WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 6 February 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.080 From the Skyinging Center. This is Paul Murray Live. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:08.039 Thank you, Sherry, come on into the man cave. We've 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:10.640 got a big way to end our week, including the 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:12.800 Prime Minister. It won't be calling an election this weekend, 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.080 but it'll be thinking about it. It wasn't in Question 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:17.759 Times today. I'll explain why, and it was all of a 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:19.279 bit of politics, but I'll get to that in the 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:20.160 moment or two's time. 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:21.759 Bear with me. 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:24.560 But believe it or not, people who would like to 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.200 smoke pot legally in this country look like they're going 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:30.639 to pose a bit of an electoral threat, not just 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:32.360 to the Greens but to labor as well. Let me 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.720 explain all of that in chapter and verse And did 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.519 you know where then an ac DC came from? From 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.040 the greatest band Australia as ever produced answer will be 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:45.240 known tonight. As always, we start with the most important 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.040 thing in the greatest country of them all, that being 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.760 this one, and that remains what is happening in North Queensland. 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.360 Lots of rain, lots of floods, lots of problems that 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.960 people are having to deal with. Now here is an 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.720 indication that the worst is not behind us yet. Because 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:00.720 remember even if the rain stopped, there's reign that will 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:04.800 be flowing down towards the sea. And be that Mackay, 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.600 be that Townsville, be that Cans, be that Ingham, all 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:09.520 of those places that we know and love, they're about 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:10.480 to cop even more. 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.399 Having his reign is now sitched in to central parts 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:19.399 of Queensland. So thankfully for Ingham and surrounding areas, the 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.520 worst of the rain is done. The floods won't get 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.240 to the same heights again, despite the fact that in 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:29.280 Queensland there's potential for still another five hundred millimeters over 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:30.120 the coming week. 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.000 These yes, of course, but it's about what ends up 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.320 flowing that way. So all the coverage will be there 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.520 all weekend long. Remember where you happen to be and 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:39.840 how you watch us, but it's Sky News Regional Flash 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.120 or Foxteurl all through the sky News app. However you 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.400 watch us, will keep the information there and also don't 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:46.200 forget to keep an eye on our weather channel all 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.000 week in and make sure the homepage as always is 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.160 skynews dot com dot au. For his part, the Prime 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.640 Minister was in North Queensland today. He toured some of 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.840 the sites with the Premier of New South Wales, New 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:01.280 South Wales of Queen's Leak, David Cruci Foley, Queensley. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.560 We've taken the opportunity to pre deploy and to restock 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.000 some resources in the knowledge that there could be some 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:10.720 more rain in the next few days, and that looks 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.720 like setting up a couple of different hubs and making 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.160 sure that we do what we did ahead of this event, 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.440 pre deploy the likes of swift Water to rescue and 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.200 sees and ergon Cruz. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.000 Now, of course there are people in need, and it's 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.760 always important that the Prime Minister cares about those people 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.280 and goes and talks to them. The timing is interesting, 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:33.200 though in a more cynical mind than yours or even mine, 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.160 might suggest that he was there today because he knew 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.280 that he didn't have to answer questions in Parliament and 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.200 he was able to do pretty softer appearances on breakfast 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:43.239 television this morning. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.519 But of course his heart's in the right place. 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:51.640 Today we're announcing eight million dollars CO funded Community Relief Fund, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.440 providing up to a million dollars for the Local Government 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:59.880 Association to eight of them that are impacted by this flooding. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:04.520 Ben More than the appearance of the politicians are of 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.720 course the people, and how are they holding up after 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:08.320 yet another day of tough times. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.359 It's pretty crazy and it sucks. With nothing. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.000 We've had to swim from our houses to the shops 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:20.200 and they haven't been open either. All right, let's get 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.160 to the politics of the day now. On Thursday night, 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.239 I can take a little time to start pulling apart 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.520 some of the lies that are building up by a 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.520 government that has got virtually no good record to run on, 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.680 apart from putting a whole series of land mines into 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:37.680 the federal budget, the meaning it will be in deficit 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.320 for the next forty years. So of course their single 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.080 plan is to run against the opposition. Hence why they 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.280 keep doing this over and over again about a policy 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.680 which has been recently announced by the opposition. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.400 When they say they're putting their money where their mouth is, 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.640 they mean a ten billion dollar plan for you to 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.000 shout the boss's. 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:59.920 Lunch, and that side of the house is focused on 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:00.720 long lunches. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:04.120 This man favors long lunches over public hospital. 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.840 The only policy they have is free lunch serving bosses 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.640 long lunches, a taxpayer expense that'll spend billions on free 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.360 lunches for possible, always about lunch with these folks. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.760 A particular example of an MP who is twisting this 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.719 as hard as they can is on the Chinese surveillance 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.719 app TikTok, which last time I remember was banned by 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:30.000 all official use in Parliament House, So presumably it's somebody 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:31.960 with an outside Wilwei phone. 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:37.400 Long lunches paid for by the taxpayer. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.039 For bosses are the lips for real? 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.040 What's next putting your feed up at your desk at 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:50.240 work smoking a cigar? You know what? Seriously, one point 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.320 six billion dollars a taxpayer dollars are going to go 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.159 down the drain so Peter Dunn can help his business 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.400 mates have a nice long lunch at the expensive workers 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:00.320 It's absolutely ridiculous. 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.640 Oh we had it all bosses, evil cigar smokers. Geez. 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.520 I wonder why his efforts turned up in some of 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.680 my social media feeds, not via TikTok, but when it 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.440 was repeated on Instagram all right. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.240 Time to actually tell the truth about. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.279 What the idea is that they are trying to make 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.240 it seem like is just for the taxpayers of Australia 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.640 to be subsidizing the monocle wearing, cigar smoking top hat 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:31.239 owning evil bosses of Australia. Now, there is a rule 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.880 in Australia when it comes to big business. Now, big 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.760 business is to find in lots of different ways, but 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.200 for the purpose of this conversation, it is any business 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:42.440 that has a turnover of more than ten million dollars. Yeah, 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:47.080 a bank, a mining company, a finance company, a media company, 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.839 all of these things would be the example of said businesses. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:57.040 And there is a system that currently allows them to 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:01.960 avoid fringe benefits tax when they are taking clients out 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:08.359 to lunch. The alternative treasurer Angus Taylor explains, a large 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.520 company can cater for a lunch with food and our 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.840 cohol in its boardroom worth thousands of dollars and can 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.920 claim that cost as a tax deduction. But of course 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.240 this is not extended to the world of small business. 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.280 Small business again, as defined in this policy, is a 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.880 business with a turnover of less than ten million dollars. Now, 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:34.680 that would be the extreme amount of small businesses in 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:39.080 the country. So let's actually have a look at the policy. 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.479 Put simply, the policy is that if you have a ABN, 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.479 you're a sole trader or you're a small business of 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.919 any kind, the same rules that apply to the absolute 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.120 big end of town would apply to you. 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.720 To small businesses with a turnover up to ten million dollars, 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.880 we will offer for two years a tax deduction of 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.359 up to twenty thousand dollars per financial year for business 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.680 related meal expenses at local cafes, pubs and restaurants. 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:12.600 Wow, how shocking have you got your Rocky Patel B 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.840 fifty two ready? That's a cigar of course, because that's 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.480 the real big end of town. The idea that up 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.720 to twenty thousand dollars if you take somebody out for 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.800 a meal to say say thank you for them using 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.840 your small business, or as a way of trying to 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.760 get new clients for your business, that you would have 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:33.920 the same tax. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:37.600 Free status as the big corporations. That's it. 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:43.080 That's what labor is trying to pretend is taxpayer funds 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:49.160 going to bosses while their workers aren't going out to lunch. 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:50.360 Now. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.360 Of course, the Labor party, desperate to change the subject 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:57.480 with a very compliant media, have no interest in what 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.320 the truth is. After all, these were the people who 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.760 tried to pretend that the liberal government of years ago 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:07.160 was going to privatize medicare. It doesn't matter what's true 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.960 or not. It's just about what they can sell, how 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.360 they can change the subject, how just as they did 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:16.040 in twenty twenty two, they can lie to people to 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.239 get into power. We know they lied because your power 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.480 bill is not going down by two hundred and seventy 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.400 five dollars that was promised by twenty twenty five. We 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.960 know that their promise was that cost of living would 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.040 be lower under a labor government. Instead pick your indices. 