Speaker 1: You're on the air with Jason Lauren Clints here as well.
Speaker 1: We're doing a thanks so mates, it shall ready express.
Speaker 1: Let's say hello to our next guests.
Speaker 2: Our next guest has come a long way since being
Speaker 2: a Queensland Police officer. He's been in government under Howard Habit,
Speaker 2: Turnbull and Morrison, and he could very well next be
Speaker 2: in government under himself.
Speaker 3: I think we've got a hell of a journey left
Speaker 3: in front of us, and the campaign can throw up
Speaker 3: all sorts of audities.
Speaker 2: Please welcome to the show leader of the Liberal Party's.
Speaker 1: Way to the House, Morning morning.
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 6: Is this out of like your normal rum? I feel
Speaker 6: like you're always very serious. In coming into an FM
Speaker 6: radio station could be a.
Speaker 5: Bit rogue for you.
Speaker 3: Well, you just don't know what's going to be the
Speaker 3: next question. You guys are pretty loose, so it could
Speaker 3: go wrong pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: I was I was going to say, do you what
Speaker 1: part of the police were you in back in the day?
Speaker 3: I worked in uniform obviously, and then I was in
Speaker 3: the prison squad, so investigating jail's jail offenses. I was
Speaker 3: in the sex offender squad. I was in the drug Squad,
Speaker 3: the National Crime Authority, so covert surveillance.
Speaker 7: Here, I say, here in Victoria, we've had a few
Speaker 7: issues here and there. Have you got any advice to
Speaker 7: just center on on how to tackle the crime crisis.
Speaker 3: Stop stop supporting the cfm AU running right across the city,
Speaker 3: and start banning machetes and getting serious about putting in
Speaker 3: place boundaries. I mean, people need to understand if they're
Speaker 3: breaking the law and you're committing a serious crime. If
Speaker 3: you're breaking me to someone's home, I just think that's
Speaker 3: your sanctuary. And if you're there with your kids, or
Speaker 3: your grandmother is having her home invaded and cars stolen
Speaker 3: like that, that is a big event in someone's life
Speaker 3: and that can be life change. You've had friends who
Speaker 3: have had home invasion or home had a home invasion.
Speaker 3: They essentially had to sell the house because they just couldn't.
Speaker 5: You know, I can understand that.
Speaker 3: I just couldn't go home to that house.
Speaker 5: And you know that's we need to be tougher on it,
Speaker 5: don't we agree.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: As a former police officer, do you empathize with the
Speaker 6: police who are you must who are out there chasing
Speaker 6: these criminals, catching them, doing all the paperwork, doing all
Speaker 6: the hard yards and then they see them back out
Speaker 6: on the street and they're catching them again the next week.
Speaker 3: Well, and it's part of the reason I got into
Speaker 3: politics as well, because I worked in the sex offender
Speaker 3: Squad and I had a really strong interest in child
Speaker 3: protection and dealt with a lot of victims of rape.
Speaker 3: And you'd go to court and the court would impose
Speaker 3: a penalty which was just a joke, and you think, well,
Speaker 3: how am I going to change this? And so that
Speaker 3: was a big motivation for me to get into politics.
Speaker 3: But I do feel for the police because it's worse
Speaker 3: now that it's ever been. And in some cases, you know,
Speaker 3: criminals are out committing offenses whilst the police are still
Speaker 3: at the station of the watchhouse, crazy doing the paperwork,
Speaker 3: and you know they're not keeping their heads above water.
Speaker 7: Could ask you a quick question, it's on the crime crisis,
Speaker 7: about your state colleague here who leads the Liberal Party,
Speaker 7: Brad Baton. There's a story in the Herald Sun today
Speaker 7: about at the heart of the crime crisis last week
Speaker 7: when Cindra Allen was dealing with all sorts of problems.
Speaker 7: He was on a cruise and State parliamentary colleagues are
Speaker 7: a little bit concerned about his absence.
Speaker 4: Are you do you share that sentiment.
Speaker 3: Well, I've only met Brad a couple of times, but
Speaker 3: what I've seen from him and when I've heard him
Speaker 3: speak publicly, I think he has a real genuine aspect
Speaker 3: to his nature. And I think he's obviously got you know,
Speaker 3: like me, with a policing background, and also he's had
Speaker 3: a small business background, so he understands, you know, the
Speaker 3: good and bad of society. He's taken a holiday and
Speaker 3: people can criticize him for that, but I think he
Speaker 3: would be a great premier of this state, and I
Speaker 3: think he would actually be serious about dealing with the
Speaker 3: law and order crisis, the crime issues that you know
Speaker 3: facing Victorian's at the moment.
