WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live Our Town : Bendigo 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:05.440 Live from Bendigo. The thing this is Paul Murray Live, our. 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.719 Town, then Australia, I go. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:12.320 We're now Aly tonight. 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.120 Welcome the most beautiful part of Victoria. 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:17.920 We are physically at the Central Debrah gold Mine. 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:21.520 We have spent a spectacular weekend in Bendigo. The people 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:24.800 are wonderful, the buildings are beautiful, and tonight we are 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.800 going to make television history because the Fat Controller is 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.199 going to drive a tram. I will drive a tram 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.600 tonight and we're going a very special guest. I'm looking 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.120 forward to wall of this. This facility here, the sunset, 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.800 by the way is absolutely glorious. Where you are, where 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.080 we are right now, the chance he is to be 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.960 able to go and see a gold mine as it was. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:49.600 We are in one. 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.200 Of the tin sheds that have seen plenty of action 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.400 over the years, and the good people of Bendigo have 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.959 been nothing but kind and wonderful to us the entire time. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:00:59.680 So we're going to celebrate this city. We're going to 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:01.760 sell break you guys, and we're gonna have a wonderful 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.600 night together. But first, as always, let's talk about the news. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:08.640 And a strange thing happened this weekend. Now, no, I 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.560 am not squeezing a stone to get one little more 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.399 drop of blood out of it. But remember what they 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.920 said about the American election over and over again. 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.320 Presss play New. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.520 Paul has Kamala Harris and Donald Trump locked in a 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:21.240 dead heat. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.240 Latest Wall Street Journal, Paul. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.000 In Washington Post poll out this morning. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:29.280 Harris up by four dead locked race. He tied. 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.039 According to most polls in the United States, this election 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.600 is very close and could go either. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:39.880 Way, and Bendigo was the result to tie. No, I 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:45.480 didn't think so who won again? And how big big? 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.160 I thought so, that'd be the case. Well trained, everyone, 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.520 well done, you get a fishing, You get a fishing, you. 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:52.520 Get a fish. Well done. Well. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.080 Of course, the people who were far more accurate than 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.000 the polls, and I said this at the time as 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.200 a person who spent way too much reading them, is 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.960 let's have a look at the bookies. Now the bookie, 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:03.680 the red line, of course is Trump. The blue line 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.320 was Biden. Who was I think this is his heart rate. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.639 Actually he was dead for many months, and then they 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.040 gave him a little packawhacker, and then he died again. 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.840 And then of course Camala took over in the pantsuit 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.560 and joy and love and all the rest of it. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.760 And then she pissed a billion dollars against a wall 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:20.880 and he kicked her ass. 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.880 Is that good education about politics? 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:24.600 Excellent? 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:24.919 Now? 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.000 As you can see, they were pretty clear. So I 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.800 think you might know where I'm heading, because it won't 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.160 surprise you that when we go on the road every 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.399 now and then on the Friday or the Saturday night, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.840 after the chats have finished, after the politics has been discussed, 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.120 there'll be a little bit of a pull out of 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.440 some of those sports bet apps or the tab app 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:44.480 or the lab brokesapp, and we'll be betting on dogs 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.920 in South Africa at two o'clock in the morning. But 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.600 while we were doing so, we noticed what are the 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:54.600 odds for the upcoming federal election? Is it a line 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:59.040 ball or not? Well, remember, according to many of those 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.359 to speak for a living, they say that Australia's definitely 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.040 headed towards a minority government. They say that there's a 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.960 most chance that Labor ends up being there because as 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.440 I bored you before about the teals and all the 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.000 rest of it. But have a look right now, sports 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:19.080 bet has the Coalition as favorites after the next election. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.800 Now that is an expectation that they will form government 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.720 with a minority. But Labor is now starting to blow out. