Speaker 1: From the sky Center. This is Paul Murray Live sang
Speaker 1: your Rockstar, Welcome the man Cave.
Speaker 2: Come on in.
Speaker 1: We'll do a winner and Loser of the week in
Speaker 1: a moment or two time. Can I be very clear
Speaker 1: off the star. I don't care that the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: fell over today.
Speaker 3: Photos with everyone, Okay.
Speaker 1: I repeat, I do not care that Anthony Albanezi fell
Speaker 1: over today. Human beings trip, we fall, we're clumsy. It's
Speaker 1: what happens in the old days. We used to be
Speaker 1: called UNCO. In fact, the Australian Institute of ruled me
Speaker 1: to be an UNCO, which is why I've never been
Speaker 1: able to compete in sport. What I kind of do
Speaker 1: care about, though, is that the Prime Minister is well lying,
Speaker 1: and he lies about many many things, but he's even
Speaker 1: lying about whether he fell over today. This was the
Speaker 1: live blog that was existing I think on the Citney
Speaker 1: Morning Herald in the age. There you go watch PM
Speaker 1: falls off stage. Next update, PM says he didn't fall
Speaker 1: off stage. This is what he told an interviewer on
Speaker 1: the ABC in Newcastle this afternoon. Remember I don't care
Speaker 1: that he fell off. I truly don't. Human beings do
Speaker 1: it Julia Gillard famously did it. Oh, we don't have
Speaker 1: that tape. That would be wrong, that would be too much.
Speaker 1: But when he was asked about it, he pretended it
Speaker 1: didn't happen.
Speaker 4: No, I stepped back one step.
Speaker 1: I didn't fall off the stage.
Speaker 5: Leg went down, but I was sweet.
Speaker 1: Okay again, I don't care. But he fell off the
Speaker 1: freaking stage. Okay, two seconds, got back up. It's not
Speaker 1: a metaphor for politics, but him lying about it is
Speaker 1: an absolute sign that if you can't tell the truth
Speaker 1: about even falling over, then how can you trust him
Speaker 1: on everything else? Like I really care about cost of living.
Speaker 1: For some reason, people of the center left and people
Speaker 1: like Albo truly think that they have the powers of
Speaker 1: Obi Wan Kenobi to have a Jedi mind trick against
Speaker 1: the week to make you forget what's pretty obvious when
Speaker 1: you see it.
Speaker 2: Let me see your identification.
Speaker 1: You don't need to see his identification.
Speaker 2: We don't need to see his identification.
Speaker 1: These aren't the droids you're looking for.
Speaker 2: He's had the droid. We're lucky.
Speaker 1: Before he can go about his business, you can go
Speaker 1: about your best move alone.
Speaker 2: Ah ah.
Speaker 1: And just to drive home the point that sometimes they
Speaker 1: actually do think that they have Jedi powers. This was
Speaker 1: a meme that Labour put up during the last election
Speaker 1: May the Fourth which is as in, may the Force
Speaker 1: be with you, but may the Fourth be with you.
Speaker 1: They actually did him up as a Jedi Knight. He
Speaker 1: does not have the power to change people's minds, but
Speaker 1: he thinks I did not fall off the stage. Again,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, just make a joke. Oh look, it's
Speaker 1: the most rest I've had this campaign. But this Jedi
Speaker 1: mind trick is one that he has tried to use
Speaker 1: for three years that he didn't promise of the last
Speaker 1: election that and I quote, a Labor government will lower
Speaker 1: the cost of living because then he'd have to be
Speaker 1: held accountable for the cost of living going nuts and
Speaker 1: he would have to be held accountable for it going
Speaker 1: nuts and sending people broke. Now, I was amused to
Speaker 1: see how he's a Pratorian guard in the six pm news. Well,
Speaker 1: how are they going to deal with this, because you
Speaker 1: know they love a picture and these are the best
Speaker 1: pictures you can possibly have. Again, it doesn't matter, but
Speaker 1: how did they do it? Over at Channel nine.
Speaker 4: Even the most familiar surrounds can be slippery the Prime minister'
Speaker 4: stumbling from the stage before bouncing back to cheers from
Speaker 4: mining workers in the New South Wales.
Speaker 1: Hunter bouncing back the metaphor that he can't keep a
Speaker 1: good man down Channel seven in Melbourne, though they kind
Speaker 1: of took an egg beater to it.
Speaker 6: Good evening, the Prime Minister is lucky to have avoided
Speaker 6: serious injury after taking a major tumble on the campaign trail.
Speaker 6: Anthony Albanizi was posing for photos when he fell off
Speaker 6: a platform this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Just just one last time, I do not care that
Speaker 1: the Prime Minister fell over today. Thirty days to go
Speaker 1: in this election, the end of the first of five
Speaker 1: weeks campaigning. It's not just thirty days to go. More importantly,
Speaker 1: nineteen days until the first votes are cast, depending on
Speaker 1: your state, depending on whether you're private or public. School
Speaker 1: holidays kick in as early as next week, so the
Speaker 1: cover of look over There is going to be very
Speaker 1: big with an awful lot of people. But as always
Speaker 1: I'd like to tell you what happened during the day
Speaker 1: rather than just what the six per News decided was
Speaker 1: the most important thing to talk about, including the Prime
Speaker 1: Minister's brush with death. As it was tonight on Channel seven.
Speaker 1: Come on, Verdi. Petty Dunnen was in Western Australia today where,
Speaker 1: among other things, they made a major announcement I think
Speaker 1: about six hundred million dollars for regional roads. And as
Speaker 1: a person who at least once a month is out
Speaker 1: there doing our town country roads are shockers. And there's
Speaker 1: a promise that if there's a Dutton government they'll do
Speaker 1: something about it.
Speaker 7: An elected coalition government will fund a new program to
Speaker 7: the tune of six hundred million dollars over the next
Speaker 7: four years to support the supply chains for our agriculture
Speaker 7: mining industry.
Speaker 1: Just me, I love when she wears the suits. She's
Speaker 1: a very fashionable young lady. All right, let's keep going
Speaker 1: here with the Prime Minister. And he today was in
Speaker 1: the Hunter Valley of New South Wales making a whole
Speaker 1: series of half announcements re announcements. That was him in
Speaker 1: Victoria in fact, where he started off the day. Then
Speaker 1: he made his way out and about today, you know,
Speaker 1: to respond to Trump. I'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 1: A couple of protesters along the way, and as we know,
Speaker 1: the media lover protester more than a story for.
Speaker 8: A new CONCAF company WANs on the line, I have
Speaker 8: a safe place to say flight children.
Speaker 1: Now these people are posing as journalists, which means they're
Speaker 1: able to get close enough to the Prime minister. One
Speaker 1: of the things I love most about this country is
Speaker 1: regardless of who the Prime minister is, regardless of whether
Speaker 1: they are standing or falling, which again I don't care about,
Speaker 1: is that we have very close proximity. There's not the
Speaker 1: huge rings of security. But it's going to get pretty
Speaker 1: tough to be around these leaders in the next little while,
Speaker 1: because they obviously want to invite people from new media along.
