WEBVTT - The Bolt Report | 29 October 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.140 It's a big show tonight. The Marrickville Golf Club scandal 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.279 gets even worse. I'm going to meet the head of 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:25.050 the golf club that didn't get a handout from Anthony Albanese. 0:00:26.329 --> 0:00:29.730 The Prime Minister's ridiculous spin on the inflation crisis, a 0:00:29.770 --> 0:00:33.530 devastating fact check on that, and a question, does anyone 0:00:33.570 --> 0:00:37.610 in the government... or any government in this country actually 0:00:37.770 --> 0:00:42.230 understand business. And that includes the embarrassing confession by the 0:00:42.630 --> 0:00:46.089 tax commissioner and so much more, including Barnaby Joyce. But first, 0:00:47.870 --> 0:00:52.129 I'm getting a very special new kind of abuse and 0:00:52.550 --> 0:00:55.900 I find it actually very interesting. And I've got to 0:00:55.950 --> 0:00:59.639 deal with it before telling you about an amazing report 0:01:00.380 --> 0:01:05.110 by armed forces into war crimes in Afghanistan. News that's 0:01:05.190 --> 0:01:09.720 going to make some Ben Roberts Smith supporters think, actually, good. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.980 But maybe not. I've been abused for decades by the left, 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:20.010 as you probably know, for fighting for conservative values, truth, freedom, 0:01:20.569 --> 0:01:27.670 rule of law, Western civilisation, and against revolution, tribalism and 0:01:27.709 --> 0:01:30.630 sheer bull. Now, for that, I've been sued, I've been censored, 0:01:30.650 --> 0:01:33.759 I've been threatened with beheading, I've had to move my 0:01:33.780 --> 0:01:35.820 children to safety, I've been attacked in the street and 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.100 I've been called some terrible names, but I've too rarely 0:01:39.140 --> 0:01:45.230 been answered with reason. But what's new now is that 0:01:45.250 --> 0:01:50.070 I'm being abused by the woke right. I'm a traitor, 0:01:50.650 --> 0:01:54.230 I'm a turncoat, I'm fighting for the enemy, I'm a cretin, 0:01:55.060 --> 0:02:00.990 a swamp creature, the controlled opposition, Someone's actually compromised me, 0:02:01.050 --> 0:02:04.100 it said. I'm a fake conservative. Pages of this stuff. 0:02:04.780 --> 0:02:07.800 Plus dozens of emails from viewers more today warning that 0:02:08.460 --> 0:02:12.600 after years of watching this show, of being a fan, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:18.090 they are switching off. Now, don't worry, I'm still top 0:02:18.110 --> 0:02:21.230 of the news 24 pops, guys, so maybe a lot 0:02:21.250 --> 0:02:25.510 of those viewers warning they'll switch off still secretly prefer 0:02:25.950 --> 0:02:30.940 truth to tribalism. Tough facts rather than Cheap slogans that 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:36.220 feed their prejudices. Because really, no, I haven't changed at all. 0:02:37.740 --> 0:02:39.560 And like many of these haters, I still do fight 0:02:39.580 --> 0:02:42.940 for conservative principles and have for decades longer than they have, 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.160 most of them. So the abuse of the woke right 0:02:46.180 --> 0:02:48.440 is about as useless against me as the abuse of 0:02:48.460 --> 0:02:51.660 the woke left has been for all that time. And 0:02:51.700 --> 0:02:56.810 these frauds, really, think about it, they are so alike. 0:02:58.550 --> 0:03:00.950 You've got the woke right getting all excited by Donald Trump, 0:03:00.990 --> 0:03:05.190 watching him lying and abusing and bullying people, just like 0:03:05.590 --> 0:03:09.180 so many on the woke left. They also see the 0:03:09.310 --> 0:03:13.160 money and the influence that so-called Christian podcasters now, such 0:03:13.220 --> 0:03:17.440 as Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, have, feeding their tribes 0:03:17.540 --> 0:03:20.780 by variously claiming Bridget Macron is a man. Can you 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.440 believe it? Hitler was no threat, said Tucker Carlson the 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.169 other day. Charlie Kirk, a senator, was assassinated by his 0:03:27.230 --> 0:03:29.830 own wife. Did you know that? And Vladimir Putin, he's 0:03:29.930 --> 0:03:34.549 our friend. Mad