WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 14 November 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:06.760 From the Skyinging Center. This is Paul Burray Live. Thank 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:07.280 you Sharry. 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:09.320 Welcome a big one, very big one tonight. 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:11.200 In fact, we have got an awful lot to talk about, 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.280 including when the ghost and the bloke and the Pink 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:16.800 Mansion get together. You know, it's the place Australia doesn't 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.160 want to be. Also sad news, it looks like interest 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:22.880 rate cut could well be delayed, in part because of 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:23.759 how many topic. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:24.239 Servants that we have. 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.520 And the great Nigel Ferraji joins us to bask in 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:28.760 the glory of all things Trump. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:30.760 There are plenty of things to say about the UK, 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.280 but what about it? What a moment? 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.920 Think about where four years ago Trump flushed from office 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.400 four years ago, not even getting calls from his own 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.320 supporters in the Republican Party. The election that just played out, 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.640 of course, was one where he was going to return 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.680 to the presidency or he would go to prison for 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.480 the rest of his life. Well today he was back 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.080 in the White House ahead of returning on January the twentieth. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.560 Unbelievable that these two blokes have ripped into each other 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.080 as hard as they have. Well, this is what happened 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.080 when two presidents look at each other in the eye 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.680 in the office that means the most of that country. 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.919 So everything we can make sure you're ac comminating. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:11.120 What you need. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.160 And we're going to get a chance to talk across 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:13.759 some out today. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:18.520 It's good, welcome, welcay no n it's cold. Is not 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:19.399 that goal for the fire. 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.080 For his part, Donald Trump was rather polite about the 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.120 bloke that he laid into and basically ended his political 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.639 career at the height of the election season. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:29.680 Thank you very much. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:35.120 And politics is tough, and it's many cases not a 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.160 very nice world, but it is a nice world today, 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:39.440 and they appreciate very much. 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.440 I again the remarkable nature of what happened here, because 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.839 remember what these two blokes have said about each other 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.440 for years and years and years. 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.960 The only garbage I see flowing down there is his supporters. 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.840 His demonization seems unconscionable, and it's on American. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:02.040 My supporters are far higher quality than Crooked Joe or 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:03.120 Layon Kamala. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:05.520 Now, I know some of you guys are attempted to 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.120 think as much your guys, I'll tell you what, manute, 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:09.080 But I'm serious. 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:11.680 These are the kind of guys you'd like to smack 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:12.200 an ass. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:19.320 I'd always find that articularly weird, but transfer of power important. 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.480 It was a failure of Trump not to do so 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:25.160 in twenty twenty and Biden well again, for all the 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.000 criticism that many people have had and have included about 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.200 him his presidency, the tone of his presidency, for him 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.080 to extend hand the way that he did was credit 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.520 to his legacy. But I think he might be happy because, 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:37.440 of course he'll always be able to play out the 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.080 twenty twenty four election and it choose your own adventure 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.280 fashion that if he had run, he would have won, 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.000 but of course they pushed him out of the. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.720 Way and Kamala got her come up. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.680 Which brings us to the Australian ambassador in the United States. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.240 Now you've heard too much about this in the past 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:01.280 couple of weeks, but let's be very clear. The reason 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.440 Kevin Rudd is in a world of trouble is because 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.880 he is an absolutely poor fit for the new broom 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.720 that is coming to Washington. The only way that he 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.839 was going to be a long term option was if 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.160 there was a Democratic president that was going to be there. Now, 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.919 remember to Kevin Rudd and Anthony Aberneze's worldview Donald Trump 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.440 was never a chance of winning any election ever, and 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.720 of course we knew that the price of Kevin Rudd 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.200 helping his former deputy prime minister to win the twenty 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:38.680 twenty two election was that he would be sent to Washington. Now, 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.400 of course at the time we were told that's definitely 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.680 not happening. But each way, Albow unsurprisingly ended up doing 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.040 the exact opposite of what he had said during a campaign. 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.480 But since Donald Trump became close to the polls and 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.920 let alone has won the presidency in the past week, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.360 all of the things that Kevin Rudd has said over 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.200 the years about Donald Trump have resurfaced. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:03:59.920 And why wouldn't that. 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:06.560 Trump at present represents a political liability for both sides 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:10.720 of Australian politics. This guy is a problem, but the 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.880 underpinnings of it was still incoherent because Trump himself was incoherent. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.400 The United States in the last four years has been 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:19.640 run by a village idiot. 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.800 Now again, everyone has the right to have whatever you 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.320 they want about a political leader, but of course there 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:30.120 are consequences if the job that you want, the job 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:34.360 that you have is to deal with all types of 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.360 people on the political spectrum, including the people that you 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:41.960 have well frankly called out, criticized or frankly abused in 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.919 a snobbish fashion like Rudd has over Trump. 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:46.200 Now. 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.760 Of course, when Trump was asked about this by Nigel Farage, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.400 you know what his position was. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.400 I don't know much about him. I heard he was 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.880 a little bit nasty. He who's not the writer's bulb. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.400 But I don't know much about him. But if he's 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.040 at all hostile. 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:04.800 He will not be there long. 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:06.200 Well. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:10.320 Today, the uniformity of the political class to suggest that 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.400 because Kevin wants the job, Kevin can have the job, 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:13.719 and Kevin can have the job for as long as 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.719 Kevin wants the job, because in part the political class 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:20.200 is excited that there's a form of verbal handcuffs that 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.440 are on him by having to represent the government rather 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.120 than trying to sort of be some shadow prime minister 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.200 or some alternative leader rolling around saying whatever he wants. 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.120 Was broken and was broken by Peter Dutton, who, while 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.680 not calling for a change in the Australian ambassador, obviously 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:37.680 is in the right place, which is, if we have 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.080 a problem with our chief representative to the United States, 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.719 it is a problem of this government's making because they 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.760 decided to throw him in when, of course there was 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.040 always a fifty to fifty. 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.560 Chance that Trump would come back. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.960 The ambassador has to have a functional, working relationship with 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.159 the administration, whether that's a Democrat or Republican administration. Of course, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:00.920 it's not just mister rh I mean, we're talking about 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:05.440 mister Albinisi and Senator Wong and others in the Labor 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.440 Party who have seen fit to criticize to criticize President 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:09.960 elect Trump. 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:12.800 Now, all of that's not news to you, But what 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:17.680 is now starting to happen is that apparently the replaying 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.440 of the criticism that Kevin Rudd has offered in multiple 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:26.160 forums for multiple years about Donald Trump is apparently part 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.520 of some sort of grand conspiracy from the company of 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.880 which owns this television station and thus is my employer, 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.080 And it is being pushed by people who should know better, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.279 but they're more than happy to play to the narrative. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.800 Now again, we've seen that one of the things that 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.560 Trump scrambles the circuits of is of the establishment, the 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.960 people who believe that certain things were work in a 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:52.080 certain way, and that establishment exists in every Western country. 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:54.960 It exists here too, in Australia. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.800 And while Australia doesn't get referred to as things like 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.280 the swamp or the deep state, there are the people 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.320 that have been around for both sides of politics for 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.880 a long period of time. And Dennis Richardson is a 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.600 person who has played significant roles in national defense, national 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.600 intelligence and has had plenty to say after representing all 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:19.160 sides of politics and as a significant member of those communities, well, 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.680 he's pushing along this whole idea that to replay the 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.800 comments of Kevin Rudd critical of the incoming president, that 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:31.160 it's somehow an agenda being set by one news company. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.840 Because Kevin Rudd is very pointed in his criticisms of 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:39.880 this news company. He spoke to Michelle Gratton, a person 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.600 who has been around for a very long time in 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.200 the Camber Press Gallery in no surprise, but this is 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.480 what she's spun out today in the New Daily website, 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.000 which is a new site that is paid for by 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:54.000 union superannuation money. Precisely nothing what Australia should do when 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.320 it comes to Kevin Rudd and Donald Trump the funeral 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.640 or over Australia's ambassador to Washington, Kevin is a self 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:05.080 licking ice cream created by some at Sky News. Former 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.520 Defense chief and former Ambassador of the United States Dennis 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:13.000 Richardson says. Richardson says, the present controversy around radis quote 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.640 not an issue that arose out of any normal process. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:18.880 This is an issue that is being pursued by one 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:20.000 news outlet. 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:29.520 What if any diplomat had the record of criticism of 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.920 the government he is about to he or she is 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:32.920 about to interact with. 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:34.560 It's a news story. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.280 Just because it's an inconvenient news story does not mean 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:43.160 that it is all part of the wider agenda that 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:48.760 people believe exists. Now again, Kevin Rudd, as a free citizen, 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:52.199 has every right to say whatever he wants about anything 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:56.240 that he wants. He can try to say that the 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:00.760 Australian media doesn't have things like taxpayer funded rates or 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.400 television stations, in fact, two of them. He can pretend 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:06.719 that when you're adding up who, what and where and 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.520 how many columns and how many minutes and how many signals, 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:13.400 that the ABC doesn't exist or SBS doesn't exist, or 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.439 that due to the Internet, your capacity to read The 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.200 New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times of India 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.839 or the Sun news, whatever you want to read is 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.280 out there, and that's the news environment that we live 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:27.000 in today. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:29.760 But how is it not a. 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:34.400 Legitimate, reasonable news story to turn around and say that 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.439 the ambassador of Australia, who has said plenty of nasty 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.440 things about the incoming president of the United States may 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.160 well not get along with the incoming president of the 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:45.240 United States, who we know odd's a grudge. Now you 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.240 can look at that exclusively from the Trump side, that 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.760 it's Trump who has the problem. And if Trump doesn't 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.439 change the way that he relates to Australia, then that's 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.040 his problem, not our problem. And of course the American 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.959 president shouldn't be able to dictate whom our ambassador is. 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.000 But when governor to make decisions about who represents our country, 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.880 you're supposed to find the best possible fit, and very 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.200 obviously at the moment, Rudd is not that best possible fit. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.120 But again, while the media talking about the media is 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.400 the single most boring thing for people like yourself who 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:15.640 are watching the media. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.000 Sometimes you do have to stand up for yourself. And 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.040 I don't say this on the behalf of my company. 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.559 I say this is a fairly common sense person who 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:25.760 reads all of the media all the day. Who's swum 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.080 in it for an entire career? Again, a little more 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.439 from this story. News Corp has been running hard on 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:34.480 this story for months. This, by the way, was the 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.360 City Morning Herald and it's editorial today Rudd spoke sense 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.480 about Trump. It's a vengeful news Corp that has the 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:41.199 explaining to do. 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:41.679 Again. 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.280 If the City Morning, Let's imagine it was Scott Morrison 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.120 who said a whole bunch of nasty things about the 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.080 Labor Party in the UK, and he was the ambassador 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.400 for Austrated to the UK, it'd be just as legitimate 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.000 a story. But News Corp has been running hard on 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.160 this for months, ramping up the sense of crisis the 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.400 point where it has created one media campaigns can be 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:04.160 a force for good. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.679 This one by News Corp is a disgrace. Again, he 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.680 said it multiple times. 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.080 Anyone who has a sentilla of understanding of the way 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:21.679 American politics works is that one of two sides is 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.840 going to win a presidential election. And four years ago 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.599 I wouldn't have thought that Donald Trump was returning to 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.400 the presidency, but it became clear two years ago that 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.480 he was nominating for the presidency. It became clear a 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.880 year ago that he was going to win the Republican nomination, 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.120 and now we deal with the reality that he is 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.520 the president of the United States, one who does not 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.080 need to seek re election, and one who will try 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.280 to change his country in his mind, it is supporter's 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.720 mind for the better over the next four years. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:52.800 Now, Australia is. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.840 Not going to become some sort of a quasi enemy 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.920 or is going to be put in the naughty corner 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.160 because of Kevin and Run. In fact, the relationship between 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:06.040 Australia and the United States always exists in spite of 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.680 the president or in this case, in spite of the ambassador. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:11.840 But the idea that to point out that a. 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.719 Person who has form of saying a whole collection of 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.320 nasty things about the incoming president of the United States 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:17.760 may not get along with the President of the United 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:22.079 States is hardly a media campaign. And the second that 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:26.760 he decides at whatever time to leave the position of 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.720 ambassador in Washington, I'll tell you the first thing he's 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:30.079 going to do. 