Speaker 1: From the Skyinging Center. This is Paul Murray Live.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Sherry, come on into the man cave. We've
Speaker 2: got a big way to end our week, including the
Speaker 2: Prime Minister. It won't be calling an election this weekend,
Speaker 2: but it'll be thinking about it. It wasn't in Question
Speaker 2: Times today. I'll explain why, and it was all of a
Speaker 2: bit of politics, but I'll get to that in the
Speaker 2: moment or two's time.
Speaker 1: Bear with me.
Speaker 2: But believe it or not, people who would like to
Speaker 2: smoke pot legally in this country look like they're going
Speaker 2: to pose a bit of an electoral threat, not just
Speaker 2: to the Greens but to labor as well. Let me
Speaker 2: explain all of that in chapter and verse And did
Speaker 2: you know where then an ac DC came from? From
Speaker 2: the greatest band Australia as ever produced answer will be
Speaker 2: known tonight. As always, we start with the most important
Speaker 2: thing in the greatest country of them all, that being
Speaker 2: this one, and that remains what is happening in North Queensland.
Speaker 2: Lots of rain, lots of floods, lots of problems that
Speaker 2: people are having to deal with. Now here is an
Speaker 2: indication that the worst is not behind us yet. Because
Speaker 2: remember even if the rain stopped, there's reign that will
Speaker 2: be flowing down towards the sea. And be that Mackay,
Speaker 2: be that Townsville, be that Cans, be that Ingham, all
Speaker 2: of those places that we know and love, they're about
Speaker 2: to cop even more.
Speaker 3: Having his reign is now sitched in to central parts
Speaker 3: of Queensland. So thankfully for Ingham and surrounding areas, the
Speaker 3: worst of the rain is done. The floods won't get
Speaker 3: to the same heights again, despite the fact that in
Speaker 3: Queensland there's potential for still another five hundred millimeters over
Speaker 3: the coming week.
Speaker 2: These yes, of course, but it's about what ends up
Speaker 2: flowing that way. So all the coverage will be there
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Speaker 2: week in and make sure the homepage as always is
Speaker 2: skynews dot com dot au. For his part, the Prime
Speaker 2: Minister was in North Queensland today. He toured some of
Speaker 2: the sites with the Premier of New South Wales, New
Speaker 2: South Wales of Queen's Leak, David Cruci Foley, Queensley.
Speaker 4: We've taken the opportunity to pre deploy and to restock
Speaker 4: some resources in the knowledge that there could be some
Speaker 4: more rain in the next few days, and that looks
Speaker 4: like setting up a couple of different hubs and making
Speaker 4: sure that we do what we did ahead of this event,
Speaker 4: pre deploy the likes of swift Water to rescue and
Speaker 4: sees and ergon Cruz.
Speaker 2: Now, of course there are people in need, and it's
Speaker 2: always important that the Prime Minister cares about those people
Speaker 2: and goes and talks to them. The timing is interesting,
Speaker 2: though in a more cynical mind than yours or even mine,
Speaker 2: might suggest that he was there today because he knew
Speaker 2: that he didn't have to answer questions in Parliament and
Speaker 2: he was able to do pretty softer appearances on breakfast
Speaker 2: television this morning.
Speaker 1: But of course his heart's in the right place.
Speaker 5: Today we're announcing eight million dollars CO funded Community Relief Fund,
Speaker 5: providing up to a million dollars for the Local Government
Speaker 5: Association to eight of them that are impacted by this flooding.
Speaker 2: Ben More than the appearance of the politicians are of
Speaker 2: course the people, and how are they holding up after
Speaker 2: yet another day of tough times.
Speaker 1: It's pretty crazy and it sucks. With nothing.
Speaker 2: We've had to swim from our houses to the shops
Speaker 2: and they haven't been open either. All right, let's get
Speaker 2: to the politics of the day now. On Thursday night,
Speaker 2: I can take a little time to start pulling apart
Speaker 2: some of the lies that are building up by a
Speaker 2: government that has got virtually no good record to run on,
Speaker 2: apart from putting a whole series of land mines into
Speaker 2: the federal budget, the meaning it will be in deficit
Speaker 2: for the next forty years. So of course their single
Speaker 2: plan is to run against the opposition. Hence why they
Speaker 2: keep doing this over and over again about a policy
Speaker 2: which has been recently announced by the opposition.
Speaker 4: When they say they're putting their money where their mouth is,
Speaker 4: they mean a ten billion dollar plan for you to
Speaker 4: shout the boss's.
Speaker 6: Lunch, and that side of the house is focused on
Speaker 6: long lunches.
Speaker 4: This man favors long lunches over public hospital.
Speaker 1: The only policy they have is free lunch serving bosses
Speaker 1: long lunches, a taxpayer expense that'll spend billions on free
Speaker 1: lunches for possible, always about lunch with these folks.
Speaker 2: A particular example of an MP who is twisting this
Speaker 2: as hard as they can is on the Chinese surveillance
Speaker 2: app TikTok, which last time I remember was banned by
Speaker 2: all official use in Parliament House, So presumably it's somebody
Speaker 2: with an outside Wilwei phone.
Speaker 6: Long lunches paid for by the taxpayer.
Speaker 1: For bosses are the lips for real?
Speaker 6: What's next putting your feed up at your desk at
Speaker 6: work smoking a cigar? You know what? Seriously, one point
Speaker 6: six billion dollars a taxpayer dollars are going to go
Speaker 6: down the drain so Peter Dunn can help his business
Speaker 6: mates have a nice long lunch at the expensive workers
Speaker 6: It's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Oh we had it all bosses, evil cigar smokers. Geez.
Speaker 2: I wonder why his efforts turned up in some of
Speaker 2: my social media feeds, not via TikTok, but when it
Speaker 2: was repeated on Instagram all right.
Speaker 1: Time to actually tell the truth about.
Speaker 2: What the idea is that they are trying to make
Speaker 2: it seem like is just for the taxpayers of Australia
Speaker 2: to be subsidizing the monocle wearing, cigar smoking top hat
Speaker 2: owning evil bosses of Australia. Now, there is a rule
Speaker 2: in Australia when it comes to big business. Now, big
Speaker 2: business is to find in lots of different ways, but
Speaker 2: for the purpose of this conversation, it is any business
Speaker 2: that has a turnover of more than ten million dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a bank, a mining company, a finance company, a media company,
Speaker 2: all of these things would be the example of said businesses.
