WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 19 August 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:06.920 From the sky in center. This is Paul Murray Live. Hello. 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:10.000 You know the precious getting the Prime Minister when he's 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.480 doing this in Parliament today too, the man who has 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:18.439 better poll numbers than him. Position wrong with there something 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:23.520 wrong with you? Yeah, that's as childish as that it's 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:27.480 getting now. Of course, this government has got plenty of 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:31.200 things that are well the wrong side of issues when 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.520 it comes to Australians. Pole off the Pole have told 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.960 us that not just is the gap narrowing, but the 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.000 honeymoon is way behind. And where now in a scenario 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.560 where for many Australians they want the Labor Party and 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.360 the Prime Minister to sleep on the couch, that doesn't 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.520 mean that they don't give up the fight and question time. 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:49.159 It doesn't mean that they don't have a media that, 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.400 generally speaking, will try to amplify their message all day 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.920 every day and make everything about Peter Dutton. To that 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.320 in a second. But as you've heard the polls, yet 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.720 another one tells us that if there was an election 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.680 this weekend, the Liberal Party would win at fifty one 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.399 forty nine. Of course, the big asterisk there is well 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.800 that might be the national result and unless those teal 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.480 seats move well, it would be most likely a minority government. 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:17.200 But at forty nine versus fifty one percent and a 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.520 primary vote at just thirty two percent, the minority government 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.479 would not just be a couple of seats, it'd be 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.160 half a dozen or maybe more. Now for the Liberal Party, 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.240 the reason they're at fifty one is because their primary 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.919 vote is now in the forties. At any other normal election, 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.480 that would be the beginnings of a potential victory. But 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.080 again the asterisk is always the teals. I say that 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.080 because I don't want to get your expectations up. And 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:40.800 two we all know there are plenty of people that 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:45.720 will run off the umpire misinformation. Misinformation but still really important. 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.560 But then there's this question. It's the same result but 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.480 a different pole. It is an extreme majority of Australians 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.760 who believe we are headed in the wrong direction. This 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.200 one comes out via Freshwater and the Financial Review. But 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.120 as you can see there, the number of Australians think 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.040 we're headed in the wrong direction is now close to 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.600 sixty percent. The number of those who believe that we 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:10.480 are in the right direction, well, it is in the thirties. 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.760 There the number that remain unsure well it's a small 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.680 enough number, but it's not enough that if it all 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.679 went to the right side of things, it would start 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.280 to level out. Australians know this country is in the 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.760 wrong place, and it is there because of the current government, 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.760 because they told us a lie about power bills, because 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.800 they told us a lie about cost of living, and 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.280 so much more. Well, we've got more news that reinforces 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.560 the pole numbers and again they most likely will make 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.200 them worse if not stay in the position where labor 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:44.399 is losing. Right now, today, major energy retailers came forward 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.440 to tell us about the number of people who are 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.880 struggling to pay their power bills. In literally a football 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.079 stadium of people are now stayed in the four behind 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.640 and are reaching out to them to say I can't pay. 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.840 Two of Australia's large power companies have revealed the combined 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.079 number of customers in their hardship program i e. They're 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:05.079 paying back cents on the dollar has stored by thirty 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:10.240 five thousand, or up by forty percent in the past year. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.560 Origins disclosed that their number is now ninety seven thousand. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.799 That's up from seventy one thousand a year ago. Thirty 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:23.519 seven percent increase. Meanwhile, AGL has reported that the number 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.840 on theirs has gone up by the best part of 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.760 eight and a half thousand. That's nearly twenty seven and 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.880 a half thousand people whose power bills come from AGL 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.200 that are currently in a scenario where they are paying 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.440 back cents in the dollar. They are not paying back 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.840 the full bill each and every month, each and every quarter, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.760 depending on how it is actually calculated. Combine the two 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.600 retailers have got one hundred and twenty five thousand customers 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.640 in hardship. That was ninety thousand this time last year. 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:52.960 Now remember we were told last year that was as 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.000 bad as it gets. Well, of course it has got worse. 