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.120 Now this is not me saying that jump on one 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.200 or the other, but it is fascinating that the indicators 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.560 that the polls are telling us ever so tight, but 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.839 it'll fall Labour's way. These things tell us ever so tight, 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.080 but it all fold the coalition's way. That tab their 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.440 tab app is exactly the same where they are saying 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.920 by an even bigger margin they think that the coalition 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.360 is going to get there or with greater certainty. Now 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.120 again the way that all these bookies work, and certainly 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.600 in Australia should remember one of these companies said that 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.880 Shorten was going to win in twenty nineteen. They even 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.760 paid out a couple of days before thinking that was 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.720 going to be the result. But a fascinating little look here, 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:08.160 which means some of that outer analysis about Australian politics 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.080 is maybe something we should be paying attention to. Let's 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.760 not be surprised by what results end up turning up. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.559 Let's look at what might be coming. And of course 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.000 there is one person who has been saying by the 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.120 Financial Review and he's a format labor senator that there 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.640 could well end up in such a significant change after 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:29.000 just one term of this mob that yes, Dunton and 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.080 the Coalition, they'd take some deals they take plenty of labor. 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.080 Labor would lose potentially to people. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.680 Like the Greens. So we are on our way to 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:37.040 not just. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.520 A tight result, but according to the book, is a 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.279 change of government after one term. Now, Bendigo, I know 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.720 many people who vote here vote to opposite them this room, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.560 but how does this room feel about a one term 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:53.080 elbow government? Might be the case which brings me to 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.040 what I have been thinking about ever since the Trump election, 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.479 and I've been slowly thinking about over months, which is 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:02.600 what what is this next federal election going to be about? 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:04.760 Now we know what the issues are. 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.000 We know that the difficulties that people have had when 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.960 it comes to cost of living becomes pretty clear. We 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.920 know that on multiple poles, in multiple ways, we're told 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.039 that the majority of the country things that we're headed in. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:16.359 The wrong direction. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.159 But as we have a look at the candidates that 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.400 are going to be up and available for government, I 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.320 want to credit it a very dear friend of mine 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.400 who's been seeding this idea for a little while, but 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.280 in the past couple of days he's poured as much 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.360 fertilizer and impossible, and it's now starting to grow as 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.080 my central theory of the case. 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:34.720 Which is. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.920 Politics often is something that we talk about in relation 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:44.719 to demographics like age or sex, or for some it'll 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:49.240 end up being a religion or race. I certainly think 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.160 that what we saw in the United States was a 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:55.719 realignment of things where it was your economic circumstance that 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:57.840 was the ultimate determinant of your vote. 0:05:58.040 --> 0:05:59.400 Can I offer another. 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.040 Theory though, that I think in many ways this election 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.960 is going to be about do you want the state 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.880 to control your life or do you want to control 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.560 your life on what sorts of issues do you want 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.520 to be left alone? And what sorts of things do 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.440 you want to be trusted as a parent or as 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.719 a grandparent. Now again, traditionally Australia can have a conversation 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.359 about collective responsibility, which traditionally has been of the left 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.360 and personal responsibility, which has been of the right. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.520 But this is something different. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.760 When I talk about that sense of control, think about 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.839 between now and the election, and certainly the past three 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:40.200 years since our election, about the types of politicians who 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:44.880 want to ban something or change something, or limit something, 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:49.960 or overthund something or restrict something, And then think about 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.880 the world before these people existed, say in twenty twenty two, 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:54.800 or let's even go back to twenty ten. We don't 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.760 have to get in the way back machine and get 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.120 out the Swan lager and pretend that we've just on 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.000 the America's cup in nineteen eighty three. We can have 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.640 this conversation about our twenty first century, which is about 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:11.360 your want to control your life. And it's not a 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:16.000 conversation about oppression versus freedom. It's about your right to 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:20.280 make decisions about your life. Now. At times, I've disappointed 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.600 plenty of people with my views on all sorts of 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.880 different issues, but I always turn around and say on 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:30.000 say things like gay marriage or euthanasia, like your choice 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.800 to say no shouldn't rule out somebody's ability to say. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.120 Yes, and vice versa. 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.640 All right, we want a system that says, while I'm 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.320 not planning on using this system or that system, i 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.560 want the availability of somebody who wants to go and 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.920 do it, to go and do it. But as soon 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.200 as the state starts turning around and saying look at 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.520 this fork in the road. We're going to take away choice. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.240 We're going to tell you there's one choice that needs 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.160 to be made over others. And I think that's going 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:59.320 to be a massive factor at this election. The first 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.520 signs of people in and around this issue is going 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.600 to be particularly men between thirty five and fifty five. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.240 These are men who have been brought up in a 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.080 left wing education system. These are people who may will 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.880 have paired off into partnerships or started to have children. 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.520 They may well have entered the workforce, owned their own business, 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.600 had an ABN, paid the taxes, filled out the forms, 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.760 and you can see that they are starting to track 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.760 in a very different direction than where they were even 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.280 three years ago. Now again, for the smart asses that 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.000 are watching or the people that are thinking, oh, he's 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.200 just trying to pull a Trump, there is no way 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.560 that you pull a Trump. In the Australian system, we 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.240 don't vote for a single person. We vote for local MPs, 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.319 we vote for parties. There's the control of the Senate. 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.520 But I will be fascinated to see at this election 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.440 about the types of policies that are put in front 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.040 of us, because I'm not entirely sure that Australians are 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.920 desperate to hear that there's a government planning to spend 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.040 more money than they did last time on a problem 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.000 that will only be exactly the same as a well 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.560 was before they threw more money. I have a feeling 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.760 that we're going to have an attraction to politicians who 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.760 are going to say, hey, we're going to try to 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.199 get out of your way. Imagine that is a thirty 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.319 three day election campaign where you don't have an announcement 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.480 a day, you have a promise every day which I'm 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.240 going to get out of the way. I'll do my 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.840 best to within responsible targets, pull back on a whole 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:28.080 collection of things like regulations, which brings us to why 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.600 it's so important that we have fought as hard as 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.160 we have and talked about it for as long as 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.120 we have. But you will have heard the news today, 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.720 Bendigo that the plan to censor the Internet is dead, 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:46.679 finally dead. Now. As you know, the plan for all 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.880 of this was that the government wanted to decide that 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:54.120 you should only be allowed to post things on your 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.240 social media that are approved officially by the government, the 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.880 stamp of truth from the same people who, of course 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.480 always tell us that down is up and left his 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.839 right that all sorts of things don't quite make the 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.280 sense that they used to. Here in part was that 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:14.520 media excited today about this stupid plan finally hitting the wall. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.520 A bill aimed at cracking down on misinformation and disinformation 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.800 on the Internet has been pulled by the federal government. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.960 Labor has dumped its controversial misinformation bill. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:29.080 The Albanezy government has scrapped its controversial misinformation bill. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:33.760 That they all look so disappointed, don't they. Yes, but 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.000 it's happened right. Why Because as we've. 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.679 Shown you all the way through, and I explained to 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.360 everyone last week, the numbers just weren't there in the Senate. However, 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.200 the final blow comes from the Greens who say it 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:48.560 didn't go far enough, and that blew. I'm with you, 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.280 and that is back to that central conversation I was 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.360 saying about how much control versus how much freedom. It's 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.719 not just in this case the Labor Party who put 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.960 forward decision when it comes to misinformation. Remember Jackie Lamby 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.800 said it didn't go too far. It didn't go far 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.720 enough on some levels. The Teels didn't think that it 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.840 went far enough, and the Greens didn't think that it 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.000 went far enough, and all of that's on the ballot paper, 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:19.280 and everyone should remember that. Everyone should remember that at 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:23.960 one of the most fundamental choices of our time, there 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.880 was a very significant chunk of Australian politics who may 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.839 well end up deciding the next federal government because they 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.240 are the ones with the power in a minority government, 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.200 who wanted to go harder, wanted to go further. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:37.880 Of course, there were those who fought it. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.000 Hard and hard from day one, Pauline Hanson in Won Nation, 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.520 Ralph Babbott and the United Australian Party, eventually, of course, 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.400 the Liberal Party. But we all knew the second that 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.600 we first saw this that this was not okay. Never 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.600 forget that Labor didn't let it get defeated in the Senate. 