Speaker 2: And there is a system that currently allows them to
Speaker 2: avoid fringe benefits tax when they are taking clients out
Speaker 2: to lunch. The alternative treasurer Angus Taylor explains, a large
Speaker 2: company can cater for a lunch with food and our
Speaker 2: cohol in its boardroom worth thousands of dollars and can
Speaker 2: claim that cost as a tax deduction. But of course
Speaker 2: this is not extended to the world of small business.
Speaker 2: Small business again, as defined in this policy, is a
Speaker 2: business with a turnover of less than ten million dollars. Now,
Speaker 2: that would be the extreme amount of small businesses in
Speaker 2: the country. So let's actually have a look at the policy.
Speaker 2: Put simply, the policy is that if you have a ABN,
Speaker 2: you're a sole trader or you're a small business of
Speaker 2: any kind, the same rules that apply to the absolute
Speaker 2: big end of town would apply to you.
Speaker 7: To small businesses with a turnover up to ten million dollars,
Speaker 7: we will offer for two years a tax deduction of
Speaker 7: up to twenty thousand dollars per financial year for business
Speaker 7: related meal expenses at local cafes, pubs and restaurants.
Speaker 2: Wow, how shocking have you got your Rocky Patel B
Speaker 2: fifty two ready? That's a cigar of course, because that's
Speaker 2: the real big end of town. The idea that up
Speaker 2: to twenty thousand dollars if you take somebody out for
Speaker 2: a meal to say say thank you for them using
Speaker 2: your small business, or as a way of trying to
Speaker 2: get new clients for your business, that you would have
Speaker 2: the same tax.
Speaker 1: Free status as the big corporations. That's it.
Speaker 2: That's what labor is trying to pretend is taxpayer funds
Speaker 2: going to bosses while their workers aren't going out to lunch.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Of course, the Labor party, desperate to change the subject
Speaker 2: with a very compliant media, have no interest in what
Speaker 2: the truth is. After all, these were the people who
Speaker 2: tried to pretend that the liberal government of years ago
Speaker 2: was going to privatize medicare. It doesn't matter what's true
Speaker 2: or not. It's just about what they can sell, how
Speaker 2: they can change the subject, how just as they did
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, they can lie to people to
Speaker 2: get into power. We know they lied because your power
Speaker 2: bill is not going down by two hundred and seventy
Speaker 2: five dollars that was promised by twenty twenty five. We
Speaker 2: know that their promise was that cost of living would
Speaker 2: be lower under a labor government. Instead pick your indices.
Speaker 2: All of it is up. And one of the reasons
Speaker 2: why the Labor Party is so able to tell this lie,
Speaker 2: so able to pretend what this policy is as opposed
Speaker 2: to what it actually is, is because virtually none of
Speaker 2: them have any experience in small business. Many of them
Speaker 2: have either worked in and around the political world or
Speaker 2: in the adjunct for the Labor Party of the Union movement,
Speaker 2: where of.
Speaker 1: Course the boss is evil and the bosses and they
Speaker 1: ever trying to.
Speaker 2: Rip off the worker, as if we're back in the
Speaker 2: nineteen twenties. But the reality of Australia and its businesses
Speaker 2: is that the extreme majority of them are small. The
Speaker 2: extreme majority of them are the ones who would benefit
Speaker 2: from the policy. These are stats from the Australian Bureau Statistics,
Speaker 2: you know, that far right wing think tank. It shows
Speaker 2: that what ninety seven percent of all business in Australia,
Speaker 2: what two and a half million of the two point
Speaker 2: six million businesses are small businesses in this way, these
Speaker 2: are people who either have no employees, it's just themselves
Speaker 2: a sole trader and an actual fact, sixty one percent
Speaker 2: of small businesses don't have any employees. It's just a
Speaker 2: person with an ABN who might be going house to
Speaker 2: house when it comes to cutting hair, or front yard
Speaker 2: to backyard when it comes to cutting somebody's lawn, or
Speaker 2: somebody who's helping you out with your pool header. Those
Speaker 2: types of people, you know, the big end of town,
Speaker 2: who shouldn't dare be allowed to go to the pub
Speaker 2: and pay for a parmy with their business and not
Speaker 2: have to pay fringe benefit tax on top of it.
Speaker 2: Now again the vast majority of the vast majority of
Speaker 2: Australian business are sole traders. And the Labor Party just
Speaker 2: does not understand this. They didn't understand it under Howard,
Speaker 2: they don't understand it today that the people who are
Speaker 2: the workers of Australia. Are not just the ones who
Speaker 2: are wearing high vis and part of union membership on
Speaker 2: building sites. They are not just people who work for
Speaker 2: the public service and a part of the union movement.
Speaker 2: They are people who have decided to go out on
Speaker 2: their own and try to shape their own financial future.
Speaker 2: These people are no burden on the Australian taxpayer. These
Speaker 2: are the people who work their backsides off and if
Speaker 2: they do have somebody else working for them, they pay
Speaker 2: everyone else before they pay themselves, which means often they
Speaker 2: don't get paid themselves. These are the people who find
Speaker 2: it incredibly hard to get alone, have had buggerow holidays,
Speaker 2: and of the people who without them, our country would
Speaker 2: absolutely collapse.
Speaker 1: Believe me, if.
Speaker 2: Small business disappeared, you would notice it far more than
Speaker 2: if big government did.
Speaker 1: Now, the whole point.
Speaker 2: Of this policy, the one that is sagar jumping bosses,
Speaker 2: is for ninety seven percent of businesses in Australia, of
Speaker 2: which more than sixty percent are sole traders, to be
Speaker 2: able to have the same tax benefits as big businesses.
Speaker 2: It means that you would be able to take a
Speaker 2: client or a potential client to the local pub. You
Speaker 2: would be able to pay for the lunch, but there'd
Speaker 2: be no tax implications when it comes to fringe benefits tax. Now,
Speaker 2: this has two reasons for being. One is that it
Speaker 2: takes a financial burden off businesses. It means that they
Speaker 2: have an ability to claim off their own tax or
Speaker 2: not have to pay extra tax. I should say on
Speaker 2: being able to grow their business. And of course the
Speaker 2: bigger their business growth, the more tax goes back to
Speaker 2: the federal government. But they'd know nothing about it. Literally,
Speaker 2: we had a look today. You cannot find serious members
Speaker 2: of the federal government with any small government experience. Oh,
Speaker 2: the Prime Minister worked as a bank teller for a
Speaker 2: year in the eighties, or somebody worked as a checkout
Speaker 2: person making their way through university. But that's about it.
