WEBVTT - Sharri | 30 April 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:03.119 Live on Sky News. 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:08.080 This is Sharry Good Evening. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.920 The alban Eazy campaign hits major hurdles just two days 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:16.320 out from the election, with ministers now embroiled in controversy. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:21.120 Political editors are even saying that Labor may be more vulnerable. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.960 Than first thought that in a moment also tonight, does 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.759 Labor actually believe in democracy? 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.240 Well, Pennywog hints it plans to revive the Voice to 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:35.440 Parliament and neo Nazis hit the campaign trail in Cawfield, Melbourne, 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:40.160 dressing up as Jews. I'll show you the full video 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:45.479 of these vile anti Semites shortly plus more bombshell accusations 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.519 against Nine Star journalist Nick McKenzie in his pursuit of 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:53.840 war hero Ben Robert Smith. Could these new text messages 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:59.360 be his undoing What's another massive show tonight? Michael Kroger, 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:05.120 Graham Rich and Holly Hughes, Bridget McKenzie and more. But first, 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.440 the Albanezy government is stumbling towards the finish line in 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.600 a disastrous final week of the campaign riddled with arrogance, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:18.720 deception and scandal from Pennywog's defiance of a democratic mandate 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:23.240 on the Voice to allegations of foreign interference to reckless 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:28.080 economic management jeopardizing our triple A credit rating. Well, the 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:32.440 spin is no longer papering over these cracks. Well, let's 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.720 start with Pennywong and the revelations today that she may 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.880 want to resurrect the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, never mind 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:44.520 that sixty percent of Australians voted against it. This is 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:49.520 breathtaking arrogance. The referendum result was one of the clearest 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:55.440 democratic rejections in modern Australian history. Yet the government, it seems, 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.400 doesn't want to accept the result, and Pennywog in a 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.680 soft in you casually dismisses the public's verdict. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.480 Look, I think we'll look back on it in ten 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.520 years time and it'll be like marriage equality, don't you reckon? 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.520 Like I always just say marriage equality, which took us 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.680 such a bloody fight to get that done. And I thought, 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.800 all this fuss, it'll become something and be like, people go, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:21.680 do we have an argument about that? They weren't even 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.880 like kids today or any even adults today, barely kind 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:27.600 of clock that it used to be an issue. 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.600 I mean, this isn't just tone deaf, it's contempt for 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:39.040 democracy intending to resurrect a policy Australians overwhelmingly voted against 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:43.880 reflects the elitist arrogance that defines this government. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.760 Albanezy needs to recognize so that. 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.720 Penny Wang has given him the worst day of his 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:50.799 campaign so far. 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.519 Now there's this questionable claim. 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.040 I don't believe it, but it's a claim the media 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.720 keeps prosecuting that she is the most. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.480 Popular politician in the country. 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.880 But it's curious because if this were the case, well, 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.480 wouldn't the Albin Easy roacho have featured her more heavily 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.960 this campaign. The reality is Pennywong thinks she's a better 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.600 mediate performer than she actually is, and she can't be 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.639 trusted to stay on message. And if this is the case, 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:26.000 imagine what she's saying in meetings with other countries. Pennywong 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:30.080 is notorious for not doing hard interviews, but to do 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:35.000 this soft chit chat with the Batuta advocate during an 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:39.480 election campaign in the final high stakes week while Peter 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.800 Darton took full advantage of her comments. 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.360 Today you see Pennywong out there at the moment talking 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.480 about the fact that the voice is inevitable, so under 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.400 a labor Green's government. We see this secret plan to 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.760 legislate the Voice and Penny Wong's let that cat out 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.200 of the bag. Now people will be opposed to that 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.840 because they thought they sent a very clear message to 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.800 the Prime Minister that they didn't bought the voice. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.640 Now you can agree or disagree with the Voice, but 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:10.320 the point is there was a referendum, Australians voted against 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:14.840 it and having a blatant to disregard for democracy is 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:19.800 more in line with communist regimes tyrannies on autocracies. And 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.560 when I asked about this today, the Prime Minister didn't offer 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:24.600 an adequate explanation. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:26.720 He sort of cracked a joke. 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.960 Well, that's not what the Foreign Minister said at all, 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:34.159 and she's right here, so probably not a great idea 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.640 to verbal Penny one while she's sitting there. I'll just 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.400 give you that. I'll just give you that tip for free. 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.440 Ask getting you the cabinet colleagues. I'll explain to you 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.920 why that's a bad idea. 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.640 Well, that will be easy. I'll give you a tip 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:50.280 for free. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.640 You can't pretend she didn't say what she said when 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:58.800 it was an audio recorded interview. And then there's Clara 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:04.520 O'neilustralian Electoral Commission has referred allegations that the Hubet Association, 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:09.200 apparently linked to the Chinese Communist Party, planned to supply 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:13.679 her campaign with volunteers. And this comes after the video 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:18.960 admission from Monique Ryan's own volunteers yesterday. Now, if this 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:23.960 is all true, it's deeply troubling. Australians shouldn't have to 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:29.040 wonder where campaign influence ends and foreign interests begin. As 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.880 Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Patterson says, this could be 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.039 a serious national security matter. 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.320 It's especially surprising that Clara O'Neil has found herself caught 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.000 up in this because as the former Minister for Home Affairs, 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.520 no one in the Federal Parliament should better understand the 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.200 risks of foreign interference than her. No one would have 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.680 been briefed more often and in a more detailed way 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:54.200 than her. She was previously responsible for ASIO and so 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:55.880 for her campaign to be caught up and this is 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:56.839 especially troubling. 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:03.080 And then there's Albanezi himself, who is substance free and 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.479 spin deep, and he was today press by Andrew clonel 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.920 on his onslought of lies during the campaign. He insists 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:16.640 everything is hanky dory when the most reputable global ratings 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.200 agency has put his government on notice that our tria 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:21.880 A credit rating is at risk. 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.680 And why S and P is. 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.440 Concerned about structural spending that's built in spending. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.880 They're also concerned about over. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:35.760 One hundred billion dollars in hidden off budget spending and 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.400 the unsustainable debt which is going to hit a trillion 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:44.600 dollars next year. Now a downgrade would hit every Australian 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.840 with a mortgage, a small business loan or even a 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:53.360 credit card. And this isn't hypothetical. Alban Easy is officially 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.880 on notice, and then it gets worse with Labour's likely 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.320 co conspirators in the case of a hung parliament. Green's 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:05.200 leader Adam band is already laying out his demands on Gaza, 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:11.160 on so called Islamophobia, and of course on Israel. If 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:15.040 we thought the Albertezy government has been hostile towards the 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:19.920 only Jewish nation in the world, will wait until it 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.520 co governs with the far left, anti Semitic Greens. And 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:29.480 all this while the Teals are imploding. Sophie Scamps tried 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.760 to exploit the tragic death of a young NROL player 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:38.720 by falsely blaming it on climate change, and she was 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:43.119 forced into an apology today, an embarrassing one to Keith 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:47.760 Titmas's parents. But sorry, it seems, was the hardest word 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.920 for her to say. Her apology, in my view, was 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:55.880 half hearted, bungled and defensive, and it also ended with 0:07:56.040 --> 0:08:00.240 Sophie Scamps hanging up the phone on Ben Fordham when 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.440 he didn't want to hear her ramble on about climate 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:04.520 change anymore. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:09.640 If there's any distress or upset, deeply, deeply sorry, that 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.960 was never any attention my intention at all, of course, 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:17.080 loved best wishes and deep apologies if there was any well, 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:22.440 if sorry, she is upset, and it went on. 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.720 It got worse. The ending was worse. Now this was 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.000 a shocker. Now. 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.560 Sophie Scamps's top backer, Simon Holmes the Court, has also 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:34.640 been caught out launching condescending sexist attacks on women. 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:36.880 He dubbed Jane Hume. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:42.360 The nanny and a silly woman. He called Hume, Anne Rustin, 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:47.840 Michaylia Cash and Maurice Payne crumb Maiden. They're the most 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:52.200 senior women in the Liberal Party. These are the sexist 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:56.560 remarks from the spiritual leader of the Teals, which supposedly 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:01.960 ran on women's issues and integrity and speaking of hypocrisy, Well, 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:06.440 let's return to Pennywog because this is a classic. Now 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.480 you'd presume that Pennywang wouldn't be a great fan of 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:13.520 Independent MP Day, who won the seat of Fowler from 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:18.680 Pennywog's fellow mean girl, Christina Kinneerly. And so Pennywog has 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:24.760 criticized Dilie for preferencing a candidate accused of racism. She said, 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.960 it's concerning that Dilly is more committed to supporting the 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:32.720 Liberals than standing up to this racism. So that's Pennywong 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.600 there again, saying it's concerning that Dilly is more committed 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.840 to supporting the Liberals through her preferencing, through her preferences, 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:45.679 than standing up to this racism. But Labor is preferencing 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:50.160 the Greens who've repeatedly been accused of racism and anti semitism, 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.720 and they're preferencing the Greens in almost every seat across 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:54.360 the country. 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.600 Well, where is Pennywog's outrage about that? 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:02.960 Of course there is none, because she has no moral clarity, consistency, 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:04.280 or integrity. 