WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 28 October 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.120 From the Skying Center. This is Paul Murray Live. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.080 Thank you, Chari, see you again tomorrow night. Welcome to 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:09.559 the program. 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:11.039 Wide a weekend in Queensland. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.560 So on top of it, Erebus winning the Sunday Race 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:14.640 at the Golf Coast. 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:17.200 It was a fun weekend. Thank you very much for 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:18.279 all of your support over it. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.840 Now, obviously we start to turn our attention towards the 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:22.959 United States. We'll get to that a little later tonight 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.960 with Analyze Nielsen. But first, of course, let's talk about Australia. 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.479 For as long as we've been doing the Ourtown project 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:31.840 was about five years and growing now. 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:34.280 And I look forward to it continuing for many more years. 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.479 I've had the absolute privilege of being able to see 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:43.479 little towns, big cities, regional centers, and something is obvious 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.280 every time we go to many of these places, which 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:50.360 is that there are two Australias. There is the heavily 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:54.640 urban eye sort of woke inner cities. There's the suburbs. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.880 But then of course the other is regional Australia and 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:01.760 the priorities that are often talked about by the media, 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.960 that is sitting in those urbanized environments talking to other 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.960 people in and around the inner cities is often a 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.400 world away from the experience of those who live hundreds 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.200 of kilometers away. The joy of our town is that 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.560 we're able to connect and show our commitment to those 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.160 regional areas every single month, and we try to talk 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.480 about regional issues at the start of the program on 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.800 nights like this. And there is no greater example of 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.240 the two Australias than what is playing out right now. 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.600 Beautiful Broken Hill, far western New South Wales, a place 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:37.080 we went to for our town recently. There was always 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.400 a dream of mind to go to Broken Hill. The 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:43.920 legendary television and radio broadcaster Clive Robertson had always told 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:45.760 me that this is the ultimate place to go and 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:47.520 see the sunset and the ultimate place to look at 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.000 the stars. He wasn't wrong when we had the chance 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.520 to do so. But as you know, the story of 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.080 Broken Hill is something we have been talking about for 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:59.200 the past week or so because it's a town that 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:03.240 has had no power. Now, no power doesn't just mean 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.960 that the TV doesn't work. It means that the fridge 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:11.360 doesn't work. It means that the that the heater or 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.840 the fan you can imagine right you will know what 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.120 it's like to lose power for a couple of hours, 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.080 kids freak out because there's no internet. Will imagine an 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.400 extended period of time that is part of ten days 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:26.639 that that's been taking place. Now slowly relief has made 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.519 its way towards Broken Hill. Today, the New Suba's government 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.960 was growing that they are sending emergency food trucks because 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:38.720 of how much food has frankly gone rotten because you 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:43.080 can't keep it cold for many people who don't live 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.720 in the absolute center of Broken Hill. The further out 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.160 you go, the more supply you end up trying to 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:53.040 keep in a freezer in the garage. Of course, no power, 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.400 no food, food that all has to be chucked, but 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.160 food that isn't just to get you through the next 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:00.960 couple of days, It could be a whole lot longer 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:08.640 than that. And there is an absolutely brilliant journalist writer, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:17.600 Rogue Larken, who I have adored following for years. Jack 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.000 Marx is his name, and Jack has been a reporter 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:25.600 who has done classic news stories. He's somebody who's done features. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:29.600 He told incredible roguish stories in a fabulous book about 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.920 some sort of forgotten Australian history and he feels like 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.800 a bloke sometimes from a different era, but he lives 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.200 in Broken Hill. And he wrote one of the most 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.200 powerful things that I have read in a long time 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:47.440 today in the Australian newspaper. While everyone's distracted by business 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.200 class flights and upgrades and elections and all of those 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.920 sorts of things, this is what he wrote about the 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:58.360 beautiful city that feels like a town that is Broken Hill. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.040 He talks about how the power has been out for 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:05.480 ten days, the troubling town has been its own way, 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.120 in its own way, entertaining. Argent Street's never been so 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:13.080 jammed with kids on BMX bikes. McDonald's blessed with emergency 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.920 power or sold more burghers than the slaughterhouse can cope with. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.720 Home invasions are at an. 