Speaker 2: With the exception of the most prominent small business person
Speaker 2: in the federal government, and that is Senator Don Farrell,
Speaker 2: the Trade Minister who launched a wine brand in between
Speaker 2: his two times in the Australian Senate. There's not a
Speaker 2: lot to show. And that's why they can so easily
Speaker 2: attend that boss equals billionaire rather than boss equals someone
Speaker 2: who pays themselves after they pay everyone else, who often
Speaker 2: has to go into their own savings or put their
Speaker 2: own bills off, so the people who work for them
Speaker 2: are guaranteed of their fortnightly or monthly wage. The other
Speaker 2: issue is that the cafes and restaurants and even some
Speaker 2: community pubs around the country are in a huge amount
Speaker 2: of trouble right now because you know that cost of
Speaker 2: living thing that they promise to do better, but it's
Speaker 2: only got really worse since this government came to power. Well,
Speaker 2: everything costs more for these businesses. Their power bills cost more,
Speaker 2: the cost of the employee costs more, the insurance costs more.
Speaker 2: Whatever it is that they cook, clean or sell also
Speaker 2: costs more. So, as you've seen as part of more
Speaker 2: than a football stadium of businesses that have gone busts
Speaker 2: since this government came to power, a very significant number
Speaker 2: of them are in the hospitality industry and that does
Speaker 2: affect everything from the local mister Whippy van all the
Speaker 2: way through.
Speaker 1: To a local motoring.
Speaker 2: And in fact, if you have a look at these stats,
Speaker 2: even more of them are in trouble than the ones
Speaker 2: that have blown up since this mob came to power.
Speaker 2: Sixty five percent of hospitality businesses consider themselves to be
Speaker 2: in a medium risk about whether they will.
Speaker 1: Exist into the future.
Speaker 2: So fourteen percent are in a absolute world of pain,
Speaker 2: and then the rest they're going okay. But the vast majority,
Speaker 2: what the best part of seventy nine eighty and a
Speaker 2: bit percent, they're in financial stress right now. So if
Speaker 2: it means that the policy that we'll see that small
Speaker 2: businesses and old traders will be able to use the
Speaker 2: same tax rules as big union and big business to
Speaker 2: be able to go out to lunch, guess who the
Speaker 2: beneficiary is going to be the people who sell you
Speaker 2: the lunch. So next time you see one of these videos,
Speaker 2: feel free to say, so, why shouldn't small business have
Speaker 2: the same tax rules as big business? Or do you
Speaker 2: just not care about the vast majority of businesses in
Speaker 2: this country? Or you could just write back and say
Speaker 2: why do you hate sole traders? Or maybe the next
Speaker 2: time one of these MPs or their staffers have you
Speaker 2: around to cut their hair or you around to pressure
Speaker 2: wash their driveway, you should remind them that you're a boss,
Speaker 2: even if you're only a boss of yourself.
Speaker 1: Now, a little further to.
Speaker 2: What I was just mentioning, and it is of course
Speaker 2: the role of social media and the Internet growing ever
Speaker 2: stronger and, particularly when it comes.
Speaker 1: To politics, even more determinative.
Speaker 2: About which way elections are going to go. Now, we
Speaker 2: all know that the Trump win was very largely fueled
Speaker 2: by not the big tech bros getting behind the president,
Speaker 2: but the people who supported the president playing a much
Speaker 2: better social media game than Kamala Harris. Remember, Kamala Harris
Speaker 2: was trying to pay influences where millions of people who
Speaker 2: were supporting Trump were already making the memes and the
Speaker 2: videos and the little videos that you saw all over
Speaker 2: your social media pointing out the idiocy of the Democratic Party,
Speaker 2: the absurdity of some of its supporters, the madness in
Speaker 2: most of the media, or of course, the endless failures
Speaker 2: of the candidate themselves. So we've got to pay attention
Speaker 2: to how this is going to play out here now. Interestingly,
Speaker 2: I spent much of this week trying to have a
Speaker 2: look at who has the stronger hand when it comes
Speaker 2: to social media, not just in the content that they make,
Speaker 2: but if they launched it exclusively on their own platforms,
Speaker 2: who is more likely to see it? But that's the
Speaker 2: stuff they don't pay for. There's also plenty of things
Speaker 2: that people do pay for when it comes to their
Speaker 2: own promotion on the Internet. As you know, if you
Speaker 2: have a business page for your crazy boss behavior with
Speaker 2: a business, you were able to boost your post by
Speaker 2: paying people like Facebook or Meta or alphabet ie Google
Speaker 2: to help spread your message far and wide. And certainly
Speaker 2: the Tiffany Tels know how to do that. After all,
Speaker 2: we know that their little pocket of Australia and I
Speaker 2: mean their politics and the people who backed them have
Speaker 2: got plenty of cash and so far, apparently just in
Speaker 2: the past few months, they've spent more than one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty grand on Google and Meta ats put simply
Speaker 2: Facebook and YouTube ads. From October twenty eighth last year
Speaker 2: to January twenty five, meniek Ryan spent seventy one thousand
Speaker 2: dollars on Meta ads, while spenders spent about fifty seven
Speaker 2: seven thousand dollars more than twenty eight thousand dollars on
Speaker 2: Google ads as well, putting them amongst the highest spending
Speaker 2: individual candidates at the election. Of course, the air support
Speaker 2: that helps fund.
Speaker 1: Their community campaigns.
Speaker 2: But remember we've got good billionaires and bad billionaires in Australia.
Speaker 2: When it comes to political donations, well, they do know
Speaker 2: how to spend a dollar on the internet. Climbate two
Speaker 2: hundred spend four hundred and twenty six thousand dollars across
Speaker 2: Google and Meta for advertising. The Progressive Independent Funding Group
Speaker 2: do you have to call them directs that money to
Speaker 2: advertising political candidates and promoting itself to receive further donations.
Speaker 2: Of course, they took on one to comment to the story.
Speaker 2: The Australian government was the biggest spender on Meta in
Speaker 2: the past three months. They paid three hundred and forty
Speaker 2: eight thousand dollars in ads to flog themselves. You know,
Speaker 2: the two little too late tax cuts are amazing and
Speaker 2: here's the YouTube ad to prove it. But it also
Speaker 2: does worth pointing out here about how these ads are
Speaker 2: going to play out in the overall fightwe Anthony Alberanezi
Speaker 2: and Peter Dutton. Who is going to play the better
Speaker 2: social media game?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: I always think that the single best way to make
Speaker 2: a point on social media is to do something funny.