Speaker 1: Tell you what you got pressure on you when you're
Speaker 1: in politic politics and you want to take a holiday.
Speaker 1: Tommy Tait on the Gold Coast has just copped it
Speaker 1: because he was overseas for the league and he wasn't
Speaker 1: back for the cyclone. Obviously we saw scomo Butcher are
Speaker 1: going to Hawaii. How does your family go with the
Speaker 1: pressure of a campaign.
Speaker 3: Well, they're okay, but I want to come back to
Speaker 3: Tom Tait in the second that it could have gone
Speaker 3: gone so much worse for him in Vegas. I mean
Speaker 3: Tom taate loose in Vegas Rugby league players. There could
Speaker 3: have been all sorts of hangout celebrating home. I just
Speaker 3: think the fact that he got home in.
Speaker 4: One pieces todate, it's a minor miracle.
Speaker 3: That would have been an interesting flight home for Carl.
Speaker 3: I suspect you've.
Speaker 1: Got three kids. Surely you know the family knows to
Speaker 1: be able to join sometimes and it's like, hey, I
Speaker 1: can't come to the birthday dinner tonight, I've got to
Speaker 1: be in Canberra.
Speaker 3: The worst part of this job is that, you know,
Speaker 3: it's the impact on your family and your kids and
Speaker 3: your cousins and you know, siblings who have got the
Speaker 3: same surname, and and you know there's good and bad
Speaker 3: that goes with that. But if you're in a public
Speaker 3: role in the spotlight, you know as you guys are
Speaker 3: as well. I mean, your kids live with your surname,
Speaker 3: and they live with people's opinions and their conscripts. I
Speaker 3: mean they haven't signed up to no exactly.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing a clip of you on sixty Minutes
Speaker 1: the other week, soying, you guys have to get protection
Speaker 1: for the kids at some point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've had death threats and all sorts of stuff
Speaker 3: and police at school, and you know, it's crazy. But
Speaker 3: I've got to say, they just you know, they've never
Speaker 3: complained and they've always harry. One time said Dad, you
Speaker 3: know it's so embarrassing that police are at school. I said, no,
Speaker 3: one will know that. They probably just looks like another teacher.
Speaker 3: He said, they're the only people walking around with bum
Speaker 3: bags at the school day.
Speaker 6: So Dad's doing embarrassed their kids a lot. Jason's very
Speaker 6: guilty of that.
Speaker 1: The boys asked me to park around the corner now
Speaker 1: and they'll walk to me.
Speaker 5: Now, when is this federal election happening?
Speaker 6: I feel like we've been hearing about it and hearing
Speaker 6: about it and hearing it about about it.
Speaker 5: Do you know the date?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 5: What heads up? Do you get?
Speaker 3: No, I'll be the last person to know the date.
Speaker 3: That it's not going to call me. So it was.
Speaker 3: I think it was scheduled for the twelfth of April,
Speaker 3: and then obviously the cyclone in Brisbane pushed it back.
Speaker 3: It can only really be one of three dates. The
Speaker 3: third the tenth or the seventeenth of May, so you know.
Speaker 1: When you got anything on those weekends that you prefer.
Speaker 3: My dad's eightieth birthday, we were planning on the on
Speaker 3: the third of May weekend. So I'm unpopular in the
Speaker 3: family group at the moment, but we'll sort of.
Speaker 6: And we asked him and I said, is it going
Speaker 6: to be this week? And he goes, no, it's my birthday.
Speaker 6: I'm not calling it on my own bed.
Speaker 1: Elbow, So I was just going to say, just on
Speaker 1: that You're and albert A text each other. Remember we
Speaker 1: used to get Scomo in and or albo be in
Speaker 1: and would all text a photo to Scomo from elbows.
Speaker 3: Look like him with him pretty well, and he's spoken
Speaker 3: publicly about that as well. We can have a chat
Speaker 3: and send a text or you know, if there's a
Speaker 3: national security issue or something he wants to work together on,
Speaker 3: you know, always happy to do.
Speaker 4: What do you admire about Albow?
Speaker 7: Then?
Speaker 3: Well, I think anyone who's come into public life in
Speaker 3: the modern age, particularly with social media, is you know,
Speaker 3: if you're prepared to stick your hand up and you
Speaker 3: believe we live in a great country and you want
Speaker 3: to fight for that I think that's a you know,
Speaker 3: something to be respected. And I also you know he's
Speaker 3: got a great love and affection for particularly his son
Speaker 3: and the rabbit. And the rabbit that's right, pretty friendless.