stuff like that. And a bit too 0:03:34.610 --> 0:03:39.120 much Jew hatred as well. These are creeps who appeal, 0:03:39.300 --> 0:03:43.240 like left ones do to their people, they appeal to 0:03:43.300 --> 0:03:46.040 barbarians who love feeling part of a tribe, don't really 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.620 care how they win, people who feel smart by believing 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:55.070 in conspiracy theories, the crazier the better. And to bullies 0:03:55.130 --> 0:03:59.340 and underachievers who love the freedom to be vicious. They 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:03.540 can't win in debate, so let's hit something. Again, look 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:08.440 at those militant protesters on the street of the left, 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.120 how violent they like to get. Whatever it takes to win. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.820 Even if, by the end of it, you look exactly 0:04:14.860 --> 0:04:17.540 like the evil you thought you were fighting. How about 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.860 all those anti-fascist protesters who look exactly like fascists, even 0:04:20.900 --> 0:04:25.110 dressed in black these days? These, woke left, woke right, 0:04:25.150 --> 0:04:29.930 they are both sides of the same coin. Murderers of 0:04:30.089 --> 0:04:35.770 reason and civility. And now our woke right has got 0:04:35.930 --> 0:04:39.409 some common targets who they attack with little reason and 0:04:39.450 --> 0:04:42.289 no fairness because the woke right needs monsters just like 0:04:42.310 --> 0:04:46.250 the woke left needs monsters, needs to invent monsters like 0:04:46.270 --> 0:04:48.360 me because that makes them feel they're in a holy 0:04:48.390 --> 0:04:51.500 war and anything goes. Here are some of their targets. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.710 You know, woke right targets. This Liberal frontbencher, Andrew Hastie, 0:04:56.730 --> 0:05:00.230 of course, as a Christian, as a former SAS captain, 0:05:00.290 --> 0:05:03.729 as a deep believer in Western civilisation. But, of course, 0:05:03.810 --> 0:05:06.790 you've got to be vilifying him on television and on 0:05:06.970 --> 0:05:10.050 X and in One Nation cartoons. He's actually a traitor 0:05:11.130 --> 0:05:15.479 and another fake conservative. Australian Federal Police Commissioner Chrissie Barrett. 0:05:16.310 --> 0:05:18.220 She's damned by the same kind of people as a 0:05:18.260 --> 0:05:23.680 woke affirmative action appointment. as Anthony Albany's pet poodle, a 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:29.280 useful idiot covering up for radical Islam. And then there 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:36.120 are those amazing conspiracy theories. Did you know that Ukrainian 0:05:36.180 --> 0:05:41.400 President Volodymyr Zelensky, a Jew, himself started this war with 0:05:41.460 --> 0:05:46.650 Russia and is persecuting devout Christians and getting rich by 0:05:46.750 --> 0:05:51.770 secretly selling the weapons the stupid West gives him? Here's 0:05:51.810 --> 0:05:56.380 another favourite. Did you know the Albanian government deliberately changed 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:01.700 our war crimes laws retrospectively two years ago to make 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.060 it easier to convict accused war criminal Ben Robert Smith, 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:13.400 to destroy a great war hero because they're traitors or something, globalists, 0:06:13.700 --> 0:06:16.740 or they're woke. That's what it is. And now, of course, 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.659 there's me. And that's because I said that Barrett, who 0:06:19.700 --> 0:06:22.500 I've talked to for hours privately, actually seems an honest 0:06:22.540 --> 0:06:25.760 woman trying to do things by the book. Because I 0:06:25.860 --> 0:06:28.979 said that Andrew Hastie is an honourable man and no 0:06:29.020 --> 0:06:32.039 traitor at all for being one of the 19 SAS 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.400 soldiers who gave evidence in the war crimes defamation case 0:06:34.820 --> 0:06:39.039 launched and lost by Robert Smith. And because I said 0:06:39.140 --> 0:06:41.020 that Donald Trump, for all the good he's done, has 0:06:41.060 --> 0:06:44.560 also bullied, lied, sucked up to dictator Vladimir Putin, betrayed 0:06:44.660 --> 0:06:47.610 Ukraine's fight for freedom and bungled the war in Iran. 0:06:49.470 --> 0:06:53.169 And now I'm attacked for, again, for proving in last 0:06:53.210 --> 0:06:56.570 Monday's column that the war crimes laws were changed not 0:06:57.450 --> 0:07:00.860 because of a get Ben conspiracy, but to fix a 0:07:00.950 --> 0:07:04.480 stupid and obvious mistake in the wording of the law. 