WEBVTT - Sharri | 4 November 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:03.159 Why on Sky News. 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.640 This is Sharry. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:10.479 Thanks Andrew, good evening, Welcome to the show tonight to 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:14.800 Anthony Alberizie's embarrassing remarks about Donald trump come back to 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.040 haunt him. How will the Prime Minister handle this? If 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.279 Trump wins in just two days, I'll bring you. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:23.000 His comments in a moment. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:25.920 I've got full coverage on the election tonight with our 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:30.000 former ambassador to Washington, Joe Hockey, plus Ross Greenwood in 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:33.080 New York will bring you the latest intel on the 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:37.720 battleground states. Plus I'll bring you exclusive polling on who 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.440 labor voters have picked to lead the party if they 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.959 could choose a different leader, and the answer will make 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:50.160 alban Eazy very nervous. That exclusive polling coming up. Also tonight, 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:55.200 the Home Affairs Department plays counsel culture with the Australian flag. Well, 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.760 shouldn't they be focused on national security? 0:00:58.160 --> 0:00:59.760 I'll show you the moment James. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:04.960 Patterson calls out their wopped priorities. But first tonight, the 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:10.360 Prime Minister embarrassed over remarks where he strongly criticized Donald Trump. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.120 The comments now coming back to haunt him. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:17.360 On the eve of the US election, alberize he was 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.479 a senior labor figure. When he said that he had 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:24.040 concerns about Trump, who was already president at the time, 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.800 he also said that he scares the s out of him. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.000 Have a look, we have an alliance with the US. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.360 We're going to deal with him, but that doesn't mean 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:37.840 that you're uncritical about it. He scares out of me, 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:43.800 and I think it's of some concern that the leader 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.680 of the free world thinks that you can conduct politics 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.840 through one hundred and forty characters on Twitter. 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.800 So Alberizi complaining there as he said that we've got 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:55.720 to deal with him. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:57.000 This is embarrassing. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:01.160 And Alberizi was Shadow Transport and infrastruct Minister at the time. 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.720 He was a senior figure in the shortened team. He 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:06.920 should have known better than to speak in such a 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.920 juvenile fashion about the then president of the nation that 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:12.600 Australia relies. 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.079 On for our national security. 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.880 And for this to emerge at a time when his 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:21.519 own government is scrambling to get in to make ties 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.400 with teen Trump. Well, when you think about it, there 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:29.480 are actually a lot of similarities between Alberizi and Kamala Harris. 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:34.280 Alber Ezi spent his career as a left faction warrior, 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.960 only to suddenly try and reposition himself in the political 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:44.200 center when he became Labor leader, he claimed that he'd abandoned. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.000 His far left instincts. 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.480 It led to front pages like this one where Albernezi 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.880 declared I am not woke. 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.920 Many of us found that claim hard to believe. 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.799 Albert declared himself a centrist who would govern four mainstream 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.000 Australia and to prove he was safe for readers, reporter 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.040 Joe Hildebrand put the opposition leader to the woke test 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.239 and got all the right answers. 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:09.919 Can men have babies? 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:14.679 No Captain Cook, Giro or zero world changer? 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.200 Does Australia need to spend more or less on defence? 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.000 More negative gearing? 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.040 Keep or ditch Keep? 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.720 In my view, there wasn't nearly enough scrutiny on Albanesi 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.280 before the last election, and when I reported on his 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:35.040 radical left positions over the years, he was pretty angry 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:39.320 about it. Albanzey didn't want anyone to know about his past, 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:45.440 like that it actually supported death taxes. He'd also previously 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:51.600 criticized capitalism and family wealth as causes of social injustice. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.600 Albanzey pretended to voters that he'd been an economics advisor 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.880 in the legendary Haut government, but in fact, as I reported, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.520 he was only a research officer for a hard left 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.160 minister who. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:07.320 Wasn't in cabinet. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:10.840 And on Israel would don't get me started, but there 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:12.280 were plenty of warning signs. 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:14.080 Albinizi had lashed out at. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:19.159 Israel, claiming it had acted disproportionately when defending its citizens from. 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.760 Terror attacks, and he also demanded the. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:26.839 Coalition explain why it voted against a United Nations move 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:31.600 to launch an investigation into Israel's so called indiscriminate use 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.520 of force against Palestinians. 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.280 These should have been red flags. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:41.359 The whole attempt to reposition Albanzi was a farce. He 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:47.280 never abandoned his lifelong principles, He just pretended that he changed. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:53.480 And now Albinze's Prime ministership is failing, mostly because of 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.240 his inability to govern for mainstream Australians. 0:04:58.200 --> 0:04:58.920 I challenge you. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:03.880 To think of anything he has actually personally achieved. You 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:07.080 only have to look at Peter malanowskis in Adelaide or 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.400 Chrismin's in New South Wales to see the model of 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:16.840 a modern, successful centrist labor leader now over in America. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:21.680 Like alban Easy, Kamala Harris has spent her career as 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:27.800 a Californian Liberal. She's the very definition of woke. The 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.760 Republicans only have to look at comments she's made in 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:32.680 the past for their adverts. 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.720 Kamala supports taxpayer funded sex changes for prisoners. 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:44.080 Surgery for prisoners for prisoners. Every transgender in me in 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:48.039 the prison system would have access. This administration has decided 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.600 to vilify them and to trade on them for the 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:56.240 sake of this president's medieval vanity project called IWAL. There's 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.360 no question I'm in favor of banning fracking. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:00.240 Now. 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:04.120 The Wall Street Journal editorial board says that her candidacy 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.400 is best understood as an attempt by the Democrats to 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:13.440 continue the progressive political wave, and that editorial describes the 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:20.560 modern left's bloody mindedness, with its regulatory coercion, its cultural imperialism, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:26.680 its economic statism, and its desire to strip judicial independence. 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:32.880 They say that Harris's progressive politics might be tolerable if 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.919 Miss Harris showed evidence on foreign affairs that she understands 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:41.520 the world's current dangerous moment. Yet she defends the last 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:46.800 four years as a security success, despite two Wars adversaries 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.680 on the March and the US Navy playing Waka missile 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:55.040 in the Red Sea. And they also conclude that Kamala 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:59.960 Harris is unprepared to deal with She or Vladimir Putin. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.680 And now even CNN has called Kamala Harris out for 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:09.640 running different messages on Gaza and Israel in different states. 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:15.040 In Michigan, which reportedly has the largest Arab population in America, 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.200 here are Kamala Harris's adverts. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.680 What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.920 is devastating. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.160 the suffering, and I will not be silent. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.200 I won't be silent on the suffering. But then over 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:38.120 in Pennsylvania, where Kamala is trying to win over Jewish voters, 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.760 will here's her message. 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:47.640 I will always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself, and. 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:52.240 I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:57.400 itself because the people of Israel must never again face 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:02.440 the horror that a terrorist or organization called hermas calls 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.560 on October seventh, This. 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.000 Is so appalling. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:11.280 These mixed messages that even CNN criticized. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:11.440 Her over it. 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.400 You have two entirely different constituencies and they are getting 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.720 two entirely different messages. If you are a Jewish person 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.360 in Pennsylvania, you saw that ad that you're getting, You 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.400 are getting that athe Muslim voter in Michigan, you are 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:28.960 getting that ad on Facebook that's talking about talking about 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.520 how she won't be silent on the issue of Gaza. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.920 Kamala Harris wants to be the president of the US, 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.559 but her message is change depending on which battleground state 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:43.320 you're in, depending on what you want to hear. She 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:48.280 seems to be the American replica of alban Easy, and 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:52.600 we've seen that his left wing instincts couldn't be suppressed forever. 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.079 Now this is arguably the. 0:08:55.920 --> 0:09:01.439 Most critical election in our recent history. Our enemies are 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:05.360 emboldened and they're collaborating to weaken us in the West. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.080 Only a strong leader of the free world can stop 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:13.960 their assault on democracy and on Western civilization, and this 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.800 can only be achieved through the Reagan model of peace 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.000 through strength. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.400 This is the leadership that's needed. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:25.520 Right now, not constant calls for a ceasefire, not half 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:29.800 hearted support for Ukraine and not turning a blind eye 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:37.280 to China's wargames. Okay, we've got a lot coming up 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.880 for more. Now let's cross live to the US to 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.640 New York where I've got Ross Greenwood and it's just 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.199 gone four am local time. Ross, thank you for getting 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:47.640 up so early for us. 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:48.880 Look in New. 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:53.560 York, Wall Street has mostly swung behind Donald Trump. What's 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.800 your opinion on the view that the economy and the 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:01.360 stock market will be stronger under a Trump presidency. 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.000 Well, there's no doubt that Wall Street has swung behind him, 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.280 although it has waived in the past day or so. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:11.760 That surprise Iowa Pole, which suggested that Kamala Harris could 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.400 be in front there probably has just led to a 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.559 few wobbles in terms of currency markets, bond markets, and 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.280 share markets as well. But in the main you're right, 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.520 they have swung behind Donald Trump, and the reason for 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.800 that is because they believe that he will bring down taxes, 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.840 not just for companies but for individuals. Now, there is 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.520 some concern about the implication of what he means when 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.240 he says that he wants to exchange taxes in the 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.360 United States for tariffs, taking the United States back to 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.320 a system that was around in the early nineteen hundreds 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.440 until income tax was created. Now, the reality is that 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:50.000 big tariffs on Chinaese imported goods, some say, would add 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.920 to inflation. He says, it's the way to actually get 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:56.800 America going to bring manufacturing on shore, to bring jobs 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:00.000 on shore, to bring technology on shore, and to ensure 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.400 or the Chinese goods, in many cases where the intellectual 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:07.760 property has been stolen or basically copied effectively does not 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.160 come back into America as chief goods. So this is 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.640 the sort of rhetoric that goes around not just the 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.880 Trump campaign, but also around the financial markets. Which is 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.520 the reason why though you're right to say that New 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:23.680 York is very much a Democrat stronghold, it also resonates 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.960 in other parts of it, like say, for example, the 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.760 race for the Congress. A lot of people right now 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.520 even today the New York Times talking about the importance 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:35.439 of New York in the Congress because the Republicans helped 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:39.160 to grab control of the Congress because of key votes 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.280 that they picked up here in New York. And that's 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.840 the reason why there so many different votes that are 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.839 coming out in two days time on Tuesday are really 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:48.440 going to be very important for this nation. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.320 Ross this is I was actually, I've got to say it, 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.439 quite shocked when I saw that this story had taken 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.280 off in such a strong way on the weekend. And 0:11:58.440 --> 0:11:59.959 I don't know if all of our viewers have heard 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:04.520 about it tonight. Peanut the squirrel, this has been massive, 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:05.640 especially in. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.440 New York on the weekend before the election. 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.120 So basically, the police have come in and killed a 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.600 man's two pets, a squirrel and a raccoon. It just 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.400 so happened that I understand the squirrel was a you know, 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.760 a social media star. I mean, this sounds weird, but 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.640 it's been such a big story, and Russell's resonated across 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.679 America because it's an example of government overreach of government 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:33.080 control while there's a sense that actual criminals are getting 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:33.840 off scott free. 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.199 Are a protected species. 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.760 Yeah, so it actually gets mixed up with the migration message. 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.559 That's the funny thing about dear old Peanut the squirrel 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.800 and Fred the raccoon is the other one as well. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:46.800 And so the New York Post sort of highlighted this 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.040 and basically made the observation that really, people have rated 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.320 this person's house. You know, you're right about peanut being 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.280 a bit of an internet sensation. So either somebody's got 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.400 jealous or somebody says that the squirrel hasn't been kept 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.960 in the rights of environment or whatever it might be. 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.640 So they've actually taken these pets away, euthanize the pets. 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.800 But then now even jd Vance has called this out, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.000 said that Trump's not happy about this. But it really 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.840 is sort of almost resonates about the fact that, you know, 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.760 under the Democrats, many Americans believe that the country is 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.880 over governed, and you mentioned earlier on in your editorial 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.440 about you know, Australians feeling that same way they are 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.400 over governed, and so this really has almost become a 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:32.280 bit a little emblematic in the way in which Americans 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.960 do feel in this election. And also say, for example, 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.720 we're going there later on today to go and see 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.720 the famous Roosevelt Hotel, one of the most famous hotels 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.040 in America, which has now become a migration center, so 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.480 people remember that many Americans coming, so many people coming 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.560 to America for the first time. We've gone through Ellis Island. Well, 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.280 this is the New l As Island, one of the 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:57.040 traditionally flashiest hotels in New York City is now basically 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.880 a migrant center for people who have come illegally into 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.120 this country and gravitated towards New York City. So that 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.360 again is become a bit of a flashpoint in this election. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:08.479 Yeah. No, it's fascinating. 