Speaker 1: But these people are using that to get close enough
Speaker 1: to be able to cause the disturbances that they currently are.
Speaker 1: Also not particularly classy, and you're not really taking the
Speaker 1: high ground when you're screaming in a hospital ward about
Speaker 1: the future of the planet. Meantime, as we know, next
Speaker 1: week the first of the leader's debates. It happens here
Speaker 1: on Sky News and it's the best of them. Why
Speaker 1: because it's not really about the leaders. It's definitely not
Speaker 1: about the journalists. Is of course the People's Forum were
Speaker 1: one hundred apparently undecided voters. While they get to ask
Speaker 1: whatever they want of the Prime Minister or the prospective
Speaker 1: Prime Minister. That's next Tuesday night in primetime here on
Speaker 1: Sky News. A week later Wednesday night in primetime on
Speaker 1: the ABC and no doubt simulcast here on Sky News
Speaker 1: is that there will be a face to face studio debate,
Speaker 1: apparently the first time since nineteen ninety three that both
Speaker 1: leaders have been in an ABC studio and our old
Speaker 1: mate Speersy will be the one who will be calling
Speaker 1: the balls and strikes in the middle of that. Meantime,
Speaker 1: the treasurers have confirmed that they too are going to
Speaker 1: have a debate. It'll be here Sky News primetime Wednesday
Speaker 1: of next week, so the day after the People's Forum,
Speaker 1: and the climate ministers will be having a debate as well.
Speaker 1: This one will be at the National Press Club where
Speaker 1: no doubt Chris Bowen will be playing a home game.
Speaker 1: But the debates are starting, which is good and nightly.
Speaker 1: Look at how the media spun it for the Prime
Speaker 1: Minister did their best to give the benefit of the
Speaker 1: doubt to the Labour Party. No giant surprise there, but
Speaker 1: guess what. Plenty more examples again. I'll get to the
Speaker 1: trump of it all in a moment or two time,
Speaker 1: but the soft questions. They were soft for the Prime
Speaker 1: minister today for the Greek quess iemon, I'm on the
Speaker 1: road and you run out of these things as you do.
Speaker 9: Indeed, I mean you're so relief, right, I mean, this
Speaker 9: is the best case scenario that we worked toys. Can
Speaker 9: you promise that you're next tent?
Speaker 10: If you are lucky enough to be successful enough to related, you.
Speaker 11: Could stabilize this relationship with the United States even you've got.
Speaker 1: A minimum ten percent?
Speaker 3: Do you consider that a relatively good deal or the
Speaker 3: best we have got?
Speaker 1: Why did you buy toothpaste? Push the big issues? Meantime?
Speaker 1: What was the ride that they were giving to Peter
Speaker 1: Dutton today? A little different?
Speaker 9: Are you too easily dismissing what five hundred dollars could
Speaker 9: do to a family in a couple of years time?
Speaker 12: So six hundred millions, as nice as a number as
Speaker 12: it is, builds three hundred kilometers of road right around
Speaker 12: the country. It's a nice number, but it's not a
Speaker 12: big solution.
Speaker 2: There's there's plenty of carry. And how you would approach
Speaker 2: dealing with Donald Trump?
Speaker 1: Is there any stick?
Speaker 9: You've been criticized by Collie residents though for not having
Speaker 9: a discuss with them and hearing their concerns about nuclear power.
Speaker 1: And one of the people who sends the signals to
Speaker 1: the media about how to play is old mate nasty
Speaker 1: Nikki Sava that he self admitted liar about how she
Speaker 1: used to do things as a journalist, and of course
Speaker 1: puts the books together, no doubt, she's already got half
Speaker 1: of one written thanks to mates like the bloke in
Speaker 1: the Pink House, about how terrible Peter Dutton is. Well,
Speaker 1: remember she's the one who's already said and this was
Speaker 1: when the polls were not very good for Anthony Abernezi.
Speaker 1: So she's going to have fun walking this one back
Speaker 1: that regardless of what happens at the election, Albanzi should
Speaker 1: get out of the way hand over to the next generation.
Speaker 1: I wonder whether that will continue to be the case.
Speaker 1: But of course she's all about hating Peter Dutton, and
Speaker 1: today wakey Wakey Dunton looks shaky her review of the
Speaker 1: first week and the alternative prime Minister who she will
Speaker 1: not let get out of first gear. Remember we even
Speaker 1: discussed immigration was racist. According to these people, he sounded
Speaker 1: flat He's looked flat footed and seeming it seemed woefully
Speaker 1: unprepared for a fight that he knew was coming on
Speaker 1: a territory that he should already staked out. Meanwhile, Albanizi
Speaker 1: has performed better and Labor has prepared better for the contest.
Speaker 1: Even handed journalism give all the awards now. Dutton has
Speaker 1: also winged that Albanezi has wedged a sledgeth on against him.
Speaker 1: He sounds like a school bully. See see he's a
Speaker 1: school bully, just like Turble. He's a thug. See how
Speaker 1: they all kind of rally around the same words, complaining
Speaker 1: to the teacher that one of the kids that he
Speaker 1: has punched him in the nose, the one that he
Speaker 1: picked on in the past. Anyway, he better tough enough,
Speaker 1: because Labor will not stop it's mission, especially in Victoria,
Speaker 1: where Labor stinks, is to make him unacceptable. Labor could
Speaker 1: maintain the status quo in every other state, then lose
Speaker 1: the election in a state once seen as a stronghold.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about Victoria and I'll tell you why that's
Speaker 1: the case in a moment of two his time, but
Speaker 1: her partner in crime, remember the one who was also
Speaker 1: worried that a ban on foreign buyers was going to
Speaker 1: result in apparently different looking people don't know what that means,
Speaker 1: will be attacked by evil racist, presumably white Australians. Remember
Speaker 1: lefty Laura Tingle, Well, she used her platform there on
Speaker 1: the ABC, which is an absolutely independent journalist, and remember
Speaker 1: to criticize her is bad for the national debate. She
Speaker 1: did a thing last night about cost of living where
Speaker 1: she was trying a little bit of revisionist history that
Speaker 1: put simply none of it's elbows fault, despite the fact
Speaker 1: that again three years ago, the promise was he'd make
Speaker 1: it better. It's all got worse. None. And of course
Speaker 1: these were some of the insights.
Speaker 13: While they're not really blaming the government, there's not baseball
Speaker 13: bats out for them. There is some ownership of the economy,
Speaker 13: that's for sure.
Speaker 1: There's no connection between the federal government and cost of living,
Speaker 1: and she found this very helpful polster to give an
Speaker 1: insight into the best case or the half glass full.
Speaker 1: Of course, she had to criticize the opposition because you know,
Speaker 1: she's even handed.
Speaker 10: The Urban Ezy government has introduced a range of policies
Speaker 10: to try to ease the cost of living. The Coalition opposed,
Speaker 10: or at least criticized many of these measures, arguing government
Speaker 10: spending was keeping interest rates higher for longer.