Speaker 2: If I see another politician just standing in front of
Speaker 2: something telling me I don't care, I want to see
Speaker 2: a good social media game where people are turning around
Speaker 2: and they are making the most.
Speaker 1: Of the tools that exist to you.
Speaker 2: Now, that means with one laptop and one clever person,
Speaker 2: you can come up with a point that an advertising
Speaker 2: agency would have spent way too long on. It also
Speaker 2: means you can hit hard and you can hit fast,
Speaker 2: and they.
Speaker 1: All do it.
Speaker 2: But let's have a look about who has the strongest
Speaker 2: hand when it comes to social media. On Facebook, the
Speaker 2: Labour Party has three hundred and twenty two thousand followers,
Speaker 2: the Liberal and National Parties together three hundred and seven thousand,
Speaker 2: the Greens three hundred and three, one Nation has one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirteen thousand, and the United Australia Party, which
Speaker 2: is now deregistered but still exists in a digital sense,
Speaker 2: has one hundred and seventeen thousand people. On X two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen thousand people follow the Labor Party. Now,
Speaker 2: I know there are state versions of this, but I'm
Speaker 2: talking about the federal parties, the Libs at one hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty two, the Greens at one hundred and thirteen, one,
Speaker 2: Nation at forty one thousand, and again United Australian Party,
Speaker 2: who as I understand, deregistered, not running at the election,
Speaker 2: but still have an ability to talk to nineteen thousand
Speaker 2: people at once. Maybe Instagram's your thing. Well, that is
Speaker 2: a slightly more level playing field amongst the two parties
Speaker 2: of government.
Speaker 1: But have a look at the Greens at.
Speaker 2: One hundred and sixty nine thousand people, they are more
Speaker 2: than one hundred thousand people than the Labor Party and
Speaker 2: well and truly about one hundred and twenty thousand more
Speaker 2: than the Liberals do one Nation and the United Australian Party.
Speaker 1: They exist on Instagram, but.
Speaker 2: They've decided to put their efforts into other areas. So
Speaker 2: it means that things like the long lege unch lie
Speaker 2: is able to be amplified, probably louder by the Labor
Speaker 2: Party on all of its social media forms, as say
Speaker 2: the Liberal Party either launching an attack on the government
Speaker 2: or defending and explaining its own policy. Which is why
Speaker 2: in social media, the second somebody creates something that's coming
Speaker 2: after you, you have to respond with something that's going
Speaker 2: after them. You have to do things that are clever,
Speaker 2: that are different, that use things like animation, but again
Speaker 2: most importantly humor. Because I don't know about you, I'm
Speaker 2: not really sending that many reels amongst family and friends
Speaker 2: about boring politicians saying boring politician stuff. But if it's
Speaker 2: funny videos of Joe Biden falling up the stairs or
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris saying something stupid or some idiot at MSNBC
Speaker 2: melting down because Donald Trump isn't dead in jail yet,
Speaker 2: you're more likely to afford that stuff on. It's something
Speaker 2: that I hope the conservative side of politics knows how
Speaker 2: to play will only find out all together. But what
Speaker 2: about the individual messaging of politicians in this country, Well,
Speaker 2: let's look at the party leaders. Albo's got four hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty seven thousand people who apparently like his page
Speaker 2: on Facebook. I've not gone through and double checked how
Speaker 2: many of them are paid for versus how many are organic,
Speaker 2: but it absolutely smacks the number of people that are
Speaker 2: following Peter Dutton or even Adam Bant. Pauline Hanson is
Speaker 2: actually the champion here with Pauline Hanson's please explain which
Speaker 2: is generally the main place people will go to get information.
Speaker 2: All the funny cartoons that they put out, which is
Speaker 2: why they have such a strong game, and that's how
Speaker 2: they use humor through those great videos having a go
Speaker 2: at everyone else, and it means they're able to get
Speaker 2: their message out. Ralph Babbitt no slouch either in front
Speaker 2: of Peter Dutton and Adam Bant with his personal following
Speaker 2: where he is much more aggressive and a much more
Speaker 2: savvy player of social media than the conventional media would
Speaker 2: want to give him credit for. He's actually worth a
Speaker 2: follow just to.
Speaker 1: Have a look.
Speaker 2: At times a little trumpy, but quite often in the
Speaker 2: right place.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: In terms of their followings on Twitter, it won't surprise
Speaker 2: you that Anthony Alberanezi when it was a lefty site,
Speaker 2: has more followers done at one hundred and seventy six,
Speaker 2: had and Bantered two hundred and thirty two, Hansoon one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty six, and again Ralph Babbott's strong for
Speaker 2: a essentially one man band operating up the corner of
Speaker 2: the Parliament at seventy seven thousand and finally on Instagram
Speaker 2: and I know there's are lots of numbers, but they
Speaker 2: are showing you that the Labor Party and Albo in
Speaker 2: particular does have an advantage in terms of how many
Speaker 2: people they can get to, how many minds they can
Speaker 2: turn before the truth starts heading their way. On Instagram,
Speaker 2: Albow again four hundred and thirty thousand. Well, everyone else
Speaker 2: is behind Daylight which is running second, and Daylight Mark
Speaker 2: two is running third. Which brings me to how do
Speaker 2: you beat this algorithm? How do you get a ram?
Speaker 2: The power of those that have accumulated their power on
Speaker 2: social media. Well, you you may have only one hundred
Speaker 2: and forty followers, you may have a thousand members of
Speaker 2: your family, but together, collectively, the people will always dwarf
Speaker 2: the organizations, the political parties, or the single politicians. So
Speaker 2: this election, if you want an outcome, do your bit.
Speaker 2: Be what they call in the United States a force multiplier.
Speaker 2: If you see something that you like on the Internet
Speaker 2: that is in advocacy of the person that you want
Speaker 2: to vote for, or more importantly helps pull apart the
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Speaker 2: word because it will move votes and I'll have more
Speaker 2: of it for you in a moment of two's time
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Speaker 2: as I say, jump onto the Facebook page in a
Speaker 2: moment of two's time after the break.
Speaker 1: The latest attendants by the press gallery to get dartin.
