WEBVTT - Sharri | 19 March 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:05.399 Live on Sky News. This is Sharry. 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:09.200 Good Evening. Welcome to the show tonight. 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:15.560 Bombshell revelations about the Islamophobia Register. Despite being concerned about 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.640 one type of racism, one of its directors has been 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:23.960 found saying highly offensive things about Jews who support Israel. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.840 And this organization gets more than a million dollars in 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:33.280 taxpayer funds. My exclusive coming up also tonight. Albanizi under 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:37.560 pressure over rising power bills. His broken promises come back 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.080 to bite him. Michael Kroger and Richo will get stuck 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.680 in the coalition calls for migrants to be tested on 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:50.199 anti Semitism. Anthony Albanize's insulting and patronizing. 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:50.879 Response will shock you. 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.840 I'll speak about this with David Ossip a bit later 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.320 and will cross live to Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharen Haskell. 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.560 As the war on her Mus resumes. 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:06.040 But first tonight, energy and climate activism are shaping up 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.760 to be major election issues, and tonight the Prime Minister 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.840 is under pressure over his broken promise on power bills 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.639 as Australians face an increase in their power bills of up. 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:19.560 To two hundred dollars come July. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:24.280 Alban Easy Today was mumbling and stumbling over his broken 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:29.000 promise at the last election. Just three years ago, he 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.360 pledged ninety seven times. 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:36.280 That your power bills would be cheaper under his leadership. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.840 You've seen this before, but it's just the extraordinary to 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.760 watch when we know that it was a commitment he 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.800 never should have made because he was never going to 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:47.840 deliver on it, and he knew it. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.160 Reducing power prices by two hundred and seventy five dollars. 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.640 Reducing power prices by two hundred and seventy five dollars. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.200 By twenty twenty five, two hundred and seventy five dollars 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:57.920 a year. 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.240 Two hundred and seventy five dollars a year will. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.600 Get power prices down by two hundred and seventy five dollars. 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.760 A year, two hundred and seventy five dollars for the 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:12.840 average house lower in twenty twenty five than today. 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.280 So it wasn't a one off remark. The Prime Minister 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:19.120 made the promise ninety seven times, but he's never apologized 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.000 to Australians for this. If he had, if he'd owned 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.520 up to it, perhaps voters wouldn't be so angry and 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.880 hold it against him instead. It's come back to bite him, 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.880 with new polling today showing that more than half of 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:36.680 voters blame the alber Ezi government's energy policies for soaring 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.840 household power bills. They also believe the country is heading 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:45.359 in the wrong direction. Redbridge polster Coosamaras said, voters believe 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.840 the alban Ezi government's renewable policies had pushed their energy 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:51.160 costs through the roof. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.360 It's pretty clear to us now that not just why 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.000 this particular poll, but a lot of work that we've 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.359 done in this space that Australians are losing confidency in 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.399 that energy transition. People now have a very strong view 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:08.119 that it's going to be much more expensive, more unstable 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.880 and an unpredictable. 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.160 That's what voters are telling pollsters. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.120 Well, here was the Prime Minister being questioned about the 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:18.080 issue today. 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.640 Can you guarantee energy prices will calm down or at 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.480 least you remain stable under a second channel? 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.000 And instead of a guarantee alber ez He continued with 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:33.680 his theme of blaming global factors for rising power bills. 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.240 Rather than acknowledging that perhaps it's his. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.559 Own Minister Chris Bowen's irresponsible policies. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:45.440 Well, we know that we have international impact of global 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:49.320 inflation has had an impact. The Russian invasion of Ukraine 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.560 had an impact on energy prices. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.920 He isn't taking any responsibility for any issue at all 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.400 and is turning this into a fine art. Yet the 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:04.720 situation with rising power bills is so severe that it's 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:09.160 now being described as energy poverty, where some Australians just 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:13.360 can't afford to use electricity, and even the progressive Labour 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:17.359 state of Victoria is reportedly considering extending the life of 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:21.440 colfied power stations, although this has been met with denials 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.520 today and the Victorian government claims the Yellown power station 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.280 will still close in twenty twenty eight. As you know, 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.680 Labor premiere in New South Wales, Chris Mins has already 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.520 had to extend the life cycle of a raring, the 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.480 Coulfide power station in this state, and this is because 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.479 Chris Bowen and id logues like him at a state 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:49.400 level rushed the transition to renewables before the infrastructure was 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:53.400 in place, before it was ready. Yet, instead of focusing 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.640 on power bills, Chris Bowen seems to be spending more 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.760 and more of his time making social media videos. 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.400 So you think wind turbites can't be recycled. This surf 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:07.960 pild is made out of wind. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:20.360 Service videos where he blames everyone but himself for high 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:25.520 power bills. He even blamed Australians for just getting the 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:26.720 wrong energy deal. 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.279 Did you know that eighty one percent of Australians paying 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.520 more for electrocy they need to because they're not on 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.480 the best plan available. That's the data from the age. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.160 All our government is making it easier for you switch providers. 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.560 This website will help you find the best possible deal 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.640 for somebody with your energy news. 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.680 Yeah, it's all your fault. Come on, this is nonsense. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:54.000 Chris Bown already lost Bill shot En, the former Labor leader, 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:58.520 the twenty nineteen election, because of his highly unpopular high 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.520 taxing policies when he was Shadow Treasurer at the time, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.040 and given today's latest polling, well Chris Bowen could play 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:11.560 a starring role in losing alban Easy support too, because 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.960 of the genuine anger at the cost of energy, a 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.280 cost that Alberan Easy can't pretend he didn't promise to 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.200 bring down. It's one of many broken promises he can't 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:26.160 escape from. He'd be better off simply apologizing. 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:28.400 But don't hold your breath for that. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.840 Now tonight we can expose a director of the Islamophobia 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:42.040 Register spreading highly offensive messages about Zionists and that's Jews 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.920 who support Israel. You might have seen that the Islamophobia 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.080 Register came out a few days ago and it made 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:50.240 major news. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.960 Researchers from Monash and Deacon Universities analyzed more than six 0:06:56.040 --> 0:07:00.840 hundred incidents reported to the Islamophobia Register. Register has been 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.680 operating since twenty fourteen and the latest results are the 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:05.799 worst on record. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:10.840 The report compiled by academics for the Islamophobia Register Australia 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:15.160 found anti Palestinian sentiment played a part and that Muslim 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.960 women were disproportionately targeted. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.720 With The Islamophobia Register uses their annual data to call 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.640 for more federal government funding, and they received one point 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:31.360 one million dollars in funding from the Australian government last year. 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:35.560 That's the grant finding details on your screen now. One 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:40.360 of their directors of the Islamophobia Register is Hilal Yassin. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.400 He works in private equity as Group Managing Director at 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:49.280 First Key Capital and despite being concerned about one form 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:55.520 of racism, he said highly offensive things about Zionists Jews 0:07:55.840 --> 0:08:00.920 whose support Israel. He's perpetuated the blood libel that Zionists 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:06.400 see themselves as superior, and he called Zionists savage. He 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:10.440 wrote on LinkedIn, the fundamental problem is one of psychology, 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:15.720 whereby the savage Israeli Zionists see themselves as a superior 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:22.520 race over and above the subhuman, animalistic Palestinians, just like 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.520 the barbaric Nazi Aryan German race who believed they were 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:30.520 from a racially superior bloodline to what they termed other 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:38.320 human rats. He also wrote, shame on the Zionist racial supremacists. 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.560 A danger to humanity and world. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:46.080 Peace at large. Now I've said this repeatedly, but being 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:51.920 a Zionist is simply supporting the existence of Israel. If 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.400 you're not a Zionist, you wan't the state of Israel eliminated. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.200 So let's look again. Here's more from the. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:04.959 Islamophobia just a director Hilel Yasay. He said Nazism had 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:09.960 been replaced with Zionism, both racial supremacist groups, both believing 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.520 they are above the law due to their superior ethnicity, 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:18.640 and both a danger to humanity at large. Now Yusain 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:23.600 has even encouraged putting an end to Zionist practices. 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.800 This seems very dangerous to me. He wrote, we. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.520 Put an end to the practices of the savage Nazis 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:36.000 and the racial supremacist master race ideology, and I'm certain 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:40.080 we will also put an end to the practices of 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:46.160 the barbaric Zionists and racial supremacist chosen race ideology. It's 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:52.120 just a matter of time, just a matter of time 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.719 until there's an end to the practices of the barbaric Zionists. 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:57.920 That's what he's saying. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.440 This seems to be calling for an elimination of the 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:06.240 practices and ideology of Jews who support Israel. He says, 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:10.320 just like the Nazi ideology was eliminated. This is really 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:16.480 inflammatory language and potentially even incitement to violence. Now Y're 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:22.440 seen also claimed in one post that Zionists are European colonialists, 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.720 non indigenous. He wrote, have a look, the issue is 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.920 not one about religion, but one about the dispossession, occupation, 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:35.440 and subjugation of the brown indigenous Palestinian Semites of the 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:43.120 Middle East by European colonial Zionist European colonial Zinis. And 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:48.360 that is completely inaccurate and dangerously misleading to suggest Jews 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:52.520 only came from Europe when we know Jews are indigenous 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:57.240 to the land of Israel. In another post, he agreed 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.040 with someone else that survivors of the whole cost were 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:05.600 now programming their children to inflict one You can see 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.040 the post and under it, he said, one hundred percent. 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:14.440 There are many, many, many similar posts and comments like 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:18.000 I've shown you, And since his online commentary. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.240 Was first exposed by. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:24.840 A digital investigations team Nashajew, he then changed his LinkedIn profile. 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.240 Now I put questions to Yasine today and his lawyers 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:33.679 responded to me. They said that Yasine differentiates between a 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:38.720 Zionist ideology and Australian Jews. His lawyers said, and I quote, 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:43.200 mister Yassin has spoken out against antisemitism, which is different 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.800 to criticizing the evil, illegal act of the. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.080 State of Israel. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:55.160 Mister Yassin's criticism of supremacist evil ideology is consistent whether 0:11:55.200 --> 0:12:00.000 it claims to be based in Judaism, Christianity or Islam. Now, Yeah, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.040 seines lawyers also told me, I'm going to quote here, 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:08.280 Australian Jews have been trying to highlight this distinction to 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:13.960 distance themselves from the Zionist ideology that has hijacked their religion. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:19.600 We provide examples from the Jewish Council of Australia, Louise Adler, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:24.520 Sarah Schwartz, and hundreds of other Australian Jews. 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.560 Well as far as. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:33.440 I can tell, Yasine operates under his own definition of Zionism, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:39.319 perhaps supported by a tiny minority of Jews. I personally 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:45.160 find his definition of Zionism ignorant, offensive and deeply divisive. 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.360 And I can say with pride on national television that 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:53.400 I am a Zionist. I strongly support the state of Israel. 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.680 I wouldn't stand alongside the company he describes. And I 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.480 think Nadiyahoo has been a truly at a time when 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:05.520 young Israelis have been on the front line fighting for 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:09.160 the very survival of the Jewish state when it's under 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:14.520 attack from bloodthirsty terrorists. Will we put questions to the 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:20.440 Islamophobia Register as well about these comments where fellow directors 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:26.600 are award winning and he racism advocate Marry him Visada, 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:32.120 who CEO of Media Diversity Australia. Another director is Wali 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:37.280 Dahli's wife, Susan Carland. And here is Yescene with Wali 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:42.199 Dhli at the Media Diversity launch in twenty seventeen. Now, 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.880 given Walid has written about anti Semitism, I do presume 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.440 genuinely that he and his wife would be pretty unimpressed 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.920 with Yesine's comments about Zionists. Now, Yasin is also pictured 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.439 here with Sarah Schwartz, who he mentioned, and you may 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.400 recall she was responsible for the eventsive Utom's jue slides. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.480 Now The Islamophobia hasn't responded to our media request as yet. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.280 We also asked Home Affairs how it was appropriate for 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.240 a million dollars of federal government funding to go towards 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:17.640 an organization where a director is spreading highly offensive content 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:22.240 about Zionists, and Home Affairs told us the Australian Government 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.600 has and continues to provide grants to a number of organizations, 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:30.280 including the Islamophobia Register of Australia, that focus on combating 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:37.640 racism and reducing misinformation and disinformation impacting Australian communities. Under 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.520 the guidelines, there are measures in place to ensure funding 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.760 is used for the specific stated purpose. The grants are 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:48.400 monitored through an agreed reporting and financial acquittal process grant 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:52.600 agreements in between the department and the recipient organization rather 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:59.360 than an individual. Now, social cohesion is incredibly important in 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:04.360 our country in Australia, but it's curious that people who 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:10.640 are supposedly against hatred and racism are perpetuating dangerous messages 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:16.080 about Jews who support Israel, which is the majority of Jews. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:20.680 You're either against racism or you're not. You can't be 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:25.920 a director of the Islamophobia Register while spreading vicious libels 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.560 that one of Australia's largest minority groups already facing so 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:40.280 much hate, would find highly offensive. Okay, let's bring in 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.600 now from a Victorian Liberal Party President Michael Kroger and 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.920 Farmer Labor Senator Graham Richardson. Great to see both as 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.400 always on a Wednesday. 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.240 Look, I want to start with the. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.360 Polling that I just mentioned a moment ago that the 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.960 majority of voters now blame Anthony Albinizi and his government 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:02.560 for the skyrocketing power prices. Polling wasn't overwhelmingly positive for 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.880 the coalition he that had Labor just a head on 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.320 a two party preferred basis, but it seems that no 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:13.120 voter can forget the prime Minister's broken promise. So you know, 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.760 what do you make of how big of an issue 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.200 power prices will be at the. 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:22.360 Election and just where it's up to overall? Right now, I'd. 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.360 Prefer to start with mister m But anyway, I think 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.200 you said it all, Shari. Look, this is a monstrous issue, 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:33.440 is it is the dominant policy issue that we remember 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.040 from the twenty twenty two election, the two to seventy 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.480 five promise repeated one hundred times. It was the dominant 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.360 issue in the whole election, and the average working middle 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:47.640 class voter saw that, believed that, and voted for Albanizi accordingly, 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:49.520 you know, apart from the fact there was a nine 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:53.440 year old liberal government, you know, the most powerful political 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.880 policy they had in that campaign was that promise. People 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.320 believed it, acted on it, and it's coming back to 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.560 buy him and all is twisting and turning. When every 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.359 time Bowen or Minister's asked about the promise, oh it 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.880 was Ukraine or something, people are furious that they were 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.960 lied to. Right, this was a con job. There was 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.119 no proper modeling. This was just an advertising gimmick that 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.440 Albanese was told to run with to get him over 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.560 the line. It won him tens of thousands of votes. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.960 It's coming back to bite him and I'd be absolutely 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.400 certain the Liberal Party will be reminding everybody they were 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.600 lied to it the last election and don't believe it 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.240 our ALBANIZI next time, Rich. 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.320 I do you think Albert would be better off just 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:34.280 apologizing to Australian saying he got it wrong? But because 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.399 he can't pretend those comments weren't made, everyone remembers that 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.000 he did promise cheaper power prices. And even if they 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.560 forget like Michael just said, the Coalie, you aren't going 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:44.399 to let them forget it. 