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:05.520 This is all. 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:12.640 Dirty politics, and that dirty politics is working for labor. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.680 The Prime Minister was cocky and arrogant today as he 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:21.160 cracked jokes in response to serious questions about our nation 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.800 at the National Press Club. And he's expecting to win 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.800 big on Saturday, and so he doesn't think he has 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:32.440 to properly answer questions from pesky press gallery journalists. And 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.080 even when he was pressed on his record as Prime 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.920 Minister and his inability to tell the truth, he just 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.360 couldn't answer adequately. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.200 You said we'd have cheaper mortgages. We don't. You said 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.120 an election night you'd commit to the ULARU statement in full. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.440 You haven't. And you said when you're messed up you 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:55.000 would admit fault. Now you say Peter Dutton is seeking 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.840 to Americanize the health system. He's promising to match your 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:58.920 bulk billing funding. 0:10:59.280 --> 0:10:59.920 Some of you are. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.200 It's basically say he's going to abolish Medicare you say 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.120 his nuclear plan will be funded by cuts? You're renewable 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.840 subsidies and rewiring the nation aren't paid for by cuts. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.280 You must might come up here, Andrew, And my question is. 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.719 How why do you have to exaggerate in this campaign. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.480 Why can't you win this election by telling the truth. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:26.360 We are absolutely telling Australians as Peter Dutton did on 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.280 Sunday night in the Channel sevent debate. 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.920 And Albineasy also won't say whether the nation is better 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.880 off after three years of his government. 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.480 Our Australians better off now than they were before you're elected. 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:47.040 I'll tell you what the right answer to that is, 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.880 and that is that Australians would be seven two hundred 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.920 dollars worse off if Peter Duttner got his way. 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.319 Good debating tactic, taking question, but it's not the question. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:04.040 And got his way. That is what Peter Dutton has done. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.559 Yeah, and Mark Riley from Channel seven was right there, 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.640 that was just a debating tactic. The Prime Minister, of 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.280 course couldn't answer the question. 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.760 And that is the key question. Are you better off? 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.679 That's what voters will ask themselves when they enter the 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.800 ballot box. And the reality is Albanezi took a small target, 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:27.280 no risk agenda to the last election, but then sprang 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:32.079 radical left ring reforms on the country without a mandate, 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:36.559 think sky high immigration, a shift in foreign policy on Israel, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:42.640 environmental extremism, backflips on the Stage three tax cuts and 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.200 now taxing unrealized capital gains tax. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:48.680 This was all kept secret. 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:52.840 From voters before the last election in a calculated deception 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.960 and it's astonishing they've got away with it, and there 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.439 is genuine anger about this and the cost of living 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:04.440 broken promises too with mainstream Australians. It's why Labour is 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:08.920 most vulnerable in suburban areas. The Finn Review's political editor 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.520 Phil Couri rites today that seat by seat polling by 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:17.200 JWS Research backs the internal findings of both major parties 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:22.040 that a certain demographic of seats out of suburban mortgage 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:27.480 belt electorates with blue collar workforces, substantial commute times, high 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.280 cost of living sensitivities, and in some cases high crime 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.920 rates are behaving differently to the rest of the electorate. 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:40.160 And The Australian's political editor Simon Benson says that while 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:45.240 a hung parliament with a minority Labor government is most likely, 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.320 he says there could be major surprises, and he says 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.520 there are some parts of the country that are buying 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.720 Peter Dutton's message and not buying labors. 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.040 The question is whether. 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.400 It will be enough for the coalition to make the 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:04.320 inroads it needs. So when the Prime Minister stands at 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.360 the press club and dodgers questions and cracks jokes and 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.640 refuses to say whether our country is better off, it's 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.120 because he believes he's already won. He doesn't think he 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:20.160 owes anyone an explanation. But his hubris could come back 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.760 to bite him. After three years of broken promises and 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:28.880 radical reform, Australians just might deliver him a protest vote 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:36.040 that's strong enough to knock him off his perch. Now, 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.960 the Albaneze government is trying its best to avoid speaking 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:43.920 about anti Semitism, and yet it's erupting in polling booths. 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.920 Two examples Today in the suburb of Cowfield in Melbourne, 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.360 residents woke up to these disgusting flyers handed out by 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:55.960 the National Socialist Network. It's a neo Nazi, white supremacist party. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.000 Have a look and as you can see, the Liberal 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.000 Party apparently he gives the Jews everything they want. Of course, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.680 that is not a Liberal Party fly it's the neo 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:05.560 Nazi flyer. 