Speaker 2: It's not that, but we'll poke fun at it because
Speaker 2: hopefully somebody will post that video more on a sec
Speaker 2: As we know when it comes to those that are
Speaker 2: of the left persuasion. So everyone inside the camera bubble
Speaker 2: we except bear few, and certainly those that guard the bubble,
Speaker 2: like of course much of the media. There is one
Speaker 2: name that over and over again the Labor Party thinks
Speaker 2: will somehow naturally get Australians to forget the past three
Speaker 2: bad years of this government.
Speaker 1: Peter Dutton. Peter Dutton, Peter Dutton, Peter Dutton.
Speaker 5: Peter Dutton, Peter Duttin Peter Dutton Peter Dutton, Peter Dutton,
Speaker 5: Peter Dutton.
Speaker 2: Now we've said this multiple and many times that they're advertising,
Speaker 2: despite the fact that it has all got worse under
Speaker 2: this government, are trying to pretend.
Speaker 1: It'll get worse under the next one. Black and white music,
Speaker 1: a scary voiceover, and the black and white voter.
Speaker 2: You know how they play well, of course, the pratorian
Speaker 2: guard of the Prime Minister and those who believe that
Speaker 2: they know more.
Speaker 1: Than any voter in Australia, with a few exceptions.
Speaker 2: And again I apologize to my friends when I use
Speaker 2: the broad brush, but alas I must, and that is
Speaker 2: of course much of the Camber Press gallery. We know
Speaker 2: that they are more than happy to run the lie
Speaker 2: over and over again that it's Peter un't Peter Duden,
Speaker 2: Peter duddon nothing else, which is why the Prime Minister,
Speaker 2: just after losing the voice vote, set up the dirt
Speaker 2: unit to find bad news about Peter Duden or his
Speaker 2: government to dispense to many people in the press gallery.
Speaker 1: Not planning a trip there anytime soon.
Speaker 2: And of course one of the high priestesses of this
Speaker 2: collection of reporters is nasty Nicky Sava. Writing now in
Speaker 2: the Channel nine newspapers. But previously will being a self
Speaker 2: admitted liar about her own behavior when she was in
Speaker 2: the press gallery. But now of course she's all above it,
Speaker 2: and because her CV got liberal in it somewhere, she's
Speaker 2: of course fed it everywhere as an honest broker. Now
Speaker 2: she of course has decided to write today in the
Speaker 2: Nils pair Pa well, she firstly decided that immigration, of
Speaker 2: course any discussion around it, well, of course it's all racist,
Speaker 2: isn't it, Despite the fact that the one point three
Speaker 2: million people being added to the rental lines, hospital cues.
Speaker 2: That's why we talk about immigration. It's not about where
Speaker 2: people are from, what they believe, what they look like.
Speaker 2: It's about this year number of people being added to
Speaker 2: the existing problems in the country.
Speaker 1: But I digress.
Speaker 2: What was today's offerings from nasty Nicky Saba, Well, it
Speaker 2: was Trump's reelection has enabled Dutton the chance to play
Speaker 2: the role of a lifetime because of course Peter Dutton
Speaker 2: is Donald Trump. In Australia wouldn't want to Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: so therefore you don't want Peter Dutten, the opposition leader,
Speaker 2: probably couldn't believe his luck when Donald Trump was re elected,
Speaker 2: He gushed about how happy he was about it, no
Speaker 2: doubt relishing playing his role of a lifetime as little
Speaker 2: sir echo the big brain that comes up with this stuff.
Speaker 2: He might live to regret that though Trump made it
Speaker 2: profitable for leaders to smear and sneer at experts, including scientists,
Speaker 2: electoral commissioners, all those holy figures amongst US intelligence chiefs, economics,
Speaker 2: the courts.
Speaker 1: Oh but not political reporters.
Speaker 2: Dunton's brutish strategy, she goes on to say, which crosses
Speaker 2: the line into inciting community tensions.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's Dunton.
Speaker 2: Who's the one driving around in the middle of the night,
Speaker 2: riding fther.
Speaker 1: Or setting a fire here or there? Or what was
Speaker 1: that thing that.
Speaker 2: Laura Tingle said, Oh, that people will be turning on
Speaker 2: foreign looking people at options, Oh yeah, or Peter Dutton apparently,
Speaker 2: And it has brought the coalition back from the brink. However,
Speaker 2: senior liberals note, which is code for I'm talking to
Speaker 2: people inside who also don't like what that brutish future
Speaker 2: Trump is trying to do.
Speaker 1: That it is okay, It is okay.
Speaker 2: That it's not as well placed this time at the
Speaker 2: electoral cycle as other oppositions.
Speaker 1: The poles aren't even good enough. You see, if the
Speaker 1: Reserve Bank, and of.
Speaker 2: Course she's now one of these people who says that
Speaker 2: despite the twelve interestrate rises that have gone on for
Speaker 2: how long, that if somehow it ticks back by one
Speaker 2: or two, Australia will be jumping in the air. They've
Speaker 2: had to pay fourteen thousand dollars fourteen thousand dollars extra
Speaker 2: on a homelane of five hundred thousand dollars twenty eight thousand.
Speaker 2: If it's a million, do you sums add fourteen every
Speaker 2: five hundred thousand?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But if the Reserve Bank cuts its interest rates twice
Speaker 2: and Albo calls an election for May, maybe treating the
Speaker 2: voters as mugs as badly as they have in the
Speaker 2: past will result in a bad.
Speaker 1: Outcome for Dutton into the future. You want to talk.
Speaker 2: About treating voters as mugs. The central advertising campaign of
Speaker 2: the Labor Party is it will be worse under Albinizi.
Speaker 2: They are literally running the same play against the Libs
Speaker 2: as the Libs ran against Labor. But of course it
Speaker 2: was true three years ago.
Speaker 1: Take your pick, three.
Speaker 2: Million people this close to homelessness, three and a bit
Speaker 2: million people who by this time in the week will
Speaker 2: have run out of food for their family. Even the
Speaker 2: ABC showed today that in many and most suburban marginal
Speaker 2: seeds the financial stress is close to ninety percent al
Speaker 2: But Peter Dutton's going to sound like Trump, even though
Speaker 2: as you will have seen many people who are yes
Speaker 2: as all in on Trump as I am. But the
Speaker 2: people who say that dudn't aint Trump enough. This is
Speaker 2: not a Goldilock selection where you can be a little
Speaker 2: too Trump, a little not Trump enough, a little just
Speaker 2: right Trump.