Speaker 6: Other one, there is that famous photo of him when
Speaker 6: he became the Prime Minister and the paparazzi got him
Speaker 6: the next morning on his doorstep in his rabbit.
Speaker 7: Is the question, go Lauren, he's got the politics major Lauren?
Speaker 4: Sorry should I say.
Speaker 1: Laura Laurenates? What's your question for Peter Dutton?
Speaker 5: Peter Dutton? What do you sleep in?
Speaker 3: What do I sleep in? Is this information people at
Speaker 3: this time of morning.
Speaker 6: Well, I'll never forget Scott Morrison looking me deadpan in
Speaker 6: the eye and telling me about his boxer shorts.
Speaker 5: And I regretted the question.
Speaker 3: I have to I have to. I have to sleep
Speaker 3: with the shirt on. I can't sleep with the shirt off.
Speaker 3: And I don't like the air conditioning blowing on me,
Speaker 3: so I have this huge fight at home about it.
Speaker 5: That's very young Queensland air conditioning on.
Speaker 3: I turn it off, so everyone's up and down in
Speaker 3: the night. And yeah, and then we're just shorts of mondays.
Speaker 1: Our money was his t shirt full flannel that we thought,
Speaker 1: but it'd be a campaign T Shirt's it'll be a
Speaker 1: campaign T.
Speaker 4: Shirt, the Liberal party T shirt. That'd be romantic.
Speaker 3: Liberal.
Speaker 5: I can tell you that some of those no for boxes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll give you some nover.
Speaker 5: Jason Laurence socks to sleep in.
Speaker 1: I could want to bid the other night woke up
Speaker 1: with a rash and maybe givehim a watch. Hey, Peter
Speaker 1: Dutton's on the air with us this morning. We're going
Speaker 1: to take a quick break and then we put together
Speaker 1: some speed dating questions. We thought, let's get to know
Speaker 1: you as well as we can within sixty seconds. We'll
Speaker 1: do it next dear on nover just going eight thirty
Speaker 1: oppositionally to Peter Dutton's in the house. Guys, I just
Speaker 1: said to mister Dutton during the ads, do you want
Speaker 1: to go d J Dutton and pick the next song?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: Do you hit the decks like elbow?
Speaker 3: I just don't. I've got to put it right out
Speaker 3: there now.
Speaker 5: Do you think.
Speaker 1: What do you like on the d floor? Your bust
Speaker 1: to move on the dance floor?
Speaker 6: Maybe a little while game when you've got three kids
Speaker 6: would get him to do the worm. Actually, when you
Speaker 6: said would you pick the next song that we play?
Speaker 6: I saw the paddic in your eyes, like, oh gosh,
Speaker 6: what are the kids going to think?
Speaker 1: I put it this way? It wasn't in the Nova
Speaker 1: library access. The smooth one is do you want.
Speaker 3: To fifty four? I'm not you know, I'm not young anymore.
Speaker 1: You're about to get got your pause?
Speaker 5: Is the new forty?
Speaker 1: Do you want to do the intro for DJ Dutton?
Speaker 1: What song are we playing?
Speaker 8: Are we gonna play the classic classic from job Yes,
Speaker 8: Billy Joel And it only goes through about ninety five minutes,
Speaker 8: so that gets you off the hook.
Speaker 1: This will be a fair job. This will be a
Speaker 1: fair job.
Speaker 4: Let me tell get.
Speaker 5: Him out of the fast track questions.
Speaker 1: Coming up next with speed Dating with Peter Dutton, Mister
Speaker 1: Billy Joel.
Speaker 3: Cut that eventual.
Speaker 1: Always got nine more minutes to go. That is by
Speaker 1: request for the opposition leader, Peter Dutton. It is DJ
Speaker 1: Dutton this morning picking the music here on Nova.
Speaker 5: Welcome, Welcome back.
Speaker 1: Lauren. Lauren just mentioned that was her go to a
Speaker 1: karaoke banger.
Speaker 6: That is my go to a karaoke bank. Well, it
Speaker 6: doesn't sound like a banger when I sing it. I'll
Speaker 6: give you the hot tip.
Speaker 4: Missus Dutton.
Speaker 7: Cost of living is huge, so many people are doing
Speaker 7: it tough, not just here in Melbourne, but right the
Speaker 7: way around Australia. What decisive action will you take if
Speaker 7: you are in the lodge to ease the pressure on Australians.