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:50.440 Of course they're not. And I don't understand why politicians 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:54.720 are always so afraid of saying sorry, I mucked that up. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.199 I'll now fix it up. I do not understand why 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.479 they won't do that. It goes back and would never 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.320 do it, but you have to do it the mob. No, 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.600 everybody knows there's been a stuff up, so why would 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.720 you be hesitant to admit it? 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:10.119 No? 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:11.680 I think that's absolutely right. 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.280 Just in terms of the overall polling, though, Michael, where 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.560 do you think Darton is at the minute, Because you know, 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:22.440 before this particular poll had the coalition ahead. 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:23.720 Now it's got Labor ahead. 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:27.879 So I think Peter Dutton in the opposition had a 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.560 few flat weeks and Labor probably have made up some ground. 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.600 That's been apparent to me for a month. But I 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.280 can see the wheel turning back again. I think Dutton's 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:40.639 probably fifty one to fifty two somewhere around there. I 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:42.679 still think he's on seventy two seats. I still think 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.240 he's going to win the election. The budget will not 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:49.280 help labor. The advertising campaign on that promise is not 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.120 going to help labor. And Sharis I've said before, he's 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.399 got another huge issue, green preferences. Is he going to 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.040 tell Labor voters to put the Green second? I mean, 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.720 this is the repol sive organization. Now, the Green is 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:06.639 an extremist organization that has smashed social occasion in this country, 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.000 as you've pointed out on many occasions. Is he going 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.879 to ask Labor voters in McNamara to vote for the 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:14.200 Greens ahead of the coalition. 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:16.280 So he's still going to answer this question. 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.080 You noted every time he's asked, he fobs it off 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.919 to the national executive or the organizational wing. In the end, 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:24.760 it's his decision. And he he's got to confront that 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.240 issue one way or the other. And I think we 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:28.760 know what he's going to do, and that's going to 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:29.320 be very. 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:30.080 Bad news for him. 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:35.000 The Nightly has a front page story tonight, so their 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:37.879 nightly edition tonight where they're saying that the Prime Minister 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:42.240 is even boasting of winning another four seats so rich. 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.200 Oh it sounds like Albanze is getting overly confident. He's 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.920 telling people at private dinners that he's actually going to 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:48.680 pick up seats. 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:50.000 He doesn't think Dutton can win. 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.720 Oh yeah, I wouldn't write him off picking up seats. 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:58.040 And if you're a political leader and you are not 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:02.600 an optimist, especially you're at dinners of supporters and you're 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:06.320 a mug, So of course he's doing that. He has 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:11.120 to project an image of confidence. He has to look 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.320 like he is certain to win the election. If he 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.159 doesn't look like that, then people will take advantage of it. 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.240 I don't think people like arrogance either though, which is 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.320 what it sounds like this boast was. 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.320 But we'll come back to that now. 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:30.119 Peter Darton has put forward the idea that migrants prospective 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:35.280 migrants would be tested on antisemitism in their citizenship test. Now, 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.639 he suggested adding a question to the exam to ensure 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:40.680 applicants are adequately screened. 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:41.280 Now. 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:46.200 The Prime Minister immediately was dismissive of this idea. 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:47.240 Have a look at this. 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:53.040 It's another soap bobble. We'll see if it lasts till 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.600 you know, a couple of a couple of hours away. 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:59.840 Yesdays didn't make it to lunch time, so we'll wait 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:05.480 see what happens the Coalition. The Coalition have run a 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:10.080 campaign complaining that too many Australians were making the citizenship pledge. 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:13.359 She'd been in the queue, some of them for years. 