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.080 All of it is up. And one of the reasons 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:38.400 why the Labor Party is so able to tell this lie, 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.360 so able to pretend what this policy is as opposed 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:46.160 to what it actually is, is because virtually none of 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:50.640 them have any experience in small business. Many of them 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.280 have either worked in and around the political world or 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.320 in the adjunct for the Labor Party of the Union movement, 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:58.000 where of. 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.200 Course the boss is evil and the bosses and they 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:00.720 ever trying to. 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.680 Rip off the worker, as if we're back in the 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:08.760 nineteen twenties. But the reality of Australia and its businesses 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.280 is that the extreme majority of them are small. The 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.760 extreme majority of them are the ones who would benefit 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:21.160 from the policy. These are stats from the Australian Bureau Statistics, 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.440 you know, that far right wing think tank. It shows 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.719 that what ninety seven percent of all business in Australia, 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.800 what two and a half million of the two point 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:34.720 six million businesses are small businesses in this way, these 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.000 are people who either have no employees, it's just themselves 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.840 a sole trader and an actual fact, sixty one percent 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.200 of small businesses don't have any employees. It's just a 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.240 person with an ABN who might be going house to 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.480 house when it comes to cutting hair, or front yard 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.439 to backyard when it comes to cutting somebody's lawn, or 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:59.120 somebody who's helping you out with your pool header. Those 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.600 types of people, you know, the big end of town, 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.040 who shouldn't dare be allowed to go to the pub 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.360 and pay for a parmy with their business and not 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.720 have to pay fringe benefit tax on top of it. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:18.440 Now again the vast majority of the vast majority of 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:22.600 Australian business are sole traders. And the Labor Party just 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.160 does not understand this. They didn't understand it under Howard, 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:31.000 they don't understand it today that the people who are 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.760 the workers of Australia. Are not just the ones who 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.400 are wearing high vis and part of union membership on 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:40.320 building sites. They are not just people who work for 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.960 the public service and a part of the union movement. 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.840 They are people who have decided to go out on 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.480 their own and try to shape their own financial future. 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:55.600 These people are no burden on the Australian taxpayer. These 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.440 are the people who work their backsides off and if 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.640 they do have somebody else working for them, they pay 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.600 everyone else before they pay themselves, which means often they 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:07.000 don't get paid themselves. These are the people who find 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:11.160 it incredibly hard to get alone, have had buggerow holidays, 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.480 and of the people who without them, our country would 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:15.560 absolutely collapse. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:16.840 Believe me, if. 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.480 Small business disappeared, you would notice it far more than 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.000 if big government did. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.319 Now, the whole point. 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:30.880 Of this policy, the one that is sagar jumping bosses, 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:36.360 is for ninety seven percent of businesses in Australia, of 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:41.080 which more than sixty percent are sole traders, to be 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.640 able to have the same tax benefits as big businesses. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.840 It means that you would be able to take a 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:52.200 client or a potential client to the local pub. You 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.080 would be able to pay for the lunch, but there'd 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:59.160 be no tax implications when it comes to fringe benefits tax. Now, 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.720 this has two reasons for being. One is that it 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.520 takes a financial burden off businesses. It means that they 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.160 have an ability to claim off their own tax or 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.680 not have to pay extra tax. I should say on 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.320 being able to grow their business. And of course the 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.400 bigger their business growth, the more tax goes back to 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:23.600 the federal government. But they'd know nothing about it. Literally, 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:28.440 we had a look today. You cannot find serious members 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.520 of the federal government with any small government experience. Oh, 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.600 the Prime Minister worked as a bank teller for a 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:38.960 year in the eighties, or somebody worked as a checkout 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.640 person making their way through university. But that's about it. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.720 With the exception of the most prominent small business person 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.280 in the federal government, and that is Senator Don Farrell, 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:53.680 the Trade Minister who launched a wine brand in between 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.640 his two times in the Australian Senate. There's not a 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.880 lot to show. And that's why they can so easily 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:05.920 attend that boss equals billionaire rather than boss equals someone 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:11.200 who pays themselves after they pay everyone else, who often 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.439 has to go into their own savings or put their 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.319 own bills off, so the people who work for them 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:21.440 are guaranteed of their fortnightly or monthly wage. The other 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:26.120 issue is that the cafes and restaurants and even some 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.079 community pubs around the country are in a huge amount 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.400 of trouble right now because you know that cost of 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.600 living thing that they promise to do better, but it's 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:38.280 only got really worse since this government came to power. Well, 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:42.079 everything costs more for these businesses. Their power bills cost more, 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:47.120 the cost of the employee costs more, the insurance costs more. 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:51.440 Whatever it is that they cook, clean or sell also 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:56.280 costs more. So, as you've seen as part of more 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.960 than a football stadium of businesses that have gone busts 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.360 since this government came to power, a very significant number 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.880 of them are in the hospitality industry and that does 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:11.840 affect everything from the local mister Whippy van all the 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:12.600 way through. 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.240 To a local motoring. 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.680 And in fact, if you have a look at these stats, 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.280 even more of them are in trouble than the ones 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.480 that have blown up since this mob came to power. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:31.360 Sixty five percent of hospitality businesses consider themselves to be 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:36.160 in a medium risk about whether they will. 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:37.920 Exist into the future. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.760 So fourteen percent are in a absolute world of pain, 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:47.440 and then the rest they're going okay. But the vast majority, 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.160 what the best part of seventy nine eighty and a 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:55.560 bit percent, they're in financial stress right now. So if 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.960 it means that the policy that we'll see that small 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.320 businesses and old traders will be able to use the 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:07.120 same tax rules as big union and big business to 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.400 be able to go out to lunch, guess who the 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:14.000 beneficiary is going to be the people who sell you 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:19.440 the lunch. So next time you see one of these videos, 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.800 feel free to say, so, why shouldn't small business have 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.400 the same tax rules as big business? Or do you 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.840 just not care about the vast majority of businesses in 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.920 this country? Or you could just write back and say 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.320 why do you hate sole traders? Or maybe the next 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:40.680 time one of these MPs or their staffers have you 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.800 around to cut their hair or you around to pressure 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.880 wash their driveway, you should remind them that you're a boss, 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.720 even if you're only a boss of yourself. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:56.240 Now, a little further to. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:57.960 What I was just mentioning, and it is of course 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.520 the role of social media and the Internet growing ever 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.480 stronger and, particularly when it comes. 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:06.720 To politics, even more determinative. 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.440 About which way elections are going to go. Now, we 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:12.040 all know that the Trump win was very largely fueled 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.480 by not the big tech bros getting behind the president, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.400 but the people who supported the president playing a much 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.720 better social media game than Kamala Harris. Remember, Kamala Harris 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.760 was trying to pay influences where millions of people who 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.760 were supporting Trump were already making the memes and the 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.680 videos and the little videos that you saw all over 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.760 your social media pointing out the idiocy of the Democratic Party, 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.120 the absurdity of some of its supporters, the madness in 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.240 most of the media, or of course, the endless failures 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:45.400 of the candidate themselves. So we've got to pay attention 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:49.000 to how this is going to play out here now. Interestingly, 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.560 I spent much of this week trying to have a 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.080 look at who has the stronger hand when it comes 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.720 to social media, not just in the content that they make, 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.600 but if they launched it exclusively on their own platforms, 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:04.200 who is more likely to see it? But that's the 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.320 stuff they don't pay for. There's also plenty of things 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.280 that people do pay for when it comes to their 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.240 own promotion on the Internet. As you know, if you 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:17.280 have a business page for your crazy boss behavior with 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.760 a business, you were able to boost your post by 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:24.720 paying people like Facebook or Meta or alphabet ie Google 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.960 to help spread your message far and wide. And certainly 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.480 the Tiffany Tels know how to do that. After all, 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.720 we know that their little pocket of Australia and I 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.399 mean their politics and the people who backed them have 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.560 got plenty of cash and so far, apparently just in 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.320 the past few months, they've spent more than one hundred 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:47.320 and fifty grand on Google and Meta ats put simply 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:52.480 Facebook and YouTube ads. From October twenty eighth last year 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.959 to January twenty five, meniek Ryan spent seventy one thousand 0:17:56.000 --> 0:18:00.000 dollars on Meta ads, while spenders spent about fifty seven 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:04.520 seven thousand dollars more than twenty eight thousand dollars on 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.720 Google ads as well, putting them amongst the highest spending 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:12.199 individual candidates at the election. Of course, the air support 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:13.360 that helps fund. 