Speaker 3: I think one of the biggest issues at the moment
Speaker 3: is just the way in which the energy policy is
Speaker 3: driving up cost of electricity and therefore, I mean when
Speaker 3: you look at groceries they've gone up by thirty percent
Speaker 3: and ask yourself why, Well, it's not just your power
Speaker 3: bill at home. It's the local IgA store, it's the butcher,
Speaker 3: it's the cold storage of food. We went to a
Speaker 3: a not a big sort of supermarket the other day,
Speaker 3: not the coals or anything like that, and probably not
Speaker 3: even as big as a big ida. Their power bill
Speaker 3: has gone up by forty thousand dollars a month. Wow, right,
Speaker 3: So they're just passing that cost on.
Speaker 4: There an appetite for nuclear though, well actually.
Speaker 3: Well two thirds of people aged between eighteen to thirty
Speaker 3: four support it because they know that it's a zero
Speaker 3: missions technology. The Labor Party in the UK is really
Speaker 3: pay out all stops to introduce more of it. Same
Speaker 3: in the United States and the top twenty economies in
Speaker 3: the world, Australia is the only one.
Speaker 4: We see a plant here in Victoria.
Speaker 3: Well, we can see seven across the country which we're identified.
Speaker 3: And I just the other point that I make, just quickly,
Speaker 3: because we're going to get to your questions, I guess,
Speaker 3: but which I mark about. But is gas? I mean,
Speaker 3: Victoria is about to start importing gas by ship, which
Speaker 3: is going to be massively expensive. And people are talking
Speaker 3: about brownouts and blackouts, which is crazy because manufacturing can't
Speaker 3: survive if the lights are turning on and off, and
Speaker 3: hospitals can't survive if you've got intermittent power power. It's
Speaker 3: not full time.
Speaker 1: If you want to my point, I mean, honestly, not
Speaker 1: even in my neighborhood. Just hearing you guys have that
Speaker 1: conversation like we just bought a place and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: bloody health, you put.
Speaker 3: One in in Bentley. Have you got a col fire POWERstation?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: No, So we're only talking about on a cal fire
Speaker 3: POWERstation site seven sites across the country, which is exactly
Speaker 3: what France has been doing for decades. It's what Canada
Speaker 3: is doing. They've got a cost of electricity about one
Speaker 3: third the price we're paying here.
Speaker 1: I can see the benefits. I think there's going to somewhere.
Speaker 1: I know, but there's just that fear of knowledge is power,
Speaker 1: and maybe we don't have enough knowledge of how it all.
Speaker 1: I mean not minly knowledge on nuclear power plants as
Speaker 1: Homer and the Simpsons.
Speaker 6: I knew you were going to say the Simpson Well
Speaker 6: that's all I not where else have you seen.
Speaker 5: One but three eyed fish?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't want a three eyed fish in the ponds
Speaker 1: around Benling.
Speaker 3: But I really reckon it's worth googling and having a
Speaker 3: look at the technology because the new submarines that you know,
Speaker 3: both the Prime Minister and I are fully supportive of,
Speaker 3: and you have their nuclear and you wouldn't put the
Speaker 3: Defense Force personnel on a submarine if you thought it
Speaker 3: was unsafe. And as a.
Speaker 4: Way, did you change your mind from twenty twenty three then.
Speaker 3: Well, because I didn't think we could get it through
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three. But once you put the once
Speaker 3: you put the nuclear submarine plan into play and it
Speaker 3: was supported by both parties, it was basically a message
Speaker 3: that people don't you know the government, the Labor Party,
Speaker 3: the Liberal Party doesn't have a concern about safety. In
Speaker 3: the United Kingdom. As I say, the Labor Party is
Speaker 3: pulling out every stop because they don't think they can
Speaker 3: achieve net zero by twenty fifty without nuclear And it's
Speaker 3: exactly what Joe Biden and Al Gore and others have
Speaker 3: said in the United States. In France, they're ramping up
Speaker 3: their nuclear capacity. They've got about seventy percent, as I say,
Speaker 3: in the system there. So if it makes sense for
Speaker 3: those countries and we want cheap electricity, why not do it.
Speaker 3: But in Victoria and across the country otherwise we need
Speaker 3: a lot more gas in the system.
Speaker 1: In the entry, we definitely need an answer. I don't
Speaker 1: understand the fear.
Speaker 5: It does seem a bit scary when you don't.
Speaker 1: Know that much exactly.
Speaker 6: Before we gave you with these fun questions, how do
Speaker 6: you think you'd go the relationship with Donald Trump?
Speaker 3: Well, I think I have the ability to and just
Speaker 3: you know, not because of my experience as a police officer,
Speaker 3: but as Defense Minister and Home Affairs Minister and Sistant Treasurer,
Speaker 3: I think I've got the experience and the ability to
Speaker 3: stand up for our country and to say, Okay, you're
Speaker 3: about America first, that's great, but I'm about whatever best
Speaker 3: deal I can get for our country.