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:16.320 Michael first out. 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:19.359 I think this is so insulting from the Prime Minister 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:23.800 not to take this proposal seriously of stopping anti Samites 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:24.880 coming into the country. 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:27.040 But I do think it would need to be more 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:27.960 than just a question. 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.480 There need to be some social media checking as well, 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:33.640 depending on which part of the world people were coming from. 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:38.400 Of course, I think it's preferable you don't have people 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:40.680 coming to this country to live permanently you hate Jews 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:43.440 and who were brought up in an education system where 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:46.040 they're talked to hate Jewish people. I don't think that's 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:47.800 good for our country. And I don't think anywhere near 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:49.960 a majority of Australians would think that was a good idea. 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:52.399 But I'll tell you what's happened here. I'll tell you 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.440 what's happened here. That was an appalling comment belb and 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:57.480 easy or that was a shocking comment. Why would he 0:21:57.480 --> 0:21:59.960 say that. I'll tell you why I said that, Because 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:02.159 on Monday this week Peter Dutton did the right thing, 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:05.480 came out and he and Tim Wilson and Benson Salo, 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:08.760 the candidate McNamara and James Patterson made an announcement of 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:11.840 thirty five million dollars to help rebuild their synagogue in Melbourne. 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:12.520 Great announcement. 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:16.159 Albert camt yesterday and promised almost the same amount. Very 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.159 good work by the Primisi and doing that. But you 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:22.680 just imagine what's happened internally within the Labor Party. Tony Burke, 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:28.000 the large Muslim constituencies in those western suburb Sydney seats 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:33.239 will have been furious that Albanezi is giving thirty one 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:35.600 point two million dollars to the Jewish community in Melbourne. 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:37.919 They will have been furious his. 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:42.359 Phones yesterday afternoon or Tuesday and today will have been 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:45.399 ringing off with people complaining about his support for the 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:49.040 Jewish community. So Today's came out and made this ridiculous 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:52.800 contribution somewhere in order to sort of balance things. 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:53.040 Up a bit. 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:55.920 I don't do what I'm know I've done follow Dutton 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:58.119 on this stuff. I've got my own views, and you know, 0:22:58.280 --> 0:22:59.280 I don't think we should do this. 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:02.000 It's the same. I think that's what's happened here. 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:04.720 He's copped huge flack in the last two days for 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:08.400 helping donate money to rebuild a synagogue. 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:08.760 Fire by and by. 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:13.040 Burn to the ground jewishump. 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:16.360 Painting racist racist extremists. So he's done the right thing, 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:18.880 and no doubt Tony Burke and others are not saying 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:21.680 back specifically, but people around the left of the Labor 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:24.840 Party and the Muslim community have been furious with him 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:25.560 ever since Monday. 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:26.200 That's what I think. 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:29.960 Yeah, well, let's turn to Trump, Russia and Ukraine. We 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:32.359 know that the President had a to our phone call 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:36.200 with Prutin. Look, he managed to extract some concessions, but 0:23:36.280 --> 0:23:38.760 it clearly wasn't the deal he was hoping for because 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:43.160 Prutin said no to a thirty day ceasefire He did 0:23:43.280 --> 0:23:47.280 agree to stop targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure effective immediately, but 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:54.119 then there were reports that he resumed targeting the infrastructure. So, Richo, 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:56.720 do you have confidence that Trump is going to reach 0:23:56.720 --> 0:24:00.520 an agreement that doesn't involve giving Russia more Ukraine in land. 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:06.760 I never have much confidence in anything that comes up 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:11.240 with Pitton. I think he's one of the worst murderous 0:24:11.280 --> 0:24:16.440 grubs I've ever known in politics, and so I worry 0:24:16.520 --> 0:24:21.760 about Trump's, you know, looking friendly occasionally towards him. I 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:24.760 don't think we should be friendly to this fellow at all. 0:24:25.320 --> 0:24:30.399 This guy killed the people personally, let alone. You know, 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:34.280 we're using the apparatus of the state, and so you 0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:37.680 don't admire that, you criticize it, and you condemn it. 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:42.360 Well, I understand the tactic of not criticizing Prutin why 0:24:42.400 --> 0:24:45.280 you're trying to get him to agree to a cease 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:48.720 fire or a peace deal. But Michael, you know at 0:24:48.800 --> 0:24:53.159