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:31.360 He's going to get. 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.640 Straight back into the campaign that is about a royal 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.960 commission into the very organization that I work for, an 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:41.079 attempt to somehow shut it down or silence it. So 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.200 I'd like to know what the four D chess idea 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.760 here is is that the News Corp campaign is to 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.120 get rid of Kevin Rudd so he can come back 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.640 to lead the charge against News Corp as. 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:55.520 A Royal Commission. Yeah, okay, that's the thinking. 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.120 Now let's get to some big changes happening while everyone 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:02.920 is distracted by lots of other news, lots of other 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:04.120 things that are happening, and they are going to be 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:05.960 big changes to the way our elections work. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.040 This should be a lead story. It should be a 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:08.559 big story. 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.520 But because it gets a little bit complicated and there's 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.760 not that much sexy pictures to show you, you probably 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.480 haven't heard about this in the six PM years. Some 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.240 dirty deals are being done amongst the major parties in 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:23.640 and around Parliament House. Now, as you know, in many 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.319 states around the country, state governments have turned around and 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:30.280 have changed the way that elections are funded, where the 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:34.040 political parties get more money from their version of the 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.679 Electoral Commission based on the number of votes that they 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.320 get from you or I at a state or federal election, 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.880 but equally they're created caps on how much money can 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.240 be spent by an individual candidate or an individual party 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.480 in an individual seat. But then of course there are 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.679 the third party or independent groups that are allowed to 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.760 spend the same amount of money. And we see in 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.560 the case of Queensland, in the case of West Australia, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.880 and in the case of Victoria that the unions, despite 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.360 the fact that they are literally fifty percent of the 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.640 Labor Party. Every Labour MP, state or federal is a 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.240 member of a union, and the unions, according to the 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:16.800 constitution of the Labor Party, are fifty percent of the organization. 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.720 They picked the candidates, they pick the policies, they pick 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:25.360 the leaders, but they are under these electoral fiddles referred 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.640 to as independent. So in a place like Queensland, where 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.400 there are dozens of unions, it meant that at any 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.840 one time that the Labor Party was able to outspend 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.160 anyone else on the ballot paper by the best part 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.360 of ten to one. Because you see the independent union 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.840 that is able to spend as much money as the candidate. Well, 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.280 one union, two union, three reunions. You get how big 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:51.240 the financial advantage becomes. Now, this isn't just something about 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.680 people who want a fair play between Team Red and 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:58.479 Team Blue. But it also means a massive financial advantage 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:04.680 is handed firstly to the existing candidate, the existing party, 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.360 and the party who of course ends up with government, 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.200 which means more seats, more votes, has more money than 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.880 their opposition. That's not the way our system should work. 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.600 To have a permanent, taxpayer funded system that is slanted 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:24.360 so heavily in one direction in favor of the existing MP, 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:29.000 the existing party, or the existing government, it means that 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:34.920 minor parties, Independence or Greens are at a significant financial disadvantage. 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:36.520 Well. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.920 An attempt to change this system is underway. In fact, 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.640 the federal government has been for months trying to negotiate 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.440 the very fiddle to the system that has been put 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.400 in place in Queensland, in Victoria and in Western Australia. 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:50.920 And we learn today again via the Sydney Morning Herald 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.880 that Labor and the Coalition have apparently done a deal 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.640 to help fiddle the system when it comes to the 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:00.360 money going into federal elections. The major Party on the 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.720 cusp of a critical deal to overhaul Australia's election system 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.280 and strip big money from politics, with a plan to 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:12.560 ward off US style elections dominated by billionaire backers gaining 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.440 in principal agreement from Labor and the Coalition. Now I've 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.280 said this many times before. When they talk about cap 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.120 on spending, what they try to do is try and 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:23.400 tell you that it's all about. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:24.800 Clive Palmer, the client. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.320 Palmer using his own money should be limited about how 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:32.000 much money he can spend in advocacy of his candidates. 