Speaker 1: You know those things that even polls in the Guardian
Speaker 1: show that five dollars in fifteen months doesn't touch the sides.
Speaker 1: The two little too tax cuts last year that were
Speaker 1: twelve dollars for people on forty thousand dollars doesn't actually
Speaker 1: change anything. And paying twenty five dollars to power companies
Speaker 1: to make it look like power bills are stabilizing doesn't
Speaker 1: actually make up for a promise that by this time
Speaker 1: they were supposed to be two hundred and seventy five
Speaker 1: dollars cheaper. But sorry, you're in the middle of a rant.
Speaker 1: Have you got anything more from that? Polster?
Speaker 13: If this selection is a referendum on Labour's performance over
Speaker 13: the last three years on cost of living, then they're
Speaker 13: in a bit of trouble. What they will want to
Speaker 13: do is make it about change and make it about
Speaker 13: Peter Dunnan and will he make a difference? And that's
Speaker 13: where they've got hope, because there isn't a great amount
Speaker 13: of hope that changing government would necessarily change things.
Speaker 1: Yes, and the economy is not really a government thing,
Speaker 1: despite the fact that it was a real thing three
Speaker 1: years ago. But that guy just got my brain ticking.
Speaker 1: Where where have I seen him before? Where I do
Speaker 1: I know of him before?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 1: That's right, we have to go back to the Keven
Speaker 1: oh seven days where he is one of the consultants
Speaker 1: who's checking the electorate's mood for the Labor Party. He
Speaker 1: also was apparently one of the people involved in the
Speaker 1: Keven oh seven campaign, you know, absolutely independent person to
Speaker 1: be able to tell us that cost a living well,
Speaker 1: it's kind of everyone's problem, not the government that has
Speaker 1: promised to make it better, but it's all worse. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's talk Trump and Liberation Day in the Rose Garden
Speaker 1: in the White House. You know the story. By now,
Speaker 1: tariffs are going to be put on friend and foe
Speaker 1: Australia thankfully ten percent bottom of the list. It is
Speaker 1: ten percent on five percent of our global exports. Not
Speaker 1: unimportant and very important for our farmers, but not exactly
Speaker 1: the end of the Australian economy and a little bit
Speaker 1: of a fizzer because the media has been building this
Speaker 1: one up for weeks.
Speaker 13: Tariffs tariffs, tariffs, tariffs, tariffs, tariff terriffs, tariffs are tariffs, tariffs,
Speaker 13: tariff tariffs, tariff tariffs.
Speaker 1: Tariff because remember this bloke, if he runs on his
Speaker 1: own record, might get a little bit wobbly. Not that
Speaker 1: he fell off a stage today again, I don't care
Speaker 1: about that. But instead there were going to be new tariffs,
Speaker 1: and they were going to be mega tariffs, and they
Speaker 1: were going to come after the pharmaceutical benefit scheme. Remember
Speaker 1: the stories that were around for weeks. Healthcare is going
Speaker 1: to be attacked by evil Orange Man. The pharmaceutical benefit
Speaker 1: scheme meaning cheaper drugs. This will be the focus of
Speaker 1: an evil Trump. Don't forget. Musk and big Tech are
Speaker 1: urging Trump to punish Australia instead. Again not insignificant, ten
Speaker 1: percent on five percent of our overall exports, not insignificant,
Speaker 1: but in the end, compared to other countries, we copped
Speaker 1: a tap, not a kick.
Speaker 14: Australia bans and they're wonderful people and wonderful everything, but
Speaker 14: they ban American beef. Yet we imported three billion dollars
Speaker 14: of Australian beef from them just last year alone. They
Speaker 14: won't take any of our beef.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you know by now ten percent largely going
Speaker 1: to be in and around Australian beef okay. But again
Speaker 1: to put this into context and all of that hype
Speaker 1: which is all about trying to save Anthony Abernezi from
Speaker 1: his own record and trying to move the federal election
Speaker 1: to being a referendum on Donald Trump because the majority
Speaker 1: of Australians don't like Donald Trump. Well, it's here, but
Speaker 1: in context, again, it is significant. I'm not pretending that
Speaker 1: it is not. But if the overall countries that we
Speaker 1: export to, if randomly a ten cent tariff was put
Speaker 1: in place, say calling a country out for being the
Speaker 1: potential origin, if not definite, origin of a flu that
Speaker 1: ended up killing millions of people and shutting the country
Speaker 1: down for two years, that would be significant, right, Because
Speaker 1: China is the place where we send the most stuff.
Speaker 1: It is thirty two percent of all of our exports
Speaker 1: at two hundred and nineteen billion. Japan is a thirteen percent,
Speaker 1: Korea is it six percent, India is at five percent,
Speaker 1: the US is at five percent. Meantime, the things that
Speaker 1: we do send to the United States, so yeah, ten
Speaker 1: percent extra on meat, on some but not all, of
Speaker 1: our precious stones and metal because gold is not going
Speaker 1: to be involved in this because you know, there's all
Speaker 1: those podcasts adds about gold in the United States, medical
Speaker 1: tech that's two billion dollars. Pharmaceutical products that's less than
Speaker 1: two billion dollars and one billion dollars worth of machinery. Now,
Speaker 1: I do not agree, do not support. This is ridiculous
Speaker 1: that Australia is going to end up getting a tax
Speaker 1: put upon us. It is just as ridiculous, but perhaps
Speaker 1: not quite as much as what China did to us
Speaker 1: for a couple of years. But sh don't talk about
Speaker 1: that Orange man worse than President z Well. The reason
Speaker 1: that America claims that they are able to put a
Speaker 1: ten percent tariff on us is because, well, we have
Speaker 1: little ways of charging things that are brought into this country.
Speaker 1: Now they're not tariffs, but there is a charge. If
Speaker 1: you want to export something from a country and import
Speaker 1: it into this country, there is a ten percent tax,
Speaker 1: a consumption tax on all of those things that are
Speaker 1: brought into the country. If you want to buy a
Speaker 1: car worth eighty grand or more from the United States,
Speaker 1: you'll have to pay luxury car tax. But of course
Speaker 1: there isn't an Australian car industry. And then, of course,
Speaker 1: depending on what it is there's those little excise taxes,
Speaker 1: you know, the ones that could be about everything from
Speaker 1: petrol to tobacco, to beer, to spirits, to textiles, to
Speaker 1: passenger motor vehicles to footwear, and those get forty three
Speaker 1: billion dollars from the Australian government each and every year.
Speaker 1: But this is a tectonic day. The number of journalists
Speaker 1: that I've heard today what a wild? What's wild? I
Speaker 1: totally disagree with the tariffs being put in place. I
Speaker 1: am absolutely aware of the consequences that they will have
Speaker 1: for our beef farmers in particular. I am not minimizing
Speaker 1: that in any way, shape or form. But of course
Speaker 1: this was about trying to put Donald Trump heart and
Speaker 1: center of the federal election campaign. So here was the
Speaker 1: reaction across the gamut. Let me be clear, they are
Speaker 1: totally unwarranted. The world has changed as of today. This
Speaker 1: is a bad day for our country.