Speaker 1: It's not about that.
Speaker 2: It's about holding a government to account that promised to
Speaker 2: do better but everything got worse. But don't you love
Speaker 2: how they spend things in the media. Oder be as
Speaker 2: important as those people.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: The Prime Minister's going to be worried about what's happening
Speaker 2: in Victoria this weekend because Victoria actually has one in
Speaker 2: three of all federal labor EMPs come from Victoria. In fact,
Speaker 2: twenty four of the thirty nine seats they come from Victoria.
Speaker 2: And the Prime Minister's pole numbers are starting to fall
Speaker 2: apart in Victoria, and there are two state by elections
Speaker 2: happening this weekend in Victoria. One is Piran right in
Speaker 2: the middle of sort of the nice bit of Melbourne.
Speaker 2: It's all kind and I like Melbourne very much, but
Speaker 2: it's a bit of a fancy bit anyway.
Speaker 1: It's gone green for the past couple of elections.
Speaker 2: A former Labor MP is actually going to be endorsing
Speaker 2: the Liberal to take over. And then there's one in
Speaker 2: the Urbs in where a bit now Labor have held
Speaker 2: this seat for a long time. They should have been
Speaker 2: enough margin to not even worry about it. But with
Speaker 2: the Labour Party vote as low as it apparently is
Speaker 2: right now in Victoria, there is a very good chance
Speaker 2: that both of these seats are going to be lost,
Speaker 2: and if they are lost, and that is going to
Speaker 2: cause big trouble for the Prime minister.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: John Black is the former ALP senator who believes that
Speaker 2: Dunton has got a very good chance of forming minority
Speaker 2: government and can see a case and has made it
Speaker 2: many times in the Financial Review about how the Labour
Speaker 2: parties fall is going to result in a change of government.
Speaker 2: As I've said in the past before, I think that's
Speaker 2: a little over optimistic. But he's of the Labor flock
Speaker 2: and he's willing to say it. So why should did
Speaker 2: you pay attention to state by elections in Victoria when
Speaker 2: it's not going to affect what the government's going to
Speaker 2: be well because of where the seats are and what
Speaker 2: the crossover is, have a look at these Wherribee is
Speaker 2: in the federal seat of Laila. Now they won that
Speaker 2: pretty easily at the last election. If Werribee can't be
Speaker 2: held onto the Labour Party, then will they be concerned
Speaker 2: about holding onto Lala at a federal election. The Greens
Speaker 2: easily won the seat of Melbourne. Paran has significant part
Speaker 2: in that seat, as well as the Teals who only
Speaker 2: kind of squeaked home if you remember in Kuyong in
Speaker 2: twenty and twenty two. As John goes on to say,
Speaker 2: the Federal Parliamentary Party's vote in Victoria has been tracking
Speaker 2: the decline in the state vote, albeit with a small lag.
Speaker 2: Forty percent was their vote just after the aston by
Speaker 2: election when they were the honeymoon phase in mid twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three. It's now down to twenty five percent federally
Speaker 2: in January of twenty twenty five, in both primary and
Speaker 2: two party preferred vote terms. Labour's federal vote is the
Speaker 2: most in the most recent Sydney Morning Herald in an
Speaker 2: age Resolve poll, is down almost eight percentage points. If
Speaker 2: State Labor and the Greens can't hold seats like Werriby
Speaker 2: and Peran, then things are going to be terminal for
Speaker 2: the Albanezy government. Stand by, pay attention to what is
Speaker 2: happening on Saturday. You'll see all the results play out
Speaker 2: here also another reason our homepage skynews dot com dot au. Now,
Speaker 2: let's talk about what is happening with the Premier of Victoria,
Speaker 2: just In Allen and of course her Labor Party there. Now,
Speaker 2: even though it was a relatively easy win for them
Speaker 2: in the lower House last time, they actually didn't win
Speaker 2: a majority in the upper house. And as we know,
Speaker 2: the current public polling is terrible, so much so that
Speaker 2: if they do lose these two seats, we may will
Speaker 2: end up with a new Premier Victoria in the next
Speaker 2: couple of months ahead of next year's state election. As
Speaker 2: you can see, the primary vote for the Labor Party,
Speaker 2: this is the State Labor Party is now down to
Speaker 2: twenty two percent. According to these poles. You can see
Speaker 2: it absolutely fall off a cliff in the past twelve months,
Speaker 2: you can see the Liberal Party is an absolute direct beneficiary.
Speaker 2: So unlike say the federal vote, where Labor is going down,
Speaker 2: the Libs are going up, but there's a whole bunch
Speaker 2: that's going to others that is not being repeated in
Speaker 2: the state pole that we are looking at right now
Speaker 2: in Victoria, you can also see that over time. You
Speaker 2: can see when the government first came to power back
Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty one you can see the blue
Speaker 2: line going from the middle of the page to the
Speaker 2: bottom of the page now to the top of the page,
Speaker 2: and the Labor Party going from the top of the
Speaker 2: page to the middle of the page to the.
Speaker 1: Bottom of the page.
Speaker 2: But what is really interesting to note, and this is
Speaker 2: where something is even bigger than the Victorian government, is
Speaker 2: that because they don't have a majority in the upper House,
Speaker 2: the only way they can get something passed regularly is
Speaker 2: with the support of Labor, Greens and the Legalized Cannabis Party.
Speaker 2: The Legalized Cannabis Party got multiple people elected at the
Speaker 2: last state election. The Animal Justice Party also got someone elected,
Speaker 2: so they have a collection of people that they need
Speaker 2: to get onside before anything can be passed. Now, at
Speaker 2: that last state election, Greens and the Legalized Cannabis Party
Speaker 2: they were the ones so, as I said, are now
Speaker 2: going to form the majority. And here are two of
Speaker 2: those people now. Interestingly, they have long said that if
Speaker 2: they don't get what they want, which is either the
Speaker 2: full legalization of pot in Victoria or something very close
Speaker 2: to it, then they will no longer support the government,
Speaker 2: meaning it would have no regular, guaranteed path of things
Speaker 2: through the Upper House. This week they were talking about
Speaker 2: how that they believe that every Victorian should be able
Speaker 2: to have fifty grams of marijuana for personal use and
Speaker 2: there be no problems with said happening.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't smoke pot, but let's be honest, there are
Speaker 2: many people who do in Australia. But more importantly, I
Speaker 2: want to talk about the politics of this legalized cannabis
Speaker 2: movement because I think they're going to have quite an impact.