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:07.280 But it gets worse. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.080 Neo Nazis dressed up as Jews confronted voters at. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.440 A polling booth in Q with anti Semitic messages. 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.840 I would Australia need a dependent I mean, God. 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.200 On Israel lawns free speech. 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.440 Criticizing Jews is another hollass. 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:23.640 It's another shout. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:24.760 We can't allow them. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:30.720 Anti lost jail hall antisis to get criminals smiling, criminals 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:31.120 of kids. 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.320 Anti slies are the really making juice feel safe. 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:35.240 It's really all that matters. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.000 And we need to keep Jews free money because we 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:37.920 know the Jews little. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:42.120 Short on cash, right, so good party website, these alpholsies. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.760 So many anti Semitic tropes there. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.800 It's of course highly offensive to the Jewish community in 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.520 that electorate and beyond. Can you imagine having to confront 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.080 that those neo Nazis as you turn up to vote. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.040 And they were also happy to parade their hatred on 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:18.480 the side of a busy road. Now their posters say 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:22.920 that it's authorized by Joel Davis. So this is the 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.240 same group who marched on the Victorian Parliament late last 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:30.280 year calling for Jews to leave Australia. 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:35.840 By man. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:36.440 The man. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.760 I mean, it's chilling that this UnAustralian anti Semitic group 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.720 is now turning up at polling booths to try influence 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.360 the election and your vote. Now they are on the 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.880 far right, then there's the radical Greens on the far left. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.840 There was also news today that Jewish Labor and p 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:59.520 Josh Burns had his poster defaced with a red star 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.280 of David A right to discuss this and more, Let's 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.840 bring in former Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger and 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:07.520 labor legend Graham Richardson. 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.520 Welcome to you both. It's exciting, it's election week. 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.480 I can't wait to get your official predictions in a moment. 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.400 But just sticking with this for a minute, Michael, I mean, 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.560 this is horrific. This is the same neo Nazi group that, 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.800 as we just heard there shouted freedom for the white man, 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.560 the Jews must go, and now they're dressing up as 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:29.480 Rabbis and Jews on a polling booth in Corefield. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:36.640 Yeah. Sure, it's absolutely disgusting. But I'm sorry, I think 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:42.520 you have to say this that Jewish hatred, anti Semitism, 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:47.879 hatred of Benjamin Etniah of Israel and Israeli government have 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:52.160 been licensed by the federal Labor government through their weakness, 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:58.639 through all of the things they've done, these extremist Prohamus 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:04.440 disgusting demonstrations parading in many cases as demonstrations to free 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.600 Palestine when we know their riddle with Jewish hatred. We've 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.600 seen the flags of terrorist organizations in some of these demonstrations, 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:15.440 the weakness of our university leaders, the appalling behavior at 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:20.040 Sydney Uni, monash Uni, the ANU, I mean, a weak 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:25.520 government which has basically allowed this to flourish in this country. 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.520 And the person the head of this snake is Alban Easy. 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.359 I'm not saying he's anti Semitic himself, but through his 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.560 weak action, the weak action of his government and the 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:39.400 terrible things that they've done, the subliminal message has been 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.600 to people that you can get away with this Jewish hatred, 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.040 and this is the latest incarnation of it, and it's disgusting. 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:48.840 It's a sickness. I've never seen it in my life 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:52.280 in this country before. Social cohesion has been immensely and 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.080 maybe permanently damaged under this labor government. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:57.720 I couldn't agree more. Michael Kroger. 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:00.960 Now let's go back to talking about what I was 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:05.119 just speaking about in my opening remarks that Albanezey can't 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.679 answer the question posed by Mark Riley that Australians are 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.600 better off. He can't say that they are better off 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:13.280 now than they were three. 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.400 Years ago when he was elected. 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:16.640 Rich. 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.359 This is the crux surely of what this election comes 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:20.720 down to. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.640 Well, well, I think that the Australians can say they're 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:30.080 certainly not worse off. Come on said, of course, no, I. 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:30.720 Don't come. 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:33.880 It's they're worse off now. 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.840 I can see no reason why Australians would say they're 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.720 worse off. I can see plenty of reasons why they 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:43.960 can say are there as well of? And I think 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.000 that's where most of them think. Most people are not 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:49.960 walking around unhappy. This is not an unhappy country. This 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.560 is you know, You've got to remember, if this was 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:57.040 all really terrible and everyone hated the government, then the 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:58.600 government would go in a flash. 