Speaker 15: This is a poor decision.
Speaker 1: This was an announcement which is very disappointing.
Speaker 16: Now, these escalating trade tensions do cast a dark shadow
Speaker 16: over the global economy.
Speaker 1: As for the White House, they say, lie back and
Speaker 1: think of Washington.
Speaker 8: My advice to every country right now is do not retaliate,
Speaker 8: sit back, take it in, let's see how it goes.
Speaker 8: Because if you retaliate, there will be escalation if you
Speaker 8: don't retaliate. This is the high water mark.
Speaker 1: Now. Thankfully there were plenty of even handed, non political
Speaker 1: people who were out there to tell us that despite
Speaker 1: the fact that the tax is to be paid by
Speaker 1: going into America, therefore the cost of it goes up
Speaker 1: in America, it will be us in Australia who will
Speaker 1: have to pay more.
Speaker 7: These tariffs are going to have a big impact, especially
Speaker 7: on our struggling producers out west.
Speaker 1: Okay. Of course, you know again, I'm glad that we
Speaker 1: have these non partisan people who are out and about.
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, help me out how this works. Apparently,
Speaker 1: according to those that are starting to guess, the Reserve
Speaker 1: Bank next meeting, which will not happen during the election
Speaker 1: campaign but will happen after the election campaign, will be
Speaker 1: one of apparently up to four cuts in rates that
Speaker 1: will happen as a result of the global tariffs. So
Speaker 1: help me out. Is it good or is it banned?
Speaker 1: I want to talk about China because yes, they punished Australia.
Speaker 1: Why because we wanted an investigation into the Wu flu that,
Speaker 1: as I said, killed millions, shut down the world. But
Speaker 1: nothing to see there, right, And of course if you
Speaker 1: don't bring up such unpleasantness with the Chinese government, well
Speaker 1: they'll call you a handsome boy, won't they. And of
Speaker 1: course they'll get rid of silly tariffs that they put
Speaker 1: in place. When it came to things like wine. Again,
Speaker 1: when there was like a two hundred and something, it
Speaker 1: was somehow Australia's fault and Australian media was blaming. But
Speaker 1: of course when it's Trump anyway, who can follow the
Speaker 1: logic here? But one thing that absolute changed was that
Speaker 1: the Chinese diaspora one point four million people in Australia
Speaker 1: have some sort of a connection back to China. They
Speaker 1: had previously in the twenty twenty, twenty nineteen election, twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, and I think even in the twenty ten
Speaker 1: election had largely backed in the Liberal Party seats like
Speaker 1: ben Along or seats like Red, places like Chisen. They
Speaker 1: kind of come and go, but the message was sent
Speaker 1: launded through Chinese propaganda. The Libs were evil, terrible, must
Speaker 1: get rid of them. This was one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why they lost a collection of seats and why the
Speaker 1: Liberal Party has been trying to work its way back
Speaker 1: to form some sort of a relationship with Chinese voters.
Speaker 1: We'll all find out if it works together. Keep an
Speaker 1: eye on places again, as I say, like Benolong. But
Speaker 1: there are plenty of ways that people get their news,
Speaker 1: and plenty of people that the diaspora get their news from. Now.
Speaker 1: It used to be something that the Australian media cared about,
Speaker 1: but now they don't. I wonder that's because there's a
Speaker 1: political outcome that they like. But what used to be
Speaker 1: the old newspapers is now all online and much of
Speaker 1: that information again gets washed through bad actors who are
Speaker 1: trying to do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 1: But don't talk about that. Of course, TikTok, the Chinese
Speaker 1: surveillance app, which is banned on all government devices, unless,
Speaker 1: of course it's a labor MP who wants to do
Speaker 1: a silly dance, then it's really important. But then there
Speaker 1: are other ways like we chat, which remember Scott Morrison
Speaker 1: got censored on before the last election. No completely free
Speaker 1: speech app. And then there's this new one which is
Speaker 1: even worse than TikTok, called red Note. But it's new
Speaker 1: and it tells me I've got seven trillion followers and
Speaker 1: every video I post is viewed by nine billion people.
Speaker 1: So it's good for when I go to advertisers and
Speaker 1: say please give me money because I'm a massive influencer.
Speaker 1: Well Cricket of the Turbul Times The Guardian today they
Speaker 1: had an exclusive story about some of the crap that
Speaker 1: is being fed to some parts of that one point
Speaker 1: four million people who will vote at this upcoming election. Frankly,
Speaker 1: lots disinformation experts have accused migration agents of sharing false
Speaker 1: information about Anthony Aberineese and Peter dutt On the Chinese
Speaker 1: social media app Red Note to win clients, including claims
Speaker 1: that Australia is turned wicked and is actively targeting Chinese people.
Speaker 1: One photoshopped image published by a migration consultancy earlier this
Speaker 1: month carried the headline Australia's turned wicked targeting tens of
Speaker 1: thousands of Chinese people with a picture of the current
Speaker 1: Prime minister. The post falsely claimed that the Albenese government
Speaker 1: had proposed very controversial plan to expel non citizens to
Speaker 1: a third nation, which would affect Chinese Australians and their families.
Speaker 1: Of course, there is no such plan. Another one on
Speaker 1: February twenty eight, posted by a migration agency based in China,
Speaker 1: splash the headline that Australia is officially announcing to cancel
Speaker 1: citizenship with a picture of Peter Dutton. Nothing to see here. Again.
Speaker 1: If it was the Russians, it would be called elect
Speaker 1: interference because clearly not much happens in Russia without the
Speaker 1: say so of the government. If it's China, we just
Speaker 1: pretend it's not an interference in our elections. One that
Speaker 1: was successful last time. Will it be so again? Well
Speaker 1: we'll all have to find out together, won't we. All
Speaker 1: Right now, I want to talk about not just whether
Speaker 1: leaders have been today, but at a moment we're going
Speaker 1: to have a chat to somebody from the Kid's helpline.
Speaker 1: But I want you to see about who's playing defense
Speaker 1: and who's playing attack at the moment. The seats that
Speaker 1: Peter Dutton has gone to in the first week of
Speaker 1: this campaign. He has gone to Bruce Brisbane, Corwell, his
Speaker 1: own in Dixon where we had the pup test on Monday,
Speaker 1: the seat of Hawk Hume, Latrobe, Marianoa, McEwen McMahon Melbourne, Morton, Patterson,
Speaker 1: Bullwinkle Forest, majority of those held by the Labor Party.
Speaker 1: He's on attack. But the bloke is apparently winning this
Speaker 1: election is playing an awful lot of defense because he
Speaker 1: went to Boothby Labor seat, Canberra Labor seating, My labor seat,
Speaker 1: Dixon attack seat, Eden Manero labor seat, has like a
Speaker 1: labor seat, Hinkler l NP seat, Laylor labor seats, Sturt
Speaker 1: Liberal seat, Wills labor seat, Hunter labor seat as well.
