Speaker 1: From the Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.
Speaker 1: It's Friday, October eighteenth nine. Entertainment has a systemic cultural
Speaker 1: issue with abuse of power and authority, bullying, discrimination and
Speaker 1: sexual harassment. That's according to a review commissioned by the
Speaker 1: organization itself, But there are no findings about individual incidents
Speaker 1: or allegations, leading to fears nobody will be held accountable.
Speaker 1: You can read all the detail right now at the
Speaker 1: Australian dot com AU. Free lunch for every school kid
Speaker 1: sounds great, but it comes with a one point four
Speaker 1: billion dollar price tag and it's turning up the heat
Speaker 1: in a Queensland election campaign. Today, our reporter joins us
Speaker 1: from a famous pub with a big yarn about the
Speaker 1: man who wants to be premiere.
Speaker 2: What's your name.
Speaker 1: Amelia? And what's your favorite thing to have for lunch?
Speaker 1: This is Queensland's Labor Premier, Stephen Miles, interviewing some preschoolers.
Speaker 2: What's your name?
Speaker 1: Amelia likes fruit, Azya likes nuggets, and Miles, who's desperately
Speaker 1: hoping to keep labor alive in the upcoming election, is
Speaker 1: hoping their moms and dads like free lunches. That's his
Speaker 1: big policy announcement of the week and it's captivated parents.
Speaker 1: It's also led us on a deep dive into Miles's
Speaker 1: TikTok and it turns out lunch is a bit of
Speaker 1: a theme all Rightwich. There's a stack of tiktoks where
Speaker 1: Myles stands in his kitchen wearing a series of t
Speaker 1: shirts tight enough to show off his guns, making sandwiches
Speaker 1: sometimes a come benaeded by his daughter. Lots of announcements,
Speaker 1: including one I'm really excited about, which is massive. There's
Speaker 1: chopping and shredding and buttering. It's quite gripping. He's slicing
Speaker 1: a tomato. He's what putting the tomato straight on the
Speaker 1: bread and then pouring salt on it. Geez, salami, raw onion.
Speaker 3: Oh. He really loves sandwiches. He loves making a Sunday
Speaker 3: sandwich with his ten year.
Speaker 1: Old daughter Brady.
Speaker 3: I think it's part of his kind of daggy dad stick.
Speaker 3: He's doing it a little bit more convincingly than Scott
Speaker 3: Morrison did, I think, Honey.
Speaker 1: This is one of the Australian's gun reporters, Sarah Elks,
Speaker 1: who's part of our team covering Queensland politics.
Speaker 3: And then he's supercharged that at the ALP campaign launch
Speaker 3: on Sunday when he said that Queensland Labor, if re elected,
Speaker 3: would provide a free school lunch for every kid between
Speaker 3: prep and year six, so all of primary school, every day.
Speaker 1: We caught her in the middle of a busy day
Speaker 1: on the campaign trail and she'd just taken her first
Speaker 1: sip of a beer that looked icy and pretty delicious.
Speaker 3: Just excuse my beer, it's really hot. It's hot. I
Speaker 3: got up at four am to get on the plane.
Speaker 1: Sarah's got some experience with school lunches as a real
Speaker 1: life issue as well as a policy debate.
Speaker 3: And as a new school mum myself, I can say
Speaker 3: that I don't love making school lunches, but I also
Speaker 3: understand that it's really tricky for school touch shops. Ours
Speaker 3: has one paid staff member and the rest rely on volunteers.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's really tricky to find volunteers. And there's not
Speaker 3: been a huge amount of detail from Stephen Mars and
Speaker 3: Labor about exactly how he's going to roll out these
Speaker 3: school lunches to every single kid, particularly in regional and
Speaker 3: rural areas where some schools don't even have a touch shop.
Speaker 3: But I think it goes to show that labor is
Speaker 3: really focusing on cost of living relief.
Speaker 1: There's been a bit of scoffing about the free launch policy,
Speaker 1: in particular one point four billion dollar price tag. What's
Speaker 1: your take on how ordinary Queenslanders will receive this policy?
Speaker 3: From talking to my small focus group of ordinary Queenslanders,
Speaker 3: you know, friends and family, I think that there is
Speaker 3: some acceptance that the government is trying to relieve cost
Speaker 3: of living pressures and everyone is doing it a little
Speaker 3: bit tough, but I think they're really taking a leaf
Speaker 3: out of say the P and c's book. The Queensland
Speaker 3: Parents and Citizens Association released a statement to say thank
Speaker 3: you for recognizing that cost of living is a problem,
Speaker 3: but we would prefer this money being spent on the
Speaker 3: cost of school expenses, stationery and uniforms and excursions and
Speaker 3: all that kind of thing. So I think that there
Speaker 3: is skepticism and also I think the problem with these
Speaker 3: kind of measures with a third term government is people
Speaker 3: might be happy to accept them, but it may not
Speaker 3: be enough to win over their votes when there's such
Speaker 3: a strong it's time factor that's kind of ricocheting through
Speaker 3: the electorate.
Speaker 1: Coming up. Sarah's been breaking big yarns about David Chrisfooley's past.
Speaker 1: After the break what he says about his record in business.
Speaker 2: Life.
Speaker 1: On a campaign trail can be hard going. The leaders
Speaker 1: load you onto buses, but you don't get told where
Speaker 1: you're going or what you're doing until you arrive. It's
Speaker 1: political party's way of avoiding nasty surprises like protesters showing up.