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.560 And just to add to that, Elon Musks speaking about this, 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.360 and it's such a big issue, this pin up the 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.920 squirrel that the Wall Street Journal even did an editorial 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.320 on it. Ross just quickly before you go, you went 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.960 to Trump Tower today, You've been to pre polling booths today, 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:24.440 I should say, yesterday. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:24.520 Your time. 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.960 Tell us how you're finding voter sentiment on the ground, 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.120 keeping in mind, of course, as you say that New 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:31.920 York is a Democrat state. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.480 Yeah, well, we're at the marathon. We met at Trump Towers, 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.360 and of course there you'll see a lot of visitors, 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.120 so you do get sort of a glimpse of what's 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.960 happening around the country. The one interesting thing about this 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.200 election is the pre polling. Now, at the previous election, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.840 twenty twenty election, sixty four percent of people in America 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.720 pre polled, So, in other words, I'm almost one hundred 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.280 million votes out of one hundred and fifty eight million 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.560 votes that were cast were prepolled. And the interesting part 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.800 about it is in the previous they broadly one to 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.080 the Democrats, but this time around, in surveys that have 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.080 been done, it suggests that in twenty six of the 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:12.240 states where there has been pre polling monitored, that twelve 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:16.160 have gone towards the Republicans, fourteen have gone towards the Democrats. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.040 And so it really again shows the call from both 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.520 Kamala Harris and Donald Trump for people to get out 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:25.000 and prepole has resonated there and certainly on the streets 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.240 the people that we've spoken to have done so in 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:27.880 their drives. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.280 Yeah, exactly, and we've seen the Democrats clearly very worried 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:35.160 about this early pre polling vote. All Right, Ross Greenwood 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:37.280 Live in New York, thank you so much for your time, 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.080 and we'll tune into the rest of your analysis this week. 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.680 All Right, let's bring it now Sky News host Steve 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.160 Price and Joe Hildebrand, and let's start with Albanezi's US 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:50.240 style political rally in Adelaide on the weekend in a 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.800 school hall, where he emphatically declared. 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.080 That the worst was behind us. 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.960 When it comes to the inflation crisis, pretty disingenuous, spare 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.760 and seeing is so many families are struggling with this 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.119 cost of living crisis. 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:05.520 Let's have a look. 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.520 While there are still challenges to meet, still problems to solve, 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.920 still people under pressure who need our help. When we 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.480 look at the economy today, we can see new reasons 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:22.120 for optimism, a new proof that the worst is behind us. 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:24.800 The worst is behind us. 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.400 Well, is this his new narrative that the cost of 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.760 living crisis is over? When he flies business class he 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.040 buys a clifftop mansion. I mean, I think if that's 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.320 his message, voter, is it going to punish him for 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:37.920 not understanding Steve Price? 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:38.560 What do you think? 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.000 Well, I think what we saw there and what we 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.240 can smell is an election. I mean, what the hell 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.760 is he doing? I mean that presentation yesterday was just 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.920 so bizarre, But I think it gives us a bit 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.480 of an indication of what's going to happen whenever that 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.880 election is called, and it's now more likely than not, 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:00.240 looking like maybe March. But he's going to lean heavy 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.920 on the two labor premiers that you mentioned at the 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.080 beginning of the program, Shari, and that is Peter malanowskis 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.560 in South Australia and Christopher Min's in New South Wales. 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.000 He knows they're popular. He knows that the middle voters 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.320 think that those two guys, a bit like Steve Brax 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.800 in Victoria a few years ago, are the type of 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.160 labor premier or the labor politician that you can trust 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.920 to look after you. So I think we really saw 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:28.480 yesterday of the start of the election campaign for twenty 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:32.040 twenty five. I just think Joe's mate was over there 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.280 pretending to be you know, I saw a cross between 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:37.720 Kamala Harrison and Donald Trump and getting everyone to clap 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.040 and cheer for him on a Sunday. How much would 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:41.680 they have had to pay those people to go there 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.080 on a Sunday for God's sake? 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:48.520 Yeah, I mean Joe Albanezey does no media interviews at 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:52.000 all for five days and then he turns up with 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.760 this US style appearance where he takes no questions. 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.200 That's great, he's our Donald Trump. You can trust him. 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.159 Look, I think obviously has been a pretty brick is 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.600 in week in the media for the PM, and that's clear. 