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.820 A mistake so obvious that the change will almost certainly 0:07:08.900 --> 0:07:13.160 not hurt Ben Robert Smith at trial. In fact, could 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.960 actually help him, particularly if he gets off, which I've tipped. Now, 0:07:16.980 --> 0:07:21.450 there may be good arguments against what I say, right? 0:07:21.610 --> 0:07:25.450 I'm not that arrogant to think I'm always right. But 0:07:25.490 --> 0:07:29.510 the woke right tells me what the woke left did too. 0:07:30.540 --> 0:07:35.600 I'm scum, I'm dirt and worse. Now, from some true conservatives, 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.440 I do get polite arguments against what I say, and 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.260 that is great. I've written back to quite a number 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.240 of them. And I may be wrong, and I would 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:48.140 appreciate being stopped in any error I've made, before I 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.440 make a complete fool of myself. But so far, I 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.020 don't think I have. And the most common reason I 0:07:55.100 --> 0:07:59.160 am given for deserving the abuse, the most common reason 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:04.300 the woke right give, is that same poisonous Trump doctrine, 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.760 which is the doctrine of the barbarian, really. Attack, attack, 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.060 attack the enemy, because our side has got to win. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.600 Or as Graham Richardson used to say, and I didn't 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:19.840 like it from him either, whatever it takes... I think, really? Really? Whatever? 0:08:19.860 --> 0:08:22.840 I mean, even if the way we win makes us 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.560 look as vicious or stupid or dishonest or evil or 0:08:26.660 --> 0:08:34.179 dangerous as the people we beat? By now, people watching 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.990 who think I'm talking about them, you know, they're Trump worshippers, 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.990 they're hasty haters, they're Barrett bashers and more. They're going 0:08:42.010 --> 0:08:44.630 to be angry if they haven't turned off already, and 0:08:44.670 --> 0:08:48.179 I'm sorry about that, but To worshippers of Ben Robert Smith, 0:08:49.260 --> 0:08:54.850 I have, given this preamble, so, you know, excuse me, 0:08:54.870 --> 0:08:58.910 I have what you might actually think is good news 0:08:59.170 --> 0:09:04.880 for me. Well, not. For the first time, our military 0:09:04.900 --> 0:09:09.140 has accused officers of contributing to the alleged war crimes 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:12.780 committed in Afghanistan. Not just the soldiers at the bottom 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.380 of the tree, the privates, the corporals and the sergeants. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:16.860 A lot of people are getting very head up about it. 0:09:17.020 --> 0:09:20.710 It's a cover up. They're scapegoats. The Australian Defence Force 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:25.270 has released a summary of a report by its inspector general. Himself, 0:09:25.350 --> 0:09:29.370 a former officer who served in Iraq, is entitled to judge. 0:09:30.050 --> 0:09:33.630 And it says the army effectively lost control of the 0:09:33.690 --> 0:09:38.270 Special Air Service Regiment during the war in Afghanistan, leading 0:09:38.290 --> 0:09:42.220 to sergeants and corporals to fight the war as they wanted, 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.360 which for some turned out to involve, this report claims, 0:09:46.980 --> 0:09:50.540 alleged unlawful acts including planting weapons on the bodies of 0:09:50.620 --> 0:09:56.030 Afghans to suggest they were killed fighting. They weren't actually unarmed. 