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.880 They pulled it before it could get defeated. And in part, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.319 remember what one of their key motivations were. What was 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.160 that word they used over and over again when the 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.880 sixty forty support for the Voice became sixty forty hell no, 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.720 including here in lefty Victoria. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.280 What was that M word they said, over and over again? 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.439 Misinformation? Misinformation, misinformation, the. 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:24.520 Misinformation which is there so misinformation. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:25.960 Now, another issue that you've got to get to and 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:30.200 inevitably talk about is the economic scenario cost of living. 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.240 We all know how painful cost of living it can 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.120 be and is for plenty of people right now. We 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:36.760 know it when it comes to people that are trying 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.880 to pay off a house, find a house to rent, 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.719 people who are of course, you know, people everyone who 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.400 has to go to the shops to buy inconvenient stuff 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.480 like food or of course power prices which were supposed 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.679 to be down by two seventy five permanently by next year, right, 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.440 never forget that at the upcoming one. Well, what about 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:57.400 this from the analysis of the numbers that are around 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.520 at the moment from the Bureau of Statistics, the coalition 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.679 who did it. But still our living standards are the 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:08.080 worse since nineteen fifty nine. Right now, I eat your 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.720 ability with the amount of money that you make each week, 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.600 month or year, and your ability. 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.400 To pay for life in Australia, it's the worse since 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:17.480 nineteen fifty nine. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.760 Now, okay, you're immediately going, hay, what about the nineties 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.720 with seventeen percent interest rates? And what about that thing 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.319 in the seventies and that thing in the nineties. It's 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.920 about that overall package, though, about how much money is 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.000 coming in versus how much money is going out, and 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.160 households are suffering the worst decline in living standards since 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.319 the nineteen fifties, with a fall in real disposable income 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:40.600 eclipsing that of the last four recessions, including the ones 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.120 of the nineteen seventies or even the COVID pandemic. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:44.400 The analysis of the. 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.200 Official government statistics shows that the current cost of living 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.280 crisis has hit households twice as hard as the nineteen 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.920 oh one and nineteen eighty two to eighty three recessions, 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.560 and significantly more sharply than any period dating back to 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:01.559 nineteen fifty nine. There might be a size nine boot 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.880 that is coming for those that are currently in power. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.679 I've got a feeling it might be steel capped, and 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.920 I might have a feeling that it will kick the 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.160 Prime Minister so hard in the ass that he'll ask 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.839 for an upgrade, because you'll be that high in the air, 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.160 and we certainly know when it comes to an upgrade elbow. 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:18.480 This bloke loves an upgrade. 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.040 But can I talk about somebody else who loves the 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:22.200 sweet life as well? 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:23.520 This is the. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:28.040 Gender equality ambassador. Did you read about this today? Where 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.440 this gender If you've never met this person, they love 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.880 spending other people's money telling us how bad everything is. 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:33.360 Have a look. 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:35.160 Hello. 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:39.480 I'm Stephanie Copus Campbell, Australia's new Ambassador for gender equality. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.480 I'm incredibly honored to take on this role as the 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.440 lead international advocate for Australia's commitment to gender equality and 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.040 the human rights are women and girls and persons of 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.600 diverse gender identities. 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.840 What anyway this person, in their time representing us on 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.520 all of that stuff, has spent how's this thirty five 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.240 thousand dollars on taxpayer funded trips around the world, including 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.640 to multiple conferences where, of course they turn around and 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:10.520 collectively always conclude that Australia is the worst ever. Talk 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.200 about other people's money, other people's priorities, and don't forget 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.240 what this Prime Minister has previously turned around and said 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.040 is to be his priority after this election, which is, 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.080 among other things, for us to host an international climate conference. 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.760 I think the Australian people might be somewhere else and 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.280 we'll be with them the whole way along Bendigo. This 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.920 is a beautiful place and let's celebrate it for the 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.720 rest of this hour, including the opportunity for us to 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:37.080 jump on a tram. And yes, the big fella drives 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.200 a tram here. It is some trams in Bendigo. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:41.160 Rolla take. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:47.200 Bendigo has got so many beautiful buildings and features and 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.640 things like this fountain, which was first put up in 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.040 eighteen eighty one, and the best way to see them 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.760 is to travel on a bit of history yourself. Let's 0:15:55.800 --> 0:16:01.680 write a tram is about trans and Bendigo. 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:02.840 How far does it go back? 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:04.440 So it's a pretty amazing. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.560 Story, So I take it back to eighteen ninety the 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.400 first of a tram and Beni was actually a batue 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.480 powered tram, so ahead of that time. Amazing And that's 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.160 as about as school as the sexy as that story. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.160 Guests balled nineteen seventy two when they try to shut. 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.800 Down the trams here in Bendigo up silu. 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.480 Public hour raisor trends were getting pulled off the drags here. 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:24.840 So why does Bendigo to love its tramps? 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.520 I mean, if this is beautiful, but why do you 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.880 think that Bendigo I loves its trands? 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.600 Without saying too cliche has other DNA. So we think 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.520 about Bendia, you think about gold and trams, and you know, 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.120 we look at the vistas of our beautiful city. 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.280 And you know, the trams and the story and. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.240 Connectivity, and yeah, there's a quite I think, a romantic 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.280 part of it. And I grew up here and I 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.960 can't have a picture of Bendigo without having a tram rally. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.240 Down the mainstream. I love you. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.440 It is infectious your enthusiasm for it. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.240 So this tram is this one that has written these 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:54.320 lines for a long time. 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.120 Is it from somewhere else? Built from scratch? Tell me 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:58.240 about what we're running in now. 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.160 So we're riding on trendom in nineteen the California Combination 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.800 trams about early World War One, so about nineteen sixteen. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.080 This tram so started its life in Melbourne. And then 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.800 we got a lot about trams secondhand here, so probably. 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.920 In the thirties and forties that came to here and we. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:13.680 Were stoked to have it. 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.040 Here because yeah, it's a pretty even it was the secondhand 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.200 it's a pretty special tram. And I look at the 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.959 detail of the woodwork, the finge in the lights they 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:21.720 used to build things. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:22.480 Well back in the day. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.000 And that's what that's one of the many reasons why 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:26.800 people want to write them and love them, is that 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:30.480 I mean, as you say, everything from the leather straps, 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:32.520 the leather seats, as you say, through to the brass, 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:33.640 give us an idea. 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.280 About what it takes to keep these things on the line. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.520 Yeah, So we part of our organization, so. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.040 We run the trams. Trams are really expensive things to run, 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:41.520 so which we. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.960 Lose money running into at tram each year. So the 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.080 way we offset that we created a social enterpriser or 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:47.200 on manufacturing divisions. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.520 Who has the biggest smiles, kids that have never been 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:51.680 on them, or people who remember them from a long 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:52.120 time ago. 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:53.520 Oh, a bit of both. And I think that's what 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:54.600 makes trams special. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.520 Everyone kind of has some connection and this trams or 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:58.919 trains kids always. 0:17:58.760 --> 0:17:59.640 They're like a magnet. 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.000 Are again someone's stopped. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.159 I always got some romantic story about. 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.680 Some tram anywhere in the world and kind of brings 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.120 them back to those memories. 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.560 Now, of course I'm fully licensed and accredited. 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:16.600 Can I drive it? Of course. 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.520 We'll give you a goram God, love you, thank you. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.280 It was fun And I'm now fully accredited and mum, 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.240 I've got a backup career now, so that's good. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.159 Finally a real job to fall back on. 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.280 Matthew Evans is a man who's represented this area in 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:42.919 lots of different ways. He looks forward to doing so 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:44.600 in the Federal Parliament the next federal election. 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:46.680 Both the Liberal. 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.720 Party and the National Party are running, of course against 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:52.359 the current Labour MP here. But Matt I wanted to say, firstly, 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.879 gaday and welcome to you mats everybody, how are you? 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:55.160 Thanks? 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:55.440 Very good? 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:55.719 All right? 0:18:55.800 --> 0:19:00.320 Did Cob dippit in mayor? Before we get into the 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.920 overt politics. Is a place that is special? What makes 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:04.800 bin to Go special? Why is it a place that 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:06.240