Speaker 1: Why is the guy who's winning playing so much defense? Well,
Speaker 1: that's right, maybe he's not. I care about our kids
Speaker 1: like you do, because not just future of the country,
Speaker 1: but they're they're the most important people in our families,
Speaker 1: right because they are the ones that will carry on
Speaker 1: all of the different traditions that we have. And I
Speaker 1: got two little kids in primary school. You've got kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews.
Speaker 1: All right, we care about our kids. And the thing
Speaker 1: that I constantly come back to on this program is
Speaker 1: the kids are not all right, and no, just a
Speaker 1: swift kick in the barman a, you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of days off the video games, or a spoonful of
Speaker 1: concrete and they'll harden up. It's not going to fix
Speaker 1: things a lot of complicated reasons, but every now and
Speaker 1: then a little flare goes up about just how bad
Speaker 1: kids are doing it. Yesterday I told you the report
Speaker 1: that came out of the Kid's Helpline. This is a
Speaker 1: really special service, and I want you to memorize the
Speaker 1: number one hundred double five, one hundred one one hundred
Speaker 1: double five one a hundred kids Helpline dot com dot
Speaker 1: au if you prefer to do things digitally or text.
Speaker 1: Tracy Adams is the CEO of your town. They're the
Speaker 1: people who run this incredible service and we absolutely love
Speaker 1: what they do. Tracy, nice to see you. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: that the numbers are going up. It's a sign that
Speaker 1: our kids are not all right, and it's something that
Speaker 1: always moves me every time. And these numbers are now
Speaker 1: even higher than we were in and around the pandemic.
Speaker 1: Seventy four six hundred and sixty counseling sessions or interactions.
Speaker 1: That's two hundred kids a day.
Speaker 11: Well, that's right. I think we are concerned about the
Speaker 11: rising number of serious concerns that young people are contacting
Speaker 11: us about, but we should also be very proud of
Speaker 11: young people recognizing where to go for help and reaching
Speaker 11: out for help because that of with some very serious
Speaker 11: crisis situations.
Speaker 1: I also like that in a time of darkness, they're
Speaker 1: going to head your way. And that's why I want
Speaker 1: that number just drilled in, right, Like my kids are
Speaker 1: aware of it, right. I don't know if they've ever
Speaker 1: called it or whatever. It's their business if they wish
Speaker 1: to write. But you've got to have something and someone
Speaker 1: outside of the family, outside of the friends, who you
Speaker 1: may be able to offload with, who might be able
Speaker 1: to turn you away from the worst possible moments, because,
Speaker 1: as we saw in the report, thirty nine percent of
Speaker 1: the reasons for calling was because that attempted suicide or
Speaker 1: some are very close to it. Thirty percent child abuse
Speaker 1: and problems when it comes to their mental health. Give
Speaker 1: me an idea about the intensity of the interactions, about
Speaker 1: how serious the interactions are.
Speaker 11: Well, those numbers that you just shared reflect when our
Speaker 11: counselors have to decide that a young person is at
Speaker 11: imminent harm. So we have about eighty nine of those
Speaker 11: crisis interventions week, So their number one priority is right
Speaker 11: in that moment, let's keep this young person as safe
Speaker 11: and as we can possibly make them, while another part
Speaker 11: of our team will help get in contact with police,
Speaker 11: ambulance or child protection services. But in every interaction, the
Speaker 11: child is our number one priority and those young children
Speaker 11: they're presenting at that time at high risk of very
Speaker 11: serious harm to themselves.
Speaker 1: If somebody donates to you, they can either do it
Speaker 1: through their business or obviously through their own pocket. What
Speaker 1: happens with that money and how does it help the kids?
Speaker 11: Well, our number one resources our counselors. They're paid professionals,
Speaker 11: tertiary qualified. The great thing about that is that young
Speaker 11: people can come back to the same counselor each time.
Speaker 11: I think one of the things about Kids Helpline that's
Speaker 11: special is that it's free. It's equitable to everyone, and
Speaker 11: there shouldn't be any family that worries about can they
Speaker 11: afford for their child to get the right support when
Speaker 11: they need it. Seventy five percent of all the Contactic
Speaker 11: Kids Helpline come outside normal business hours, so we have
Speaker 11: to have a safety in it there when no one
Speaker 11: else is.
Speaker 1: I'm political, you're not. You need all sides of politics
Speaker 1: to help your organization. Now, I want to make that
Speaker 1: very very clear. But do we have to have more
Speaker 1: of a chat at a time of hyper focus when
Speaker 1: our vote matters about our kids, about those mental health
Speaker 1: support systems.
Speaker 11: Well, I think we don't have to be political to
Speaker 11: know that we need investment into our young people. We
Speaker 11: need to be listening to them, We need to be
Speaker 11: caring about what those needs are. We need to be
Speaker 11: making sure that the investment's going into the places that
Speaker 11: can make a difference. And that means different things at
Speaker 11: different times. We need investment into acute mental health need
Speaker 11: we need an investment into education. We need investment into
Speaker 11: helping our families, our parents know how to deal with
Speaker 11: some of the complexes use that children present with. And
Speaker 11: I don't think that's political. I actually think that's what
Speaker 11: we all need to be thinking about where that investment
Speaker 11: needs to go.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've had the chance to see
Speaker 1: that show on Netflix Adolescents, right, it's a hardcore four
Speaker 1: hours of a look about a kid who commits murder.
Speaker 1: It's not a what do they say, It's not a
Speaker 1: how who done it? It's a why they did it.
Speaker 1: And I've had a lot of chats with people that
Speaker 1: I wouldn't normally talk to people about about all sorts
Speaker 1: of precious that exist, from social media to school bullying,
Speaker 1: to know all sorts of stuff that's around. How important
Speaker 1: is it that when the culture turns to things like that,
Speaker 1: that it means some people might be having their first
Speaker 1: conversation in a long time about what's really going on
Speaker 1: with kids.
Speaker 11: Well, shows like that are certainly doing a job about
Speaker 11: elevating some of the serious issues that are happening. And
Speaker 11: I think, as parents often say to us, we actually
Speaker 11: don't know how to have this conversations. We're worried about them.
Speaker 11: Young people tell us that they simply don't know who
Speaker 11: to talk to, and they worry about putting burden onto
Speaker 11: their parents because their parents have already got a lot
Speaker 11: of things to be worried about. But we are seeing
Speaker 11: cultural change. We are seeing young people be made to
Speaker 11: be aware of behaviors that we wouldn't normally want to
Speaker 11: be tolerating. We wouldn't want to be seeing any young people.
Speaker 11: They're learning things online that aren't healthy, that aren't good
Speaker 11: for them, and then they're using those behaviors against others.
Speaker 11: But as adults, we've got a lot to think about
Speaker 11: in our own behaviors as well. And I think that's
Speaker 11: the whole element here, especially around things like bullying, where
Speaker 11: we get a lot of presentations young people don't know
Speaker 11: how to find.
