WEBVTT - Sharri | 29 April 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:05.479 Live on Sky News. This is Sharry. 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:11.000 Good Evening. Just days out from the federal election, Anthony 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:15.120 Alberzi picks a fight with a global ratings agency. How 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:19.320 he's put EGO above the national interest. Plus the Prime 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.960 Minister has the audacity to accuse Dutton of lacking courage 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.240 by coming on Sky News at night. Well, if only 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.560 Albanezi had enough metal to front up and face the 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:35.600 tough questions. Thugish labor lined unionists gate crash Dutton's event 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:40.360 with school children, But will labor apologize? And how the 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:45.080 national polls are getting this election campaign wrong? Well that's 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:49.240 according to one season political analyst who'll be on tonight. 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.760 And it's another massive show tonight every night this week. 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:56.040 I told you tonight we've got James Patterson, Ray Hadley, 0:00:56.160 --> 0:01:01.600 Steve Price, Andrew Carswell and Cameron Milner. Now just days 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.800 out from the federal election, and Anthony Albanizei has picked 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:10.039 a fight with a highly reputable global ratings agency. The 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:15.039 Prime Minister has scoffed and ridiculed the non partisan agency 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:19.640 for daring to raise concerns about its massive pre election 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.840 off budget spending. It's never ending billions of dollars in 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:29.000 election announcements to buy voters. Now, this should be a 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.560 wake up call for the Prime Minister, but instead he's 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:39.399 mocked the agency. It's an utterly astonishing response. Now to recap, 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.960 the Ratings Agency Standard and Pause has issued a warning 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.760 that Australia's Triple A credit rating is at risk because 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.920 of out of control spending. And this includes over one 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.840 hundred billion dollars of spending that it hasn't actually been 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:59.240 budgeted for. It's on the NBN Snowy Hydro Clean Energy 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:03.440 Finance Corporate Ration, the pledge to pay sixteen billion dollars 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:07.520 off every student's XTEP, twenty percent of every student's XTET, 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:12.800 among many other promises. Now, this is a serious warning. 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:17.120 And here's what the Ratings Agency told Sky News Business Now. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.720 And what we are seeing is a lot of spending 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.440 across both parties and minor parties as well, and we're 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.440 really curious as to how it's going to be funded. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.560 And that's the real issue for US. Deficits of two 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:30.680 to two and a half percent of GDP are consistent 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:32.359 of the Triple A, but are they going to be there? 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.000 Are they going to be my three or four percent 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.720 post GFC levels? We don't know the answer to that yet. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.320 So the agency says debt funded election spending was pushing 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.240 up government outlays to the highest since World War Two, 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:50.880 and extremely serious warning. But bizarrely the Prime Minister isn't 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.480 taking it seriously, he scoffed when asked a question about 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.760 it on the ABC last night. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.840 All of this adds up to what Standard and Pauses 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.080 saying is that there's too much spending and it's putting 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:06.560 Australia's Triple A credit rating at risk. Well there's no suggestion, frankly, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.120 the Triple A credit rating is there. 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:14.079 So the Prime Minister's claiming there's no issue when the 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.520 ratings Agency was so concerned it issued a public statement 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:22.440 in black and white days out from the election. Former 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:27.560 Treasurers Peter Costello and Scott Morrison Josh Fredenberg I used 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.120 to go to New York and sit down with the 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:34.840 agencies and argue their case in official meetings. They treated 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:39.920 the agencies with respect. They'd furnish them with information, explain 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.920 their economic plan and thus they managed to keep Australia's 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:48.920 roll gold rating. They certainly didn't mock the agency publicly, 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.800 as Albanzy went on to do in his very next sentence. 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.760 And you wouldn't be surprised at this, because Albanezy isn't 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:02.520 a serious, sophisticated player. He's juvenile. And he bizarrely went on, 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:07.000 as you're about to hear, to deride the financial analysts 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:12.400 at this respectable global ratings agency and then try to 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:16.520 deflect his own economic mess by blaming the opposition. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.200 They must have been beside themselves whoever wrote that particular 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.640 report when the coalition left us with a seventy eight 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.400 billion dollar deficit, we turned that into a twenty two 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:29.479 billion dollar surplus. 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:35.840 Now, two things about that statement. Firstly, it's factually inaccurate. 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.400 The final budget outcome for the coalition's time in office 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.440 was thirty two billion, not seventy eight billion that he 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:47.080 keeps lying about. And in fact, Friedenberg left the budget 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:51.680 in a position for there to be a surplus, which 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.600 he achieved through strong labor market and higher than expected 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:59.640 commodity prices. Now, Albinizy was even corrected on this by 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.159 feel in the nine debate, so he knows it's not true, 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.640 and yet he still knowingly continues to lie about it. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.440 And Trudy McIntosh and other journalists picked him up on 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:15.200 this again today. Still he wouldn't concede anything now. Secondly, 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:19.159 that derision that you heard there of the agency is 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:23.480 unbefitting for a prime minister and it could also backfire 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.440 with S and P if they were line ball on 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:31.000 whether to downgrade. Alberanze's comments are more likely to make 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:36.880 them do so. His glass jaw has potentially threatened Australia's 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:42.040 national interest. As former Treasury official Spiro Premaitis wrote today 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.359 in The finn Review, Albinzi is a leader who shrugs 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:50.359 off credible criticism. Is not reassuring the public, but is 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.680 either demonstrating that he doesn't understand the problem or is 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:58.400 choosing to ignore it. A typical response from Albanezi to 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.640 bury his head in the sound. And Spiro writes, when 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.400 a major credit ratings agency sounds the alarm on a 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:10.880 government's fiscal trajectory, a serious national leader listens, They explain, 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:15.520 they reassure, they set out a plan, he says. Prime 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.320 Minister Anthony Albaneze did none of these things. Instead, he 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:22.359 mocked the report's authors, dismissed the warning, and pointed to 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.600 a temporary budget surplus, as if that were the end 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:30.640 of the matter. It isn't an Australians deserve better. A 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.760 strong piece from Spiro and he says this fails the 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:38.080 test of leadership. And thankfully the knightlyes. Latika Burke pulled 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:42.120 Anthony Alberzi up on his disrespectful comments about S and 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:42.719 P Today. 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.640 Prime Minister last night you said quote they must have 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:52.280 been beside themselves whoever wrote that report. Now, if Peter 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.680 Dutton questioned an independent expert in the way you did 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.559 last night, you would be going full tropo and saying 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.040 he was Marga or Trump. So why is it okay 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.960 for you to question the independence of experts? And Treasurer 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.640 Jim charm was if you lose Australia's triple A rating, 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.120 will that disqualify you from being Australia's next Prime minister? 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:13.280 Thanks Letika. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.120 What I was doing last night was pointing out a 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:20.640 fact that we have been responsible economic managers and if 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:25.040 you compare and if you compare what our position was 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:30.040 of two budget surpluses, compare that after we under the 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.760 Labor government, was what delivered the triple A credit rating? 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.280 Is talking about your future record, PM, it's talking about 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.200 the future of yesterday's. 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.440 In fact, the coalision the triple A credit rating despite 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:49.520 the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression, and Albanizi 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.280 has now put it at risk during a time of stability. 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:58.240 Albinizi also ignores the fact that he's increased structural spending 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.080 and that this has exactly debated inflation and now this 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:06.400 spending threatens our triple A rating. The night These editorial 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.280 says that, in other words, you can't ramp up public 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:15.880 spending to stratostraphic levels to disguise a recession, then rash 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.120 it it up even more with no plan and how 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:23.240 to pay for it without expecting some long term consequences. Somehow, 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.160 in Albanesi's upside down world, this is the way out 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.640 of a growing government debt crisis. Give people more stuff 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:35.640 for free and call it responsible economic management. The Nightly 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:40.040 says it's an absurd contradiction, devoid of logic, and as 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.760 you know, the Prime Minister prefers to blame inflation on 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.400 overseas factors, on wars and Donald Trump. 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.760 That's why, through everything the world has thrown at Australia 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.760 over the past three years, the worst global inflation in 0:08:55.960 --> 0:09:01.120 four decades, the biggest international energy crisis in half a 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:08.160 century and even now trade tensions fueling new global economic uncertainty. 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:14.480 Our government has faced these global challenges the Australian way. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:20.080 The budget black hole that Labour's created is truly alarming. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.040 But if we lose our triple A credit rating, this 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:27.679 could lead to higher debt servicing costs, slower growth and 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:32.960 even potentially higher interest rates. Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor warned 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.040 about some of this here on the show last night. 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.640 Now S and P is telling us the rating agency 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.040 that there's real risks now to our ratings. If our 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.960 rating has dropped from triple A, we will see impacts 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.960 on interest rates in this country, impacts on government interest 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.559 rates but also interest rates for the economy more generally. 0:09:54.840 --> 0:10:00.120 And that's a very dangerous place to be taking Australia. 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.640 Ye downgrade would be a vote of no confidence in 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.720 the Albanese government, and the Prime Minister can't just shrug 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.480 it off and pretend there's nothing to see here, as 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.200 he's inclined to do. 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:15.439 Now. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.200 When I spoke to Peter Dutton last night, he told 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.439 me about the hostile press pack he's had following him 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:22.800 around this campaign. 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.360 I just think they're so biased and many of them 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:31.439 just activists not journalists, that their position becomes counterproductive and 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.280 they're playing to a particular audience, to a Green voter. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.880 And frankly, as the Prime Minister's demonstrated, his whole government 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.240 has been about how do we please the inner city 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:47.400 green voter in Sydney and Melbourne. That's why he's taken 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.480 such a soft stance in relation to anti Semitism. The 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:55.480 left wing media frankly, by polling day I think will 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.520 be counterproductive in what they're doing now. 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.920 This is really something you can't argue with. Dutton has 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:08.880 been met with far more aggressive, argumentative, antagonistic questions from 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.439 the journalists on his campaign bus, and in truth, their 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:17.600 opinions masquerading as questions in many cases. Here's one journalist, 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.240 this is Channel seven reporter Isabelle Mullen. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.400 Can you disclose that you were the beneficiary of a 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.120 family trust in twenty fourteen? So, Dutton, aren't you being 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.480 tricky with the truth not to answer today? Aren't you 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.599 being tricky with your own truth at the moment? And 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.440 your candidate has described China as a grub of a 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.800 country and said feminists were to blame for Trump's loss 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:38.760 in twenty twenty. 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:40.480 What do you think of those comments? 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.839 Is his enthusiastic support for Donald Trump a problem though, 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.559 mister Dutton? Is his coat. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.800 Now that's only matched by ABC journalist Evelyn Manfield. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.800 So was that answered by mister t and a mistake? 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:57.560 And also was. 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.480 Your answer yesterday on wester Erusalem the mistake? Sorry? 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:03.520 Well you had to your office had to go and 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:04.080 clarify it. 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:04.920 So was it a mistake? 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:05.079 No? 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:07.960 Happy to take you. Is it a question you want 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:08.400 to ask? Sorry? 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.640 Just yeah, yeah, sure questions? 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:11.520 Can you get some of those? 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.079 If you get some of those questions answered, would you 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.360 from Keir Starmers say, would you be willing to. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:20.360 Change your mind? I don't have prospectively, would you be 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:21.440 willing to change your mind? 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:22.040 Mister Dutton? 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.719 And of course they're not alone. Have a look at 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:27.319 more of the same. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.520 Which forty one thousand of them might not have a 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:31.600 job in six weeks. 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.040 How is it that the Liberal Party has recruited so 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.360 many members of a religious section for dot and fault 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:37.080 to hand. 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:38.560 Out for it, whether it is how your gas plan 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.679 is going to get electricity bills down, or how you're 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.800 going to spend the health and education budgets. Why is 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.079 there is delay on letting voters into the secret. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.040 Mister Dunton, we don't see a lot of your softer side. 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.440 Do you think that your time as a police officer 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.240 led you to have a black and white view of 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:56.640 the world. 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.480 And Dunnan has spoken about the ab we see in 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.160 the Guardian, describing them as hate media. And you can 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:08.360 understand why the ABC is funded by the taxpay It's 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.200 meant to be impartial, especially during an election campaign. But 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.559 here was the reporter behind well known attacks on liberal 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:20.440 figures targeting Dutton last night on primetime television. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.880 Some First Nations leaders say this was part of a 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.040 pattern for Peter Dutton when it comes to race. Do 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.000 you think that Peter Dutton has an issue with race? 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:36.800 We uncovered fresh details about the Dutton family's dealings and 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:43.600 the people that they've done business with. A large proportion 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:48.800 of the Dutton family's wealth comes from private childcare, often 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.360 bought and sold through trusts. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:57.080 Hardly unbiased reporting just days out from the election. I mean, 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:00.360 if ALBN Easy had been involved in childcare business, he'd 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:04.520 been making that a virtue of his election campaign. But 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.400 Darton deals with these attacks. He takes hostile questions from 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.480 the traveling press pack on a daily basis. He's used 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:14.320 to it. But then Alban Easy dead today to mock 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.520 him for supposedly not fronting up to tough questions and 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.200 instead coming on Sky News. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.720 I did the seven thirty report, Lafsata. I know that 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.880 Peter Dutton is courageously showing strength by doing Paul Murray 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.920 tonight for the second time in the campaign. 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:31.440 I'm sure that will. 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.760 Be a rigorous cross examination of their costings. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.840 I mean Alban Easy speaking of a lack of courage 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.720 is like Putin claiming he stands for peace or a 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:47.680 lifeguard afraid to get where It is laughable. If anyone 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:51.280 doesn't have courage to face tough questions, it's Alban Easy. 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.360 He's never had the courage to come on Sky News 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:59.000 during prime time when the audience is highest, not with 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:03.000 Peter Kredlin, Andrew, Paul Murray or me to answer what 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.960 would truly be tough questions about the state of our economy, 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.840 the cost of living crisis, national security and his gross 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:15.960 mishandling of social cohesion and during the antisemitism crisis, which 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.880 the Director General of ASIO said was the greatest threat 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:23.520 to life in Australia and still is. Albanezy repeatedly refused 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.560 to sit down for an interview, never mind that I'm 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.960 the only Jewish nightly television host in the country. And 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.360 as for Paul Murray's show, on both occasions that Dutton 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:37.320 has appeared during this election, he's faced questions from voters 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.600 that he couldn't prepare for and that he didn't know 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.720 in advance. That was the case of the pup test. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.880 And it'll be the same tonight and we look forward 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:53.560 to watching it in just under an hour's time and 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.920 joinning me now to discuss all of this and more. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.320 Radio legend Ray Hadley Ray, great to see you again. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.200 I don't fill alone in the Prime minister's non performance 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.680 on Sky. He used to mock me at question time 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:10.560 about my interrogation of Peter Dutton every Thursday. Dutton had 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.800 been appearing on my radio show for probably a decade, 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.400 and then when he became opposition leader away from being 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.840 a minister, he appeared every Thursday. I suspect I made 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:26.040 via my producers one hundred requests for Anthony Alberesi to 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.880 come on the program and face some tough questions. He 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.960 never ever ever he's got a heart about the size 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:33.040 of a caraway. 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.440 Seed, he never ever ever presented himself. 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.720 I'm looking forward to Peter Dutton being with Paul Murray 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:43.880 tonight because he's a genuine, decent person and all this 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:45.320 rubbish and God. 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.320 Blessed Latika, God bless Latika. 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.680 I ran into her at the debate that went before, 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.200 and she reminded me of our past history when we 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.040 both worked in the same place. And she has come 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.240 many many killers meters since in terms of her professionalism 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:03.640 and the way she put it to in them. I'm 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.520 very proud of it, and I'm proud of you too. 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.240 I'm proud of brave young women who are prepared to 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.080 stand up to these people who don't answer the questions. 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.160 But one of the things I think, as we lead 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.119 into the election on Saturday, with many millions having already voted, 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.320 I just don't understand Peter's been at more petrol bowsers 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:27.400 than an interstate truck driver, But that twenty five cents reduction, 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:32.200 in excise, it will mean the world. It's fuel, it's diesel. 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.760 The only feel that doesn't include is aviation fuel. It's 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.960 a really important thing and the other thing is announced recently. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.280 You may be aware that there will be a tax 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.240 on July one and Anthony Albernezi tax on motor vehicles, 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.800 particularly the trucks that are driven by the trades, and 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.680 there are millions of them out there. One of them's 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.880 a Forward Ranger now. 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:52.640 From July two. 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.200 If you want to buy yourself a Forward Ranger, it's 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.320 going to cost you fourteen four hundred dollars more. If 0:17:58.359 --> 0:17:59.760 you want to buy a RAB four which is not 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.080 a truck, trying to cost you about four grand more, 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:03.719 about three thoy eight hundred dollars. 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.439 If Peter Dutton's Prime minister, that won't be happening. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.399 I was, families understand this. Do you think no attention 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.560 enough or the messages got through to them all? 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.000 No? Because of left wing media or a disgrace. 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.800 I mean, I don't need anyone to tip to me 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.040 how those two young ladies from the ABC and CHANNERL 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:22.439 seven are going to vote on start they have they 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.240 haven't already they won't be voting for Peter Dutton, Come on, mate, 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:25.720 Rather than. 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.159 It's not even about how they personally vote, it's that 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.360 the work they would then produce or journalists like them 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.879 in the Herald, in the Guardian and other You know, 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.480 you can understand why you read articles that are so 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.919 negative when those are the journalists asking the questions. 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:43.000 See, I've been accused and I'm happy to carry the 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.000 you know, the epitaph of being a right wing shock jock. 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:48.199 That's what I was. I was a commentator. I was 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:48.800 not a reporter. 