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.400 The python that is cost of living has only ever 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.840 got tied, and the number of people who are in 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:06.200 trouble is ever growing. Another example is the number of 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:10.040 people that having difficulties paying back their mortgages. Keep being 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.760 told that politically the thirteenth rate rise will be the 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.880 killer for the Abanezy government. I would suggest, as we 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.320 have said all the way through, maybe the twelfth, the eleventh, 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.719 the tenth, the ninth, or the eighth may well have 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:27.000 also been just as damning the government's in trouble. It's 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.200 in trouble in issues of its own making, and most importantly, 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.960 it is in trouble after failing to deliver on its 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.560 promises of everything gets better, when the reality is if 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.920 you are paying off a house or just living in 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:46.120 one that needs power, everything is getting worse. Now. Specifically, 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.440 another thing worth pointing out in all of these poles 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:55.480 are the issues, because the issues are horrible for the government. 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.560 They are way behind on cost of living, they are 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.160 way behind on taxation, they are way behind on all 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.200 of the key issues that we know people care about. 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.320 But the one that supposedly was absolutely a third rail 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.160 an electric fence, which was going to do in the opposition, 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:12.200 is all matters to do with who comes to the 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.200 country and the manner in which they come. Well, this pile, 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.160 which was asking the question when the press gallery was 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:22.440 going nuts, it shows the Liberal Party forty one percent 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.440 of people saying that they're the best ones to handle it. 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:29.919 Immigration twenty four percent. Now, of course they'll tell us 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.120 this is just a hangover of clueless Clare O'Neil, who's 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.919 now going on to stuff up the housing portfolio, or 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.039 the idiot Andrew Giles, But of course, it's not just 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.880 the people. It's the policies, it's the ideas, it's the 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.120 number of people that have been brought into the country 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.360 while all of those other problems are taking place where 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.400 the rental cues are around the corner, and if you 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.320 call Triple O, you may or may not get an 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.679 ambulance because they may be stuck at a hospital. Because 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.680 every single state government, all of which bar one are Labor, 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.240 have been running record ran but of course to talk 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:06.080 about this, this oh so horribly racist. Now I cannot 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:11.120 believe that the Labor Party decided to keep going on 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.960 the issues of last week in and around whom is 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:16.760 going to be able to come to the country from 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.760 what is happening in the Middle East right now? Now? 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.160 The Liberal Party, they had question after question after question 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:23.800 them more than happy to talk about this for another 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.760 week because while the press galery think this is political death, 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.880 we all know it's not. By almost a margin of 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:30.320 two to. 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:34.240 One, Australia is a feeling disappointed in the Prime Minister 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.760 and questioning his competence and honesty. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.920 She's just dished out on the previous government. She hasn't 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.120 answered the question which was relevant to what made her 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:42.280 government was willing, But you. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.960 Can't leave out the middle of one sentence that you're 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:49.880 quoting and pretend that that is an accurate reflection of 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.040 what has been said by the person you are quoting. 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.360 Now, the Labor Party think that their best defense here 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.240 is again as the Prime Minister showed us to say 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.599 something with you guys, they think that all politics is 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.919 the same. Whatever's been practiced in places like the United 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.599 States will automatically kick in here because there are so 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.880 many people that are on social media. Well, of course 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.680 they're not. And you can't tell people that the other 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.880 guys are strange or weird when it's your government that 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.600 promised so much but has delivered the exact opposite that said. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.760 They try On. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:27.720 Election day twenty twenty two, that's right, in an extraordinary act, 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.160 the leader of the opposition at one twenty six pm 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:36.360 was busy tweeting out information that was national security and 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:41.920 attempt an attempt to politicize once again information that the 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:42.880 then government had. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:47.720 This is the most divisive opposition leader that we have seen. 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.800 Kerry Packer. So you only get one Allen Bond in 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:51.520 your lifetime. 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.200 Well, I reckon John Sector's worked out you only get 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.000 one Peter Dunnan in your lifetime. 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.720 Really, Now, this is a sign of how the government 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.760 knows it's in trouble, because it has to appeal to 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.440 its most hard court supporters that we're still in the fight. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:08.760 There's not an awful lot of people in the middle 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.400 who even know half of what has just been said. 