Speaker 2: A way out.
Speaker 11: But as adults, what are we teaching people about the
Speaker 11: behaviors that we want our children to have? And that's
Speaker 11: something that we should all be reflecting on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, buddy Earth, if you think that blowing up at
Speaker 1: each other isn't going to rub off on the kids,
Speaker 1: then you're not really paying attention. Tracy, Thank you so
Speaker 1: much again. You can donate to this phenomenal a service,
Speaker 1: but more importantly, I want you to have the telephone
Speaker 1: number written down one one hundred, double five one one
Speaker 1: hundred kids Helpline dot com dot au. Just leave it around,
Speaker 1: write on a posted note, leave it on a door.
Speaker 1: Why not? Okay, but if you want to donate, and
Speaker 1: if you can, it is tax deductible. Good to see
Speaker 1: kids Helpline dot com dot you. Thank you, Tracy. We'll
Speaker 1: see you again into the future. Quick break back with
Speaker 1: more back to the election debate and they winner and
Speaker 1: Loser of the week all on its way. You can
Speaker 1: always send me an email with news tips, Paulitskynews dot
Speaker 1: com dot you. I have goods this Sunday night, as
Speaker 1: you know, State of the Race Thursday night, another hardcore
Speaker 1: chat about politics and two blokes in it, very very
Speaker 1: well from lots of different sides, the wonderful Darren Barnett,
Speaker 1: who's in studio here, studio. This is in a studio.
Speaker 1: It's a man cave. And joining us right now is
Speaker 1: James Ashby because there was big news Paul and Hens's
Speaker 1: daughter is now going to be running for one nation
Speaker 1: in Tasmania where he is right now. I see winter
Speaker 1: has arrived early for you, my friend.
Speaker 5: Yeah, easing mate, especially for.
Speaker 1: That's going to say Camber's bad enough. Enjoyed Tazzy and
Speaker 1: the wins tonight and tomorrow. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the politics of Tariff's, okay, Darren, huge hype going into this, right,
Speaker 1: It is not good. It is not okay. It's a
Speaker 1: terrible decision, all right, correct, No, but particularly the beef
Speaker 1: the beef produces, that's that's bad news. Ten percent of
Speaker 1: five percent is not going to destroy the Australian economy.
Speaker 1: And I think that means that Albow's real hope, which
Speaker 1: was to put Trump at the center of the Australian
Speaker 1: election campaign for the next three weeks didn't quite work.
Speaker 1: What do you reckon?
Speaker 16: I feel it's probably true that obviously James is the
Speaker 16: other guest, and he's he would know more from a
Speaker 16: Pauline Hanson perspective. The problem for Dutton is that he
Speaker 16: gets hit from the left and the right and wherever
Speaker 16: he sits. The people who watch your show, the people
Speaker 16: who vote for Pauline Hanson, they're going to say, well,
Speaker 16: Dutton's not quite as much like Trump as we like,
Speaker 16: he's not as hard as we'd like, and the people
Speaker 16: in the center, I think he's a little bit too
Speaker 16: much like Trump. So I think the problem for Dutton
Speaker 16: isn't really one of Anthie elbhen eas he's making.
Speaker 1: It's just the.
Speaker 16: Times, and sadly for Dutton at the moment, the times
Speaker 16: don't quite suit him.
Speaker 1: James, your sense here again, is it serious trouble when
Speaker 1: it comes to the next few weeks or I'm going
Speaker 1: to use the word fizzy right. People were banging on
Speaker 1: about that with tropical cyclone they were able to say that,
Speaker 1: and again, the tropical cyclone was a thing all right,
Speaker 1: but thankfully it wasn't as bad as it could have been.
Speaker 1: What's your sense about just how much has changed, because
Speaker 1: you can see that albou was desperate to make this
Speaker 1: the Trump referendum.
Speaker 15: Well, we heard the lead up to this big announcement
Speaker 15: was all about, oh, it's going to destroy the beef industry.
Speaker 15: It's going to destroy pharmaceuticals that we export to the
Speaker 15: United States, which are two extraordinarily big exports for US.
Speaker 5: But so too as gold.
Speaker 15: People don't realize we've got probably around a combined trading
Speaker 15: arrangement with the United States of around ninety to one
Speaker 15: hundred billion dollars, of which Australia export's about probably thirty
Speaker 15: five forty billion. The thing is that it didn't turn
Speaker 15: out the way that everyone predicted it to.
Speaker 5: So it has been a visit today.
Speaker 15: Gold prices went down yesterday I was having a look
Speaker 15: at gold prices. There are about five thousand and fifty
Speaker 15: dollars Australian per rounds.
Speaker 5: That's now down back under five thousand.
Speaker 15: So it wasn't you know, people run to gold for
Speaker 15: security and safety. Well they obviously realized that it wasn't
Speaker 15: the need to rush to gold. The other thing too,
Speaker 15: is that you've got to remember the American dollar is
Speaker 15: extraordinarily strong against the Australian dollar, so there's still going
Speaker 15: to be this desire to buy Australian products.
Speaker 5: We're cheap, We're cheap to Americans.
Speaker 15: But I don't blame Trump when he wants to protect industries.
Speaker 15: I wish we had stronger leaders in this country because
Speaker 15: some countries want to work for a bowl of ice
Speaker 15: a day. Pay our workers very well here and no
Speaker 15: one wants to take that away from them. But if
Speaker 15: you were to compete on a global market with a
Speaker 15: lot of these Asian economies, you have to apply tariffs
Speaker 15: because otherwise you end up like Australia, destroyed manufacturing and industries.
Speaker 15: And we should be protecting our own industries here in Australia.
Speaker 5: Trump's done it for how long it lasts. Who knows.
Speaker 15: If there's a change of leadership under Dutton, who knows
Speaker 15: what we may be able to negotiate.
Speaker 5: But it is a bloody big feasitt today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just looking at the futures market, of course,
Speaker 1: a couple of hours before the American market opens, and
Speaker 1: no doubt there's going to be lots of red there.
Speaker 1: The total market value is forty one thousand now on
Speaker 1: the dow. The suggestion is at the start it's going
Speaker 1: to go down by about a thousand, not an insignificant number,
Speaker 1: but again not the sort of COVID early days of COVID.
Speaker 1: But that's just the markets. And I'm not here for
Speaker 1: financial advice in any way, shape or form. But it's interesting.
Speaker 1: And also, Darren, you know Australia for generations has had
Speaker 1: to deal with globe blows. Right, the idea that we
Speaker 1: used to make a car, and we used to make
Speaker 1: a fridge, and we use all of these things, right,
Speaker 1: and then slowly but surely, Oh, it's just easier for
Speaker 1: someone somewhere else for four cents a day to make
Speaker 1: it and then we'll import it back in Trump views
Speaker 1: it as a way of funding his economy because he
Speaker 1: wants to get rid of things like income tax. Do
Speaker 1: you think that it actually is going to be a
Speaker 1: substantial kick in the backside to Australia to actually start
Speaker 1: making stuff again. But we don't even make copy paper anymore.