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.560 All time low because burglars can't find their way through 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.240 the front or the back doors. He knows this from 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:29.599 personal experience, because of course it's so dark. He goes 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.560 on to say, the real problem is that Australia doesn't 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:36.000 give a hoot about Broken Hill, not since we stopped 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.680 producing over half of the nation's export wealth for most 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:42.000 of the twentieth century. The mines are pretty much empty 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.520 now Broken Hill is a welfare republic. A quarter of 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.479 the city is on pensions, the other quarter is on 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.360 the dole, so it's payback time. Politicians would rather us 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.480 move to the coast or throw ourselves down one of 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.800 the mine shafts and never climb out. We cost them 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.760 too much and the money sorely needed to build stadiums 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.160 where blokes can smash each other faces in and then 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:05.279 defecating hotel lobbies. His comment, of course, is about priorities 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.200 and many of the themes that I talk about on 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.040 this show, and the way that I view the world 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:16.800 through those who lead our governments, the media who supposedly 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:21.719 hold them to account, and the businesses that profess to 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.080 have something called a social license, is that you can 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.000 see the priorities of all of those organizations. And when 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.880 the city of Broken Hill went into darkness, there was 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.080 the odd little mention of the news, a little brush 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.839 past it here and there, but it wasn't treated as 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.880 if this was a significant thing that was happening to 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.560 our fellow Australians and that help should have been sent 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:47.560 much earlier, much faster. And that includes people to talk 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.159 about it, because when we talk about it, it helps 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.919 force the politicians to get off their backsides and actually 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.280 do something. He goes on again, this is a spectacular piece. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:58.640 I won't read it all to you as much as 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.640 I would love to read from the very start. At 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.480 the very end, he says, I went to the letterbox. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:09.279 There was a bill from Essential Energy. The power was out. Fortunately, 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:14.680 my toilet does not rely on electricity. I love Jack Marx. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.279 I honestly think he's got a unique and very special talent. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:19.960 If we can get him on the Telly sometime soon, 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.800 He's been on the show many many years ago, I'd 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.920 love to do so. But Brokenhell should be very proud 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:28.680 that it has a voice like Jax to be able 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.320 to put it in a very straightforward manner. What they've 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.320 been through for the past ten days and what for 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:38.039 more than a week would not be acceptable if it 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:42.560 was a suburb of Canberra, would not be acceptable if 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.480 it was a place that the people in the media 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:48.839 go to for holidays after things like bushfires. But because 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:53.240 it's way way out, people didn't respond to it in 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:57.560 the fashion that they should have. This is an excellent 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:03.200 juxtaposition two Australias people who literally sit in the dark 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:07.160 for ten days with a trickling of attention and a 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.560 trickling of hope that is now starting to catch up, 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:15.680 and a national conversation about just how taking for granted 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.680 political and media classes about things like the front of 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.720 the plane, you know. Of the past couple of days, 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.320 the story that is fast turning into a scandal for 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.680 the Prime Minister is about the number of upgrades, free 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.280 upgrades that he got from Quantus. He of course got 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.960 them while he was the Transport Minister. He got them 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:42.800 while he was the shadow Transport Minister, and presumably the 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.800 same when it came to private travel as both opposition leader. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.480 So we've got a problem here where the people who 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:56.160 are charged with taking care of people in Broken Hill 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:01.320 are so disconnected from the people in Broken Hill that 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.520 they just take for granted that they are going to 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.200 be spoilt by an airline that they are supposed to 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:11.680 be regulating. But they become so familiar with this airline, 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:13.920 and this airline is very clever at being able to 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:18.800 Dutchess politicians and the media that everyone thinks there's something 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.000 normal when in actual fact it's not normal. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:23.520 Now have I flown business class? Yes? 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:28.320 Have I been spoilt by virgin at times. Absolutely, but 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.800 I'm always aware that ninety five percent of people who 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.360 fly have never even been in business class once, so 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:40.720 I never expect it, you never demand it. And of 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.320 course the reality is that most Australians don't fly every 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.600 day or every week. They might do it once a 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.120 year when they want to go on a major holiday 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:53.640 and it's really expensive, but because it's the taxpayer that's 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.880 paying for it, they just expect the upgrade. But if 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.160 it's not the taxpayer that's paying and it's them that's 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.880 paying for a holiday, well then they still expect it, 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:03.439 even though it's their money. 