0:09:57.270 --> 0:10:01.059 It says SAS members talked to the regiment, talked to 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.540 the Inspector General's team, talked to the regiment having a 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.599 bikey culture. And the report asks, how did officers back 0:10:08.620 --> 0:10:12.610 at headquarters not pick this up? Which is what I've 0:10:12.630 --> 0:10:16.750 wondered too. Why were they so incurious when there were rumours, 0:10:17.150 --> 0:10:20.510 when there was evidence right in front of them suggesting 0:10:20.570 --> 0:10:24.429 things were going very wrong. And here's the key passage 0:10:24.470 --> 0:10:28.570 in this report. The inspector general writes, there was tangible 0:10:28.630 --> 0:10:33.410 data available for higher headquarters through trends in growing numbers 0:10:33.690 --> 0:10:37.349 of enemy killed in action, as well as features such 0:10:37.390 --> 0:10:40.930 as a lack of wounded insurgents, only deaths, it said, 0:10:41.650 --> 0:10:46.939 and the lack of ADF Australian casualties. By historical standards, 0:10:46.980 --> 0:10:50.780 it says, elements of this data presented as most unusual, 0:10:51.110 --> 0:10:55.790 and it is extraordinary that no effective action was taken, 0:10:55.850 --> 0:10:58.429 given the gravity of the matters, the subject of rumours. 0:10:59.950 --> 0:11:05.610 Have you got it? Suddenly, a lot more dead Afghans 0:11:05.670 --> 0:11:11.650 turn up, surprisingly few of them wounded, they're dead, and 0:11:11.690 --> 0:11:17.050 despite all these extra supposed kills in battle, bang, bang, bang, bang, oh, 0:11:17.090 --> 0:11:21.380 look at all these Afghans be killed, amazingly few Australian 0:11:21.460 --> 0:11:25.219 soldiers killed or wounded. Now, that should have rung a 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.020 very loud bell when there were also rumours that something 0:11:28.059 --> 0:11:31.570 had gone wrong. As the report says, it is extraordinary 0:11:31.970 --> 0:11:36.750 that opposite headquarters didn't look further, didn't take any effective action. 0:11:38.429 --> 0:11:40.310 So now this case, of course, got much bigger. It's 0:11:40.330 --> 0:11:43.560 not just Corporal Ben Robert Smith. the supposed scapegoats for 0:11:43.580 --> 0:11:47.679 senior officers, the senior officers themselves back at headquarters, are 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:52.819 also under question now over alleged war crimes. They could 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:59.330 have maybe prevented war crimes that stained the army's honour. So, 0:12:00.130 --> 0:12:03.190 can we now discuss all this without the abuse and 0:12:03.210 --> 0:12:07.170 the evasions and the insults of woke right people who'd 0:12:07.230 --> 0:12:15.800 rather yell, traitor, than discuss facts? You know, it's no 0:12:15.850 --> 0:12:19.810 wonder that we in this country are getting poorer. No 0:12:19.850 --> 0:12:22.870 wonder that we face an economic crisis. I mean, you 0:12:22.890 --> 0:12:25.429 just look, there are signs everywhere now that the people 0:12:25.490 --> 0:12:30.280 in charge don't actually understand how our economy works. And 0:12:30.300 --> 0:12:34.240 I'll give you example one, the tax commissioner admitting that 0:12:34.300 --> 0:12:38.240 when he banned businesses paying their taxes by credit card, 0:12:38.580 --> 0:12:43.310 he didn't know that Two in the 25,000 or more 0:12:43.350 --> 0:12:46.390 businesses do that to manage their cash flows. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.080 As with the benefit of hindsight, and, you know, one 0:12:51.100 --> 0:12:52.579 always hopes to live a bit longer to get a 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:57.040 bit wiser, I had jumped to the conclusion that managing 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:01.850 cash flow related to a situation where a person or 0:13:01.870 --> 0:13:05.750 a business might be struggling if we'd I guess we 0:13:05.770 --> 0:13:07.850 had the similar thing happen to us again. I think 0:13:07.890 --> 0:13:10.500 we'd be more active in trying to engage with people 0:13:10.550 --> 0:13:14.339 earlier and rather, from the point of view, here's a solution, 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.400 you have now time to adjust, actually engage in the 0:13:17.420 --> 0:13:18.760 problem-solving activity itself. 