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.840 The reference to tweets on election days. Of course, that 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.080 there was an illegal bote arrival. Of course, all of 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:23.360 this is completely forgotten and was of course the responsibility 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.840 of the Home Affairs Minister to be able to make 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.920 that public. Now, of course, any tweet coming out on 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.200 election day is hardly going to move people, especially when 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.160 about a third of the country votes early. But who 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.760 even remembers that's a super deep cut for the backbench, 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.440 a super deep cut for the media, And of course 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.200 we know there are plenty in the media who want 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.360 to pretend that somehow Peter Duddon crossed the line that 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.040 cannot be crossed and will take Australa into the deepest 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.120 and darkest parts of our history. You know, the lady 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.720 who says that we are a racist country. The lady 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.240 who of course believes that apparently we're going to be 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.880 turning on people who don't look like her when it 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.080 comes to auctions. Still waiting for any proof of that. 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:05.080 But of course she'll never have to apologize any bringing 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.040 up of this as unhelpful as she said for her 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.160 or the ABC. Well, she writes an opinion piece that 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.880 appears in the Financial Review is also replicated on the 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:17.520 ABC's website. Peter Dutton's called to ban refugees from Gaza 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.880 has proved too much for some MPs. Now there are 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.319 some studies that tell us that only about a third 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.200 of people actually click on the articles or actually read 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:32.119 beyond the headline. The MPs are not MPs of the coalition, 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.160 So the suggestion is that somehow people are nervous inside 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.319 the coalition. They're not because they know when it comes 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.640 to votes. How this has played out and has played 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.920 out for more than a quarter of a century. And 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.000 while yes there will be days when some people, if 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:47.720 they go too far, I'll call them out on the 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.200 principle of what's being discussed here, the Liberal Party has 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.040 been able to quite correctly pull this into a question 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.679 of vetting. But back to the media coverage, and then 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.760 there was this very subtle illustration in the Chanlin newspapers today, 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.000 of course, that Peter Dutton is the man who's throwing 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.040 petrol on the fire. The fire, presumably is some sort 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.079 of latent racism that exists in all of us. Because 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.000 of course Stralian's are racist because they've voted sixty forty 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.760 hell no to a change in the constitution. They are 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:20.040 racist because they want to say in what type of 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.559 refugees come to the country. These, of course are the 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.320 types of people who are not willing to give up 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:28.040 their tennis courts to help fix the housing solution, or 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.240 of course to be able to house a refugee in 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:34.640 their spare bedrooms. No interest in that the Dutton chipping point. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.640 Will we allow the next election to be all about race? 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.520 The next election will not be all about race. This, 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.120 of course is written by a bloke who wrote a 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.000 book about Scott Morrison and Woolf's Scary and of course 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:49.360 worked for rad and Gillard. But the reality is that 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.120 what I just pointed out before are the things that 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.080 this election will be fought over. Things like the cost 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.720 of living, things like interest rates, things like the managing 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.600 of finances. Yes, for some they will want to have 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:06.080 a position where we should remove all references to any 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.840 sort of person double checking people at the borders. But 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.240 those people already evote Greens. They are not up for 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:16.000 grabs anyway. Let's get into the fear mongering, because of course, 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.080 when all else files, when the government's on its back foots, 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.880 when they're turning around saying there's something odd about you. 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:22.960 Oh oh, he's like Tim Waltz. It's like we're all 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.720 in America. The coalition has little in the way of 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.960 serious policy, and so brick bray brick, we are watching 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.400 the campaign built out of one out of little more 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.600 than divisive statements. Because of course, unless you fully support 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:42.080 everything this government is doing, then you are divisive. If 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:43.720 you want to stand up for the country that you 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.960 didn't realize was being changed yesterday and you say no, no, 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.640 let's keep some of the status quo. Cultural the common 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:55.600 denominator of which in this politics of race, because of course, 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.800 if you talk about immigration and how many people should 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.200 come into the country when there aren't enough places for 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.160 people to rent, or there aren't enough ambulances for people 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:08.880 to call racist. Nuclear energy is the obvious exception, but 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.520 the very weakness of that policy proves the point what 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.800 point that you're trying to pretend that again, your view 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.920 of the average Australian, just like lefty Laura Tingle, is 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.320 that somehow inside each and every Australian, regardless of whether 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.800 they were born here, came here or anything else, or 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:31.600 there's some sort of little racist monster desperately waiting to 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:38.000 be fed after midnight like a gremlin. Of course, the issue, 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:42.040 and the reason why the issue works politically is because 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:46.520 it is a conversation about vetting. Now again, last week, 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.040 I copped it and I won't double down on it 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.080 for the next ten days in a row. You saw 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.080 what I had to say last week. But they have 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.680 changed the conversation from what was happening last week into 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.120 the one that is much safer ground, which is that 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.360 Australia believes that we should be able to decid who 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.280 comes to the country and the manner in which they come. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:08.000 This was clear since the two thousand and one federal election. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.560 And while lefties believe that there is a revolution every 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.240 time they get elected and every time they don't, somehow 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.080 they were cheated out of it by the means. The 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.880 fundamentals are that whether you were born here or whether 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.360 you came here. You want to make sure that the 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.199 people who join us here in the greatest country in 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.760 the world are the right type of people who are 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:34.120 just as committed to this country as anyone who's been 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:38.520 here for months, years, or generations. That's why the Liberal 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:42.440 Party is excited that they get another week in Parliament 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.040 to drive this one home. And as much as the 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:50.240 Gillard leftovers in the gallery or the lefties who desperately 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.680 want this to be the issue of latent racism yet 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.800 again on display, the reality is that the Libs have gone, 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.920 how good is this we get another week of this issue. 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.200 Prime Minister was also tricky in saying the screening processes 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.280 his government uses are the same as the Coalition used. 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:12.640 When that turns out to be completely untrue. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.480 Refugevsas take longer, and given what's happening right now and 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.320 the dangers presented, the view was to try and get 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:23.040 people out as quickly as you can. Isn't this why 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.640 Australians are disappointed in the Prime Minister and now saying 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.760 he is incompetent and dishonest. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:35.720 And perhaps the greatest giveaway about exactly the political rock 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.680 on which the opposition is standing right now. As opposed 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.680 to the shifting fans of racism is that there was 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.960 a term which was used by Peter Dutton a few 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.280 weeks ago. I suggest he brings it back when he 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.680 refers to a weak and rattled prime minister. A rattle 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:52.760 prime minister is the one who behaved like you did 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.480 in question time today. A week prime minister is one 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.480 who's not able to stand up for the values of 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.080 the country or even explain the process that is currently 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.800 being used, or promise that that process will have the 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.920 highest standards possible, which again means the opposition is more 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.680 than happy to do this for yet another week. I've 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:15.960 got a failing that the PM won't turn up. He'll 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:20.280 stay in his office watching on the television because he's gutless. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.119 He won't come in here and defend himself. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.040 That is that is weakness at its worst. 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.360 Now and if a sugarcat it, I tell you the data, 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.280 I tell you the truth, the reality of the Liberal 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.600 and National Party being able to get to seventy six seats. 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.320 A big block in that is the number of teals. Now, 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.640 these tell electorates all voted yes last year. These are 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.000 the ones that have representatives like Zali Stegl who want 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.240 to stand up and say racist, racist, racist, because you see, 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.080 they know they only need to get a quarter of 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.920 the primary vote in their seats and the preferences will 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:52.800 all flow their way. And unless the Liberal Party, because 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.080 everyone is essentially running against them, wins on primary votes. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.880 And that ain't happening in many seats for any major 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.960 political party, because, mark my words, one of the great 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:04.960 narratives that you'll hear about between now and the next 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.040 election is a thing called double haters, the people who 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:12.280 hate all forms of major party politics. Now, of course, 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.240 all of this is a way of trying to say, well, 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.480 the blue team's as bad as the Red team, regardless 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.080 of the fact that the Red team promised a world 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:24.680 that would be better, yet it all got worse. This will, 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.560 of course be yet another narrative attempt from those of 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.520 the media who told us that this was an election 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.480 winning budget. But if that was the case, could somebody 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:36.680 please tell me why the Poles keep saying that the 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:41.120 government is behind, way behind on things like inflation. Oh, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.280 they've decided to come up with a three hundred dollar credit, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.080 meaning that every mansion or every one bedroom house in 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.480 the country will all get the same power bild relief 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:53.120 of twenty five dollars a week. Yet why isn't everyone 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:59.560 more excited? Why isn't the average Australian cheering because they 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:04.760 got fifteen dollars a week if you're earning about forty 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.480 five thousand dollars in tax cuts now. Of