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Michael Thompson: Welcome to a new weekly segment from Fear and Greed

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Michael Thompson: that we put together during the federal election. I'm Michael

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Michael Thompson: Thompson and hello Sean Aylmer.

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Sean Aylmer: Hello, Michael.

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Michael Thompson: Sean, the goal here is to run through the major

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Michael Thompson: stories from the election campaign, some of the promises being

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Michael Thompson: made by the major parties, perhaps perhaps poke a bit

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Michael Thompson: of fun at what's going on?

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Sean Aylmer: Perhaps.

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Michael Thompson: Maybe. Look, we are calling it Fear and Greed, Politics

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Michael Thompson: and Stuff. Gives us fairly broad range.

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Sean Aylmer: A broad range of what we want to do!

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Michael Thompson: That's right. Today, today though, we are going to talk

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Michael Thompson: about the basics of the election. So let's kick it off.

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Michael Thompson: What do we need to know?

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Sean Aylmer: Okay, third of May, that's the election date. If you

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Sean Aylmer: want to and haven't enrolled, you have until the seventh

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Sean Aylmer: of April. If you want to nominate, you have until

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Sean Aylmer: the tenth of April.

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Michael Thompson: Can you imagine if I just went and nominated.

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Sean Aylmer: Well, the UK always had the greatest nominees. Favorite, Count

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Sean Aylmer: Binface was my favorite the last election. Count Binface actually

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Sean Aylmer: used to be Lord Buckethead and actually campaign as long

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Sean Aylmer: ago as Margaret Thatcher. Really yeah when again, Rishi Sinak. Anyway,

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Sean Aylmer: we digress, We digress. If that didn't take long, did

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Sean Aylmer: early voting from twenty second of April. Postal voting ends

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Sean Aylmer: thirtieth of April.

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Michael Thompson: Okay, key facts, think things that we can use in

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Michael Thompson: trivia and okay.

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Sean Aylmer: So the electoral roll seven hundred thousand more people in

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Sean Aylmer: twenty twenty five than twenty twenty two, about seven thousand

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Sean Aylmer: polling places, one hundred plus overseas voting centers, thousand staff

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Sean Aylmer: we'll staff the and the polls on the day. Two

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Sean Aylmer: hundred and forty thousand vests. We discussed this in one

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Sean Aylmer: of the shows. It's a lot of ves. Two hundred

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Sean Aylmer: and fifty thousand pencils. Don't know why you need to

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Sean Aylmer: have any vests when you only need two hundred and

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Sean Aylmer: fifty thousand pencils. Quite we're all going to steal one

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Sean Aylmer: of those pencils. Two hundred and fifty thousand lengths of string,

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Sean Aylmer: ninety thousand transports containers, four thousand rolls of Tampa proof

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Sean Aylmer: tape in eighty thousand ballot boxes.

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Michael Thompson: Michael, What I love most about this, Sean is that

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Michael Thompson: for a very brief period of time every three years,

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Michael Thompson: the Australian Electoral Commission becomes one of the biggest employers

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Michael Thompson: in the country. With that one hundred thousand temporary staff.

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Michael Thompson: They need them right across the country. They particularly need

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Michael Thompson: them in regional areas, and so suddenly there's single day

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Michael Thompson: employment opportunities or kind of for a few weeks on

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Michael Thompson: either side, and so suddenly there is an opportunity to

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Michael Thompson: make a little bit of money on the side, and

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Michael Thompson: particularly in those regional areas where they need to staff

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Michael Thompson: all of the polling places. Now, Sean, what are the

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Michael Thompson: polls telling us? Just how close is it?

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Sean Aylmer: At the moment it is closed. So for a while

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Sean Aylmer: the opposition has been ahead on a two party preferred

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Sean Aylmer: basis fifty one to forty nine percent. Now that's shifting

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Sean Aylmer: somewhat towards the government. Anthony Albernizi has been ahead as

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Sean Aylmer: preferred Prime Minister over Peter Dunton, and that's important because

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Sean Aylmer: people vote for someone they like. Now, Parlan's one hundred

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Sean Aylmer: and fifty one electorates. Currently ALP has seventy seven members.

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Sean Aylmer: He needs seventy six to form government. It's got seventy seven,

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Sean Aylmer: Opposition's got fifty three. Now there's a bunch of minority parties.

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Sean Aylmer: There's Greens, Center Alliance, Cutters, Australian Parties and thirteen independent members.

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Sean Aylmer: But when you're at seventy seven and you need seventy six,

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Sean Aylmer: the LP only need to lose one or two to

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Sean Aylmer: not be a majority government. But when the opposition's only

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Sean Aylmer: got fifty three, it's a big ask to suggest they

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Sean Aylmer: will win more than the LP. That's why everyone thinks

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Sean Aylmer: it will be a minority ALP government, so they will

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Sean Aylmer: rely on the Greens or on some of the independents

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Sean Aylmer: to rule the House of Representatives. That's what everyone seems

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Sean Aylmer: to think will happen. Since Federation, we've only ever once

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Sean Aylmer: had a minority government. That was Julia Gillard's government ten

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Sean Aylmer: years ago.

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Michael Thompson: Or pop quiz. Do you remember the four independents that

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Michael Thompson: both parties were negotiating with.

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Sean Aylmer: I'm not going to remember it. I mean the guys

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Sean Aylmer: from the rob Rob Oakshot. Oakshot, that's a big one.

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Michael Thompson: Yep, mid North coast of New South Wales.

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Sean Aylmer: Bob Katter, then Bob Katter Yeah.

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Michael Thompson: From Queensland. He went with Tony Abbott.

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Sean Aylmer: That's two. The other guy from up there, New South

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Sean Aylmer: Wales again.

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Michael Thompson: From I think Inland to New South Wales around Tamworth, Newland,

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Michael Thompson: Tony Windsor and the last one Tasmania I think Tasmania

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Michael Thompson: anti Pokie campaigner Andrew Wilkie.

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Sean Aylmer: Wilkie. Yeah, of course, fair enough.

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Michael Thompson: Anyway, I don't know actually why that even matters anymore.

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Michael Thompson: That is ancient history. Now, Sean, key issues. Give us

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Michael Thompson: a quick rundown.

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Sean Aylmer: Cost can expect number one, cost living number two, cost

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Sean Aylmer: living number three, cost living number four. I think supermarkets,

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Sean Aylmer: energy prices, stuff like that. Then we have the economy,

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Sean Aylmer: US tariffs actually is probably underlaying US tariff and what's

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Sean Aylmer: going on the global economy big one there, defense spending

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Sean Aylmer: and housing is the other big one. So I would

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Sean Aylmer: go cost of living, and part of that is energy,

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Sean Aylmer: part of that's housing, part of that supermarket prices, economy,

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Sean Aylmer: US tariff's defense benning.

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Michael Thompson: There we go, Sean. That's a rundown of what to

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Michael Thompson: expect over the election campaign. Thank you very much.

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Sean Aylmer: Thank you. Michael.

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Michael Thompson: Join us every week during the campaign for our election coverage.

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Michael Thompson: I'm Michael Thompson. And this is fear and greed, politics

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Michael Thompson: and stuff.