0:13:19.100 --> 0:13:24.059 We also saw yesterday in estimates the tax commissioner bell 0:13:24.100 --> 0:13:28.770 the cat. They simply don't understand.... 0:13:29.780 --> 0:13:30.930 He doesn't understand. 0:13:31.970 --> 0:13:32.570 Bizarre, eh? 0:13:32.910 --> 0:13:37.059 An example too, Victorian Premier Ben Carroll. He brought his 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.940 bus campaign to McDonald's, to McDonald's, and ordered food for 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.240 his staff without even having his own credit card to 0:13:43.420 --> 0:13:46.160 pay for it. Oh, is this what you have to do? 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.420 Had to borrow his wife's phone. And example three, and 0:13:50.540 --> 0:13:52.640 which is the worst, is the Prime Minister unable to 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:56.610 believe his government really is making our inflation worse with 0:13:56.670 --> 0:13:59.430 its massive spending. And again today, he was blaming foreign 0:13:59.470 --> 0:14:00.710 wars instead. 0:14:01.750 --> 0:14:05.350 These are pressures that we have. 0:14:06.730 --> 0:14:11.990 A roll-in in Australia domestically, but some of these pressures 0:14:12.230 --> 0:14:15.050 are global, which is why we're seeing that global uplift 0:14:15.850 --> 0:14:16.790 in inflation. 0:14:18.590 --> 0:14:23.400 But if inflation is just a global problem, not Albanese's fault, 0:14:24.220 --> 0:14:27.660 why does Australia have the worst inflation among all developed 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.740 countries except for Iceland? And why has Australia so far 0:14:31.820 --> 0:14:36.400 hiked rates four times this year, probably a fifth next Tuesday... 0:14:36.730 --> 0:14:40.820 twice as many as Europe and four times more than 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.900 the US. Leith van Onselen is an economist, the former 0:14:43.940 --> 0:14:49.550 Treasury official, now co-founder of the very successful macro business website. Leith, 0:14:49.730 --> 0:14:54.130 always good to talk to you. Look, Australia's economy seems 0:14:54.170 --> 0:14:55.830 to be run by a lot of people who are 0:14:56.330 --> 0:14:59.460 either reckless spendthrifts or don't know how business works. Am 0:14:59.540 --> 0:15:02.470 I being too harsh? No, no, Andrew, I think it's 0:15:02.510 --> 0:15:03.270 a fair criticism. 0:15:03.310 --> 0:15:07.620 We've got total government spending tracking it around the pandemic highs, 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.800 yet the pandemic finished five years ago. And this reckless 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:15.180 spending is driving up demand across a supply-restricted economy, and 0:15:15.220 --> 0:15:18.240 that's resulting in higher inflation, and that is now amongst 0:15:18.300 --> 0:15:20.060 the very highest in the advanced world. 0:15:20.610 --> 0:15:22.250 And as a result, the Reserve Bank. 0:15:22.090 --> 0:15:25.410 Is being forced to fight against our government's reckless spending 0:15:25.830 --> 0:15:29.270 by hiking interest rates to a 15-year high with another 0:15:29.310 --> 0:15:31.270 rate hike likely on Tuesday. 0:15:31.380 --> 0:15:36.720 It's as simple as that. This way of fighting inflation, Leith, 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.540 strikes me because the government won't do it by cutting 0:15:40.580 --> 0:15:43.940 spending and all that waste. It's left to the Reserve 0:15:43.980 --> 0:15:47.110 Bank that can only do it by raising interest rates, 0:15:47.170 --> 0:15:51.000 which particularly, of course, hits people buying a home for 0:15:51.010 --> 0:15:53.760 a mortgage. Doesn't it, people like me, that pay their 0:15:53.780 --> 0:15:58.100 mortgage off, it hits the young, young families and people 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:02.860 prudently trying to build their future. That strikes me as 0:16:03.180 --> 0:16:07.320 monstrously unfair and against the national interest. Yeah, look, that's 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:08.440 a fair assessment. 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:12.320 High mortgage rates obviously disproportionately hurt the roughly one third 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.400 of Australians who carry mortgages, who are often families with children. 