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:04.240 And there's nothing. 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:08.240 Special about these people apart from the jobs that they hold. 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.400 And the reality is, no doubt we will learn in 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:11.800 the next. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.360 Few days, is they're all in it. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.960 All of the politicians are in on it, all of 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:18.800 the public servants are in on it, all of the 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.360 media is inornant. So it was funny to watch them 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:26.319 squirm today when they were being asked to justify what 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.640 most people think is unjustify a ball, which is to 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.920 be treated like a king when you're just one of us. 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:40.160 I haven't asked all and Joyce, no, I'm not sure 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:45.000 if I have received one, I don't think so, but 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:45.560 I'd have to have a. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.760 Look and I'll declare that, and people can make their 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.640 own judgment about whether they think about what they think 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:51.079 about that. 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.080 We've declared that, but it's not affecting the position that 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:54.960 we've been arguing. 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:56.720 Are you a member of that chairman's lounge? 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:01.760 I am, and pretty much almost all federal politicians are. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:03.360 Not everyone, but pretty much everyone is. 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.800 See this, in part is the problem right now. In 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:12.200 absolute fairness, the reason business class exists is because there 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.360 is a need sometimes so people have a little bit 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.760 more space to be able to bang away on a 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.880 laptop if they're working, or because they had meetings either 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:21.839 side and they've been in four cities in three I 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:22.320 get it right. 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:23.920 We understand why it's there. 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:30.120 But because everyone is in on the game, everyone's kind 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.360 of immune from criticism because as soon as you turn 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.959 around and you go after one, their defense will be, 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:39.320 well what about you? And generally speaking, any organization or 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:43.160 any culture where the way you get away with doing 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.839 something bad is to say you did it too means 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:52.040 nobody ends up calling anyone out. Now again, are there 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.160 times when the front of the plane is the appropriate 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.640 place to fly. Yes, let's not be childish about it. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.320 Let's not pretend that they have to always sit in 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.800 the last row next to the toilet. But the idea 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.760 that taken for granted that this is how I should 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.320 fly and this is where I should wait for my 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.920 flight so people don't interrupt me is the complete anathema 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.040 of what they pretend to be as politicians, which is 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:20.120 I'm here for you, we feel your pain, we understand 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:22.840 you can walk up to me in the street and 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.520 ask me anything at any time. 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.720 When the reality is that's just what they say. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:32.280 Seen it with my own eyes, and things like Broken 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.199 Hill will say, like remember Alice Springs a couple of 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.320 years ago with albow. There's a serious problem, serious problems 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:43.839 in and around crime. Well, he flies in a couple 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.280 of hours, shakes hands, is there to make it look 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.960 like he cares, and then he bugers off after a 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.080 couple of hours in and off to the tennis with 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:56.360 VIP seats for the next three days. When you forget 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:04.320 that how people treat you is about your job, not 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.760 about how awesome you are as the human being, then 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.439 you have started to lose perspective. You've started to lose 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.640 understanding and you start to lose accountability. 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:17.720 As you know. The Prime Minister. 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.559 Says all of this is fine, despite the fact that 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:25.360 he was essentially the referee, the regulator and contas is 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:29.400 the single biggest airline that he's dealing with his Transport minister, 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.800 that there's nothing weird, not about his secretary calling somebody 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.800 else's secretary, but him calling the CEO to say, hey, hey, 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.120 about the front of the plane. Mate, Oh yeah, sure, 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:43.640 you're sure. And the soft power. Let me put it 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.160 that way. We can't use the sea word. The lawyers 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:50.840 will go crazy. That means they start to always give 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.560 Connus the benefit of the doubt. He was the Prime 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:55.640 Minister's defense for this rubbish. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:13:00.400 From time to time members of Parliament receive a grades. 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:04.000 What's important is that they are declared. All of mine 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.000 have been declared. I knowe that arranging them go back 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.840 a long a long period of time. That they have 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:11.520 all been declared as appropriate. 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:16.640 But guess what, he wasn't telling the truth for a 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:20.240 long time. Anthony Abernesi was married to a labor MP, 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.440 a labor minister, and at one point in time, the 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.760 Deputy Premier of New South Wales, Calonel Tebbett when they 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:30.360 flow as a family, not in their parliamentary positions, but 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.520 they flew as a family, they all got the upgrade. 