Speaker 16: Oh, we do. We get rid of our natural resources
Speaker 16: and then import them back. That's been the case for
Speaker 16: a long time and I think certainly if you talk
Speaker 16: about James's voter base in Queensland. A lot of them
Speaker 16: are old labor voters who still like the Union but
Speaker 16: don't necessarily love the Labor Party, the modern iteration of
Speaker 16: the Labour Party. But trade wars are very complicated things,
Speaker 16: and once you start them, you don't I.
Speaker 1: Don't know where they go. I don't know where it ends.
Speaker 16: And for someone like Trump who does like to control that,
Speaker 16: he doesn't know what's going to blow back and how hard.
Speaker 16: And I think it's also true that in a few
Speaker 16: months time, when the price of a television and a
Speaker 16: price of other things skyrocket, that even though they've tried
Speaker 16: to soften the American public with this is going to
Speaker 16: be difficult. But trust us, when massive price hikes happen
Speaker 16: on certain items, it's going to be very hard to
Speaker 16: keep all of this under control domestically.
Speaker 1: So I think November they're going to smack him about.
Speaker 16: There's a little bit of visitist today, but really it's
Speaker 16: about what happens in the next twelve eighteen months, and
Speaker 16: that's the real telling factor, particularly at home for Trump.
Speaker 1: Now. Today the boss of the ABC was playing a
Speaker 1: home game the National Press Club, where basically he was
Speaker 1: sending up a not so subtle signal, you know, the
Speaker 1: only we need more money because we were doing more
Speaker 1: with less, which is every business in Australia, a littleone,
Speaker 1: the one that gets guaranteed more than a billion bucks
Speaker 1: coming over there into the bank account every year. And
Speaker 1: then he's obviously out there that Peter Dutton, well you
Speaker 1: know he's not going to be the friend of the ABC,
Speaker 1: and that of course feeds into teel Land and all
Speaker 1: the rest of it here. But I want to talk
Speaker 1: about the politics of the ABC because while I will
Speaker 1: gladly go to battle with many of their leftis and
Speaker 1: certainly i'll give it the lefty Laura Tingle and all
Speaker 1: the rest of it, I have no problem with public broadcasting.
Speaker 1: I have no problem with it filling the parts of
Speaker 1: the market that the commercial interests don't be at, things
Speaker 1: like women's sport, regional coverage, that that stuff. Right, no problems.
Speaker 1: Basically there's lots of good stuff done. But in many ways,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, it's Channel nine without the ads, the
Speaker 1: Star system, the gold Logi nominees, the cross promotion, all
Speaker 1: of that business. But politically speaking, James yep okay, there's
Speaker 1: a certain section of people who say sell the damn.
Speaker 1: But its not going to happen, never gonna happen. But
Speaker 1: what is the politics of the ABC when the boss
Speaker 1: of a government organization is basically out there saying don't
Speaker 1: vote for one of the two options of government.
Speaker 15: It's quite literally what it's come down to today's discussion. Look,
Speaker 15: he's asking for a firm answer from Dutton as to
Speaker 15: whether or not that funding is going to be there
Speaker 15: in the long term if he wins government. Well, I'll
Speaker 15: give you a firm view of what one nation think.
Speaker 15: We're prepared to get some of the funding from the
Speaker 15: television side of the ABC because Paul, we got hosts
Speaker 15: on the ABC, which we discovered a couple of years ago,
Speaker 15: like Media Watch on Monday nights. It's one program per week,
Speaker 15: last what five minutes, and the host has played over
Speaker 15: two hundred thousand dollars a year plus.
Speaker 5: He's got a swag of staff.
Speaker 15: Come on, you can't tell me that that's good value
Speaker 15: for money in our national broadcaster.
Speaker 5: What the ABC do very well is regional radio.
Speaker 15: They do a remarkable job on most of their radio networks.
Speaker 15: I was sick for two weeks, mate, a couple of
Speaker 15: weeks ago. I was laid up with influenza A. I
Speaker 15: spent a lot of time scanning the ABC. As you know,
Speaker 15: they've got four channels. One's kids, the other three are
Speaker 15: basically repetitive. They repeat each other's programs. Half the crap
Speaker 15: comes from other countries. If we're to produce local content
Speaker 15: on all for that, but the ABC's given up significantly.
Speaker 5: Their ratings are right down.
Speaker 15: I don't see the value when we're spending over a
Speaker 15: billion dollars a year. So if Williams wants some surety,
Speaker 15: one nation is saying, if we hold the balance of power,
Speaker 15: we will be taking a razor blade to some of
Speaker 15: that budget and it will come from the fat television's
Speaker 15: part of the ABC. Leave the radio stations loan. But
Speaker 15: the television needs gutting.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I have a little look at, by the way, the
Speaker 1: amount of money that they hide off in co productions.
Speaker 1: That's how many of the people you see on TV
Speaker 1: actually get paid. So therefore it doesn't turn up in
Speaker 1: the books. The politics of the ABC, is it a
Speaker 1: third rail because we certainly know that that particularly the
Speaker 1: Teals love to run on this issue.
Speaker 16: I think in the wealthier parts of Australia, and certainly
Speaker 16: some seats that have got an older demographic, the trust
Speaker 16: factor and the love of the ABC is still incredibly strong.
Speaker 16: The problem the ABC has and so does a lot
Speaker 16: of kind of all of it. A lot of media
Speaker 16: has this problem, but younger people aren't using it and
Speaker 16: consuming it. They rely on other forms, whether it's podcasts
Speaker 16: or whether it be surveillance apps. Indeed, but look, that's
Speaker 16: the problem for all media, all kind of legacy media,
Speaker 16: including the ABC, is how are they going to convince
Speaker 16: younger people to get on board? And when you're publicly funded,
Speaker 16: you need to be able to justify your existence well
Speaker 16: and in fairness, but it does matter the wealthier the
Speaker 16: seat and the closer they are to the CBD, then
Speaker 16: it matters in terms of the big cities. Regions are
Speaker 16: also definitely regional radio and other things. I think it
Speaker 16: was about twenty sixteen they put some regional cadet chips
Speaker 16: in and other bits and pieces. That's been successful and
Speaker 16: there should be more of that.
Speaker 1: A great completely. Perhaps the transmission costs might be a
Speaker 1: way of looking at things. Everything can be streamed, the
Speaker 1: Internet available everywhere. Do we really need that many stations
Speaker 1: on that many radio towers around the country who knows
Speaker 1: back with more a winner and loser of the week.
Speaker 1: We'll get to it next, including Paul's aside, who was
Speaker 1: the winner and loser of this week in the election?
Speaker 1: I love on a Thursday night, my brother from another mother,
Speaker 1: literally and physically. It seems to be no than the
Speaker 1: wonderful Darren Bunnette.
Speaker 16: One day they'll know how often we swap and that
Speaker 16: just goppleganger in.