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.080 I'm like, you're a commentator, like Paul Murray, like Peter Kredl, 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:52.960 and like Andrew Bolt. 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.160 I'm a commentator. And what my. 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.400 Program was based on for nearly thirty years was my opinion, 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:02.720 my firmly held opinion. Those people are journalists. They don't 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.600 have an opinion. If they do, they've got to hide it. 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.199 They must hide that opinion from view. They must be objective, 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:13.080 not subjective. And what we saw in that excerpt or not. 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.080 The bosses think watching the press. 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.640 And maybe their bosses feel the same way about that. 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:19.920 But at the end of the day, if you're a journalist, 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:24.200 and I've never been a journalist, and I mean I'm 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.160 not saying that bastfully, I've always been a commentator. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.680 Well, when I was a political journalist, and I was 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.960 political editor for the Daily Telegraph before that political report 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.240 if the Stunday Telegraph, I didn't even vote. I wasn't 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.720 even on the elector role for about fifteen years because 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:39.879 they did take it so seriously. 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.280 Well, look, there needs to be an examination. 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.119 But you know, you can't blame the media ultimately. You 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:49.320 know he is facing hostile questions, but you can't blame 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.080 the media. And there has been a lot of the 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:55.919 Liberal campaign could have done better, stronger, stronger attack ads. 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:58.920 You know, if I have announcing their policies, if. 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.199 I'd have been formulated, and I would have started with 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.800 the Voice three hundred and sixty million, what's named up 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:06.320 against a wall by the Prime Minister. 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:08.119 All he had to do was divide the question. 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:11.320 The first question was should there be Indigenous recognition of 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:12.000 the Constitution. 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:14.800 Yes, there should be. Then the voice. 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.520 We had the niAA, the Coalition of the Peaks, costing billions 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:19.080 of dollars. 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:20.399 We didn't need another body. 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:21.879 So all he had to do was catch it in 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.920 that way, two separate questions, and the first one would 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.880 have been carried and now we won't get a crack 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:31.040 at recognizing Indigenous people for another five Prime ministers and 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.919 that's a disgrace and that's all down to Anthony Albanezi, 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.679 his pig headed attitude and just on the journalists in 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.000 relation to this. I know what you say is true 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.240 that there have been mistakes made by the Liberal Party 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.000 and the mistakes that should have been requified way way 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.520 back five weeks ago. But at the end of the day, 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:50.840 the message getting out to the masses is coming from 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:55.520 people with a set agenda. Asked the really difficult questions 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:57.720 of Peter Dutton, the Dorothy dixs. 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:59.840 If we used to call them go to the Prime minister. 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:01.480 That's what happens. 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:03.359 That is exactly what we've seen. No, I want to 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:07.639 speak to you about capital gains tax. Unrealized capital gains tax. 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:11.960 Now this should be a coalition scare campaign. I mean 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:13.600 a lot of voters don't know about this. 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:17.880 This is people who've retired on one of them. Yeah, 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.480 partially people who I'm. 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:22.040 Doing my best to stop you from retiring. 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:23.119 Rate people who have retired. 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:26.720 I've got to realize this unrealized capital gains it's not 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:30.000 on your shares or your property portfolio that you sell. 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:32.800 And when I say property portfolio, most retire res try 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:34.560 to have some sort of investment property to keep the 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.399 income coming in or shares, you're going to have to 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:42.600 pay tax, according to Anthony Albanezi, when they increase in value, 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:45.159 not when you realize the asset, when you sell it 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:47.840 and you're paying capital gains for other things. These are 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:52.119 things you'll pay on the way through. Now it's a 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.119 three million dollar limit. Now, you know, people say, well 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:57.119 that's a lot of money, having super three million dollars. 0:21:57.320 --> 0:21:59.520 If the Greens are in coalition, which I think they 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:01.639 would have to be for him to be Prime minister, 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:05.200 they want it down to two million dollars. Now, aspirational 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:07.959 retirees over the age of sixty five or in my 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:11.359 case seventy, who've worked their backsides off for forty five 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:13.879 or fifty years as I have, well, it's not a 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:16.640 large amount of money to make sure that you aren't 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:19.560 an imposition on the taxpayer, that you are self funded 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:22.840 and you're looking after yourself. That's the way most Australians 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:24.720 want to live. They want to live in a way 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:26.560 that they're not a burden on their family or on 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:29.639 the taxpayer. And all of a sudden, the Prime Minister 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:31.600 in coalition with the Greens is going to jam it 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:35.560