very direct again with your viewers tonight, 0:20:44.369 --> 0:20:46.600 I will not allow this to proceed. I will not 0:20:46.670 --> 0:20:49.200 approve this planning permit and we will not see another 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.000 taxpayer dollar go to this centre. 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.090 So if you wake up On the Sunday after the 0:20:54.109 --> 0:20:55.950 election and you're the Premier, will you tear it up 0:20:56.070 --> 0:20:56.750 if it's been made? 0:20:56.810 --> 0:20:57.030 Yes. 0:20:57.550 --> 0:20:57.890 You will? 0:20:57.950 --> 0:20:59.270 Yes. That simple. 0:20:59.910 --> 0:21:03.119 We are not seeing hate preachers, people talking about the 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:06.719 fact that it is OK to rape your wife or 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:10.899 to beat your wife. That is disgusting. And at a 0:21:10.980 --> 0:21:14.830 time in Victoria when we are seeing community safety put 0:21:14.980 --> 0:21:17.550 at the end of the priorities from this government, but 0:21:17.650 --> 0:21:21.820 also the amount of family violence increasing It is not 0:21:21.859 --> 0:21:23.350 good enough and I will put an end to it. 0:21:23.900 --> 0:21:26.300 This would make the first premier, in fact, first political 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:29.020 leader in the country right now to do more than just, 0:21:30.060 --> 0:21:33.020 you know, decry hate speeches, Jess, if he actually took 0:21:33.060 --> 0:21:33.879 a stand against them. 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:36.700 I've always said, Peter, that, you know, people can stand 0:21:36.810 --> 0:21:39.950 up and they can say that anti-Semitism has no place. 0:21:40.010 --> 0:21:42.270 They can stand up that hate speech has no place. 0:21:42.770 --> 0:21:44.170 But words are cheap. 0:21:44.390 --> 0:21:46.510 You actually need to take action and that is the 0:21:46.570 --> 0:21:48.310 exact type of premier that I will be. 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:51.470 Well, let's go to other issues. Debt obviously is a 0:21:51.510 --> 0:21:56.910 huge focus. Reports out today the Victoria situation is worsening 0:21:57.090 --> 0:22:00.189 by the moment. We know we have concerns from rating agencies. 0:22:01.210 --> 0:22:03.250 A lot of people are saying you've got to get tough, 0:22:03.570 --> 0:22:06.010 you've got to deliver sort of an austerity budget and 0:22:06.070 --> 0:22:11.179 turn things around. There's no more taxes Victorians can pay. 0:22:11.340 --> 0:22:15.260 I mean, the most taxed individuals and businesses in the 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.520 country are Can you turn this around and can you 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:20.840 turn this around and not make it even harder for Victorians? 0:22:21.220 --> 0:22:23.320 We have to turn this around. And when I became 0:22:23.340 --> 0:22:27.020 the leader, I said my number one priority was repairing 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:30.280 the budget. Because unless we repair the budget, we cannot 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:34.240 fund the essential services that Victorians rely on. Our healthcare services, 0:22:34.619 --> 0:22:37.500 investing in more police, making sure that kids here have 0:22:37.540 --> 0:22:41.200 the best possible education. That is what is at stake here. 0:22:41.570 --> 0:22:44.530 And that's why we have outlined our 10-year economic vision 0:22:44.590 --> 0:22:47.520 for this state. We have committed to a cash surplus 0:22:47.740 --> 0:22:51.030 by 2032. And in simple terms, Peter, you know what 0:22:51.070 --> 0:22:53.850 this means. That means that there is more money coming 0:22:53.930 --> 0:22:56.929 in than what is going out. And only then can 0:22:56.970 --> 0:22:59.830 you stop borrowing and start to reduce the debt and 0:22:59.890 --> 0:23:03.450 reduce the interest repayments so we can guarantee the essential services. 0:23:04.109 --> 0:23:06.870 Can you cut the back end, Jess? Because everyone wants 0:23:06.910 --> 0:23:09.650 more police. We want more ambulances so we don't have ramping. 0:23:10.210 --> 0:23:15.520 But I've never seen a more bloated public servants bureaucracy 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:18.889 class in Victoria. And we saw from that IBAC report 0:23:18.930 --> 0:23:22.929 last week, you know, $ 300 million given to people who 0:23:22.970 --> 0:23:26.240 were never eligible for those business loans and then covered 0:23:26.340 --> 0:23:28.399 up by this very same bureaucracy. 0:23:28.850 --> 0:23:32.350 Well, we've seen Victoria's public service grow by 60% over 0:23:32.390 --> 0:23:36.070 the past decade, while population growth has only been 19% here. 0:23:36.410 --> 0:23:39.070 And that's exactly why we announced that we will put 0:23:39.170 --> 0:23:42.609 a hiring freeze on the back end of the public service. Now, 0:23:42.650 --> 0:23:46.000 that doesn't affect our teachers, our fireys, our nurses, our doctors, 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:48.859 our police officers, but it stops the growth of the 0:23:48.940 --> 0:23:51.869 back end, the bureaucrats in the public service. so that 0:23:51.890 --> 0:23:55.130 we can actually invest in those frontline and essential services. 0:23:55.570 --> 0:23:59.960 That delivers us a $ 22 billion saving over the next decade. 0:24:00.340 --> 0:24:04.220 They are the disciplined and responsible decisions that we must 0:24:04.340 --> 0:24:07.420 make to repair the budget. But most importantly, to your 0:24:07.460 --> 0:24:10.980 first point, we can't keep taxing Victorians. We need to 0:24:11.040 --> 0:24:13.790 grow our economy here. We need to attract investment back 0:24:13.830 --> 0:24:16.010 to this state. And that's why we've made a number 0:24:16.050 --> 0:24:21.129 of announcements around reducing taxes of businesses on individuals. to 0:24:21.190 --> 0:24:24.290 put more money back into the pockets of Victorians, to 0:24:24.369 --> 0:24:27.889 grow our economy here. But most importantly, we need to 0:24:27.950 --> 0:24:30.840 ensure that we repair the budget so we can guarantee 0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:34.119 the essential services. I have the team, I have the plan, 0:24:34.460 --> 0:24:36.679 and I have the experience to get this done. And 0:24:36.700 --> 0:24:39.909 we are absolutely determined that we can see all Victorians 0:24:40.070 --> 0:24:41.290