course, just 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.760 like so many other policies, it's billions of dollars of 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.480 taxpayers money. So they can have a slogan to go 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.760 to an election desperately hoping that the Australian media will 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.679 be as weak as the American media and as long 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.320 as you call the other guy weird, they'll win. Well. Thankfully, 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.560 Australian politics is above that, even for the people who 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:28.120 basically don't pay too much attention, because you see those 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.119 people remember what they were promised and they hate what 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:36.119 they've got. It's always nice to see a bit of 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.560 old school language reappearing. And you know, every now and 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:41.800 then on this program. You love the shows where it's 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.359 a conservative couple of guests and I call it no 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.720 Sook's no lefties. Oh the pearl clutching that happens when 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:52.000 I use the word sook, because it's such an eighties 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.840 dad reference when a kid is crying over spilt milk. Now, 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.000 you and I both know what a sook is. Yes, 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.680 it's somebody who's weak. Yes, it's somebody who complains. It's 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.000 not somebody with a legitimate mental health disorder. It's not 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.879 a way of minimizing somebody with legitimate feelings. But we 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.879 all know what a sook is. Well. Interestingly, in the 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:16.399 past week, the word sook has returned to parliamentary handsard 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.240 Both the Liberal Party and the Labor Party have used 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.240 the word in the past week. Barnaby Joyce in fact 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.199 doubled down on it in a conversation with my dear 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:27.879 friend Andrew Bolt last week. 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:34.360 Anthony alberanez, he is a as a prime minister, he's weak. 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.280 He's also a suck, by the way, a big suk. 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:39.200 And then of course the Labor Party well they turned 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.480 around today and they went, okay, let's find a word 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:45.040 that will eventually work. And the Arts Minister parading as 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.840 the borders are of Australia, well, he decided to reach 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.520 into the bag and call Peter Dunton a suk. 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:56.359 And the Leader of the Opposition has moved this motion 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:00.679 today because the man is irresponsible and a sore and 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:02.639 the country does it like either. 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:08.359 Oh how offensive. Now, while I'm very glad that this 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.680 common use word which has been used in the suburbs 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:12.800 of Australia for as long as I've been alive and 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.119 probably yourself as well, and we all know what it means. 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:20.880 And sure we ain't a compliment that this word, well, 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.120 it has automatic cut through with people, which is why 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:24.920 both sides are starting to use it. But I wanted 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:28.240 to show you how our parliament works. You see, when 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:33.159 a Conservative stands up and uses the word sook, this 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:44.480 is what happens. Prime Minister has the court withdrawn reporter 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:46.440 to assist the House. 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:50.520 I'm going to invite, thank you, the memphane withdraw. 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.639 But when Labor use it, no such appeal for it 0:19:57.720 --> 0:19:59.960 to be withdrawn. In fact, they all laugh. 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:04.840 And the leader of the Opposition has moved this motion 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:08.560 today because the man is irresponsible and a sook. 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:13.320 I'm moved at the debate be adjourned. The question is 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:18.520 the debate be adjourned? I put the question. Those opinions say, I, 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:22.560 now you love it. I get to call you one, 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:26.000 but you can't call me one. But I'm not allowed 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.120 to say there's something wrong with you, there's something weird. 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.920 Now again, the word suk it is not the highest 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:35.000 word of which we can use for those that we 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:37.879 disagree with or sometimes that do carry on like pork chops. 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.800 But if sook's okay, wait till they start using the 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:49.240 word sheeler. Now, as you know, Fatima Payment was most 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.040 recently on the air here last week and an excellent documentary, 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:56.399 very well produced by Jonathan Lee. Fascinating conversation about the 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:58.720 Muslim vote. That's all up at skyies dot com dot 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:00.280 Are you agreed? Disagree? I just thought it was a 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:03.199 really well produced a piece of Telly Well, as you know. 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:05.200 The reason that she is front and center right now 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.000 she's getting the Australian story treatment. Oh my god, that's 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:10.040 going to be so amazing. But I'm like that she 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:12.119 of course had to answer some questions here. She of 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:14.760 course has moved to the Cross Beach. She will be 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:16.879 most likely a reliable vote for the Labour Party. But 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:19.960 now she claims because she's all independent and everything, that 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.240 she'll be able to you know, call balls and strikes 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:24.320 and won't always vote for what they have to vote for. 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:26.360 There's a couple of things we do have to say. 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:30.240 And I understand that she's being elevated to some level 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.119 of Australian politics that to criticize her will equal racism 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:35.639 or sexism, you get all of the different words that 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:37.639 will be thrown at you. But if you're just a politician, 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:40.879