0:16:16.180 --> 0:16:19.300 obviously the worst time in your life to have these 0:16:19.340 --> 0:16:22.520 sorts of burdens. And also the surge in state and 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.660 federal government debt is also going to need to be 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:29.060 repaid by future generations, which is, I'd say, fundamentally unfair. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.800 So younger Australians and future Australians are bearing the cost 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.620 of the government's waste and mismanagement over their budgets. And 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:40.250 I'll also add, Andrew, that high inflation does harm everybody, 0:16:40.310 --> 0:16:43.520 but it especially harms lower income people and those on 0:16:43.580 --> 0:16:46.660 fixed incomes. And that's why the Reserve Bank is taking action, 0:16:46.820 --> 0:16:49.320 obviously hiking interest rates four times this year, probably another 0:16:49.380 --> 0:16:51.740 one to come on Tuesday. So there's very few winners 0:16:51.780 --> 0:16:53.930 at the moment. And what we really need is for 0:16:53.970 --> 0:16:56.130 our governments, both at the state and federal level, to 0:16:56.170 --> 0:16:59.170 go line by line through their budgets and cut any 0:16:59.350 --> 0:17:03.630 unnecessary spending, basically anything that isn't core government business. So 0:17:03.670 --> 0:17:08.030 we basically need a prolonged period of budget austerity to 0:17:08.070 --> 0:17:10.230 take both the heat off inflation and also to return 0:17:10.550 --> 0:17:13.190 our debt positions back to sustainable levels. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.420 Yeah, except so many people now are on some form 0:17:17.460 --> 0:17:22.200 of government income or payment that it's almost political suicide 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:27.240 to start that. We have created a gimme, gimme, gimme society, 0:17:27.260 --> 0:17:30.219 I'm afraid. Leith and Onslin, always fantastic to talk to you. 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:31.080 Thank you so much. 0:17:31.700 --> 0:17:31.840 Thanks. 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.199 After the break, Barnaby Joyce on why the Prime Minister 0:17:35.660 --> 0:17:39.800 does lie and lie and lie. It's pathological. And is 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:47.240 One Nation taking orders from Gina Reinhart? Anthony Albanese just 0:17:47.290 --> 0:17:50.149 stunned me today. Now, I said last night, you know, 0:17:50.190 --> 0:17:52.970 why is this Prime Minister so scared to simply admit 0:17:52.990 --> 0:17:56.230 he made a mistake and say sorry? In this case, 0:17:56.250 --> 0:17:59.810 say sorry for telling us, telling even Parliament a falsehood. 0:18:00.380 --> 0:18:02.570 that the $ 6 million he gave to a golf club 0:18:02.609 --> 0:18:06.310 very close to his own house was to fix its sewerage, 0:18:06.850 --> 0:18:10.250 among other things, when in fact it was more to 0:18:10.390 --> 0:18:13.629 titify its bar and alfresco dining and so on had 0:18:13.670 --> 0:18:16.490 nothing to do with sewerage. Now, if he just said 0:18:16.570 --> 0:18:18.850 straight up, look, I made an honest mistake, that would 0:18:18.869 --> 0:18:21.840 have been the end of a fairly trivial story, really, 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:26.300 you know. but by twisting and fudging and lying day 0:18:26.460 --> 0:18:28.840 after day about what he really said or didn't say, 0:18:28.859 --> 0:18:33.660 he turned it into a political disaster. Now, I thought 0:18:33.730 --> 0:18:39.530 at least he might have learned that lesson. But today, incredibly... 0:18:39.330 --> 0:18:43.409 He actually kept going with another lie, or at best 0:18:43.530 --> 0:18:46.330 a deliberate deception. He was asked in Parliament why he 0:18:46.369 --> 0:18:49.320 had kept saying his grant was for sewerage works when 0:18:49.340 --> 0:18:51.240 there was no mention of them in the plans or 0:18:51.260 --> 0:18:54.580 the grant or the council documents or the decision brief. Nothing. 0:18:55.020 --> 0:18:57.540 Listen carefully to his answer. 