Speaker 1: But it makes for long days for journos. So where
Speaker 1: have you been today?
Speaker 3: We flew from Brisbane to Townsville and we did a
Speaker 3: press conference outside the Youth Detention Center in Townsville, and
Speaker 3: then we drove up the road to Ingham, which is
Speaker 3: David Chrysophili's hometown, and we went to the tennis club.
Speaker 3: He's now gone to his favorite deli and we're just
Speaker 3: having a lunch in allegedly the pub that Slim Dusty
Speaker 3: wrote the song Pub with No Beer About a Lot
Speaker 3: of Chairrible Place is a pub with no beer, although
Speaker 3: it has beer now, which is definitely a plus.
Speaker 1: You're on the David Chrisipuoll we come back tour now
Speaker 1: in his home town of Ingham. Sarah, and you've been
Speaker 1: digging into his past what he did after losing his
Speaker 1: seat in the Queensland Parliament a few years back.
Speaker 3: David Chrysi Fully lost his seat Munding Borough, which is
Speaker 3: a townspill seat in twenty fifteen when the Newman government
Speaker 3: was swept out of power. When he found himself without
Speaker 3: a seat, he looked to the private sector for employment.
Speaker 3: The first thing he did was get some consulting work
Speaker 3: for a company called Outcome Results, which was like a
Speaker 3: recruitment company for unemployment training providers. So they found people
Speaker 3: who were long term unemployed and connected them with registered
Speaker 3: training organizations. Outcome Results was a company that was run
Speaker 3: by a gentleman called Rabbia Kraem and he is a
Speaker 3: long term associate of mister Chrysa Fullies and in the
Speaker 3: dying days of the Newman government, David Christifully as local member,
Speaker 3: boasted that he secured a taxpayer funded grant worth about
Speaker 3: three hundred and twenty one thousand dollars for Outcome Results
Speaker 3: to set up a call center in Townsville to shift
Speaker 3: its operations from Melbourne to towns full And what we've
Speaker 3: found out is that soon after mister Chrysa Fully lost
Speaker 3: his seat of monday Borough. He then became a consultant
Speaker 3: for mister Craam's outcome results. Following that consultancy work, he
Speaker 3: then agreed to be the sole director and the chief
Speaker 3: executive of a registered training organization that mister Crayam was
Speaker 3: the half owner of. And this is a business that
Speaker 3: has now come back to haunt mister chrysa Fully in
Speaker 3: terms of questions about its running. It ultimately failed. It
Speaker 3: fell into liquidation a couple of months after mister chrisa
Speaker 3: Fully left that business in April twenty sixteen, and while
Speaker 3: he was only there for four months, I think questions
Speaker 3: do need to be asked out what he knew when
Speaker 3: he entered the business, what he did as its sole
Speaker 3: director and the person who was in charge of running
Speaker 3: the business, and then what he did afterwards.
Speaker 1: Here's Sarah taking on Chris a Fully at a press
Speaker 1: conference just before the beer in Ingham on Thursday.
Speaker 2: Can I ask some questions about your business? If that's okay, please?
Speaker 2: Why did you leave Southern Edge Training on April one
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 4: Because my promise capital didn't come true. I was in
Speaker 4: the business performer and I met every single one of.
Speaker 1: My obligations Sarah versus Chris A. Foley kept going for
Speaker 1: a solid eight minutes.
Speaker 4: Based on what Cameron Dick said, and he spent seventy
Speaker 4: two hours talking about the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Speaker 4: But im because it's related to you.
Speaker 2: No, it's really not. I got a statement from the
Speaker 2: Australian Skills Quality Authority last night to say that you
Speaker 2: read the report. I have read the report, mister Crystal
Speaker 2: can I it's the allegation was that the company traded.
Speaker 1: His heart really must sink when he sees reporters from
Speaker 1: the Australian showing up at his press conference every day.
Speaker 1: We spoke to Lydia Lynch last week about his difficulty
Speaker 1: answering questions about how he's going to handle the issue
Speaker 1: of abortion if he's elected. What's been your sense of
Speaker 1: his inability or unwillingness to answer some pretty simple questions
Speaker 1: about this issue.
Speaker 3: It has been unfortunate as a reporter and disappointing as
Speaker 3: a reporter and as a Queenslander to ask these simple
Speaker 3: and relevant questions about mister Chris A Fully's personal policy
Speaker 3: position on things and his party's policy position on things
Speaker 3: and also issues that are on the public record about
Speaker 3: his business dealings and be met with non answers. I
Speaker 3: don't want anyone to feel sorry for a reporters. We're
Speaker 3: used to people not answering our questions, but I think,
Speaker 3: particularly during an election campaign, it's voters who deserve that
Speaker 3: transparency and that accountability. I think to not answer really
Speaker 3: straightforward questions is being disrespectful to voters.
Speaker 1: Sarah Elks is a senior reporter with The Australian. You
Speaker 1: can check out all her reporting and don't miss our
Speaker 1: Queensland team's political gossip column, Feeding the Chucks at the
Speaker 1: Australian dot com dot U. Thanks for joining us this
Speaker 1: week on the front. Our team is Kristin Amiot, Jasper
Speaker 1: leik Leat, Samaglue, Joshua Burton, Tiffany Dimac and me Claire Harvey.