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:38.040 Guess whose upgrade was not declared? Financial Review tonight with 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:42.800 an exclusive Prime Minister Anthony Albernesi did not declare thousands 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.480 of dollars in business class flights that were gifted to 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:50.040 his former wife by Conas and its partner airline Emirates 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.680 while Transport Minister. Between two thousand and nine twenty thirteen, 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.520 mister Albernesi traveled to Europe, Los Angeles and Honolulu on 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:02.120 personal travel and received up grades from economy to business class, 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.880 which he declared on his official register of interests. But 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.840 the strong of Financial Review can reveal he did not 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:11.439 declare the upgrades for Mss Tebbett on trips at the 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.559 same time to the same locations, despite the rules stating 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:24.280 upgrades for spouses and dependent children should be notified. Is 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.160 this going to cost Anthony Aberneezy's job? 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:27.400 No? Why? 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.080 Because his defense will be you've done it too, and 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.920 that's why. The story may well quickly fall away after 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.760 a day or so. But does it not tell us 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:42.680 about the difference between the way this bloke presents himself, 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.080 and we all know that he's way past, way past 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.960 in lifestyle expectations and economic impact and how much money 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.720 he has. He's way past his childhood. And while his 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.000 childhood may have shaped part of him, the reality of 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.560 who he is today is that while he professes to 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.720 be comfort to bull in both a boardroom and at 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.360 the footy, the reality is when he goes to the footy, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:10.000 he sits in the private box. When he flies, it's 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:14.600 on the private jet or it's an expectation that even 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.680 when he spends his own money doing something that has 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.200 nothing to do with his job, that he should be 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.960 able to upgrade it to business glass the front end 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.880 of the plane. Why do Australians have a problem with 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.840 our political class because of stuff like this? Why do 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:33.080 they have a problem with Anthony Abernezi specifically because remember, 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.960 at the height of cost of living issues in twenty 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.680 and twenty three, this government decided to take fifteen hundred 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:45.040 dollars off ten million workers. Fifteen hundred dollars that was 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:49.440 desperately needed to pay special bills will be able to 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:54.160 pay off debt. Instead, that money was redeployed to canceling 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.000 some student debt because he needs to do well on TikTok. 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.760 This is a prime minister who is amongst political class 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.760 that have got not one, but three pay rises since 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:05.480 the last election. 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.400 Three. 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.920 A prime minister who now earns six hundred thousand dollars 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.440 while living in two taxpayer funded homes with a twenty 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:15.120 four hour. 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:20.720 Driver staff and private planes, including. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.960 A brand new private plane which is to be delivered 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.040 on his watch. We know that because he's not paying 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:32.040 to live where he lives currently, he can afford four 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.400 and million dollars for a house that he has no 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:36.640 plans to move into because he expects to be prime 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.800 minister living in the taxpayer funded ones for the next 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:44.400 thirty years. But then there's the other example about other 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:49.680 people's money. This federal government is going nuts on the 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.640 amount of money that it is spending on ads. To 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.840 tell you how awesome it is now government funded advertising, 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.760 I can't stand. I don't believe any government, state of 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.800 fed should be able to use it within twelve months 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.760 of a federal election, because they all abuse it all 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.160 the time and we end up having to pay the bill. 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:13.560 As I've told you before, this government is using your 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:19.000 money to spend more money on ads promoting itself than 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:23.280 it has given to the charity sectors that help feed 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:28.040 the almost four million people in this country who do 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:32.480 not have a plan for breakfast, lunch or dinner, the 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:38.119 people who access food banks. They asked the federal government 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:44.199 for less money than they are spending promoting themselves, and 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:48.880 they didn't even get what they asked for. That's the priorities. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.639 As again we learned today the Albanezer government is on 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.600 a messaging blitz, increasing by a third its media spending 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.119 on advertising campaigns on the last financial year to spirute 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.480 things like the state tree cost a living relief for 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.800 families and the referendum on the voice. According to the 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.199 Department of Finance, Canber departments and non corporate agencies, they 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:13.000 spend one hundred and seventy four million dollars on ads 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.680 on the Internet, television and radio, as well as outdoor 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:20.280 and print advertising. It was the highest ever annual media 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.400 outlay by a federal government in a year that did 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.199 not include a federal election. And you know how on 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.480 this show I talk about each Way Albow perfect example. 