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:03.870 On the 27th of April 2025, we made an election 0:19:03.910 --> 0:19:08.730 commitment building and securing the Marrickville Golf Club precinct. that 0:19:08.790 --> 0:19:13.390 went to a range of activities including today's election commitment 0:19:13.410 --> 0:19:16.830 will go towards delivering an upgrade of the entire precinct 0:19:16.869 --> 0:19:19.889 that everyone can share in and ensure this inner west 0:19:19.930 --> 0:19:25.010 institution can be enjoyed for decades to come. It included 0:19:25.290 --> 0:19:29.670 as well, it went on about storm water being harvested, 0:19:29.910 --> 0:19:33.310 irrigating the golf course, the upgrade of better indoor amenities 0:19:33.350 --> 0:19:37.320 with clubhouse renovations and the provision of community meeting and 0:19:37.380 --> 0:19:40.709 function rooms. and went into boosting the health of the 0:19:40.770 --> 0:19:41.850 nearby Cooks River. 0:19:43.250 --> 0:19:49.070 That is stunning, as I said. Albanese selectively quoted from 0:19:49.109 --> 0:19:51.740 his announcement last week year to falsely suggest, you just 0:19:51.780 --> 0:19:54.480 heard it, that that reference he read out to the 0:19:54.859 --> 0:19:58.560 health of the Cooks River was in fact a reference 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:03.520 to sewage works. In fact, it was not. You read 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.000 his document, still on his website, in full, and it 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.469 says no such thing. It says sustainability will also be 0:20:09.490 --> 0:20:13.350 a focus of this grant, with stormwater to be harvested, 0:20:13.670 --> 0:20:15.950 irrigating the golf course and the local sporting fields like 0:20:15.990 --> 0:20:20.060 Marnie Reserve and Beeman Park, while boosting the health of 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:26.600 the nearby Cooks River. That is talking about stormwater works, 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:29.460 not about sewage at all. What on earth was Albanese 0:20:29.510 --> 0:20:32.530 trying to, what swifty was he trying to pull off 0:20:32.590 --> 0:20:35.290 in Parliament today? What kind of madness is it to 0:20:35.330 --> 0:20:38.350 tell such an obvious untruth when he's been caught out 0:20:38.390 --> 0:20:42.030 again and again on what was, I repeat, a minor issue? 0:20:42.130 --> 0:20:46.180 It took me 60 seconds of internet searching to catch 0:20:46.220 --> 0:20:49.439 him out again. Now, the opposition leader was totally justified 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:51.859 in saying there's a pattern here. In fact, there's a 0:20:51.859 --> 0:20:55.659 whole damn chapter from a psychology text on compulsive lying. 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.030 The Prime Minister promised he wouldn't change CGT and negative 0:21:00.070 --> 0:21:01.730 gearing before the election. 0:21:02.190 --> 0:21:02.750 Then he did. 0:21:03.450 --> 0:21:07.050 He promised a $ 275 cut to power bills that he 0:21:07.109 --> 0:21:11.590 never delivered. He said he didn't mock the Japanese Prime Minister. 0:21:11.510 --> 0:21:14.010 When he did. He said he didn't fall off a 0:21:14.050 --> 0:21:15.530 stage when he did. 0:21:16.109 --> 0:21:18.730 He said his $ 6 billion grant to the Marrickville Golf 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:20.720 Club was to fix sewerage flows. 0:21:21.170 --> 0:21:21.939 when it wasn't? 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:26.240 He said the relevant program wasn't invitation only when it was. 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:30.480 Why does this Prime Minister have such a difficult relationship 0:21:30.820 --> 0:21:31.500 with the truth? 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:35.310 It's a good question. It's just too easy now. Albanese 0:21:35.350 --> 0:21:37.950 has made it too easy to be called out like that. 0:21:38.910 --> 0:21:42.530 Joining me a short while ago was our Thursday regular commentator, 0:21:42.590 --> 0:21:46.450 One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce, the former Deputy Prime Minister. 0:21:47.290 --> 0:21:49.640 Barnaby Joyce, great to see you. I know this will 0:21:49.660 --> 0:21:52.859 sound like a free kick. But I am really looking 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:55.960 for an insight here because it genuinely is puzzling to me. 0:21:56.760 --> 0:22:01.900 You know, Anthony Albanese, what's with this lying? What's with 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:07.000 this pathetic pretending that X is actually Y? Where does 0:22:07.020 --> 0:22:07.790 that come from? 0:22:09.180 --> 0:22:11.270 Well, I think when people get elected, they get elected 0:22:11.350 --> 0:22:15.300 as prime minister and then over time they become sort 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:17.060 of like the president. And if you leave them there 0:22:17.100 --> 0:22:19.820 too long, they become a king and then they become infallible. 