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.040 Their community campaigns. 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.640 But remember we've got good billionaires and bad billionaires in Australia. 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.159 When it comes to political donations, well, they do know 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.520 how to spend a dollar on the internet. Climbate two 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.040 hundred spend four hundred and twenty six thousand dollars across 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:30.000 Google and Meta for advertising. The Progressive Independent Funding Group 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.439 do you have to call them directs that money to 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:36.639 advertising political candidates and promoting itself to receive further donations. 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.760 Of course, they took on one to comment to the story. 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.040 The Australian government was the biggest spender on Meta in 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.800 the past three months. They paid three hundred and forty 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.080 eight thousand dollars in ads to flog themselves. You know, 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:50.639 the two little too late tax cuts are amazing and 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:55.400 here's the YouTube ad to prove it. But it also 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.199 does worth pointing out here about how these ads are 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.639 going to play out in the overall fightwe Anthony Alberanezi 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.560 and Peter Dutton. Who is going to play the better 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:06.040 social media game? 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:06.879 Now? 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:09.800 I always think that the single best way to make 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.240 a point on social media is to do something funny. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.320 If I see another politician just standing in front of 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.560 something telling me I don't care, I want to see 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:20.880 a good social media game where people are turning around 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:22.760 and they are making the most. 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:26.520 Of the tools that exist to you. 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.160 Now, that means with one laptop and one clever person, 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.600 you can come up with a point that an advertising 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.960 agency would have spent way too long on. It also 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.400 means you can hit hard and you can hit fast, 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:37.119 and they. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:37.520 All do it. 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.560 But let's have a look about who has the strongest 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:44.760 hand when it comes to social media. On Facebook, the 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:49.080 Labour Party has three hundred and twenty two thousand followers, 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:52.640 the Liberal and National Parties together three hundred and seven thousand, 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.520 the Greens three hundred and three, one Nation has one 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.560 hundred and thirteen thousand, and the United Australia Party, which 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:02.680 is now deregistered but still exists in a digital sense, 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:08.160 has one hundred and seventeen thousand people. On X two 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:10.959 hundred and fifteen thousand people follow the Labor Party. Now, 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:12.600 I know there are state versions of this, but I'm 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:16.720 talking about the federal parties, the Libs at one hundred 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.280 and eighty two, the Greens at one hundred and thirteen, one, 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.880 Nation at forty one thousand, and again United Australian Party, 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:25.520 who as I understand, deregistered, not running at the election, 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.560 but still have an ability to talk to nineteen thousand 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.399 people at once. Maybe Instagram's your thing. Well, that is 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.480 a slightly more level playing field amongst the two parties 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:36.040 of government. 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:38.600 But have a look at the Greens at. 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.480 One hundred and sixty nine thousand people, they are more 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:44.080 than one hundred thousand people than the Labor Party and 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:46.680 well and truly about one hundred and twenty thousand more 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:51.000 than the Liberals do one Nation and the United Australian Party. 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:52.400 They exist on Instagram, but. 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:57.239 They've decided to put their efforts into other areas. So 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:00.640 it means that things like the long lege unch lie 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:06.080 is able to be amplified, probably louder by the Labor 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:09.200 Party on all of its social media forms, as say 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:13.040 the Liberal Party either launching an attack on the government 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:17.000 or defending and explaining its own policy. Which is why 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:20.639 in social media, the second somebody creates something that's coming 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:23.879 after you, you have to respond with something that's going 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.119 after them. You have to do things that are clever, 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.000 that are different, that use things like animation, but again 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.760 most importantly humor. Because I don't know about you, I'm 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:37.240 not really sending that many reels amongst family and friends 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:41.440 about boring politicians saying boring politician stuff. But if it's 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:44.600 funny videos of Joe Biden falling up the stairs or 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:48.359 Kamala Harris saying something stupid or some idiot at MSNBC 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:52.080 melting down because Donald Trump isn't dead in jail yet, 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:55.800 you're more likely to afford that stuff on. It's something 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:58.679 that I hope the conservative side of politics knows how 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:02.240