0:19:58.720 --> 0:19:59.399 But it won't. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.160 It won't because that's not the case. That in the end, 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.520 I think people think that the Albanesi government's been doing okay. 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.720 I'm not suggesting they think it's wonderful, but they think 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.440 it's it's enough to get half a tick, and that's 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:15.600 about you they ever going to get in politics. 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.720 I think you'd be very hard pressed to find a 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.600 single Australian who said they were better off now than 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:25.680 they were three years ago. And the reason the baseballouts 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.560 aren't out, although they are out in some areas, but 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:32.160 if they aren't out right across the country, I would 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:35.959 say that's a failure of the coalition to pin the 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:39.480 cost of living crisis on alban Easy. But Michael, do 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:41.399 you want to respond to what Richard just said just 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:45.560 there about the fact that Australians you know, aren't worse 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.280 off now? Of course they are. All the data points 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.040 to it. The interest rate rises, that how grocery prices 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:55.679 have gone up by around forty percent, power bills have 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:56.120 gone up. 0:20:56.160 --> 0:21:01.199 Michael, Well, I've known Graham for thirty years. We used 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.600 to do channel line election courages together in the late 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:08.400 eighties and he rarely gets things wrong. Occasionally he does, 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:12.240 and tonight Graham might be one of the occasions. Of course, 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:14.359 we're all better off under the Albany's. The government's been 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:17.720 a spanking success. But show the big point. The bigger 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.719 point is this, Why does albanias he get away with this? 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.240 Why does charmers get away with things? It's because the 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:29.320 press hold them to a lower, lower standard of account 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.000 on economics. They basically think that Albo doesn't know much 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.480 about economics and Charmers has just got an arts degree 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.480 he doesn't really know. So when they make blunders and mistakes, 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:39.440 people just say, oh, that's just Albo and Charmers. They're 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:41.920 not a Costello or a Howard or a Keating or 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:44.480 a Hawk. So all these young journals of these press 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:49.520 conferences are just more interested in social policy than economic policy. 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:52.000 But Charmers would never have got away with the stuff 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:55.359 he got away with today if Lorry Oaks, Michelle Gratt 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:59.560 and Paul Kelly were part of the traveling press pack. So, 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:03.200 for example, Charmer said today he's got the debt down. Well, 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.840 not on the traveling press pack, but Chalmers said today 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:10.280 he's got the debt down. In last year's budget it 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:15.080 showed that when Charmers became treasurer, gross debt was eight 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:18.479 ninety five billion, and this year's budget shows that at 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:21.520 the end of this decade it'll be one trillion, two 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:24.920 hundred and twenty three billion gross stet Jim is going 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:28.320 up three hundred and twenty eight billion on your watch, 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:31.280 my friend. But not a single journalist, I mean Phil 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:34.400 Corey in the finn has got onto this. I think 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:38.520 Truey got onto it yesterday on Sky, but the Fairfax Press, 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:42.040 the ABC show absolutely no interest in economics. Charmers is 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:46.359 a political liar and a Charlatan par excellence. But people 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:48.640 just think, look it's Jimmy. He's trying his best. He's 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:51.240 not that good. He's not really an economist, so if 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:53.399 he gets things wrong, don't hold the term he's a 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:58.360 nice guy. Costello or Keating or Howard or Morrison, Freedenberg 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:02.280 and you know Wayne Swan. These people are be hung, 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:05.160 drawn and courted if they'd got numbers wrong like that 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:09.560 and just light out right about the budget figures and 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:11.840 no one asked them about it, so they're held to 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:14.320 a lower standard of account. That's one on cost of living. 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:15.159 He gets away with it. 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:18.560 Yeah, I think there is something to be said that 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:21.080 the media treatment has been softer. 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:22.760 We've spoken about that on the show. 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:26.280 Now, Richard, you might have known Albow when he worked 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:29.720 at Pancakes on the Rocks back in the cety in 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:30.680 the seventies, I think. 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:32.879 But this is a very good story in the fin. 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:36.760 Review today, so Albanezy has put forward the notion that 0:23:37.400 --> 0:23:41.560 hospitality businesses don't need to pass penalty rates onto consumers. 0:23:42.000 --> 0:23:45.080 He says that they don't need to because that's what 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:48.479 happened when he worked at Pancakes on the Rocks, except 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:52.040 that the fin review then tracked down the menu from 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:55.719 when Albanezi did work at Pancakes on the Rocks, and 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:59.120 of course at the very bottom the menu shows that 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:04.840 they did have surcharges on public holidays, and there it 0:24:04.920 --> 0:24:09.600 is rich. You know, this might be a small example, 0:24:09.640 --> 0:24:12.919 but again it just goes to this build up of 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:15.320 lies from alban Easy. 0:24:16.480 --> 0:24:19.560