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.879 His government spends more than any government has in a 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.520 non federal election year on taxpayer funded ads to make 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:42.360 you think that the government's doing such a great job 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.040 that you will re elect a government regardless of what 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.359 that government does to you, including taking fifteen hundred dollars 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.800 off ten million workers, including almost. 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:55.120 All of the people who work in Broken Hill. 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.280 They told you cost are living first and foremost the 0:18:58.400 --> 0:18:59.320 central priority. 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:00.000 They spent. 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.760 Half a billion dollars on a referendum for a question 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:12.400 that was marginal at best. And again, why does airbus 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:13.240 albow work? 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:14.800 Because it's true? 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:19.679 Why does each way albow work? Because it's true? And 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:23.560 in this case, when he was the opposition waving his 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.760 finger at the government, this was what he thought of 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:31.440 taxpayer funded advertising that he himself has led a government 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.720 to spend more than any before. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:39.040 One of the reasons why the election isn't being called 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.679 is so that the government can use taxpayer funds to 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:47.840 make advertisements that they think advances the Liberal Party. 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:53.080 Two Australias once s it's in darkness for ten days 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:57.000 while others try to cover their backsides about having not 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.520 just their snout in the trough, they're swibbing in it. 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:01.600 Let's get to. 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.600 Queensland, where again the early days of a brand new 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:09.359 government is in place today the Liberal Party a National party, 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:13.760 Liberal National Party. After celebrating on Saturday night, Well Deputy 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:18.280 Premier Premier has been sworn in today, David Cruci Foley 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:20.120 saying this today at Government House. 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:24.040 We campaigned on the issues that people told us they 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:28.200 wanted us focused on youth, crime, health, housing and cost 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:28.639 of living. 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:30.920 They remain our focus. That's going to. 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:36.080 Be our big focus in this term of government to 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:39.200 make sure that people see improvement across those four issues. 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.600 Latest count it is getting much better for the Liberal 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:45.679 National Party. The Queens and Electoral Commission should be ashamed 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:47.719 of itself about how slow the camp was on Saturday 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:49.320 night meeting. Labour was able to get in and do 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:51.240 the garbage that they did. But have a look here. 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:53.760 They are at forty eight seats. They're a clear majority 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:56.880 right now. They could add another five to that. If 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.600 that's the case, they get themselves to one more seat 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:02.000 than LAY had after the twenty twenty election, which was 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:05.680 considered a landslide win. Because I keep everyone thinking Queen 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:10.560 for Queen dam Pampart Labour Party down to thirty one seats, 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:11.879 they could add another three. 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:13.480 Cataiustrati party could. 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:16.000 Get to four Greens, look maybe two, but at this 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:19.119 stage one and only one independent in the parliament. 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.240 As for how well did Labor do well? 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:25.280 On Saturday night while the votes would be encountered, they 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:27.239 were trying to pretend the result was much better than 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:30.560 what it was, almost seven points down in the primary vote, 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.960 over six points for the Liberal National Party excellent piece 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:37.720 today and the COREAMR, which actually pulled apart the bs 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:39.800 that Labour's been pushing for the past couple of days. 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:41.720 Have a look at this graph. 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:46.199 It shows you the primary vote of the Labor Party 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:52.320 over the best part of what one hundred years, with 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:58.280 the exception of the twenty twelve smashing, this election was 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:02.479 the second worst performance in one hundred years, one hundred years. 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:05.199 I had to buy my tongue a million times on 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:08.920 Saturday night when I'm sort of seeing intra LNP fighting, Oh, 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:10.120 we should be doing better, mate. 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:10.960 You smashed it. 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:16.480 Labor got wiped from office, wiped from office. 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:18.879 So when people were saying this. 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:22.679 It was neck and neck, and Labor did put up 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:24.040 a fight and credit. 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:24.600 Where credits due. 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:26.879 There are certainly a lot of Labor commentators today that 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:29.480 say that Stephen Miles as the Premier, did a fantastic 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.679 job to try and resurrect Labour's campaign. 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:34.199