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.359 Some of it is self inflicted, some of it is 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.080 just you know, the big storm that all politicians have 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:12.040 to go through all the time. And as Winston Churchill said, 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.600 a politician complaining about the press, it's like a sailor 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.520 complaining about the sea. But he's obviously decided to keep 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.320 his head down. I don't really have a problem with 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.119 anything he said. To be honest, I think clearly the 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.080 worst is behind us. The numbers speak for themselves that 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:26.760 that is an undeniable I. 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.080 Don't want to, you know, I don't want to interrupt you. 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.840 I should say I will disagree, because actually the effect 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.560 can be cumulative on people. So initially people had savings 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.119 still from the COVID pandemic period. Now they don't have 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.160 those savings anymore. A lot of people's mortgages are also 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.119 coming off the fixed rate, so it's actually not true 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.920 one it can be cumulative and other people are freshly 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:49.800 exposed to the pain. 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.080 That is absolutely fair enough. But he's talking about how 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:54.840 the economy is sitting, and he did say, I know 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:56.520 that people are doing it tough, and I, you know, 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.880 and again I'm in a very fortunate position. But we've 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.240 gone backwards as well in this thing, and it scares 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.040 of for Jesus out of me and it stresses me out, 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.680 makes me terrible to live with sometimes and gone. 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.720 Backwards except for album Clifftop Magical. 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:11.440 Well, you know, he's obviously in his personal states, he's 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.760 going just fine. But he did say that he knew 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.680 that people were still really struggling, but he was giving 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.920 them some hope and some reassurance. I don't think saying 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:19.639 we're all ruined. 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:20.399 We're all ruined. 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:21.679 You know, it's the end of the world as we 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:23.159 know it. That doesn't help the economy and it. 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.680 Doesn't help that, but it's just a bit of understanding 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.560 about what voters are going through. Well, he did make 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:33.160 that pledge to wipe twenty percent off the hex debt 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:34.440 of three million ausies. 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:35.840 Now this is a. 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:41.800 Sixteen billion dollar promise for just three million students, and 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.159 the PM was spooking that again today. Now, firstly, the 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.560 Coalition argues that tax payers are ready pay for sixty 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.040 percent of the cost of students education. But Steve, this 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:56.080 is a classic case of wealth redistribution. And by the way, 0:19:56.480 --> 0:20:00.560 why should all all Australians have to pay for the 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.680 debt of some students. Find some students are hard working, 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.959 but others are just lazy protesters. 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.879 Well, I've got to make an admission here. I have 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.680 a daughter who has a sixty five thousand dollars hex stet. 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.840 After five years studying to become a lawyer, she's now 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.280 got a really good job. She never complains about it. 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:24.439 She's not asked me for one cent. So let me 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:26.520 just put that out there. But I did think it 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:30.040 find it very intriguing that suddenly we're going to all 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:33.840 us other taxpayers and imagine all the taxpayers out there 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.240 that are not doing it such a good doing it 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.120 so well now who are really struggling. I don't think 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:41.760 they want to put their hand up and pay off 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.159 people's hex debt. That's a huge promise. It's going to 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.600 be very interesting now to see how Peter Dutton handles 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:51.080 this because obviously that is a promise. It's going to 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:53.560 sit well with younger voters, but I don't think it's 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.240 going to sit very well with middle Australia and older voters. 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.360 There's also the debt issue to the budget bottom line. 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:02.280 But Joe is about labor trying to win votes back 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:03.040 from the Green. 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:05.879 Absolutely correct, it is, and that's right. That's usually if 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:08.280 measures are off budget. It's because there are things like 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:10.600 government owned corporations that are meant to turn a profit, 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.720 so it's not actually a cost to the war chest 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.840 the treasury chess because that entity is meant to be 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:19.879 operating as a private entity or operating in the private sphere. 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:21.680 I don't see, and I agree with sauls Like and 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:24.040 Chris Richardson. I don't see how on earth you can 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.960 make that argument here. It's clearly a reguard action to 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.639 try to throw a bone to young voters who are 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:31.840 eyeing off the Greens. I think they might be able 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:33.520 to pick up a couple of seats maybe if they're 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:38.280 lucky in Brisbane. Joe Biden did this in twenty twenty. 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:41.399 Billion, and Joe Biden a couple of seats, a. 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:43.920 Lot of people and a lot of Joe Biden did well. 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:47.680