Speaker 2: It's certainly the state elections, but maybe the federal election
Speaker 2: as well. I'll get to that in a second. As
Speaker 2: for the people who are representing this move to fifty
Speaker 2: grams of it, we will leave absolutely, Will we leave
Speaker 2: anything in the locker room, Absolutely not. We're quite happy
Speaker 2: to push the envelope as hard as it needs to
Speaker 2: be pushed. If we can't agree, well, you know, we're
Speaker 2: not here for the catering. We're here to get things
Speaker 2: done and we'll do what has to be done to
Speaker 2: get that done, which means they are willing to essentially
Speaker 2: maybe not vote for anything that the government is going
Speaker 2: to try to do in Victoria unless there is a
Speaker 2: change to marijuana laws in Victoria. Now, please don't think
Speaker 2: of this as me advocating that that's what should happen.
Speaker 2: I know what the consequences are of these things, but
Speaker 2: there are enough people in Victoria who are voting for
Speaker 2: that very thing to happen that a government that is
Speaker 2: desperate to hold on to every single vote they can,
Speaker 2: they may well cave and give this movement what it wants.
Speaker 1: You see.
Speaker 2: Another thing about the legalized cannabis movement is that they,
Speaker 2: I think, are going to start taking some votes off
Speaker 2: the Greens. So maybe who don't people who don't like
Speaker 2: the social policies, the housing policies, or the general douchiness
Speaker 2: of the Greens, They're going to go somewhere else. As
Speaker 2: personal popularity polling has shown us that the Greens are
Speaker 2: getting voters off side. Adam Bant particularly is in a
Speaker 2: wall of pain, and one of the groups on the
Speaker 2: left that are going to take advantage of that is
Speaker 2: this Legalized Cannabis Party. Now they don't just have two
Speaker 2: MPs in Victoria, they've got two in Western Australia and
Speaker 2: one in New South Wales. So this is a national
Speaker 2: movement of people with enough support to get people elected
Speaker 2: to parliaments. This would mean that, as it follows, if
Speaker 2: you can get elected to a state parliament, then you
Speaker 2: can probably start to push your way towards the final
Speaker 2: Senate spot, and being of the left, preferences will float
Speaker 2: at them through Labor, through the Greens, or up from
Speaker 2: Animal Justice, and there's every chance that we could end
Speaker 2: up with a Legalized Cannabis Senator after the next election.
Speaker 2: Because if you have a look at this, half a
Speaker 2: million people voted for the Legalized Cannabis Party at the
Speaker 2: last federal election, one hundred and twenty five thousand. We're
Speaker 2: in New South walest it was more Senate votes than
Speaker 2: the Libertarians, the Shooters or Animal Justice. In Victoria it
Speaker 2: was one hundred and fourteen thousand more votes than the Libertarians,
Speaker 2: the Shooters or one nation in Queensland, they almost got
Speaker 2: one of the last Senate spots. Thankfully it went to
Speaker 2: Paul En Hanson of the last election, because they did
Speaker 2: have more votes than the Libertarian or Animal Justice. As
Speaker 2: for the actual number of people voting for these people
Speaker 2: in state elections, and again please do not confuse me
Speaker 2: with suggesting that they are the answer to all of
Speaker 2: Australia's problem or that I think that their policy is
Speaker 2: the right way to go. But you're a fool if
Speaker 2: you don't actually understand what is happening in the electorate.
Speaker 2: And in the same way that there are lots of
Speaker 2: people who do coalesce around the Libertarian Party who were
Speaker 2: forming United Australian Party, voters and their preferences matter when
Speaker 2: it comes to the Liberal Party either forming minority government
Speaker 2: or maybe getting over the line. This also plays into
Speaker 2: the Labor Party. In the Victorian state Upper House election
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, they got one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: three thousand votes, which was more than the DLP or
Speaker 2: the Lib Dems, both of whom got elected themselves as
Speaker 2: well the Shooters. In one nation in New South Wales,
Speaker 2: they had more votes than the Lib Dems, who got elected,
Speaker 2: the Shooters who got elected, and Animal Justice who got elected.
Speaker 2: And in Queensland there is no Upper House, so the
Speaker 2: only place you can look for there is what happened
Speaker 2: in the lower House. And in the nine seats that
Speaker 2: they ran, there was forty nine thousand getting more votes
Speaker 2: in Queensland an Animal Justice or the Libertarian Party. So
Speaker 2: the point is this, may I make a prediction before
Speaker 2: your very eyes, no matter how glassy they may be,
Speaker 2: if you're liking the numbers that I've just shown you,
Speaker 2: I think there's going to be an increase of this vote,
Speaker 2: either because people think it's the right thing to do,
Speaker 2: or secondly because maybe the Victorian government is going to
Speaker 2: be the first to go as close as possible towards
Speaker 2: legalizing pot or maybe because it's a way of voting
Speaker 2: left but not having to deal with the baggage of
Speaker 2: the Greens. But watch this space, they're going to go
Speaker 2: close to winning a Senate seat somewhere where let's all
Speaker 2: find out together on election nights, speaking of the Upper
Speaker 2: House and minor parties, that wonderful mate Pauline Hansen. Now,
Speaker 2: by the way, people say, why wasn't Pauline on the
Speaker 2: show as much as she used to be.
Speaker 1: There's no falling out.
Speaker 2: It's just literally too late for her too often. But
Speaker 2: certainly James is here in his here every Sunday night.
Speaker 2: So they've had plenty of policy announcements today, and I
Speaker 2: want to cheer a couple of these things on I
Speaker 2: showed you the one where their idea is that if
Speaker 2: one person in the couple is working but the other
Speaker 2: person is staying at home to take care of the kids,
Speaker 2: that rather than the one person paying tax for them,
Speaker 2: the reality is that it should be averaged across couples,
Speaker 2: meaning you pay less.
Speaker 6: One nation proposing couples with children could split their taxable income,
Speaker 6: pointing to an example of one parent earning one hundred
Speaker 6: and twenty thousand and one parent staying at home. Currently,
Speaker 6: they paid twenty nine thousand, four hundred and sixty seven
Speaker 6: dollars tax, but splitting incomes at sixty thousand dollars each
Speaker 6: would reduce their tax to nineteen thousand, nine hundred and
Speaker 6: thirty four.