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:22.389 So there's nothing that they can say that cannot be 0:22:22.410 --> 0:22:22.770 the truth. 0:22:23.109 --> 0:22:23.730 It's only. 0:22:25.050 --> 0:22:27.689 What they say is the truth. It's not facts are irrelevant. 0:22:27.730 --> 0:22:29.540 It's what they say is all that matters. 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:30.820 Now, let's go through. 0:22:30.900 --> 0:22:32.520 I just don't know where to start because the list 0:22:32.580 --> 0:22:34.239 is that long. But let's start with the fact that 0:22:34.660 --> 0:22:36.460 He said he wasn't going to change capital gains tax. 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:38.880 He did. He says he wasn't going to change superannuation. 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:41.020 He did. He says he wasn't going to change trust laws. 0:22:41.060 --> 0:22:42.960 He did. He said he didn't fall off the stage. 0:22:42.980 --> 0:22:44.000 He did. It was on camera. 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:46.899 He said he didn't insult the Japanese Prime Minister. He 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:48.550 quite obviously did. Everyone saw that. 0:22:48.790 --> 0:22:50.010 That was also on camera. 0:22:50.530 --> 0:22:53.210 He said he didn't create the slime sheet on Helen 0:22:53.250 --> 0:22:56.010 Haynes But when we went through the metadata, it came 0:22:56.090 --> 0:23:00.030 out of his office. Now he said that he'd bring 0:23:00.050 --> 0:23:00.930 down the price of power. 0:23:00.950 --> 0:23:01.410 He didn't. 0:23:01.430 --> 0:23:04.970 He has a climate change department that can't possibly change 0:23:04.990 --> 0:23:08.439 the climate and costs us $ 8. 7 billion a year to 0:23:08.540 --> 0:23:13.200 not do that. And now he's got this insanely... He said, 0:23:13.660 --> 0:23:15.420 I didn't know about this golf club stuff. 0:23:15.460 --> 0:23:18.760 He did. I wasn't involved with it. You were. You 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:22.640 announced it. It came from a grant for the poo. No, 0:23:22.660 --> 0:23:23.119 it didn't. 0:23:23.310 --> 0:23:25.889 It came to upgrade the golf course. The state government 0:23:25.910 --> 0:23:29.689 paid for the poo. Then it was, oh, it was stormwater. 0:23:29.869 --> 0:23:31.890 And then he says it wasn't the grant where they 0:23:31.910 --> 0:23:34.080 had to sort of ring in and say, we've got 0:23:34.100 --> 0:23:35.780 some money for you. Ring us back and we'll give 0:23:35.820 --> 0:23:37.139 it to you. He said, oh, no, it wasn't one 0:23:37.180 --> 0:23:39.359 of them. And then we look it up. It's the, yeah, 0:23:39.380 --> 0:23:43.030 it's the classic one, like, As I said before, hey, Anthony, 0:23:43.090 --> 0:23:45.930 send me a letter and I'll send you some money. 0:23:46.030 --> 0:23:49.490 Oh, by the way, this is Anthony. And then later on, oh, Anthony, 0:23:49.550 --> 0:23:51.850 it's great to hear from you. Oh, you're going to 0:23:51.890 --> 0:23:53.729 send me some money. Brilliant choice. 0:23:53.850 --> 0:23:54.169 Bye. 0:23:56.170 --> 0:23:59.369 The whole thing is insane. An election will come. Do 0:23:59.390 --> 0:24:02.210 we start believing him then? It's just, I just don't 0:24:02.230 --> 0:24:04.580 believe it. You know, I say what you like. 0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:06.280 It's ridiculous. 0:24:06.340 --> 0:24:10.750 You're ridiculous. The whole charade's ridiculous. You're a liar. 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:16.409 Yeah, but the thing is, Barnaby, I was trying to 0:24:16.470 --> 0:24:19.689 puzzle this out earlier this week. You know, if he 0:24:19.730 --> 0:24:22.870 just said, yes, I did fall off the stage, because 0:24:22.910 --> 0:24:24.590 we all saw him, he fell off a stage. 0:24:24.609 --> 0:24:25.650 We saw it. 0:24:26.270 --> 0:24:28.880 What was the cost? What was the cost? The cost 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:31.619 was in lying. I mean, I fell off a stage, 0:24:31.660 --> 0:24:33.520