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.200 You see in twenty nineteen when the message was very 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:39.840 clear against Bill Shorten, that message and then Preferences ended 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.800 up re electing the Liberal Party when the message was 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:44.680 put them all last. Well, we all know what happened 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.440 to the twenty twenty two election. But that's Clive's right 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.960 as a citizen to use his own money in service 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.440 of a political party that yes, he'd get somebody elected, 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:57.120 Ralph Babbitt to the Senate via Victoria. But you see, 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.480 the other billionaire they never really talk about with this 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.760 stuff is the one whose money helped win way more seats, 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.200 and that Simon Holmes a court. Now, he, of course 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.800 who the Climate two hundred group is able to hand 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.200 so called independence despite the fact they all believe the 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.320 same things, say the same thing, market themselves the same 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.720 You get the point, and they're able to have a 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.800 money advantage to start a campaign, to be able to 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:28.040 always go after conservative members of the Liberal Party. They 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.680 don't have any track record of running against people in 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.320 the Labor Party. So Clive Palmer bad billionaire, Simon Holmes 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:38.879 a court good billionaire. Yeah, okay, so let's explain how 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.879 this system is going to work. According to The Sidney 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:47.000 Morning Herald, The Age, the Brisbane Times or They reported 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.600 in August that elements of the draft legislation being considered 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:51.280 include a cap on the amount of money that a 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:56.320 candidate is likely to receive. It is also expected to 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.720 include a limit on how much a party can spend. Surprise, surprise, 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.200 that we talked about here. But here's the devil in 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:07.119 the detail. Despite the fact that apparently this is an 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.760 urgent need to change our political system, the rules will 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.920 not apply for the upcoming federal election. They will apply 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.240 to the election after that, and of course what happens 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.960 between the next election and the election after that. While 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.480 all of this legislation could be completely drawn up again, 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.520 meaning it's all about making it look like they're changing 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.240 the system, then actually changing the system. And why would 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.000 they only want to look like they were changing the system, 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:38.200 because it's pretty obvious that if the polls are correct, 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.760 we are headed towards a minority government, meaning that either 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:45.119 the Labor Party or in the best case scenario, the 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.920 Liberal Party get themselves into a position where they need 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:51.640 somebody else on the crossbench to be able to give 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:53.600 them the support to form a government. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.320 Well, of course, those people are the. 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:01.240 Ones, particularly the Teals, directly affected by change in caps. 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.480 They are the people if it happens to be another 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.320 United Australian Party MP like Clive was elected to the 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:11.320 Lower House who would be affected by the caps. So 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.159 beware what looks like a solution to a problem that 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.480 isn't really a big problem in Australian politics. And what 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.440 do you think if there was a minority Labor government 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.440 propped up by the Teals, do you think that the 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.359 changes that had passed the Parliament for the not this 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.919 election but the one after would stand or would they 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.720 magically melt away? Meaning of course the Teals would end 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:36.320 up with a system where the Liberal Party or the Greens, 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:41.200 or One Nation or the Victorian Socialists or the United 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.720 Australian Party is in a position where there's a limit 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.000 on how much can be spent at any one time 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.040 in any one's seat, apart from. 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:50.720 Independent groups like the Unions. 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.359 But of course what may will end up turning up 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:57.120 here is a scenario where they will end up making 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:00.400 a scenario where the Liberal Party, if in opposition, would 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.399 have less money than the Labor Party, who would have 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:07.000 greater ability to have so called independent supporters flooding the market. 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:09.520 They would of course find a way to say they 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:11.760 run backsides while doing in the Liberal Party. That of 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:14.399 course would be bad for democracy, but you're not allowed 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:16.400 to say that. It's only lefties who get to say 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:21.800 democracy is a threat all day every day. Got some 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.240 bad news if you, like me, are part of the 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.080 third of the country that's trying to pay off a house. 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.120 Now we learn today that, of course the Preserve Bank 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:32.680 due to meet in the next little while. The expectations 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:34.200 were that if there was to be a rate cut, 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.639 it could happen as early as February. Now this is 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:39.520 not going to be massive because this this been twelve 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.760 interestrate rise. As it doesn't matter if they take it 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:43.440