Speaker 2: That's a great idea, absolutely spectacular idea. I just randomly
Speaker 2: told a few people about it on the weekend, and
Speaker 2: they thought it was an absolute ripper. I then told
Speaker 2: them what party it was from, and they went back
Speaker 2: to their normal corners when it came to being of
Speaker 2: the left and people who would be more willing to
Speaker 2: vote for it in the sensible center or of course
Speaker 2: the evil rights it just referred to amongst the very
Speaker 2: clever circles. Well, Pauline's got another idea, and it's about
Speaker 2: how to save us the taxpayer tens of billions of
Speaker 2: dollars by cutting garbage out of the federal government. The
Speaker 2: party has estimated it will save thirty billion dollars a
Speaker 2: year by abolishing the departments or agencies or regulations related
Speaker 2: to climate control A for the twelve and a half
Speaker 2: billion by getting rid of the National Indigenous Australians Agency.
Speaker 2: Savings would also be made by applying income means tests
Speaker 2: to the ndies, getting rid of the Therapeutic Goods Administration
Speaker 2: and rolling its functions into the Department of Health, as
Speaker 2: well as pulling out of UN commitments like the World
Speaker 2: Health Organization or the International Criminal Court. One Nation policies
Speaker 2: would then allow aged and veteran pensioners to be able
Speaker 2: to earn more without penalizing their government support payments, as
Speaker 2: well as the income splitting that I spoke about before,
Speaker 2: and they also want to lift the tax free threshold
Speaker 2: for self front of retirees to thirty five thousand people.
Speaker 2: You know on the show for as long as I've
Speaker 2: had it, I love a conversation about a cross bench
Speaker 2: I love a conversation about a minor party. I just
Speaker 2: think that whatever you do with number one, make sure
Speaker 2: that with your number two vote, you vote for the
Speaker 2: party you want to form government, because we might actually
Speaker 2: to get a government that we want for in a
Speaker 2: secure On Paul Murray Live including ACDC. Why is it
Speaker 2: named that the story next? Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: watching Late to Bait A few minutes up. Remember my
Speaker 2: email Pulitsgoynews dot com dot au. So there is an
Speaker 2: election which has just begun formerly in the beautiful state
Speaker 2: of Western Australia. We look forward to being there with
Speaker 2: our town in a couple of months time. Thank you
Speaker 2: to everyone who's already reached out for Batemans Bay. By
Speaker 2: the way, looks like we're going to fill the room
Speaker 2: and it's a bloody big one. Now, let's be honest
Speaker 2: this election. Despite the fact that Roger Cook is terrible.
Speaker 2: His record in the pandemic was awful, doesn't look like
Speaker 2: Wa wants a change.
Speaker 1: In fact, if you.
Speaker 2: Like outsiders, the Liberal Party's paying eleven dollars. Otherwise a
Speaker 2: dollar one means every expectation is that label will win,
Speaker 2: and win pretty easily. So a lot of the media's
Speaker 2: attention is on somebody who would like to represent the
Speaker 2: Liberal Party and get into parliament and maybe one day
Speaker 2: becare I'm the leader and maybe one day at the
Speaker 2: next election challenge to become Premier. And it is that
Speaker 2: like Basil's emplus current Lord Mayor of Perth, and he's
Speaker 2: had a pretty good ride, certainly when it comes to
Speaker 2: the national media giving him plenty profile pieces, particularly the
Speaker 2: one in the AFR about the man who would like
Speaker 2: to be the King of Wa. But then the numbers
Speaker 2: have sort of changed and Labor looked like it was
Speaker 2: going to get re elected, so people are sort of
Speaker 2: viewing it not quite as a change of government, but
Speaker 2: as the beginning of someone new and potentially dangerous the
Speaker 2: Labor Party coming into the parliament.
Speaker 1: Now I think it's crossed that happens.
Speaker 2: I like Basil and I think that'd be good representing
Speaker 2: his area and it'd be good to take the fight
Speaker 2: up to the Labor Party. But I want to tell
Speaker 2: you a quick little story about how the media helps
Speaker 2: the Labor Party. When Basil's emplus, on the first day
Speaker 2: of the election campaign, was formally launching his campaign at
Speaker 2: I think a bowling club, there were protesters who turned
Speaker 2: up and they were holding signs and the protesters were very,
Speaker 2: very angry, and the media followed this as if they
Speaker 2: were legitimate members of the commedia, that the community who've
Speaker 2: just woken up and said, I am deeply, deeply offended.
Speaker 2: Guess what if you look really closely at the bottom
Speaker 2: of those pictures written endorsed by the Labor Party, it's
Speaker 2: a Labor Party stunt. Yet for some reason the Perth media,
Speaker 2: now kind of wanting to stay close to the remaining
Speaker 2: Cook government, was happy to run this make it look
Speaker 2: like it was organic. In fact, here is the premier
Speaker 2: admitting that was the truth.
Speaker 1: It was a wa labor activity. I was unaware that
Speaker 1: it was going to take place. Well, well, of course
Speaker 1: I was completely unaware, but thank goodness to day with that. Please,
Speaker 1: here's the deal.
Speaker 2: If your job and I'm saying anyone anywhere ms self included, Okay,
Speaker 2: if you've been around for long enough and you know
Speaker 2: the difference between something that is real or organic. You
Speaker 2: have to call it out, you don't sort of run
Speaker 2: and then turn around the next day. Otherwise there's no
Speaker 2: point in pointing out what the actual truth was. And finally,
Speaker 2: ac DC one of the greatest, if not the greatest
Speaker 2: Australian band of all time. Well, they have a little
Speaker 2: story to tell, and it is the story behind their
Speaker 2: very name. You know the songs, oh I finally we
Speaker 2: could play more, If only we could play more.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I'll do it on the way home in the car.
Speaker 2: So where did they get their name ac DC? It
Speaker 2: turns out they got it from an appliance. The founding
Speaker 2: members were brainstorming names for the band ahead of a
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve show when their sister in law, Margaret,
Speaker 2: suggested the name ac DC, which was inspired by her
Speaker 2: sewing machine ac Adapter. She's also the one who suggested
Speaker 2: putting the lightning bulk in the logo. So good on
Speaker 2: your marg You're the one who changed rock and roll forever.
Speaker 2: Speaking off, I'll see you again on Sunday night. Have
Speaker 2: a great weekend, ga Yankees,