Speaker 1: Correct, correct, all right? And the wonderful James Ashby who
Speaker 1: is in Tasmania. So let's talk about why you're in Tasmania,
Speaker 1: which is Pauline Hanson's daughter, who is spectacular on TV
Speaker 1: any day by the way, great from breakfast to press
Speaker 1: conferences and interviews. She is a star and she's the
Speaker 1: top of the ticket in Tasmania.
Speaker 15: She's definitely the diplomatic one of the family, paul She's
Speaker 15: got a great deal of talent.
Speaker 5: Talent, that's for sure.
Speaker 15: And look, I know for many years Pauline's been asking
Speaker 15: Lee to run for the Senate or run for a
Speaker 15: lower house seat here in Tasmania. And look, I guess
Speaker 15: we've all got a time in life, which is right.
Speaker 15: She's forty one now, same age as Pauline was when
Speaker 15: Pauline was first elected to the Lower House. So maybe
Speaker 15: it's an omen we'll see what happens. There's got two
Speaker 15: wonderful kids down here and tazzy've been here for thirteen
Speaker 15: years and it is right. Lee performed extraordinarily well today.
Speaker 15: I think people can see there's a lot of likeness.
Speaker 15: They've got the same nose if you take a good
Speaker 15: look paul but you know they're an extraordinary family. She's
Speaker 15: seen the highs and the lows and the hard times
Speaker 15: of her mum. But boy has she got something to offer.
Speaker 15: She's a real talent for Tasmania and that is the
Speaker 15: person I'd pick as the winner of the week this week.
Speaker 15: TASMANI really has a great opportunity to elect a one
Speaker 15: nation representative in Lee and keep that handsOn legacy alive
Speaker 15: because unfortunately Pauline can't go forever. She's still got plenty
Speaker 15: more years left in her but the legacy has to
Speaker 15: be there for one nation and I think having two
Speaker 15: Hanson's on the floor of Parliament is better than one
Speaker 15: bloody oath.
Speaker 1: Let's get her on the show Sunday night. Organize at
Speaker 1: someone anyone. I'd love to get her on the show
Speaker 1: Lee Hanson. Lovely passionate and great option for someone serious
Speaker 1: rather than the sort of lambie of it all. We're
Speaker 1: literally on our own page. There's no policies right, it's
Speaker 1: you know, great with a grab on TV. But come
Speaker 1: on you when somebody who's actually got some ideas, Darren,
Speaker 1: you're we're a loser of the campaign week polls a side.
Speaker 16: Hey on winner of the Week. I want to say
Speaker 16: Canada because they were. They just didn't get mentioned, yes,
Speaker 16: and I don't know why, but they have managed to
Speaker 16: escape that and it looks like the remnants of the
Speaker 16: Trudeau government are a chance of winning, which I don't
Speaker 16: know what the bookies odds were a couple of months ago, but.
Speaker 1: You could have made it money.
Speaker 16: Yes, yes, campaign wise, Look, I think Elbows had a
Speaker 16: better week than Dutton and it follows and having had
Speaker 16: a better week than Dutton for the last two or
Speaker 16: three weeks, so six or eight weeks ago, I thought
Speaker 16: the Libs were a pretty good chance to get into seventy.
Speaker 16: Now it feels a little bit distant to me unless
Speaker 16: there's a massive turnaround.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be fascinating to see in the next of
Speaker 1: a while. Again, part of the planning and the timing
Speaker 1: is the of school holidays, public holidays, all the rest
Speaker 1: of it. But people still taking plenty of information over
Speaker 1: the next of a while.
Speaker 16: He doesn't elbow, looks like he I think he's much
Speaker 16: you're a frame of mind than he was three years ago.
Speaker 16: He looks more assured, he looks like he's across the brief.
Speaker 16: He just looks as I think he uses the term
Speaker 16: match fit, and that matters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but when you can't even admit that you've fallen
Speaker 1: off a stage, I mean this is sort of like again,
Speaker 1: I literally don't care. It is nothing, nothing, nothing, And yes,
Speaker 1: I know somebody's going to put together that mega cut.
Speaker 1: I've mentioned lots of times to take the piss right,
Speaker 1: But if you can't even be honest about whether you
Speaker 1: fell off the stage or not, James, please, and.
Speaker 15: The public can see right through that. And this is
Speaker 15: his biggest problem. He's been called out so many times
Speaker 15: over the last three years for promises that have never
Speaker 15: come to fruition.
Speaker 5: In fact, were impossible.
Speaker 15: You know that two hundred and seventy five dollars reduction
Speaker 15: in electricity prices, that's just one of many the mere
Speaker 15: fact that he's guillotines with no debate over two hundred
Speaker 15: pieces of legislation in our Senate.
Speaker 5: That's disgraceful.
Speaker 15: That's not democracy, that is not how our Parliament's meant
Speaker 15: to work. The Australian public should be appalled by that,
Speaker 15: and that behavior was only enabled by the Greens, Jackie
Speaker 15: Lamby and David Pocock, plus that halfwit out of Victoria
Speaker 15: Lydia Thorpe. So you know, we've got to really change
Speaker 15: the makeup of the Senate.
Speaker 5: The only way we're going to do that is if you.
Speaker 15: Vote Conservative in the lower House and you get that
Speaker 15: with One Nation and other parties. But also we've got
Speaker 15: to change the dynamics of that Senate. I say time
Speaker 15: and time again because I'm deadly serious. Unless we change it,
Speaker 15: we're going to end up with a real basket case of.
Speaker 5: A parliament whatever happens after May three.
Speaker 1: Of course, if Lydia thor would like to join us
Speaker 1: at any time to dispute or push back on any
Speaker 1: observations of our guests, all the hosts, she's welcome here
Speaker 1: for the full hour at any time.
Speaker 16: I didn't know where you were going to go with
Speaker 16: that halfwid from Victoria.
Speaker 1: Why is the assumptions exactly?
Speaker 5: Darren?
Speaker 1: We are literally inside our last minute here. Can I
Speaker 1: just ask you both?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: Just a random question, core flutes, why are there're so many?
Speaker 1: There are too many around and it kind of pease
Speaker 1: a lot of people off, don't you think, Darren?
Speaker 16: There are too many? But I do like the Amelia Hamer.
Speaker 16: That was good, smart, that's clever. Yeah, don't take this one, but.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see one's about values, not just about
Speaker 1: some face of some person in a QR code.
Speaker 5: James, Yeah, the Greens are so anti gas.
Speaker 15: But guess where cor flute comes from the gas industry.
Speaker 5: It's plastic, your fools.
Speaker 1: Great point, I'll tell you what. Whoever the core flute
Speaker 1: people are enjoy I'm sure you're making hey while the sunshines.
Speaker 1: Thank you lads to appreciate. I have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 1: That's our show for tonight. Don't forget Sunday Night, State
Speaker 1: of the Race, hardcore politics. As we move into the
Speaker 1: second week, remember just about twenty days until the first
Speaker 1: votes are counted and the People's Forum next week. Have
Speaker 1: a great weekend, Go Tigers, Go Yankees. Stutter didn't keep
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