Speaker 1: Albo said he was on the phone for about thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: How many of those minutes Wreck and Elbow.
Speaker 3: Spoke, Well, well, that's a good question, but he didn't.
Speaker 3: He didn't raise any of the important issues. And he
Speaker 3: tried to place a call of the president the other day.
Speaker 3: The President wouldn't even take his call. Or reason Elbow
Speaker 3: hasn't been to Washington is because the President won't meet
Speaker 3: with him, which is just bizarre.
Speaker 5: Have you had anything to do with him with Donald.
Speaker 3: No, but no. But we work with the administration, and
Speaker 3: I've worked as a senior minister with the Obama administration,
Speaker 3: with the Trump administration, with Joe Biden's administration, and you know,
Speaker 3: well we'll work together because they're an important military partner. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and we have to have a good, strong relationship with
Speaker 3: the US, but we've got to stand up for our interests.
Speaker 6: Ye.
Speaker 1: All right, let's hit you with the hard stuff. We
Speaker 1: want to get to know you a little bit better
Speaker 1: this morning, so we'll put together some speed dating questions.
Speaker 1: Just got a light stuff to get to know, mister
Speaker 1: Dutton as much as are as well as we can
Speaker 1: in sixty seconds.
Speaker 5: This is the stuff that people want to know.
Speaker 1: Rapid fire. Are you ready, mister Darton.
Speaker 5: That's okay, okay, here we go go for who's your
Speaker 5: foot team?
Speaker 3: Broncos Lines, Queen, Queenslander.
Speaker 5: How do you take your coffee?
Speaker 3: No coffee? I've never drunk coffee in my life. What
Speaker 3: what about Tyrra Missoon? I'm a black black tea guys,
Speaker 3: so I just can't in Melbourne.
Speaker 6: You put a bit of cold water in your black tea,
Speaker 6: piping hot, a.
Speaker 3: Little bit of cold cold water, but also like green
Speaker 3: tea and pepmint tea as well.
Speaker 1: My name? Get to your fair point?
Speaker 6: What's your favorite TV show? Favorite TV or yellow celebrity crush?
Speaker 3: Uh? Eastwood?
Speaker 6: Oh yes, but what's your nickname? Can we call you that?
Speaker 6: Where was the last time you got a fine? Speeding fine?
Speaker 6: Parking fine?
Speaker 5: Didn't pay the dogs red Jo.
Speaker 3: A couple of years ago, I'd say for a speeding fine.
Speaker 5: Do you have any pets?
Speaker 3: Do yes? Ralph, our spoodle's in charge of our household's
Speaker 3: running the place.
Speaker 5: Not on the list. But do you like cats?
Speaker 3: We had we had a beautiful cat, a Russian blue
Speaker 3: called Boris, and she now lives with my with my
Speaker 3: wife's art. Boris and Ralph didn't get on well.
Speaker 1: No likes cats called Boris.
Speaker 5: What was your first job?
Speaker 3: First job was my lawns and I worked after school
Speaker 3: in a butcher shop.
Speaker 6: Favorite singer, well, Billy Joe. You walk into a bar,
Speaker 6: what's the first drink you order?
Speaker 3: You have a green tea depending on time to day,
Speaker 3: but probably a beer or glassy red wine.
Speaker 5: One word to describe Donald Trump?
Speaker 3: Uh awkward.
Speaker 5: What sport are you good at?
Speaker 3: Pretty good at cricket?
Speaker 5: Do you have a signature dish to cook?
Speaker 3: Roast, lamb, jelly or sauce?
Speaker 5: And yeah, when was the last time you cried?
Speaker 3: Uh, I'm a bit of a softy soup. Anything to
Speaker 3: do with the kids and uh so, yeah, probably Philly.
Speaker 5: What was your first car?
Speaker 3: ADATs and Stanza. Google it. It wasn't great, It wasn't the standard,
Speaker 3: didn't no personalized plates please?
Speaker 5: And who is your favorite world leader?
Speaker 3: Favorite world leader at the moment. That's a very good question.
Speaker 1: My money's on Kim.
Speaker 3: I like personally, I like Chris Luxeon in New Zealand.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, good answer and your favorite Melbourne breakfast radio show.
Speaker 3: Well here I am.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much. Can we call you? We can
Speaker 5: call you. We're friends now, it is.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in. You're a good sports It's nice
Speaker 1: to get to know you a little bit better. Joey Time, Victoria,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 3: Take care guys.
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